Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-23

bay. postmaster general at Bombay and
Bengal, etc. and Is manfestly familiar
with Indian affairs.
The author speaks Of Mr.. GopaI Krishna
Gokhale. c. l. E.. as from Mahratta. a man
Of ability and formerly a college professor
latterly turned to politics. He is popular
In the Bombay presidency and is a member
or the Hindu national congress. The Hindu
national congress, Sir Evan explains is an
assemblage Of Englishspeaking Hindus,
with sprinkling of Parsees. organized
some twenty years ago by Mr.. Allan Hume.
c. B. 1T has no definite franchise" says
the author. and practically any one who
chooses to pay his fare to the place of
meeting may attend as delegate. 1t fore
holidays. afrording an excellent opportunity
to the discontinued for letting off historical
fireworks. All members without exception
are against the government. so there is no
pulsion of England from India. Some merely
wish greater political power. Others desire
more offices and titles.
Concessions in the past have been made
Sir Bartie Frere appointed an Indian to be
judge in the high court of Bombay. and
now there Is scarcely a high court that has
not always one or more of them At the
mask was entirely thrown off and a militant
attitude adopted e
Sir Evan frankly says: "Discontent on
Wan paw "a ioSeS SuUJeCl " d SONeTiIHeHl
alien to themselves is abso-
AneV1taple lutely inevitable. The masses
Burden. Of India recognize the full
merits OF our justice. but
they do not love US. BY lapse of
time Indians have learned to accept
us as an inevitable burden and per-
ceive many advantages in our remain
ing; and, indeed, the vast majority who
have little to do with the English direct
scarcely give thought to our existence,
the local native magistrate. revenue col
lector and policemen being all In all to
them But were. say. q descendant of the
Infamous Mana Sahib the heir Of the Peish-
awas. to offer himself tomorrow as the ruler
Of the Mahratta country and plebiscite
were taken as between him and the king
emperor, the polling for the Peishawa would
be unanimous. The new ruler would not,
however, be in power for three months after
the English were expelled before tyranny
and corruption would make them all in
trigue to have us back again.
The author of Ambition and Sedition in
India" charges that sedition has been eX-
cited at home, and cites Mr.. Donald Smea-
ton M. p. with responsibility in saying
that 1T was oppression that aroused the
people to rebellion. Nearly fifty years have
passed. One form of oppression has disap-
peared; another has taken its place. The
old company scourged India with whips;
the British government is at the present
moment scourging 1t with scorpions, and
we are in sight of another rebellion more
serious for England than the mutiny Of
1851 precpitated by the mismanagement,
the insolent disagreement under which
India is at the present moment grooming"
And the author adds what may not tend
to strengthen his argument what John
Bright said in 1853 in the house of COM
mons: BE it thirty or one hundred years.
does any man with the smallest glimmering
of sense believe that that great country
with it's twenty different nations and Its
twenty languages can ever be consolidated
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r
The situation in India Is all the more
grave that the agitators are stirring up the
peasantry and fears are en-
Peasantry tertained that the native
r Aroused. army may be contaminated
The agitators have counted
upon vaciliation at the India Office and the
indifference if not sympathy of the present
ministry. The energetic action of the chief
Of the Indian affairs was unexpected.
In the house of commons on June Mr..
Morley under pressure Of an alarming dis
patch of that date from Simla arose and
said:
Il am afraid shall have to ask the house
for rather a large draft upon its indul-
gence. The Indian secretary is like the
aloe which think blooms once In a hun
dred years, for he only troubles the house
with speeches OF his own once in twelve
months"
Mr.. Morley declared that 1t was one of
the most difficult experiments in human
history to attempt to conciliate personal
government in India with free speech and
free right of public meeting. The secre-
tary for India referred to the unrest In the
Punjab and the incendiary and seditious
spirit of Lala Lajpat Raj. He cited what
Mill said about government in India
Government by the dominant country
is as legitimate as any other If it is the one
which in the existing state of civilization
OF the subject. people most facilitates their
transition to our state of civilization. The
ruling country ought to be able to do for
its subjects all that could be done by a
succession Of absolute monarchs guaranteed
by irresistible force against the precarious-
ness OF tenure attendant on barbarous
despotisms and qualified by the genius to
anticipate all that experience has taught to
the more advanced nations. II we do not
attempt to realize this ideal we are guilty
OF dereliction Of the highest moral trust
can devolve upon nation
Mr. Morley maintained that there Is a
vital difference between the western Eu-
ropean and the Indian Ash
Racial attic. The latter possesses
Differences vivid susceptibilities Of all
kinds. and great traditions
of a civilization of his own: that he should
be treated with respect, kindness and SYM
from Gen. Gordon to a friend Of his, in
which Gordon wrote:
ITO govern men there is but one way, and
it is eternal truth. Get into their skins; try
to realize their feelings. That Is the true
secret of government"
There Is school, said Mr.. Morley, who
think that England should get out of India
and leave 1t and the Indians to manage
their own affairs Anarchy and bloody chaos
would follow, and he thought that the house
of commons with all its partisan groups
was determined to face the difficulties with
sympathy kindness, but firmness; with
love of justice and whether the weather be
fair or foul, in valiant and hopeful spirit"
Mr.. Smeaton, MP, spoke from personal
experience and differed from what had been
said. THE cause OIL dissatisfaction in India
lay deeper than described. 1t was due to
maladministration of the late viceroy, who
did not know, and never learnt, what kind
of people he had to govern. His mistakes
raised the temper of the people to fever
heat" Mr.. Smeaton brought up the mere
tricious Delhi Durbar incident of 1903, and
the national congress which had pronounced
severe structures thereon, and which had
found an echo In every village: the official
secrets bill and the untimely GENERALIZATION
of the universities: the change of represen-
tattve system in the Calcutta municipality;
the invasion of Thibet: the refusal of the