El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-04-30

are as different as are those Of the Eu-
ropean countries. Hindustan has many
religious. each with its own customs;
it has vast number of classes and
castles. many of-which do not harmonic
at all with the others. 1t is a land of
mighty problems and of some almost
insolvable."
How India Changes.
But it is also a land which is rap
iddly changing, is it not?''
Yes replied his excelIency, India
is changing. The people are different
now than they were five years ago, and
the policies which the state has sue
cessfully used in the past are not adapt
ed to the present. In that lies one Of
our great troubles 1 mean the making
our people at home understand that
they have new India to administer
They are apt to think a policy should
be adopted because one of the Anglo
Indians who left here 20 or 80 years
ago said it worked we'll in his day, and
that it ought to work we'll now. They
appear to think that a man who served
India 10 years ago should be able to
suggest and advise as TO today. This
is not SO. We have here new India
and a new people. The conditions are
entirely different, and they grow more
and more so every year. Many Of the
changes have come about through the
policies which we ourselves have in
augurated. We have created an edu-
Gated class, and this is made up of ma
tives who are thinking for themselves
and who believe that they should have
a greater share in the government In
the past our administration was prac-
tically autocratic. We must rule the
country today, but we shall have to
1flI
have to use more diplomacy and give
the natives a greater share in the ad-
ministration. This change Is the nat
ural outgrowth of movements which
we ourselves have started, and 1 think
1t is change for the better
The Awakening OF India.
Does this change exist among the
common people. and does it cover all
parts Of India?"
THE awakening Of India. If you call
it by that name. is going on in nearly
every part of the peninsula, although
II Is more pronounced in Bengal than
otherwheres- There are several sections
of the country in which the movement
is quite active The unrest began pre-
vious TO the Japan Russia war, and
has grown rapidly since then. The ma
tives, who are Asiatics. then saw an
Asiatic nation victorious over a Euro
'pean one. They began to inquire that
if this were possible for the japanese
why should it not be possible for them.
They asked their fellows why India
should remain under the rule of the
British and discussed that question here
and there all over the country 1 think
tina war was. TO a great extent. the
cause of the great unrest of today"
If the British Left India.
'.Rut YOUR excelleDcv what uro,,Id
be the result If you should leave India?
Suppose the British rule should be
taken away?"
Il don't think there is any POSSIBLE
ity, or al least any probability, of the
British rule being taken away from
India We are bound TO hold our place
here as matter Of national duty. not
only to ourselves, but TO the East In
dams, and TO the rest of the world If
We should leave the result would be
chaos, and some other power would
have to rush in TO quell the internecine
war that would ensue and stop the car
mage.
"One cannot imagine the conditions
which would obtain upon our depar-
ture?" his excellency continued There
would be wars of religion, wars of
caste and wars arising out of long
time personal grievances. The Nepalese
would rush down upon the Ben galeSe
and massacre them: the MOhamrnedanS
and Hindus would go for one anothers'
threats, and the native rajahs of GER
tain localities would wage war upon
each other. The result would be an
archy- The majority of the better
classes of India know this would be
the case, and it is in their fear of such
a situation that lies one of our elements
of strength. They realize that, on the
grounds of humanity if for nothing
else, the great powers of the world
would have TO rush in to keep order,
and that this would result in India
having a change of masters, and also
that the change might not be for the
better
More Native Officials.
Does your exceIlency think that the
new policy you have instituted. giving
the natives a larger representation in
the government, will be of permanent
good?"
Most certainly yes. The principle
of selection which has been adopted
for the new assemblies. both national
and provincial, means that from now
on We shall have about the best of the
natives in the councils. The native
representatives will be men of reputa-
people, and also of men whose property
interests will make them naturally con-
sentative These men want peace and
good government, and they will be