The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-07-06

emotional sections OF any people
thoroughly stirred and aroused to unan-
imous discomfort with their Govern
ment. The anarchy In India Is not to
be taken as a measure of the unrest
and discomfort OF the people, for 1t is
quite Insignificant in comparison.
Taken as the manifestation OF the emo
tions of the extremists, and as prom
Use Of what may follow, the anarchis-
tic demonstrations assume great Inn
portance.
Then, as the British police officer
who has had the measures of repression
in hand remarked, 1t must be remem-
bered that the Bengalese. who have
been mostly concerned in the anarchy,
have been always a peace-loving, in
offensive people. The last two years
record the only instances of political
violence among Bengalee civilians in
the two centuries Of British occoupa-
ton. The mutiny Of 1857 was a move
ment among the mercenary soldiers
who formed the bulk of the British
army. and IL was famed into fame By
tactless disregard for the oriental
religious prejudices of the rank and
file Of the native troops.
The present outbreak Is entirely diff
ferent. 1t IL among educated civilians
who have absorbed western ideas of
government and who demand western
privileges. The Sepoy mutiny was
violent reaction toward orientalism.
The anarchy in India today is the re-
suit OF reckless attempt to advance
toward the full possession Of the vices
and virtues of the Occident. Bombs
and bomb-throwing are occidental In
origin, and the inspiration of the In.
dian anarchists Is found in Europe.
and, SO say the police. In America.
1t Is impossible to give a complete
history of the outrages which have
been perpetrated in India in the past
two years. but the case of the CAL
cutta anarchists may be taken as .
fair sample. At first the assassins and
attempted assassins were confined to
the Interior, and small magistratess
who had been severe In political cases
were the victims. Late In 1907 the
aspect of the affair was changed by
three successive attempts to wreck
the train carrying Sir Andrew Fraser,
then Lieutenant Governor OF Bengal.
Once the train was actually wrecked,
but Sir Andrew and his party escaped
injury.
The regulation forbidding public
meetings was then enforced with re-
newed vigor. A few miles south OF
Calcutta Is the small French town OF
one of the small remain
ing bits OF once great French Indian
Empire. Some Hindu students sought
to hold a meeting there, on French
territory and beyond the jurisdiction OF
the British. The French Mayor for
babe the assemblage. Within few
weeks two bombs were thrown into his
carriage, one of which came pertlously
near to accomplishing its object.
EARLY in 1908, a bomb was thrown
at the carriage of Judge Kingsport of
Mozufferpore, an interior city. The
Judge had ordered the whipping Of
several members Of one political union
and had decreed the deportation of an
agitator. The anarchists We're wait
ing for his carriage, and when they
saw 1t cast the bomb WITHOUT waiting
to see IL the Judge was in It. He was
not, but the bomb exploded and killed
Mrs. and Miss Kennedy, guests OF
Judge Kingsport. One Of the men
who threw the bomb committed sui.
eide, the other was hanged.
There was some evidence that the
two men were sent out from Calcutta
under orders to assassinate Judge
Kingsport and to take the conse-
ouences. There was no attempt to es-
cape as the murders believed they
had killed their man. The man who
was hanged shouted "Bandemataram,
the forbidden national anthem. on the
scaffold.
soon after this the Calcutta police
found their quarry. They made
raid on a house in Muraripooker car
den, In Calcutta. In this and supse-
ouent raids thirty-six men were ar
rested, In the Garden was found
equipped factory for making
bombs, with a large stock of explo-
siyes and arms. The trunk of huge
tree was filled with bullets, the result
of frequent target practice. Many Sc
dItious documents were found. and
others were luckily discovered" by
an over-zealous police force.
The men were all taken oefore a
magistrate. and after an examination
which lasted fifty days were committed
to be tried before higher court on'
the charge of conspiracy to wage war
against the King. The court before
which they were taken Is curious ex-
ample of the combination of judicial
ana executive functions in the Indian
An English judge tried
the case, assisted by two native tax
assessors The two assessors occupied
the bench with the Judge. and at the
end of the trial, which lasted 1or lzo
DAYS. gave their verdict. The judge,
&c ususl paid no attention to the as
SCISSORS, but gave his judgment as he
pleased overruling his nominal asso-
GATES Then the whole case went TO
the high court, where it is pending.
One of the accused promptly turned
approver," as they say in India, or
turned states evidence. Upon his tes-
the Crown relied to convict the
whole lot. But Gossain. the approver,
was afraid of assassination ana ne
asked the Crown authorities to keep
him in Jail until the trial was over.
He was permitted to stay in the same
prison where his fellow conspirators
were confined. one morning two OF
the accused came to him in corridor.
The first. Kanai Lall Data, had a pis-
toll in each hand. The other man had
one pispol. Data called out: Cos
sain, / hate to kill you, but l must.
You die because you are traitor to
the motherland. With that he shot
Gossain twice and killed him.
Both Data and the other man who
carried a pistol were Immediately tried,
convicted and hanged for murder. But
no one has been able to find out how
they got the pistols. An arms act is
in force in India, and every firearm In
the country Is supposed to be num-
bered and registered with the police.
A sale or transfer of possession must
be reported to the police. There 10
only one explanation for the murder
in AlIpore jail and that is that the
have their friends among
the police. Data, who shot Gossain,
went to the gallows with his head in
the air and smiling. He shouted Ban
with his last breath ana
boosted that he gave his life for his