New-York tribune., 1908-07-05
Arms and Money Sent to Aid
ConSpiratorS to Over
throw English.
rcopyrigh,. 1908. by the Brentwood compsnv.1

ICopyTight 1905, by the brentwood Company.I
1crd Morley is a statesman renowned for his
sCbriety OF speech and judgment and may be de-
sCribed as the personifcation of unconditional
level neaiedness. When, therefore. in his ca
pacity OF Secretary Of State for India he pub
licly proclaims that heavy clouds have suddenly
arisen horizon and are now sailing over
our Indian skies; when. moreover, speaking in
the presence Of veterans of the great Sepcy
Mutiny OF half century ago. he declares that
England has 10 deal with conditions such
as the British in India were never before called
upon 10 face and adds that strong measures
are necessary il may safely be assumed that
the situation Of affairs in King Edwards great
Oriental empire Is extremely grave. It is a
crisis-Lord Morley calls it IAN ugly moment
which i of absorbing interest TO the United
States. not only because the latter may at any
moment be called upon 10 deal with something
very similar in the Philippines, but also owing
90 the fact that the conspiracy by which the
government is confronted enamates, in the
words of the EiCeroy Of India, largely from
sources beyond the confines of India.
These sources. though Lord Mimic does not
openly say so, are not in Russia, in Ger
many, nor yet in Turkey, but right here in
America. This may doubtless seem surprising
10 many Of my readers, But several shiploads
Of arms and explosives are known to have been
secretly dispatched from American ports to
points to the north Of Bombay since the begin
ming OF the year. while much Of the money
which the reyolutionists in India seem TO have
at their disposal in considerable quantities also
comes from the United States. Some of IL is
contributed lsy worthy people who innocently be-
ueve that their subscriptions are destined TO
promote the cause Of native education and en-
ughtenment in India. Others, again, have been
led i,v stories OF British mismanagemen and op-
preston appearing in certain magazines here
10 give freely TO what they understand 10 be a
nationalist movement in favor OF something akin
10 native home rule for India in the faJlacious
belief that the huge Land OF Hind with its
teerning population Of three hundred million, will
be happier and more ably governed by irrespon-
sible. Ill educated and dishonest Bengalee babus
the worst type OF modern IaG-an--than under
the honest and sasacious administration of the
vieeroy and Of the latter's leutenants, all men
OF vast experience and OF unblemished honoF.
stu others furnish funds in the fun knowledge
that they are to be used for sanguinary reVo4u-
ton and anarchy by the natives against All
British authority in India. The latter category
OF subscribers alone is prompted by bitter en-
nifty for England and for everything English
ana is to be found, Englishrnen assert, among
the syrnpathizers OF the Clan-na-Gael; IN fact
for some time past the Clan-na-Gael and GER
tain of its kindred organizations here commit
ted 70 hostility against Great Britain have
developed u very remarkable interest in Ind
ian matters an interest which has attracted
the notice OF the English e1iicial wurld on both
sides OF The Atlantic especially the association
OF some OF the prominent members Of the
anti British organizations with the large and
ever growing community Of Indian students
living in New York for instruction Many of
these Rindus hail from Baroda; some them
are here at the expense of the Gaekwar Of
Baroda: others are asserted 10 be in attendance
on one Of his sons who is receiving his educa-
tasu here; and It is q noteworthy fact that the