Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial. (Wilmington, Del.) 1878-1928, 1906-01-31
PEAoE-LovrNe nrNeALrrs
The Most Intelligent Industrious and
Efficient peonle In India

N" I'tN go ANAANf
Bengal does not fight but e Is through
the never-ccasing industry of It's vast
population. so much greater than that of
the United kingdom. that British India
D. enabled TO pay its way That the Benz
galees add nothing to the military sthngth
OF the empire Is true. but thin also thcv de-
duct nothing irom iis strength ON the
frontier No population so vast was ever
SD peaceful or rcuuirod so iitile svnendi.
ture for garrison a police principally
employed in detective work IS nm ihat IS
needed, for forchlc resistance to the state
is and will probably always rcmain. out
side the Bengaloo scheme of lie. Thcv
pay their taxes TO the hour chiefly through
their landlords. they obey the legal orders
OF any magistrate oven when Unsupported
10y physical force: and when the great
mutiny of 1857 broke out their duiescent
but immovahlc adhesion 10 tho British
side made IN ercconquest of India CONE
paraiiVcly easy possibility. NJ Calcutta
had been filled with a wurliko population
and had risen jas 70 almost iniallibly would
either the Indian empire would have been
lost on it would have been re-ostablishcd
at an expense of life and treasure equal Co
that of the war with Napoleon. Through
out that dangerous movement Calcutta
was as TRANQUILITY British as London on q
Sunday. Moreover, this vast population.
though the remainder of India stigma
ties its men as women. has a character
oi iis own, with which Englishmcn on the
other side of their heads should have
some sympathy.
Though bongaleos will not fight. they
are, and are reasonably proud OF being
the most intellectual race in India. &c "a
useless Tor any student In any college
there 20 compete with q Bcngalce rival
IN every native state they are IN demand
Tor the management OF finance Next
20 the Parsees, perhaps they are the most
successful traders and they would not
themselves admit the partial qualification.
Using With rap skill, especially IN satirc.
a language a direct denyative of the Sam
scrt' which Is not unlustly characterized
as the Italian of the East. IL b. not FAM
tastic 70 say that Il India ever produces a
literature that makes an impression on the
west 10 VIII proceed from the subtle stu-
dents OF Bengal, who, moreover. though
they display no capacity for art and little
Tor machne-maSing, will probably rival
the japanese m their pursuit of scientific
investigation, and as money-makers are
surpassed only by the Jews The wealth
OF their great capital, which is perhaps the
second wealthiest city within the British
dominion, has been built MP by themselves
and by the steady orderlinoss which has
made OF Calcutta proverb throughout the
East. A man may be a millionaire there
and as safe as in Lombard street.
The people, Ia fact with their cunning.
their thinking ability and their capacity
Tor everything except art constantly mg-
gest 70 the observant the character which
the Romans attributed 90 the Greeks.
There Is nothing they cannot learn. and
few things they cannot understand and
comment on with a gentle humorousness
which 1t you agree with it Is delightful
and # you disagree stings like a whip
Naturally, though they cannot fight. or
az all events will not attempt 20 prob
ably because Of some popularity of race.
possible also because "where the land Is
water the men are women. for nature Is
too good 70 them they are in their own
way proud people, quite convinced IN
their own minds of their superiority 10
the more violent races around them. and
not indisposed even IN moments Of ella
ton, 10 include the British among these
violent races.