New-York tribune., 1908-08-01

brother who is very polished little person.
looked shocked. and Mr.. Singh on the plat
form looked startled and stopped in the middle
of a sentence. But Mrs Singh was perfectly
placid She is evidently accustomed TO her daush-
ter.
To the naked ear of the outlander Miss Singh g
name. pronounced by her mother, seems 10 be
Harry. This is probably wrong. but 1t viii serve
for little Miss Singh deserves a boys name any
way. Her voice, though perfectly welbred. is of
a singular penetration, and she maintained run
ming comment on her fathers remarks. It was ap-
parentIy reversal of the Orient and Occdent-
There were serrted ranks of Columbia women stu
following the discourse of the Hindu scholar
with meek attentive and there said schoi-
ars daughter fouting him. The poor man. who
was endeavoring TO trace the development Of the
Sikh intellect from the fifteenth century down
was visibly disconnected. and finally paused in his
discourse looked beseechngly at his daughter and
tapped the floor with his stick Then Mrs Singh
folded her tent like the Arab and silently faded
away. AS she faded she clasped little Harry close
upon her hip. while OF that persons fat brown
legs stuck out straight across her mothers back
and one her. belt line in front. Mrs Singh
doesn't sheath gown, as some benishted
male who doesn't know sheath when he sees t
said but white waist and skirt and a long, white
drapery fastened the back of her head and
floating down behind. This drapery is very ar
tistic and pretty, and despite the fact that she
wears glasses and doesn't wear stays and is frank
ly unashamedly fat Mrs. Singh is picturesque
NA'NNN---'N~'S
figure.
Mr. Singh in general and not violent way.
gave the audience to understand that the Indians
have no special love for the English.
The majority of the Anglo-Indians do not mix
with the Indians. If they have to travel in the
same compartment with them they show very
pIainIy that they look down them. These little
things" said ~ naIveIy, 'irritate the people.
LAS was pointed TO Lord Mnto, My Lord,
these very people whom you treat with such cour-
VIII lev o
British officer must wait for hours outside the
house and when admitted treated with scant
courtesy
The Indians are regarded and treated con-
ouered people. bill for competitive examinations
for civil posts open TO ali corners was thrown out
by the House of Commons. Only man Of Euro
pean parentage both sides can take part in the
examinations for the higher posts in the police ser
vice All the British coonists, Canadians, Austria
ans and others, like India under the British flag
can move freely from colony to colony, and even
ccc1.Dv lucrative posts in India, but Indians are
barred out of these colonies from working as
coolies.
The military talent of India is being slowly
killed Even under the worst of the Mahometan
rulers individual Hndus had chance to rise to
power and influence. But it is impossible for
any Indian rise higher than post inferior 10
the youngest lieutenant sent out from England
Also the native soldier is always armed with an
inferior weapon. discarded by the white in order
white soldier.
only a head is spent for education per
annum The educated classes of Indians are
those most disliked by the English. They are be-
lieved to be sedition makers; they declared to
be demanding a representative government for their
selfish ends. At present. with very few ex-
ceptions every intellectual person is regarded
with suspicion and dislike. It the policy of
Lord Curzon's administration to discourage higher
education
There is civilized race which cannot impose a
check upon the executive power of its government
through legislation. That means is closed to the
Indian because in India the legislative and execu-
tive power is and the same. The trouble with
the English government in India from the first
has been that il beaurocratic. unchecked by
any legislative body. That the trouble under
the old East India Company; II the trouble
even under Victoria, great wise and good Queen
she was. loved. admired and revered through
India: 1t is the trouble to-day The demand for
a representative government in India is growing
more and more insistent.
Il fear that if England do nothing TO check
the present movement times will become dan
gerous in India they have been in Italy. in
France and in Russia"