New-York tribune., 1909-10-10

He never spared himself. He did not always
spare others.
With one two friends 1 motored one sum-
mer afternoon while Mr. Brodrick was still Sec
retary OF State for War. TO the house he had
taken for six weeks. He was busy said his
wife. but would come out presently, and he did,
with the look Of n man who has unfinished
task hand. The day was pleasant, the
grounds were pleasant. the company was pleas
ant: there was every reason why hard worked
minister should be taking a holiday. I said I
hoped he had not brought his work with him
from Pan Mall. Come and see." he said, and
he took to the library. The floor was piled
high with dispatch boxes. blue books and all
the litter dear to the official mind. rs it like
this every day. Yes. every day" Clearly
he could not be happy otherwise.
To Lord CurzOn succeeded Lord Mimic as
Viceroy, and to Mr.. Brodrick's place Mr., John
Morley fell heir; presently Tin 190S) to become
Fiseount Morley Of Blackburn. When Lord
Morley's career is summed up one of the eu-
logies bestowed on him viii be of kind man
does not always welcome Ia order to be a good
Secretary of State for India ne has denounced
some of the beliefs to which, in his Radical days,
he clung with real fervor. or. il he has not re-
nounced them, he has held them unsuitable for
the India Office. There he has had the courage
10 apply other maXims of political conduct than
those he Thought fit for ireland. Between the
Indian Secretary and the Irish Secretary there
is gulf. The Home Ruler of 1886 has become
the Imperialist Of twenty years later. At last
he has come to see that the Parliamentary in
stitutions OF England are not suited to all coun-
tries and that there are races which neither can
nor viii govern themselves. but must he gov
erned. If Lord Morley had been Lord Ripon
the mischief 10 India would have been meal
oulable
But Lord Morley has given. I am told. firm
support to both Lord Kitchener and Lord Minto
in the measures they thought necessary for
keeping order in the great peninsula or in most
OF the measures. The Ker Hardes and the Sir
Henry Cottons and the Indian anarchists have
alike been disappointed in him. They complain
that under him the law Of India has been the
Law Of the sword. When was it. in the last re-
sort, anything else? They complain that he
takes little account of the wishes of the natives.
He takes much There are those who think he
takes too much, but never enough 10 put in
yerii the ascendencv of the present conquerors
Of India
Lord Kitchener on the other hand. Is said BY
some Of his critics to have left one problem IN
solved He has not cared TO understand the
native mind in its innumerabe developments.
Probably no European ever really got inside the
mind Of any Oriental Those who think they
1 sympathize with the Indians or Chinese or jap
snese are those who understand them the least
& Eut LCTQ h1rClSnSTs EagdClLF Ql1 not Ldll MIN
when il came 70 the practical point. His aim
was an army which, in no matter what emer-
geney. could be depended on. So he composed
his neT military units or some Of them, Of DIFF
ferent races and castes- Sikh and Goorka,
Puniabi and Mahratta. Hindu and Mussulman,
they melt together perfectly for regrnental pur-
( poses. nor are there many finer regiments any
where in the world But if one Of these ele-
raents nautnied the others would turn against
L ori@-- For n
/ flag Thus has Lord Kitchener dealt with the
spectre OF military revolt and dealt with It once
/ Tor all That is why the India anarchists, in
! their despair. have taken 10 bombs and to pri-
vate murder: seeming really 10 believe that the
English can be terrorized into surrender.
The truth is. II is Lord Ikitchener's tempera
ment almost as much as his military genius
which fits him 70 deal with this medley Of races.
I spoke Of the support Lord Morley had given
him. But believe Lord Kitchener only went
10 India on condition that he was TO have a
free hand. NO sufficient military reform and
reorganization could be carried out any other
condition If his success in South Africa was
! less complete than in India that was because
his plans Of campaign were subject TO censor
ship and control heard a soldier say at the
time Give k his head and he would finish the
Beers in six months" The questions he had to
deal with were military questions. It was the
same in Egypt He spent THREE years in organ
| izing the Soudan campaign Critics at home
| complained that he was wasting time and
money But when he left Cairo he took
| through train TO Khartoum-
As for the cost, II was that stern economist
Lord Salisbury who said that the most Won
1 derfu thing about the expedition ks do
ing It so cheeply. II vas unlike Lord Salisbury
10 use the initial. but 1 believe he did on this
occasion. X is the name by which Lord Kitch-
ener is referred TO from end Of the empire
70 the other The soldiers use it. The officers
use it. The natives use il Some Of hts friends
use il 70 his face. which proves that it cannot
be z liberty since few men would care n take
a liberty with Lord Kitchener. I knew lady
who disliked him she said: When X walks
in At one door ] walk out Of the other" She
was the exception All women arc exceptions
TO rule which does not exist. G. ". S.