The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-07

occupation of India will continue to carry out the functions with which the English have entrusted it.
 Froth of seditien.
 The main question--how far the present froth of sedftion represents the mass of native opinion-must De dealt with carefully. but it may be In place to answer at once an obvious op1eclion' How comes if. many will say, that Wi'n an Administration framed upon suSh excellent lines. there is the opportunity for even malevolent criticism 70 oo- tain such publicity In the peninsula To thiA there is one sufficient answer: No Government has ever saved itseIf merely by It's yewn virtue and probity. The very liberality with which England has permitted the free publication and discussion of political heresies has en" couraged a thousand to preach disobed- fence where, under q sterner code even one might have hesitated to betray his secret aspirations. The. truest com mentary upon the British policy in ln- dia was written a hundred years ago by the only European to whom 1t has ever been given to understand the in- most soul of the native of India. What is, and must remain for the English, sealed beck, 50 far as many or it's chapters are concerned. was read by the Abbe Dubois from cover to cover, and his finai estimate of the necessary relations between the English and the Indian Is as true today as when 1t was written Of that estimate the kernel is contained in the following sentence; "Under the supremacy of the Rrahmins the people of India hated their Gov eminent, while they cherished and re- speoted their rulers; under the supre- macy of Europeans they hate ana oe- spfse their rulers from the bottom or thsip hearts. while they enerisn anu respect their Government. l venture te predict that the British will attempt in vain to effect any very consideraoIe changes in the social condition or sne peopie iof India. To make peops happy it is essential that they them selves should desire .to De maoe happs, l,:s and should cooperate with those Whe are working for their happiness. Now the ueople of India. it appears neltheF nossess this desire nor are anxious 50 co- onerate to this end. Every retorm vvbicb is obviously devised for tneir weIi-being they otstinately push asioe' if if fta likely In the least degree to als- furb theIr manner of living, thelr noss absurd preiudtoe. or. their most pperhe custouns%
 If this is as true today as t was hnnarea years ago--and 1t uHqueseioh- abIyt ia--the English need not LOOK Tar for the causes of unrest that exist to dav. If the inability of the Hindu 10 annreciate either the personality or the labors of these who, well or HI. @u- minister India is as proneuAcse as ever the English who, to the best or their ability. have instilled in him the ur,neinles of patriotism citizenship, ara ea.oueration, and have, moreover, made hfm articulate, need take sipan blame to themselves if their work stiii meets with little appreciation among those for whose sole benefit 1t is dea sigued. 1T
 If there were In India today men like the Abbo-and Warburton, better known aa Strickland" Thurston and Risley rolled in one would hardly be the equal of Dubois-it Is possible that minor oauses- Of friction might some times be avoided. But 1t is to be re- membered that the main reason why the present and recent generation have lost that close touch with the native which eharaeterized many Englishmen ln.the days of the East India Company is that those. old irregular liasons, which were the source of much of that Intimate Knowledge. have totally dis appeared today. But however frequent ly knowldge, gained directly or indi- fectlY by such means, might have Saved individuals from blunders, it would be mistake to suppose that the deep, underlying movement of the peo- ple' of India would have been really in- hhenceds. England is dealing with far wider issues, and with far deeper traits of human nature, and her first task Is to estimate the volume and direction of the moving tide. the day for the in- terference of Mrs. Burlington in In- dian politics is over. So much seems to be understood. both by Lord Mor- ley and by the Government of India. Sir H. Risley's proposals for the en- Arrangement of native participation in pleted and on their way home. That they are of a drastic and far-reaching nature is certain, That they are prac- tieab1s remains to be seen.
 | The Anglo-I Indian official probably the most capable, impartial and trust worthy administrator that the history of this world has ever recorded, Is often, by the fact of his very virtue of application. sound judge of his own district only. A civilian permanently employed in Rajputana would have views about the present unrest which would barely be regarded as those of a rational being by a police. of1cial in Poona. In the mass of evidence and in q certain detachedness of standpoint lies safety at the present moment, but it must not be forgotten that the Brah- - aa- N srrkRf Nsf