Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1908-08-13

OF native East Indians when combat
Ing the aggression OF the greedy Bril-
ishers.
The universities were established In
India with q purely economic motive.
"The nation Of shopkeepers" started
the educational system with Q view to
prepare East.Indian young men to oil
the lower ranks In government serv'
Ice. The native agency being az ell
Client and much cheaper than the Brit
ish, was given preference. Moreover,
the occidentals, unacQuainted with the
language. customs. religions and
modes Of life Of the natives. and with
q 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 70
sponsible for the establishment Of
schools and colleges in India by the
British government 10 evident for
many reasons. The first and foremost
Is the sad insufiiciency Of school
houses and teachers in India. Four
fifths of the East-Indian Villages are
without school. After q century and
half OF British administration. more
than 80 per cent. of East-Indian WON
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
nature which has utterly failed te
modernize the people and render then
capable of employing the new meth
DDS of filling 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 witheret
and died. The policy Of England has
been to force India to remain pro
Queer Of raw materials, for the benefit
Of British laborers and manufacturers
England's repression Of India is un
rivaled in the history Of the world. Az
direct result Of the mal-administra
ton of Hindostan the people are sunk
in poverty, superstition and ignorance
festered with plaques and famines
weak in mind and body. From the
standpoint of unity, the teeming mil
lions of India are the worst situated
in the world.
But the most heartrending feature
of British exploitation is that the peo
pie have been kept under q state Of
hypnosis for such o long time thai
only q small percentage Of them are
alive to the seriousness Of the situa
ton. But the educated community Ii
increasingly awakening to full
realization Of the white mans pur
pose and work in India, and this awak
ening Is developing into revolution
airy attitude toward the Britisher.
Famines and plaques are welding
their combined influence in breaking
the crust OF fatalism native to the
East.Indlan. The wolf Of hunger and
the fell epidemics are slowly but
steadily making the ignorant millions
pause and consider that something Ii
positively wrong in the system
They have not yet come into realiza
ton that their country has been woe
fully bled and that the resources Of
the land have been Incorporated
by foreigners. Their awakening ID
vet in its infant stage. 1t Is hazy and
underlined and as yet mere speck on
the horizon. But 1t ID fast developing
and as the educated East-Indians have
commenced an aggressive campaign
for the uplift Of the masses. 1t is des'
tined to assume greater proportions
day by day. Where It IL to end. nc
one can prophesy.