The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-01

1 nor MT. Naoroji suggest Indian inde- pendence, Both believe that English sovereignty should continue, but Mr
 Cotton shows the wrongs now inflicted | upon India and the necessity for re.
 form.
 ! Not only does he charge that tn,
 promises of the Queen have been ig
 nored. and Indians excluded from ser.
 Vice for which they were fitted, but h, charges that the antaRonisn betw ger
 the officials and the people is growins
 and that there is among civilian mag
 lstrates "an undoubted tendency to ip-
 nict severe sentences when natives oi India are concerned. and to impose light and sometimes inadequate pun. lshment upon offenders of their own
 race and that in trials '1n which Englishnlen are tried by English ju- ries" the result Is sometimes "a failure or justice not falling short of Judicial scandal" If justice cannot be found in the courts. where shall she be sought?
 Alter tho Indian mutiny the Queen in proclamation promised that natives should be freely and impartially ad mitted to offices, the duties of which they might be qualified by their edu- cation. ability and integrity to dis charge Lord Lytton, viceroy of India, in confidential document which got into print, speaking of the pledges of the sovereign and the parlia ment of England. said: We all know that these claims and expectations never can or will be fulfilled. We have had to choose between prohibiting them (the natives os IndiaD aai cheating them, and we have chosen the least straightforward course" and again: : Since I am writing contdentially I do not hesitate to say that both the governments of England and of India appear to me, up to the present mo- meht, unable to lnswer satisfactorily the charge of having taken every means in their power of breaking to the heart the words of promise they had uttered to the ea~
 The government Of India Is as arbi- trary and despotic as the government of Russia ever was, and in two re- spects 1t is worse. First, 1t is admin istered by an alien people, whereas the officials of Russia are Russians Sec ond. it drcins large part of the taxes out Of tha country, whereas the Russian government spends at home the money which 1t collects from the people. A third disadvantage might be named since the CzIr mas already created leglsla.ive body, whereas England continues 70 d env to the h. dians any form of representative or constitutional government.
 The people of India are taxed, but they have no voice in the amount to be collected or in ;he use to be made of the revenue. They pay into the government nearly 225,0O0,00O a year and of this nearly $1OO,000, 900 Is ex- pended upon an army in which Indians cannot be officers. It Is not necessary to keep such an army merely to hold the people in subjection if the Indians are really satisfied with English rule and if the army is intended to keep Russia from taking India. as is some times claimed, why should not the British government bear part of the burden? Would it not be wiser to so attach the Indian people to the British government that they would them selves resist annexation to Russia?
 The home charges, as they are call ed. absorb practically one-third of the entire revenues. About $100,000,00, go out of India to England every year, and over S15.000,000 are paid to Euro pean officials in the civil employ. What nation could stand such drain with out impoverishment?
 Taxation is nearly twice as heavy in