The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-08-01
THE ASSASSIN
 FROM INDIA The Causes Back of the
 Crime. GREAT BRITAIN $ WORRIED Indian Problem Gets More
 Difficult. Ths Arch Censpiraser ef all The In- aians h I.aving h Paris He was O.ee . College
 Prefesssr.
BY W. HAsarrroN RHODES.


 eyes of all England to the dangerous condition of affairs existing in the Indian Empire. Every effort Is being made to ascertain whether the mur- derer acted on his own initiative or as the agent of conspirators. The docu- ments found upon the prisoner and in his lodging throw no light on this problem. Apart from native news- papers in which treason is openly advo- cated the discriminating documents are in Dhfngra's own writing. These let- ters and manffestoes show clearly that the engineering student had fallen un- der the influence of men not only in India but also in Europe who exert every effort and employ every means to poison the minds of the youth of India.
 Dhfngra accepted as his leaders men who in Europe profess peaceful agita- tion and in India urge treason. Tn India these men are the leaders of parties so small that they would be tnsignihcant and incapable or harm were 1t not for the support, moral and financial, that they receive from some native princes. The names of these princes are known to the Government. One of them not many weeks ago. ex- plasning his position at a London dinner table. remarked: 'T wonder if ever I shall return to England after leave this time. doubt if the Government would let me-if they knew" The Government knows but cannot act upon their knowledge.
 Engfishmen today are more interest," sd In ShayamaJi Krishnavarma than in almost any other living individual. At present he Is living in Paris, and he will plot. revolt. and fncite to murdes retail ana wholesale SO long as governing Englishman remains in India. And Englishmen have helped him to this end. So far his best friends have been his hated enemies. The British permitted him to organize his conspiracy effectively and untram- meiled, allowed him and his emissarfes to come and go without question while they prepared Q dose of terror to be administered on their own doorsteps. India is remote. and assassinations there have had but little effect on the English heart. ''WeIl then" says Krishnavarma i've will kill them at home. India is governed from London r-we will kill in London"
 Killing an London.
 Early last December. while inter- viewing Krishnavarma at his beadouar- ters on the outskirts of Paris, a dis tinguished French editor was informed of the Indians conspiracy to drive the British from India. Look here" said She arch-conspirator. as he held up a smau printed sheet little larger than Frightening England" The sheet was the 'Tndian sociologist," a nouthIv paper printed in English by an En. @lish firm in England. for several years circulating free and unframmelIed ameng the Indian students in London. and until recently widely disturbed in India.
 Eighteen months ago Krishnavarm.- having arranged his finances, yolun- tariiy exiled himself from England and every other part of the British Empire, and took up his residence tn Paris, where he gathered together his colleagues in treason. Since that time he has been active in disseminat- Ing his teachings and in completing the organization which Is to terrortze England.
 Krishnayarma was born in the year of the Indian mutiny and Ia, com sequentiy. over fifty years of age His complexion Is swarthy, he is a man of great statute and he dresses like a clergyman. His black hair and beard are well streaked with white, and his lips are snappy and pertinacious His study burdened with books and papers lying around in apparent great dis order, but wonderful memory trained in his youth by Brahman priests en- abies him to place his finger immedi- ately on any quotation or manuscript required. His early training was along the ancient Indian lines. Later he made special study Of Sanscrit. which he read and wrote perfectly before he was thirty years of age. In 1878 he was appointed assistant professor of Sansertt at Oxford, and became the first Indian M. A. at that universitv The Secretary fer India sent him to the Oriental Congress at Berlin as of- ncial delegate, and on returning to India he held office as Prime Minister excessively in three Indian States This is the man who today is the i'm placeable enemy of England.
 The Arch C0nsnarmtor
 T would have begun my work for the emancipation of India much soon er," he said during a recent converaa- tion, but for one fact rerarded Herbert Spencer as my master, If had organized openly for the freedom of India during his life it would have been said that his teachings were responsible, and much unpleasantness might have attended his old age tn consequence. Almost immediately after his death I laid my plans" Krishna- Yarrna eagerly turned to a marked passage in lvanhoe," in which aIlu- sion was made to the tyranny exer- cised by the Norman conquerors over Saxons. He paused for a moment. and his face lit up with the light of the fanatic prophet as he added-''and the seed sown will be harvested soon"
 The prophecy has been fulfilled. and the harvest" has begun. After the murder of Sir Curzon Willie Krishna- wanna declared that 1t was extremely unfair that he should be held to ha l in any respect responsible for this tragedy There was, he argued no | more logic in such a proceeding than there would be in holding a newspaner responsible for a crime committed bv | person who had read therein an ac- count of a similar crime. He was A | disciple of Hetbert Spencer, and every thing that he had written in the l "Indian Sociological" was based on his works and on those of other English authorities on such matters
 To one or two passages of his writ ing he drew special attention in sun port of his contention. In this months number of his reviewer in an article | headed International Law and the Ethics of Force" the following pass age occurs:
 brief statement of our case, At the risk of allenating the sympathies and good opinion of almost all our old friends and acquRintances in En- gland and of some of our past help | mates in India. we repeat that poll l ltfcal assassination is not murder. and l IHshat the rightful employment of physi- cfal force connotes force used de- |