The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-07-31

his power to keep the congeries of
populace from fusing into
one mass of people with community
Of interest and with patriotic, national
list ideals and ambitions. BY means of
playing the Hindoo against the Moham-
medan, the Sikh against the Hindoo:
by petting the military races of India
and leaguing them against the non
military East-1ndians, 100000 British
ers have despoiled 300,000,000 natives.
The same policy is responsible for
emasculating the people in general
and the martial races of India in par
ticular. An arms act has been en-
forced which has made it impossible
for the natives of the land to carry
weapons or learn to defend them.
selves with skill and success. The
manhood of India has been cauterized
to such fearful extent that the Brit
ish recruiting officer is finding that it
is almost impossible to fill the ranks
Of the native soldiers who drop out of
the army through death, resignation
and desertion.
A spurious system of education re.
tailed from schools and universities
built and engineered by British Off.
Gals, with East-1ndian money, has also
been used to weaken the people, The
young men on graduation from col
lege have found that their physiques
have been ruined. Physical cultH>
has been conspicuous in the educa-
tional system by it's woeful absence.
The instruction has been of nature
that has invested the young men and
women with contempt for agricultu-
raj and trade work; and has engen-
dered wzthin their hearts hatred for
men and women Of sects and castles
other than their own. Nothing has
been taught in the schools and col
leges that would tend toward uniting
the people and evolving an East-In-
dian nation. The history of India has
not been given so that it would stimu-
late the pride of the people and in
vest them with the desire to emulate
those who have gone before them and
to keep abreast of the march of civ
ilization. In the school text books EN-
phasis has been laid on the achieve
ments of foreigners; on what aliens
did for India; and much has been
made of the degradation in general,
and especially of the defeat at arms
Of native East Indians when combat
ing the aggression of the greedy Brit
ishers.
The universities were established in
India with a purely economic motive.
THE nation of shopkeepers" started
the educational system with a view to
prepare East-Indian young men to fill
the lower ranks in government serv-
ice. The native agency being as en-
cient and much cheaper than the Bril-
ish, was given preference. Moreover,
the occidentals, unacQuainted with the
language, customs, religions and
modes of life of the natives, and with
a very poor capacity for adjusting
themselves to the climate and other
conditions prevailing in India, and
for learning languages, could not
carry on the plumber of the country
without the assistance of the natives.
That altruistic motives were not re-
sponsible for the establishment of
schools and colleges in India by the
British government is evident for
many reasons. The first and foremost
is the sad insufficiency of school
houses and teachers in India Four
fifths of the East-Indian Villages are
without school. After a century and
a half of British administration, more
than SO per cent. of East-Indian wom-
en- and 80 per cent. of Hindoo men are
utterly illiterate. To show the con-
trast, it may be mentioned that in less
than One-fourth of the time the little
kingdom Of the mikado has been able
to educate its masses almost to the
extent Of those living in wide-awake
occidental countries. Another and
very powerful proof of the sordid mo-
tives with which the educational pol
icy was framed and engineered in
India is that the British authorities
have done practically nothing to train
the natives in the use Of up.to.date
farm and manufacturing machinery
and methods. The East-Indian agri-
culturist and artisan have been al
lowed to play with their industries in
their old-fashioned ways.
While the education has been OF a
nature which has utterly failed to
modernize the people and render them
capable of employing the new meth
DDS Of tilling land and making articles
Of merchandise, the law has been so
made and administered that the peo-
pie have been reduced to the state of
hewers OF wood and drawers of water,
and their industries have withered
and died. The policy of England has
been to force India to remain a pro-
Queer Of raw materials, for the benefit
of British laborers and manufacturers.
The Indian mart has been utilized for
the industrial advancement of Eng.
land
England's repression of India is un.
rivaled in the history of the world. As
a direct result Of the mal-administra-
ton of Hindostan the people are sunk