The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1898-01-01
THE BRITISH In INDIA.

The brave mad Mullah has been bless
ed by Allah in defending his territory
from the depredations of the British
marauders in the Orient. His tribes
men have completely routed the British
ana native troops in their warfare on
the Afridis. and it is said that the
red coats displayed cowar.lice in the
face Of the enemy, fact which has
lossened the esteem in which thew had
hitherto been held by their Indian aux
iliaries
IN the autobiography Of BENJAMIN
FRANKLIN it is said that the colonial
troops engaged with Braddock in the
French and Indian war lost their re-
spect for the British red coats when
they saw them fly in confusion from
the dusky warriors of the forest, leay-
ing the American frontiersmen to save
the fleeing soldiers Of the king from ut
ter destruction. Washington was pres.
ent as an aid of Braddock's, and was
surprised at the panic in the British
ranks. 1t then dawned upon the minds
OF the colonists that the red coats were
lar from being invincible, and they
became convinced that when they fed
from savages, themselves had no cause
for alarm If they ever came in conflict
With them at some future time. And
when the time came the minute men"
with all their lack Of military training,
did not tremble with fear at the sight
Of the red coats in battle array at Lex
'ngton, Concord and Bunker Hill, but
met them bravely and made them run.
Now that the spell is broken and the
coWardfce of the British soldier is re-
vealed, the patriots of India will feel
less alarm in the future than in the
past in fighting the mercenary troops
OF her Britannia majesty on their ma
tive heath. The British. Of course, will
get reinforcements to conquer the in
surgents In the spring, but The tribes
men will not fear them 30 much as
formerly, and will meet them daunt-
lessly and wreak vengeance upon their
foes.
The spoliation OF India by the Brit
ish is unequalled in the worlds his
tory. Montgomery. the British poet.
explains how the British first acquired
possession of that vast country. This
is what he says:
War disguised as commerce, came:
of
Won an empire-lost her name"
Robert Give. Of the East India com.
pany, one of the greatest pirates and
liars that ever lived. bamboozled the
natives by deceit and treachery and
laid the foundation Of British control In
India. Warren Hastings robbed the
native princes and was arraignel by
Edmund Burke and Richard Brinsley
Sheridan in the British parliament
but the eloquence Of the famous Irish
men failed to convict him Of the high
crimes and misdemeanors of which he
was guilty. Speaking Of the East IN
Ola company, Edmund Burke used the
following scathing language:
First, I say, that from Mount I'M
aus Tor whatever else you call that
large range Of mountains that walls the
northern frontier Of India), where it
touches us in the latitude of twenty
nine, to Cape Cormorine, in The lati-
tude Of eight, that there is not a
single prince. state or potentate, great
or small, they have come in
contact with whom they have
not sold. I say sold, though some
times they have not been able to de-
liver according to their bargain. Sec
ondly 1 say, that there is not single
treaty they have ever made which they
have not broken. Thirdly, say, that
there is not a single prince or state
who ever put any trust in the company
who is not utterly ruined; and that
none are In any degree secure or
fourishing but in the exact proportion
to their settled distrust and irreconcil-
able enmity to this nation.
This harsh language made no i'm
preston on the meek inheritors Of the
earth. who kept right on selling the
princes and Staying them and evolving
new theories of government over the
corpses. Lord Wellesley. who went out
as governor general in 1898, was their
delight One admiring and approving
historian says: From the first he laid
1t down as his guiding principle that
the English must be the one paramount
power in the peninsula, and that native
princes could only retain the insignia
of sovereignty by surrrendering their
political independence" Henccforth
the general scheme of the highly moral
nation, Its highly-moral company, and
the company's highly moral agents
contemplated conquest to the
extreme limit. Tho little trad