The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1908-03-14
Events Go to Show That England is Fast
Losing Prestige Among Her Millions
of Asiatic Subjects. 81
Maddened by Famine and Overtaxation, the
Natives of India Are on the March
Toward Revolution.

The Chicago Examiner, under date
of March 1st, contains the following
cable dispatch from London:
In mass meeting of Hindoos held
here last night to protest against the
i'll treatment Of their fellow country
men in the Transvaal severa, speakers
predicted that trouble was coming in
India.
India is rapidly marching toward
revolution. Only disciplined army
now holds tho people in check; a break
down Of that army orr any external
shock to British authority will bring
the bureaucratic fabric Of British rule
in Hindoostan to the ground.
Recent events show that England
has lost her prestige among the soo.-
100000 Asiatic subjects. The natives
now adopt contemptuons and even
menacing attitude toward their Euro
pean masters. The attempz to murder
G. q. Allen, magistrate Of Decca,
sonta shock Of anxiety through Eng
lland.
Shortly afetrward the unrest in EaSt
ern Bengal eliminated in nm armed at
tack upon patrol of policemen. Riots
followed the retallatory raid of the
police on the town of Mysenmingh.
The police. say the natives, looted the
shops and beat the people. Panic has
since prevailed.
The London newspapers declare that
India is "Atremble with sedition."
The natives are completely losing
their old-time servile respect for their
conquerors. Once they skipped from
the sidewalks rs the white man stalked
along Now they hold their ground,
and grimace contenptuously. English,
women. no longer guarded by the mys-
tic omnipotence of the British, fear
to go out alone. Even officials are in
suited.
Henry Labouchere, M. F., prints in
Truth a letter from an Anglo Indian,
which gives some idea of the state of
affai irs. The writer says:
"The nearer one gets to large VIII
lagos or towns the more frequent are
the instances Of rudeness ard insult.
An instance Of an atrocious yet very
elusive form Of insults, fashionable in
certain districts, is that as a native
passes you OH the road he hawks and
spits with great vchemence and JUNCTION
at the pollution Of the atmosphere by
your presence"
The Anglo-Indian complains that the
old way Of settling such affairs with a
kick or with a cane is no longer toler-
ated in India. The native who ~,
years ago would have taken his punish
ment humbly, now drags the aggressor
into court, and generally wins his case.
India, however, is not relying on in
OA1s0 40 uCi "o0pohs l. ZIG ASeSl WCdpOIl
is "Swadeshi."
"swadeshi" is to India what Slim
F'ein is to Ireland. India, say it's ad-
Eerents, can effect her dtiiverance by
passive resistance and by a systematic
boycott of British goods. "swadeshi'
is making rapid progress, especially in
Calcutta, and has already led to a
widespread boycott Of British made
cottons and hardware.
With "swadeshf is "swaraj," or
home rule. and what 1t means exactly
is best shown by the words Of Mr..
Tilak. it's advocate:
I'VE desire to make India autono.
nous and absolutely free from British
control"
England is now thoroughly alarmed
about India, all the more 80 because
she is beginning to recognize that the
new state Of affairs Is the result of
her own blundsss.
The "Swadeshi', movement was the
direct result of the monstrous partition
Of Bengal by Lore Curzon, who was