The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-02-25


land mad only bought more school books
for its dependency instead of so many
guns? The need for a common tongue
I s shown by the fact that there are III
different languages in common use in
India. hfty-four Of these being used
daily in the business life of Bombay
alone.
John Bull Wants Dollars.
Compulsory education and the en-
foTcement Of drastic sanitary measures
would undoubtedly be resented at first
by midas ignorant Inhabitants, but it
does not follow that their masters are
unable to compel them to improve their
habits. The reluctance of the govern
ment to enforce reform on the ground
that the people will not accept it can
hardly be taken in good faith. If Eng
land has the strength to invest the land,
demand tribute from it, and force Its
stewardship upon the people, does it
not seem reasOna bic that it could force
them to wash their dirty faces and
clean their filthy habitatiOnS2 The giSt
of the matter is that John Bull is not
in India to look after the health or pros
perity OF the inhabitants; his chief con-
Germ rests in making money out of
them one way or another, and so long
as taxes, interest and dividends are
forthcoming, iGClatry and heathenism
can flourish with his consent. But if
by any turn these ancient rites that
the government processes itself afraid
10 interfere with should jeOpardize
British investments. the aforesaid an
cient rites would be smashed to
snitheTeens before you could say Jack
Robinson.
1 know that I am bearing down rath-
eT hard on our English friends but
think that they deserve it. They have
plainly shirked their duty to humanity
by allowing the Brahmin priests to
stand between them and the disease
which IS eating at the vitaIs of the ma
J ton. They should also be rebuked for
their official extravaganza in this mis-
cradle land where the gaunt bOny
hand Of the Deggar is always out
stretched. The vicerOy Of India is paid
twice the salary Of the chief executive
Of the United states. Even the COVER
nor of Ceylon, who rules fewer people
! than there are in the state of Missouri
has three sumptuous palaces and draws
as much salary as President Roose-
welt. 1t would be interesting if the
Statesman'S Year Book would deter
mine how many thousand acres Of val
liable land are used as tennis courts
in the British empire.
Civil Service in India.
One feature Of British rule in India
which has occasioned much remark is
the civil service system. The country
has 100000 square miles of territory,
and 100000, 900 inhabitants-equaI 10
the combined area and population of
twenty-one European countries. Yet
less than a thousand Euglishmen
Scotchmen and Irishmen conduct the
entire civil administration. This means
that each one of these civil servants
has jurisdiction over 1000 square miles
Of territory and regulates the affairs of
100000 people This is regarded as the
marvel of colonial accomplishment, and
on its face it is astonishing.
The good character and ability OF the
men employed in this service is I'M
questioned, but the secret of their sue
cess in managing such a cumbersome
mass of barbarians is non-interference
with them The policy is to carefully
nurse investments and profitable pub
lie works, meanwhile borrowing no
trouble by tampering with heather Gus
TOMS no matter how demoralizing or
debasing they may be. It is therefore
safe to say that at the present rate or
progress India viii still be a heather
country in a thousand years from now
Would II not be advisable TO brave the
temporary resentment of the people IN
order to secure their permanent better
ment?
Not Building for Future.
It would seem that the present sys-
TEN is economical, but it IS not The
thousand white men in the civil service
receive a total of $40, 0O0, goo in annual
salaries, their pension roll is growing
all the while. and to these vast e.<-
penditures must be added the enormous
cost of the army which backs up their
administration. All this outlay is
merely for present needs. 1t is not