The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-11-09
PROF. A. M. WHEELER
SCORES ENGLAND ON HER POLICY
IN india.

Sets Forth That England Is Establish
Ing Permanent Despotism- Suffer-
Ing From Famine Not Visitation
From God-Ffmanclal System Respom-
sible for Millions of impoverished
Natives.
Prof. Arthur M. Wheeler delivered a
scathing lecture Wednesday night in
College street hall on British Rule in
India" Professor Wheeler opened with
a brief review of 1.-THE years of nisrule
under the dictation of the British East
India company" which was brought
about by the direct collision of the
English government" The present
government in India was described as
essentially and permanently despotic.
1t is nominally in the hands of the
English house Of commons, but owing
the lecturer, added to the gross neglect
of this body and its ignorance of pre-
vailing conditions, the three hundred
millions of the starving country are al
lowed to gradually waste away under
an unjust financial system.
To the argument that England in
tends gradually to teach the Indians
self-government and withdraw from
the peninsula, Professor Wheeler points
to her permanent manufacturing needs,
of providing a market for her goods, to
her continued policy in holding Egypt
and the island of Cyprus as an avenue
of trade to India, which are vitality con-
trary to any intention of surrendering
the government to the natives To the
gradually encroaching policy of Great
Britain over the native states and her
preposterous claim over the entire en-
pire, can be traced, said the lecturer,
the causes of the famous Sepoy rebel
lion. Other features of the lecturers
remarks are as follows:
The suffering caused by the famine
in India is not due to any divine dispen-
station. Under English taxation in
years of light crops, not only are the
natives compelled to sell their harvests
to meet these unvarying charges, but
their homes and lands are seized by the
government and auctioned off at one
fourth their value. Under Mohamme-
dan rule tribute was paid in grain, and
the taxes We're proportional according
to the size of the crops. Under the
present system Of uniform money pay
ments, during the last ten years fully
ten millions of these people have been
totally bereft and impoverished
In characterizing the brown man and
his civilization Professor Wheeler said:
When the English We're yet barbarious
India was a highly civilized nation and
had world literature. I do not hest
tate to say that now the educated class
IS in India are fully the peers of any
The brown man in his re-
igion has contributed more to a knowl- !.
edge of God than any other race. Be I
fore England ever was he took the lead
n architecture and the arts; he had re-
1uced astronomy to a science, perfect (
ID the alphabet and invented the So /
,alled Arabic numerals. Two hundred I
5ears before Henry he had discovered |
he circulation of the blood. Two hun
ired years before kosh he had evolved I
he germ theory of disease. 1t would (
axe hours to enumerate the contribu-
ions which the Indian has made to
civilization. 1t is said that withal he is
acking in political sense. This may
VI, but the same thing was said by
lassic writer's of the Germans, who l
When they united developed the stron-
rest national Institutions