The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-13

an administration and in founding new cults. But these did but emphasize the fact that the BrahmlHs rules the na- ttves of India body and soul alike. The Incoming of the English altered
 The frou-Handed English.
 Probably none Of the many con quefore of India has ever treated the Brshmins with the fron-handed jus tice which they have experienced at the hands of the English. By them the service of the. state was thrown open to every man. high or low, and the kneii of Brahmin preponderance was sounded. At fret the ancient tra- dltion of education gave the Brahmins an advantage, but this has vanished with, the spread of education, and the ancient ruling class of India has had to come down into the arena and struE- gle with the schooied Vaisya or Sudra for the prizes of official life. On the whole, he has done extremely well and creditably. The Brahmins still pos sess a large and justly-gained majority of the more important positions in Northern India. But IL is a poor thing compared with what they possessed a hundred years ago. Always over them Is the strong hand of the Englishman, very different supervisor from the Idle acquiescence of their old masters In any policy that provided them in peace. Once get the English out of the country. and their old ascendancy is secured t0 them. For no race in In- < ala. except the Pathans of the north west frontier. would British, expulsion be fraught with more beneit-moTe apparent benefit.
 A Bloody Chaos.
 Yet should the reins of government ever fall from British hands, there would arise In India from the Brah- n1aputra to the Indus sanguinary chaos which would have no parallel in history since the days of Jenghiz Khan. iieves perhaps that the Hindu regl- ments would retain their ' efficiency, and passiveiy accept the changed all legiance. and certainly refuses to have brought home to him the unpleasant truth that for his caste the day of su- premacy has closed. and closed for good. Control of the agitation is rap Idly passing Into the hands of the most openly seditlous. and the approaching congress at Ladras will probably wit ness the practicals extinction of most of the dema gogues whose names are known to the public In England and America "Moderates" never won a cauHe yet, and If the precedent of hiss tory is to be observed, we shall find the actual management of any future open sedition entrusted to the hands of the most hot-headed enemy of the English occupation.
 Tn an issue of Barade Mataram. pub lished shortly after the service of the government notice of suppression. ap- pears a letter from Mir. Bepln Chandra Pal. in which he complains of the dif- Acuity of promoting the cause of po- utical reform" in England. Bepin chandra Pal is now in England. He says:, Let 1t be clearly understood that though I think it only just and proper to address ourselves first to the general British public, and, explaining the actual situation to them, to try, so far as lies in our power. to bring 8 peaceful revolution in India, I have little hopes that any practical results will come out of this work, directly in England. People here are not only hopelessly ignorant of our affairs, but they are also not willing really to know and realize the truth either, even when these are laid before them with the irresistible force of facts and logic. Darkness may be removed, but not that darkness which looks upon itself as light. And of all Englishmen, the most hopeless are exactly. those, the so-called Liberals. whom the British Congress Committee have been trying to educate and enlighten all these years at such enormous expense. The really ruling classes here are the most hopeless of all. Whig or ToGy. their education ia narrow. their instincts are conservative tn the worse sense of the term. their pride of race and conceIt of color which calls itself culture are enormous; how can you expect to carry the real truth about any matter to these modern seribes and pharIsees?"