Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-01-19
OTHER LANDS THAN ours.

| In spite OF the fact that the liberal ma !
icrity In the British House OF Commons
and the conservative majority In the
House Of Lords have failed TO reach ]
compromise in regard to the education bill, |
| the nonconformist churches are rallying
their forces to fight out the question to the
bitter end. correspondent OF the New
| York Times in outlining the plan OF cam
paign. says the nonconformists are deter
mined to starve the church schools out of
existence and couple this with an agitation
for the radical reconstruction Of the
House Of Lords. with them" says the
correspondent, ut is really matter of
life and death. From their beginning, In
1 the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries,
! they have had to fight for their religious
/ liberty-even against tolerant Anglcansm
| intolerantly applied-and II the present
campaign has done one. thing. II has GER
tainly unified and welded together the
| churchmen and others who arc not conmu-
nicants of the Established Church. An
| other thing is certain: a future election
will reveal the fact that the Church OF
England has lost immensely by its refusal
to accept the very liberal terms offered by
tie education bill of 1906. In the ciycum-
stances 1t is not singular that enlightened
continental publiclsts should be amazed at
a compromise with the government, and
should express their sympathy with the
latter. Among the many Manifestations
from this source Is the following note from
DR.. Max Nordau: May the liberal admin
istration In the coming year succeed, in
spite OF clerical and aristocratic opposl-
tion in establishing the laic school, which
will be able to form generations of Eng
lishmen free of dogmatism, with a scien-
tihc bent of mind. and trained to the use
OF their critical powers "
|
The indications OF growing popular dis
content in India are closely watched in
Europe. Tho Paris Temps has a significant
article on the Indian National congress.
After giving a sketch of Mr.. Dadlbhai
Naorojrs career and a short history Of the
nationalist movement, 1t remarks that the
annual congress was not taken seriously
until just recently. India was still for
English politicians the ideal colony, abound
ing in riches and full of literary and ar
tistio emotions But now the situation Is
changed. A justihabe anxiety has taken
the place Of the former general optimism
and confidence in the security of British
power. There is not a mutiny to fear, but
the situation is serious none the less. A
few administrative mistakes and I'M
popular measure-the partition of Bengal
soon showed how greatly the Indian mld
had changed during the last twenty years.
, The Temps crlticses Sir Bampfylde Full
= lers way of dealing with the nationals st
2 movement. The speech of Mr.. Naorojl, 1t
, thinks. was really academic, but the ma
tionalist party, 1t points out recruits all
! the dsilusioned and disconnected together
with most of the well educated Hindus,
the people is the stronger because the
proportional number of politicians among
: the Hindus is low. The Temps also refers
to the Mohammedan list Of grievances re-
Gently printed in this journal and remarks
that 1t does not help to make the situation
more easy.
Stephen Gwynn. the poet and the new
member of Parliament for Galway, proves
himself a practical business man and a
political economist of the right stripe in
r his articles on Town and Country" In
l. the Dublin Free Press. He says the Ire
L land of tomorrow must not be simply an
@ agricultural country. No purely agricul-
t tural country is ever progressive. Farmers
e are not good customers of each other, and
: need artisans and manufacturers as neigh
= bors-the nearer the better The town and
L
e plan of human happiness and the social
h economy of the nation is the farm. II
3 believe in agricultural organization" he
h says, land see the necessity of It as much
? as does any man in Ireland, but the fore
If most need is the development of town life
l would rather see one new cloth mill than
ten or twenty creameries, and the most
logical man in Ireland today is Captain
Ottway CUTIE, who. promoting a wooden
IS mill in Kilkenny, has promoted also loca
q theater. The duty of all who wish to keeI
y men and women in Ireland is to take
g thought for everything that can strengthen
:. the Irish TOWNSHIP the fostering of those
It industries which make town life neces-
W sary."
II Chinese gods are liable to- be harshly
IS treated in the future, as their worshiper.
II have just discovered that 1t is cheaper
/ and better to beat idol with a club wher
/ they desire a change in the weather OF
Il other gifts than to load 1t with jewels
l. and costly attire.
y Chifu and the surrounding country hac
IS been suffering from a drouth which threat
ened to ruin the crops and bring on 8
famine. The devout Chinese farmers Law
ished money, jewels, chickens, rice, roas
pigs, eggs and all kinds of dalnties upor
tneH ram goa ana clad MIN IN Silken, raj
G ment. All their worship was of no avail
IL The sky remained cloudless and the eartt
" was still parched. One day the farmers
III became strenuous. Something had to b.
- done and soon
he In sheer despair they went to the temple
er and took the rain god into the streets
20 There the farmers stripped him of hi
r choice garments, threw him into the mud
h. spat upon him, beat him with a club ant
al kicked the luckless image through IN,
Be streets all day. Late at night the GOO
Il was carried back to the temple, washe,
a and restored to his clothing and forme
he dignity. Early next morning the rail-
is began to fall heavily and continued sew
at eral days.
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