The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1901-09-29

main supreme In the Indian peninsula.
The fact 10 recalled that whom In 1851 north
ern India tried In one great heave To throw
on the European yoke. IL was to Dclh. and
the efTets house Of nmour that Hindooe
a. well a. Mohammedans turned for guild
snco and a centre. The relative suocess
Of Moelem proselytsm In, we repeat, at
trbuted by our author "a the circumstance
hat II leaves it, converts A~statics. while
Christian pro-elytism tries 10 make its
converts Englishmen.
".
One Of the most interesting questions
disguised by Mr.. Townsend Is, will Eng
land rrtAin ndia7 He Is disposed tn
answer In the negative Let us $50 how
he arrives at the conclusion. lie begins by
~propounding the axiom that. II the active
cLaa-c- Of India are to be induced To APP
plaud or love the British dominion. they
must be regularly and sps-Sdly invested
with all the Offices for which thoy show
adequate intelligence, that N, In practioe.
with all Offices whatever. They are slreahy
qualified for them all In e'srything but
their moraLs. which u. and will remain.
Asiatic. our author recognizes that their
desire 20 all administrative Offices In their
own government IL natural. It u q desire
which is shared by Frenchmen and Ger
mans. and. In tho case Of the Hindoo. It Ia
int.nsih.I bv hi. wish 10 rise To al equality
with the vhi,e man. Mr. Townsend says
with their eagsrnes-. their early devsl-
ot.,d brains. and. above all. their numbers,
tho indiana. will. In the prs.cnt state %
English opinion. pro,A it ~-istiblo. and
will, | venture to proidct, constitute within
nfty wears the whule imperial eervicc.
which - ,h. indian Empire " II 10. OF course,
barely possible that English feeling on
th. subject may change, hut our author
believes that the feeling VIII continue
ana " u dnr'-' iosl' WI, nNervo1te AL
sl1ealc" 'n" aanaL a.. n
a moral dgh, 10 govern and administer
India. Irro-ur.ctivrly " the opinion Of her
peoples, then he has no righ' 10 remain
there when india bids nun r., no r,gn,
"n, -. ~,
IN. "omnrom,-os propo-ed by Service
Commission. are rejected as both urfNr
and ridiculous III. as the last commission
P.,,I" "n So IT,. -, o.
Hnnn ~ w. ~, ,h.n nd ~ nil,
itary appnIntm.nts too. "Raoe tstng
nothing morale nothing. and Intelligence
everything, Thor" ~ no escape from the
cplcIusioh, anu no n"ir snNt #" NJ
- LII -, ., I, tho words Isia
will shortly regain her " and the
work ~ governing India will IT, transferred
from fur"I"an and CHRISTIAN u ArastF
ana NuN~u'l'ah ~ has". oh
""" IT, p,,,.E rrn,uas, uu H.. uutcLlx
undone. and that India will speedily be
reduced to tie condition IN which Flsland
found her The railways. the only thing we
have hulk, will Ia torn up. the universities
will H. secuted hy military rulers. the
population will l%g,n to decline. and, In
short for one word Expresses n all, India
will one" more h- A-iltiC within rve
v.ars of Our departure. ". shall fully
recognize that tie creates; experiment
ever madr lv Europe IA Asa va hut AN
.yterurn after all. that the ihSfac eable
distinctions - rgcc were all Against ~
from tho nr,' and TINT IN" idea of the
FiruI-an tranquility guiding and Per
f.ctinR thr A-tatic until The worse qualities
| ~ the latter organization had gone out
81 him. though "A nubl" dream. was hut
/. dream
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iu'HeN "N'N y" ".'""' VI ~" -.
would reply that tho DOMINION "i the u''o-
,.., ,I... vIfcb .bnulI haNa beeu a