The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-07-20

I to the empire and does not even con-
slider the possibility Of a severance from
/ England. The Ceylonese know, all TOO
we'll that their little island is one OF the
richest prizes of the sea and that IF Eng
/ land was driven away some other nation
would come in and seize IL. Much as they
/ gloried in an Asiatic victory, they fear
japanese control beyond anything. So fd-
as the press is concerned there is not the
slightest protest against English domino
ton; it is only against the method of
1 administration
But. in private-and this is the reason
why the average Englishman is SO elo-
QUent in discussing what he calls the
American failure in the Phiiippines-in pri-
I Yate. many CeylOnesa will declare that
they would like nothing SO much as 90
come under the wing of the American
eagIes 1t is impossible for them to un-
derstand that al the United States is not
a unit for imperial ACKNOWLEDGMENT and
/ if their flag Is changed at all they would
/ ask for the Stars and Stripes. Fne Fhli-
ippine administration is responsible for
= this feeling and il must be admitted that
1 the educated Ceylouese knows vastly more
about the American rule in the Philip
ines than does the average educated
Another effect OF the Asiatic awaken
/ ing I'm CeylOn is social rather than po-
/ litical Many of the most prominent men
are leading d movement for return TO
purely native social customs and cos
tunes The teaching of ancient Ceylon-
csc history in the English sch0Ois-praC-
| tiCally every school in the island is Eng
| lish-is one of the recent results Of this
agitation
] Ceylon is particularly fortunate I'm pos
/ sessing an authentic and uninterrupted
/ history from the time of the foundation
of the Sinhalese dynasty. 544 years be-
fore Christ, down to the fall of the last
I king of Handy, who was Overthrown by
/ the British in 1915. These records were
/ kept by royal historians and have been
translated into English An abridg3ment
/ Of this great history is being used as a
| textbook in the schools. The Sinhales5
dynasty endured longer than any other
race of kings of which modern history
takes account, with the single exception
[ of the present ruling dynasty of Japan
I And no nation on earth has written his
/ tory covering such a long period of time
without a break of even one month I'M the
record of twenty-fOur centuries.
/ Four hundred years ago the Portuguese
came and took possession of the seaDOrts
/ which were already practically in the
hands Of the Arabs. The native kings eS-
tablished themselves in the mountains
| to help them Gust the Portuguese, anC
found the Dutch were worse than the POr-
/ tuguese- Then the English came, in 1893
and drove out the Dutch. They were
not content with the maritime provinces
and prosecuted a war into the Interior
conquered Randy and sent the last kins
| to die in exile in Madras. The awakened
| CeylOnese is proud of his history, but DE
/ is warned by his knowledge. Unless he
| knows exactly what is before him he vii
content himself with English rule and
} permit his racial patriotism TO blow of
steam in reform movements and the ever
1 lasting chase for office.
Tomorrow, ON CeyIon's Spicy Isle. II
| The Many Gods of Eden