Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-12-04
Much Ignorance exists Concern
ing State Levee of India's
Governor General
INDIAN ARTISANS PROFIT BY 1T.
An Enormous Impetus Is Given to
Native Industry in Preparing for
Event, All the Native Factories
Working r-time-Desirabe Pur-
poses of the Durbar.

London, Dec. 4-The Daily Mail says
that much ignorance, not wholly UNI
directed by the prejudice of the Little
durbar that win greet the new year at
Delhi. Fabulous with lurid description
of the added misery of a plague strick-
en-, famine ridden native population,
who have the burden added to an al
ready grievous load of taxation.
A durbar is a state levee or audience
The last durbar, held in Delhi on Jan. /,
1877, involved q net cost to india Oh
100000. The understanding ana
more magnificent pageant planned for
Jan. /, 1903, win probably involve a
maximum net charge upon the reye-
nues OF India of i 100000. Care has
been taken that every penny OF expen-
diture shall so into the pockets OIL IN
dian artisans and their employers. The
impetus given to native industry IS
enormous. For months past the cotton
mills of Lahore, Jubbuipore and Gavin
pore have been working full time max
ing tents. The native factories where
harness and saddlery are wrought, the
furniture makers engaged on camp
equipage, the carriage builders. the car
pet factories where durries ana rugs
are woven, are working over time. In
every town or village where native ART
industry exists, the coppersmiths ana
silversmiths, the carvers in WOOD, ia
ivory, and stone, the enamellers, the
painters, the laequerers. are all nara at
work Thus over countless native
homes the durbar already sheds the
light of prosperity.
There is further, more direct, cred
it side to the state account in connec-
ton with the durbar. In India the rail-
ways are for the most part government
property. Whether worked directly or
leased, considerable proportion of
profits flow into the government chest.
The increased traffic receipts thru the
months of December January and Feb
ruary may safely be counted upon to
yield considerable revenue. The same
impetus will be given to the postal and
telegraph services, whihc are, of course,
sources of government revenue. In adj
dition, there will be an appreciable in
fiuX Of foreign money flowing from the
purses of the crowd of British and Eu-
ropean guests already preparing for
flight to India
In the spiteful and ill-informed as
PENSIONS glanced at, it is stated that, in
addition to a salary Of G25,0O0 year.
the viceroy viii, on account of the dur
bar receive a special sumptuary allow
ance of G24,000. In the first place. the
viceroy's salary is not 1000, but
6 $1,000. The sumptuary allowance is
pure fiction, not a single anna being
advanced to the viceroy on account OF
extra personal expenses arising out of
the durbar. These will be considerable,
since Lord Curzon meets out of his own
pocket the cost Of entertaining the dis
tinguished guests who will at his bid
ding be present at the pageant.
This is, perhaps, sordid way of
considering spectacle that will be
worthy the record of the stored east
and the fame of the empire in whose
crown India is choice jewel. But the
facts are interesting as testifying to the
solieitude with which expenditure has
been curtailed. Their simple statement
will be useful as correcting sedulous1y
spread Misrepresentation, harmful at
home and still more undesirable to be
chartered about in the bazaars in
India.
Taking a broader view, and for the
moment excluding notice of the de-
light the spectacle will give to a count
less population whose simple pleasures
are few, the durham is fraught with
political, social, and, as we have seen,
commercial benefit. Lord Curzon dis
Germs the weak spot in India in what he
calls its water-tight compartment sys-
tenn. Each province, each native state.
is more or less shut off from it's neigh
hors by bulkheads either natural or
artificial. The population of each lives
all to itself; having only vague ideas
of the existence of peoples beyond theii
own boundary.
Even princes dwelling in the south
rarely, If ever, see or visit the states
of the north The north makes no
attempt to redress the balance by MAX
ing occasional holidays in the south.
There are many men in Madras who
have never looked on the Punjab, while
to the native population of Bombay
Bengal is but a name. The durbar
will afford opportunity, extended over
three weeks, of soldiers and civilians
from all parts of the west continent
to meet and make each others ac-
quaintance under the aegis of the en-
peror- king, comparing notes and ex-
changing ideas.
Another desirable purpose the durbar
will serve will be that of kind of
consolation stakes for chieftains who
desired to be present at the coronation
ceremony in London, but were, for
various reasons, prevented from under
taking the journey. Out of several
hundreds who forwarded to the viceroy
lntimation of their desire to be present
only five We're invited For the rest
md for others. the Delhi durbar, with
he viceroy deputed to act for tho
sovereign, whose public duties pre-
ludes his presence, but who sends his
brother to represent the royal family,
viii serve as splendid substitute
Even in this matter the paternal care
If the Indian government is manifested,
Special reports We're invited from al
ocal governments and political officers
IS to the financial condition of the
farious states. Invitations were is
sued only to those chiefs who We're
eported as being financially able and
personally anxious to attend.
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