The morning journal-courier., 1908-01-16

ter and the native press, and not in frequently counting the days, and even the hours, which must ps g1.5an through with in some way before his next leave is due and he can, ,reeura to the only life he cares about, and to, perhaps, the only world he under stands
 Another cause Of discontent among the natives, and the subject of just criticism by even those who appreciate at their proper value the many starl- ing features of the Indian civil service is the custom which has grown i'm mensely in the last few years of spend ing considerably more than half the year at the hill stations of Sima anl Darjeeling, hundreds of miles away from the eenters of population and of administration. It is pointed lu+ for instance, that for nine months of the year Bombay, with over a mi lien in habitants. is often left to its own ce- vices, the English raj having no ther representation in the great emp )riIm than a young subs ,rets.ry of a5 fresh
  from an English university.
 These emigrations are defended cn the score of health, but that, the can did critics point out, is no: the sole end and object of the Indian adminis- tration. The civil servants claim. and this is quite true, that life in Simla is not all bridge, billiards, and brandy, i icte o1.-o they work up their reports without the waste of time and energy caused by the incessant Interruptions which they cannot escape as long IS they re- main at their home stations. The crit ics admit the time wasting influences of the Interruptions. but the argue that reports, though fewer @oul1 be more valuable because of them. They point out that the Asiatic likes a visi- ble ruler, and not q mysterious man hidden away from sight somewhere in the hills. They like to get at thei: administrators and talk to them at length, If not interminably, as some leng-suffering servants complain. The first step necessary to strengthening the British rule in India, according to these critics, who have the support of all the nonoflicial classes in the coun- try, is to stop the typewrters and place the mania for getting up cases and inditing long reports under the ban.
 When this is done the administrators of the country districts to-day would have the time to spend several hours daily under the banyan tree talking to the village elders in the vernacular and so finding out what was going on | in the districts to whose government they are supposed to administer. The crowning argument of the critics who are so objectionable to the partisans of Simla as pleasant work and play ground, is taken from the life of Lord Cromer, whose successful ad- ministration of the Egyptian govern ment has pust come to an end. Other 1 people might flee to Rameh when the hot winds blew, but he stayed in Cairo where he had work to do, and where only he could keep in touch with the people for whose prosperity and good government he was responsible.
 l Doubtless after few more incident; even more revolutionary in character than those which the closing year has witnessed. the agitation which prevail; in India to-day will be sternly repress' ed and the machinery of government remodeled to meet the new demand. of the day. It is also quite possible that Lord Lansdowne, who made tho treaty with Japan, when he reads how millions of once peaceful subjects o his majesty the emperor king regard Mukden and Tshushima as the palla, dia of their liberties, will exclaim re gretfully, as did that other belted carl Lord Salisbury, after the treaty o' Berlin resulted so disastrously fol 1 British interests and the peace of tho world, We put our money on tht wrong horse Stephen Bonsal if the New York Times.