The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1909-07-29
UNREST IN INDIA ADDS
To BRITA|N's BURDEN
The People Of England's Greatest Pos
session Dissatisfied.

luly ana mali since England came
into general control of India, and
during the first century of that
time her rule was marked by up
risings and mutinies. One prolific
source of these rebellions was the
fact that she farmed out her SOW
eIeignty to a private corporation,
the East India company. Like all
private corporations, the East In
dla company looked out for its
own selfish ends and had little con-
Germ for the interests of Britain
and still less for the welfare of In
dia. In the last great mutiny, in
which Cawnpur was lost to the
British and a general massacre OF
whites followed which respected
neither age nor sex, the home gov
eminent learned the great lesson
that public concerns should be
looked after by public agencies,
abolished the East India company
and made the government of its
greatest and most populous pro-
vince directly responsible to the
crown. Since the inauguration OF
the new and wiser policy the re-
volts in India have been of minor
character and relations have been
more nearly amicable.
The recent murder of Sir William
Curzon Wyllie, an assistant in the
Indian Office in London, by Mahar
Lal Dhingari, an Indian student,
has aroused fears that the DAYS of
the mutinies might return. Dhin-
gari not only killed Colonel Wyl-
lie, but DR.. Canvas Lalcaca of
Shanghai. But this was not in
tended, according to the assassin's
story, Dr.. Lalcaca meeting his
death only because he interfered.
The act was the more surprising
in that Colonel Willie had always
been warm friend of India, had
devoted lifetime to an attempt to
-befriend the natives and give them
larger share in the government
and was at the time Of death the
right hand man Of Lord John Nor
ley, the secretary for India, whose
policy has been so liberal in Civ
ing the Hindoos larger share Of
home rule that he has aroused. "a
storm Of criticism in England. Yet
Dhingari declares that his purpose
was to free India and he thought
step toward this end could be taken
by striking down some prominent
Britisher. Like many of the In
dia students in London, he is
known 20 have imbibed anarchist
principles and to have been a fol-
lower of Krishnavarma's Indian
Sociologist, " which breaches revo-
1utionary doctrines, and revolu-
tlOnary doctrines backed by force.
The Indian student body in Lon
don has disayowed Dhingaris act,
but this it would naturally do as a
matter Of self protection. The
thing that most concerns the Lon
don government is the fear that
not only other students, but native
sentiment, is in sympathy with
the assassin's principles and that
his deed is a portent of disorders
TO follow.
While the general opinion is
that Dhingari's act was that of
mailman to which no special i'm
Portance should be attached, there
are certain elements in the Indian
situation that are disquieting to
Britain 1t is growing conyic-
ton of sociologists that behind
every manifestation ofpolitical un-
rest is an economic cause, and this
is especially the case in India.
Through England's policy the bulk
of native manufactures have been
supplanted, thousands have been
thrown out of employment, and
India has thus been weakened and
impoverished for the gain of Brit
ish factory owners. Not only so,
but the old system of storing grain
in good years, against the seasons
of famine has been wiped out, and
the horrors OF the inevitable fam
ines have been greatly increased