Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-07-24
INDIA WOULD BE FREE
Keynote of the Feeling To-
ward Great Britain.
VIEWS OF INDIAN WRITER
Bengal Terrorist a Product Of
British Rule.
AFTERMATH OF ASSASSINATION
Endowment Of National Opera
Stirs London Musical
AFTERMATH OF ASSASSINATI0.
CORRESPONDENCE Of The Star.


The assassination of Sir Curzon Wyllie
by an Indian fanatic at a London social
function has called forth hundreds of
articles on India and British rule there,
and ever since the commission Of the
crime English newspapers have been
seeking to realize what is India's. feeling
toward Great Britain. An article publish
ed today gives the keynote Of the situa-
ton in the words india must be free -
The article is written by Virendranath
Chatopadhyaya, an Indian resident OF
London, who writes with authority, for
he says: It am myself q part Of what I
TELL y
For many years." says this writer,
II have been In close and intimate touch
with the various phases Of Indian stu
dent life in London, and have watched
the gradual growth Of our political con-
victions from apathetic loyalty to active
'disloyalty,' until now there is no Indian
to whom politics is not the first and most
important business OF his. life.
but We have during recent years
grown very rapidly. We have passed
beyond the merely academic questions
Of freedom and self-goyernment, and
there has arisen among us q school OF
a campaign OF terrorization. of which
the assassination Of Sir Curzon Wyllte
Is. it is to be feared, but the beginning"
The writer declares that Sir Curzon
Wyllie had earned the hatred Of those
Indians who have consecrated themselves
to the cause Of Indian freedom because
that official was mainly responsible for a
system of espionage mere In London
based upon the methods practiced In Ben
gal by which Indian students and others
should be spied upon. But though this
supplies an explanation for choosing
that particular official for assassination,
1t gives no hint as to the extent to which
the terrorist movement has spread in
India and in Europe.
"1he Indian terrorist" says Mr. Cha
topadhyaya. is q spontaneous growth.
He owes his origin directly to British
rule in India. powerfully assisted, as it L.,
by lawless legislation and the tone OF
the Anglo-Indian press And because of
this very important fact the number of
those who hold actively or sympathize
passively with the unfortunate and dam
serous creed OF individual assassination
is far greater than would be the case
il they were merely the disciples of a
few political philosophers. Indeed. the
must frankly admit that a large proper
ton of US are restrained from action
merely by the dominating impulses Of our
civilization.
Retaliation for Subsection.
This is fact that is often lost sight OF
Intellectually there are more anarchists
than meet the eye Of the government OF
India and the cumulative effect Of thei,
convictions may not be quite SO easil,
dealt with as foolish advocates of re
preston imagine. A clever people tina,
has been deliberately disarmed, with tn,
sole object of being perpetually subjected
will naturally fall back upon some eff
dcient method of retaliation.
And though. In the pregnant words O.
Disraeli. assassination has never chang
ed the history of the world Young In
dams have slowly but surely learned witt
success at least one branch of applied
chemistry, and today the number of thos,
who know how to make bombs is to b,
reckoned not in hundreds. but in tens O
thousands. Given a widespread knowl
edge OF the art Of bomb making and {
deap seated and determined resolution t
put an end to foreign rule, the result
however deplorable. must be obvious ever
to those who believe that the English IL
India are strong enough to cope with Sc
| dtion.
Hitherto. only the men have come for
| ward. and 1t is notorious that the In
| dams do not fear death. But there 4.
every hope that the women of new Indie
will fight the battle, too. and they inheri
the hero1Sm or those who cheerful1y fol
lowed their husbands to the funeral pyre
"The repressive violence of the British
iInperialist Is answered by the disruptiv,
violence Of the Indian anarch hist and tn.
greater the repression the greater the re
! taliation. Coercion and martial law will
therefore. be remedies that will be ia,
| worse than the disease.
Under the circumstances there is onl.
one solution. and that is the one that il
offered by Indian nationalism. It is q
solution which very few Englishmen &C.
cept today. but which they will, sooner OF
later. be bound to accept If they care for
their own safety and prosperity. They
must. without much delay, inaugurate q
new policy based upon midas ultimate
autonomy. There are. difficulties in the
way. but no attempt has yet been made
by any British statesman to think Of the
future.
India must be free, and there are MANY
OF us who are determined that the coun-
try shall be reduced to anarchy rather
than permit the present tyranny to con-
tnue. If England. therefore. does not a,
freedom, the outlook is far from encour-
aging to those of us who. while working
| for India liberation, do not work toward
Englands downfall.
/ have. quoted literally from the article
as il Is by far the most intelligent and
illuminating that has been written on the
subject and especially as II is by one OF
the ,"anarchisfS..- themselves.
1 understand that the ultimate fate OF
| the prisoner. Dhinagri is giving q GOOD
| deal OF concern. to the government. It IL
possible that way may be found OUT. Of
the difficulty by setting up plea Of In