The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-09-20
INDIAN PRESS BITTER
.DENOUNcING BRYAN
It's STATEMENTS ABOUT THE
COUNTRY cALEED INFAMOUS
MEAsURE or ITS MEN

c0UNTRYgcALEE INFAMOUS
MEASURE Ills MEN;
WASHINGTON Sept, 20-z4Wfllianl
j. Bryan has raiRsd torn ii. India.
His criticisms Of The British govern
ment's rule there have got back to
the east, and the omcials and news
papers are Up inarms about IT, In
formation received here In letters
shows that deep feeling has been ext
cited. Copies ot the leading newspa
.pers forwarded here indicate that Mr.:
Bryan is the chief topic Of discussion
lin India.
The Times. OF India, the leading
Journal OF Bombay, devotes almost its
entire editorial page in a recent Is
sue to fierce denunciatfon Of Bryan
and to severe sarcasms against the
United States in general. while The
indian Spectator, leading native
journal, sassails him in a more restrain
I'D but no less indignant fashion.
At the head Of the editorial Of The
Times, Of India, is q quotation frof1
Martin Chuzzlewft, containing one
OF Martins conversations with ignor.
ant and concelted American politfT
clans and editors concerning affairs in,
England. 1t is the passage, in which.
Gen. Choke insists that Queen Vic
.torfa lives in the Tower OF london.
The following are extracts from The
Times, OF India's, attack on BRYAN:
"Reasoned and informed arguments
we are willing to debate, but the en-
anations of clustering ignorance a
be disregarded. We felt very much
as Martin Cruzzlewit felt in the pres
ence OF that oratortca1 hero. Gen. Cy=
rus Choke. OF the United States mill
tia, with whose characteristics Mr.
Bryan seems to have much in COM
mon. There is no arguing with a
man who will assure you that Queen
Victoria lived in the Tower Of Lon
don; one knows that if n demon
strates the contrary the only rejofn-
der of the Child of Freedom will be.
like that of Mr.. Elijah Pogram, that
his boastful answer to the despot and
the tyrant is that his right home ts
lin the settin' SUM- II may sound q
little i~nconsequent to those accus=
toned. to exercise their reasoning IA
tllities. but it gives the measure OF
Mfr. Bryan's mental attitude and in
.tellectual capacity. He captured half
America, by. a. phrase, and. as might
perhaps have been expected from one
whose education is chiefly vocabulary.
ba condemns the British rule in In
dia. without knowledge, without ade
ouate INQUIRY, without the sllghte.s
attempt to verify his reckless and al,
most wholly inaccurate statements in
a cataract Of rhetorical and ytlifying
sentences.
nBefore he condemns he should in
quire; before he makes sweeping
statements he should at least take
steps to ascertain their accuracy. Mr..
Pryan plainly did nothing of the sort.
He selected a couple of volumes,
which, as every student Of Indian pol
.ittcs Knows. teen with misleading
congratulations, and he evolved an ar
ticle which is in many respects the
most absurd %peryersion OF realities
which we have yer seen.
"And manIfestly, he, did this, be 1t
roted. to serve his own political ends.
He wanted to dtscredit President
Roosevelt's socalled imperialism;
lie came to India as he went to the
philippines, intending to condemn
what he saw, and in carrying out his
.preconceived Intention he has ap5
pended his name to statements Of Vio-
lent mendacity5such as no honorable
ind fair.minded statesman would be
guilty of uttering. II the unwarrant-
cble use OF his Indian inquiries af-
fords any index to Mr.. Bryan's polftt-
cal morality, it will be an evil day for
America and the world when he en-
tiers the White House.
'That he should be under the i'm
;.rassion that India is a colony AMI
that the Bombay presidency ts q
state does not matter much; these
and many similar plumbers are only
passing indications OF his utter lack
Of exact knowledge. But when he
proceeds to talk about the drain to
England, he rapidly engulfs himself
In the verlest nonsense. Hardening