Omaha daily bee., 1898-11-20
INDIA UNDER BRlTAIN'S RULE
The Policy Of Civilization and Plumber
Pictured BY an Englishman.
scA1HlNe REVIEW OF NATIONAL GREED
Fruits Of Expansion Exposed for the
BENEFIT of American 1m-
perialists-An Example
to BE Stunned.

LINCOLN, Nov. Ito the Editor of
The Bee: The adoption Of an imperial
policy Of expansion by a republic is GER
tainly a strange paradox. more especially
In the case Of a republic having such a
national creed as our Declaration Of In
dependence and q constitution based on the
right Of all peoples TO be the arbiters Of
their own destiny. The friends OF this
divorce from all national precedent and ira
dition. a. we'll as from the underlying prin-
clple upon which our government Is
founded. try to hide the naked self1shness
and greed of this national landgrabbing
under tho cloak Of religion and civilization.
They tell us that 1t is the duty Of the
American people to become knight err
rants and to go forth, like Don Quixote, re-
dressing wrongs and emancipating islands
from the control Of imaginary monsters;
that It Is our manifest destiny" 70 preach
Christianity and civilization to the be-
nighted heathens, Turks, Jews and Catho-
lies, who have not the blessed advantage or
enjoying that only genuine and infallible
recipe for all mundane blessedness, called
nowadays Anglo Saxon religion and civi-
~lization. Forsooth we are to lock arms
with John Bull, insult every other nation
on the face Of the earth and make Eng
lands quarrel ours, when we have de-
graded ourselves to the same level OF
murderous greed and brutality. We are to
make the Philippines another India. and
we are TO cheat, cozen. lie. rob and muir
der most foully to maintain and control our
Ill gotten vassal territories.
England in ndia.
England has had almost undisputed SOW
over India for a hundred years, and
may we ask II she has advanced Christianity
or civilization among the $50, 000, 900 sub
feet to her swayf- AS a positive fact, the
Hindoo of the lower castles in India is NOR
ally and intellectually superior to the "
order Of Anglo-Saxon In Great Britain, let
his religion be what It may. The former Is
q theoretical pagan, the latter Is a practical
one, In the most odious sense OF the term.
What has England done for India? I win
let Prof. r. H. Hyndman, a we'll known
political and social authority In London,
speak on the question. and I hope those
who advocate an American imperial policy
of expansion and foreign alliances win
carefully weigh these words, which form the
concluding portion Of Prof. Hyndman's re-
cent pamphlet. entitled 1.-THE Approaching
Catastrophe in india" He says:
Here. then, we can see clearly that 1t is
not English influence, or English sover-
eighty. or even English lack Of knowledge
and sympathy, that Of themselves spell
famine and ruin. But that q system Of
wholesale REORGANIZATION in India, and abb
sentee, capitalism out OF India, inevitably
destroy whatever good there might otherwise
be in our rule. The more shameful is 1t,
alike to our statesmen, and to ourselves as
Engrishmen, that we should continue to
bleed to death the $50. 600, 900 human be-
ings for whose welfare we are directly re-
sponsible. The poverty Of British India Is
no inevitable thing. tn frightful famines
Of 1866, Of 1876, Of 1896. not to speak Of minor
visitations, are not due to natural causes.
Tho poverty and the famines both are
orsstsd By us; and the crime Of numbering
this helpless people by the mihlon lies Ut
our door,"
Infamous Wrongs.
FOR Just four and twenty years ! have
done my best, In season and out Of season, to
bring home to my countrymen the infamous
wrong which is being done in their name.
and to warn them Of the catastrophe loom
ing directly ahead Of them. have hoped
against hope that l might, with others, sue
coed In moving them to action. while yet
there was time. My work 80 far has been
in vain, and l very much fear that 1t Is now
too late to save the situation. The whole Of
the dominant class in the United Kingdom
Is interested In maintaining the present sys-
tenn Of ruinous and criminal extortion. Gov
ernorships, military commands, civil and
military appointments at high salaries, fat
pensions. well-paid home posts. interest and
dividends on money lent, outlets for their
sons, and Investments for their money, close
the eyes Of the governing classes In England
to the economic and political collapse which
10 now rapidly approaching"
with a few honorable exceptions. the
entire English press is controlled on this
question by Anglo-Indian pensioners. whose
sole object 10 to defend and maintain the
existing disagreement. II Ia sad. indeedl
10 zee the Inevitable collapse which must be
tho outcome Of all this faulty and greed.
coming nearer and nearer each day. while
Englishmen are deliberately deceived a. to
che truth"
Results Of English Rule.
"what Q glorious empire India might
have been under wise and sympathetic
English leadership 1t requires but little
lm~aSination to conceive. But now famine
and pestilence. robbery and oppression, are
spreading discomfort with our Raj through
out the country. The events at Poona,
where the assassins Of Mr.. Rand and Lieu
tenant Ayerst have not yet been caught,
though the heavy reward Of 10000 rupees is
offered TO anyone who will betray the actual
murderers; the riots at Chitpur, where
Mohammedans and Hindoos. Of the same
race. though OF different religion. we must