The Washington times., 1903-08-30
LORD CURZON AND HIS CRITICS.
How His Deeds Have COMPOUNDED the PSSmSS-he Pub
lie Sentiment in Five YeaS--SgnfCanCe of His Reap
ponment Viceroy of India.

Ger shall render eighteen months active
service before his next holiday.
Thus he healt with what he called
'one of the greatest abuses and the
most subtle and insldious danger 10 In
dian administration" But he was lot
yet finished with the department
Lord Macaulay in his essay on War
rem Hastings" observed that "it is from
the letters and reports of a public man
in India that the dispensers of patron
age form their estimate OF him." Non
est scribendum sed gubernandum (you
must not write, you must govern) has
been the motto of Lord Curzon. The
viceroy has denounced the system of re-
port writing hitherto prevalent as ''ths
most perfect and most pernicious in the
world" He has instituted a detailed
examination OF every report presented to
the government of India. has reduced
most. has found many to be useless, and
has decreed their abolition.
Forging Ahead
So from the civil service he forged
ahead. this autocrat. fighting against the
bureaucracy in favor of the old ideal OF
personal autoeratic rule, not for him.
self. but for the subordinate governing
units OF India.
Hang the reports" said he, and sent
the collectors out to mix once more with
the natives as they used to before the
railway and the telegraph came to In
dia; to think less of their reports and
more of their work. and to rule by their
own strength and personal ascendancy.
He established stable currency; he
got more and better railways built; he
secured a material reduction in tele-
graph charges and In the cable rates
between Great Britain and India; in
digenous industries were encouraged by
bold and careful legislation, and old
half-forgotten Indian arts and handicraft
were revived by the viceroy's influence.
The Education Question.
All other viceroys conveniently baIked
at the vast education question; Curzon
decisively struck into it. He summoned
an education conference of experts TO
examine the whole subject, got larger
amounts Of money than his predecessors
had asked for, and appointed a compe-
tent director general from England. Cur
IONS commission recommended reforms
which will revolutionize and infinitely
improve the present system. and those
reforms under the viceroy's inspiring
forces are being swiftly and efficiently
carried out. The educational record IN
India. which had been a reproach I'D
to his time. became a credit to all con-
cerned; must OF all to G. y. Curzon.
Baron Kedleston. AS for his archaeo-
logical reforms. hear what Mr.. George
Peel says:
Before our day in India there were
great iconoclasts; but ours has been a
record Of ruthless barbarism.' Few
Indeed are the places which have sur
vived our impulse TO abolish the beauti-
full. The Tai Mahal remains. Yet under
Lord William Bentinjck even the second
building IN the world next to the Par
thenon was on the point of being de-
stroyed for the value of its marbles. In
1857 1t was solemnly proposed to pull
down the Jumma Musjid at Delhi. per-
haps the noblest of existing mosques.
We sold the famous marble bath of Shah
Jehan. at Agra. by auction: we recently
converted the palaces of the kings. al
Mandalay, into a clubhouse. a govern
ment Office. and church, Lord Curzon
has put stop to such practices as these
forever. By this single one of his MANY
policies he has secured among the best
classes of native opinion a grateful and
genuine regard"
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