The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-07-07
THE EMPIRE OF INDIA
llI-Stern Repression of Disorder.
BY FREDERIC J. HAsKIN.

/ Calcutta, India.-The British govern
ment has been stern in its measures to
! suppress disorder and TO put an end to
/ the anarchy which has terrified the eoun-
/ try for the past two years. Bengal was
! the center and hOtbed Of violent trouble.
SIR Andrew Fraser. until recently the
/ lieutenant governor Of Bengal, is a man
slow to anger and 10th 20 adopt extreme
measures In government Three times
/ bombs were thrown at his train, but with
almost Oriental fatalism, Sir Andrew de-
clared that nothing he could do would
prevent his dying when his time came,
and that no human being could advance
I that fatal time.
cago university was in Calcutta. and had
consented to deliver a lecture at the Y.
NJ. c. A. auditorium one evening Sir
andrew Fraser was president OF this in
sututiOn, and he announced that he would
attend the lecture. Just before Professor
Burton was to begin his address, Sir An
drew came into the hall from a rear door
and was met by Mr.. B. r. Barber, the
American secretary Of the Calcutta asso-
citation. Mr.. Barber was in the act of
escorttng the lieutenant governor to the
chair, when young Hindu jumped from
a seat, struck Mr.. Barber over the head
With the butt Of a pistol, presented the
weapon at Sir Andrews breast and fired
The hammer fell on an empty chamber in
the revolver The young man again
cooked the pistol, and Mr. Barber rushed
the descending hammer buried itself in
the neshy portion of Mr.. BARRIERS hand
between the thumb and forefinger. Thus
Sir Andrew FTaser's life was saved.
The young student who attempted the
assassination was sent to prison for ten
years The crown prosecutor Mr.. Hume,
was very severe in his conduct Of the
trial Of the young anarchist. and thereby
became a marked man. Four times since
the trial, and all within a period of three
months, Mr.. Hume's train has been at
tackled and bombs thrown into his car
riage Several natives have been killed
and injured, but he has escaped.
Two days after the attempted assassi-
nation Of Sir Andrew Fraser a native
police inspector was murdered in the CEN
ter Of crowded district by d man in the
dress of q letter carrier. No clue to the
murderer has ever been discovered. This
police inspector was the only living man
who was able to identify the assailant
OF the lieutenant governor as one of the
boys who frequented the famous Garden
where the thirty-six Alipore anarchists
had been arrested. On the heels of this
murder, one Of the lawyers assisting the
crown in the prosecution of the thirty-six
AlipOre anarchists was shot and killed in
the courthouse enclosure. The slayer was
a young Hindu with one hand paralyzed
and useless. The pistol he used had been
tied to his other hand with three thongs
something that absolutely proved the ex-
istence of d confederate. 1t was impossi-
bic to establish a conspiracy, the boy re-
fused to admit that he had aid, and he
went to the sCaffOld declaring that he
gave his life for the service of the Moth
erland.
This condition Of things could not be
permitted to continue. and the govern
ment decided to take measures to stop
IL Two agitators in the northwest por-
ton of India had been depOrted for writ
ing and speaking seditiOn. The depOrta-
ton was carried out under a law of 1915
a survival of the old East India company
rule The regulation in the first place
had been enacted to rid Calcutta of an
English editor who was annoying to the
company. After ninety years of innOcu-
Gus desuetude, IT was brought out again
for use in the present emergency.
The deportation caused q great storm
Of protest all over India, and no little in
dignatiOn in England itself. Finally the /
two men were permitted to return to |
India, but not until after nine others had /
been depOrted from Bengal This method /
OF treating the disease proved futile II I
only increased the agitation and the I'M
rest 1t IS still a live ISSUE and the In I
dams are demanding that the sO-caled /
'depOrteeS' shall not be made Ineligible |
for service on the new councils to be 1
created by the Morley reform scheme.
When Sir Andrew Fraser left office I
few months ago, Bengal was in a condi- /
ton OF anarchy. Not only were the bomb /
Outrages and political crimes almost daily /
occurrences, but under cover of the ex-
element the ancient gang-robbers known 1
as 'dacOitS,' had resumed operations. 1t 4
was much the same as the marauding
criminals who sheltered themselves under
the excitement caused by the tobacco agi-
tatiOn in Kentucky and Tennessee, giving 4
rise to the might rider outrages
On account Of the general sympathy of /
the people for the political agitators and
the widespread fear Of the dacoits. it was
impossible to secure convictions of sus-
poets under ordinary rules of practice
law was enacted creating a
gnoCIqt high tribunal to g1geh
This tribunal is composed of three
judges selected from a high court
bench Il tries accused men upon infor-