Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-07
ALARMED As TO INDIA
Government Regards the Sit
uation Serious.
REMEDY IS MUCH IN DOUBT.
Ultimate Issue Of the Movement
Seems Quite Plain.
CATASTROPHE APPROACHES
Sternest Measures Must Be Taken to
Insure That Murderers Not
T. -f Be Deified.

Special Cablegram to The Star.
LONDON. December 1.-THE condition
of affairs In India is regarded by the gov
eminent as exceedingly grave. The re-
cent manifestations. especially the mutt
lation of the statue of Queen Victoria. OF
whom the Indians were by a strange ira
dtion. supposed to stand in reverence. Is
regarded as a most significant occurrence.
Those who are acquainted with India and
it's condition, If asked whether there is
any remedy for the present unrest. can
only shrug their shoulders hopelessly.
The great difficulty is the social one.
The attitude of the European. and es-
pecially the Anglo Saxon, to the Hindu
has for the most part been wholly con-
temptuous and often brutal An ANAL
gamation between them now is utterly
impossible, and when administrative con-
cessions are made the clash between the
officials and the natives will become worse
instead of better. The ultimate issue OF
the movement now going on seems to De
quite plain to the Anglo-1ndian. what
gives him most concern is that the catas-
unexpected rapidity. He can no longer
say, as he had been accustomed to do,
1T will last our time, anyway
Sternest Measures Necessary.
In a leading editorial on the situation
the Daily Telegraph says: "The sternest
measures must be taken to secure that
murderers shall not be publicly deified
after death; and if no other precaution
proves effective the body Of an assassin
who has paid the penalty of his crime
ought not to be handed over to the rela-
tives. Again. it Is certain that for the
present the native colleges are the very
rallying places of sedition and the hot
beds of conspiracy.
.'Cniess the excitement calms down. it
will be necessary to close the doors and to
disperse the students. stronger crimes
act, administered by special tribunal,
ought to be passed.
I'VE believe that much will depend on
resolute determination to concentrate re-
pressve efforts on the more notorious
centers of disaffection If the police in
the capital are unequal to their duty. then
Calcutta ought to be placed for time
under military control, and the English
troops under Lord Kitchener's command
should be strengthened to the requisite
extent All our faltering efforts up to
the present point have made the situation
worse. Half measures never were, and
never will be, of any avail in Asia. or Of
other than mischievous effect.
Time for Something Important.
I'VE have proved that we can legislate
and administer 1t is time to do some
thing more important. 1t is the hour to
show that we can rule. Otherwise moth
ing can be more certain than this, that
for all the reluctance and hesitation we
may now display We and India will have
to pay at compound interest an account
of death and suffering such as we cannot
now conceive. There have been increas-
ing signs Of late that the greatest of our
dimculties in India are created by what
we may call the invisible opposition.
Our most obstinate and dangerous an
tagonists are the women behind the pur-
dab. That problem will tax our thought
prosper with us in India-neither better
educational effort nor the extension of
representative institutions unless we
show, and speedily, our unfiinching readi-
ness to close with active sedition and to
crush 1t without conjunction