The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1909-11-25
UNDER THE LASH.
BY ANGLicus.

highly disinterested rule, India has
much trouble. The Conservative
party always allege as a reason the
extensive facilities for education
and enlightenment which have been
granted to the natives. The Radi-
Gals, on the other hand, hold that
til 8 oppression W Ii i c h produces
violence. There is truth on both
sides. It is impossible to expect a
halfeducated people to acquiesce
meekly in the domination of their
country by aliens, who, in spite OF
their greater knowledge and partly
because of it, are repugnant to the
great mass of natives. The Bengal
of the Government service has been
much ridiculed, but it must not be
supposed that Kipling's babu is an
invariable type. The truth is that
it does not take sound education
to impress the idea of India for
the Hindus on the native mind,
and that this is an idea which cul.
ture will by no means eradicate.
The native looks around him and
sees Japan conquering Russia,
China celebrating a system of i'm
perial defence and Persia setting
up parliament. From the point
of view of progress, these facts ale
not testimony of the virtues of Brit
ish rule. Neither is the famine
mortality or the official support of
the opium trade. But the problem
Of ruling 400,O00,00O people, SO di-
vided that every village is made up
of men of different creeds is not
one. 1t is in it's astonish-
ing diversity that Ind a d j IF er s
from other Asiatic nations. China,
it is true, has many races within
it's borders-the Cantonese coolie
seen in the United States
has very little in common with the
tall, powerful Chinaman Of t n 9
north. But in China there islucal
province has its
type-and little religious conflict
This latter difference is one of the
chief reasons for the maintenance
Of the British power in India at
comparatively slight cost in men
and money. The Indian Govern
nent is always able to play off
Buddha against Mahommed. 1t
Is in the union Of the hundred sects
and races that the d ange | i S.
Nothing could be more conducive
70 this tendency to unite than the
oattlecry Home Rule for India,
which will be followed by the still
more meliaclng shout, India for the
Hindus.
A BOMB is an argument, but it is
neither practical nor effective. All
he bombs exploded in Russia have
1ot advanced the cause of progress
n the slightest degree. W here
here is violence, sympathy veers
% the oppressor. This is true in
Russia, as in Spain. With the re-
,olt of the Barcelona mob there
could be no sympathy. To choose
! time when the country was en-
gagged in foreign war in which to
protest against oppression was un
patriotic and, viii bout reasonable
,hance of success, unwise. Z h e
Spanish Government could only
strengthen itself by Furnishing the
7iolators of converts. But to exc
cute man who, whatever his in
most principles may have been, was
oy no means either an agitator or
! rebel, was the height of folly.
The man who Pounds schools, be
hey clerical or anti clerical, de-
serves we'll of his countrymen. Ii
has not beenauthorititavely setforth
now far Ferrer' s radical views color
I'd the teaching in his schools, but
it is safe to suppose that they could
hardly prove menace, and that
their suppression must be worse
evil than their existence. In this
age the word suppression has an
ugly sound, especially where there
is more than a hint of religious in