Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-07-03
TIE, MOINNEDANS WON'T A
SIiARE, IN. TIE GOVERNMENT

ligious fanatics who would like TO dis
penSe with Us as q religious duty
Are you not afraid of assassination? ?"
No. | believe that this class OF agt-
tators Will soon disappear. have al
ready given up the additional police al
lotted for TIE protection OF the iieuten-
ant governor. and frequently travel
about with no guards at all. have been
touring the country in an automobile. and
one cannot well carry guards with a
car.
Has the new reform policy bcttered
native conditions?
81 think The people realize that
we are doing all we can to give them q
share in the government. They apnreci-
ate the changes made in their favor: and
most of them are loyal to U.S.
Notwithstanding the above statement
of Sir Edward Baker. the unrest and
discomfort are growing. The representa-
ton given in the new reform movement
is not satisfactory to the revolutionary
elements. and they say that the natives
should have far greater share in the
government They claim that the Eng
1ish now hold ali the high offices and
receive all big salaries, and in this they
are right According to Lord Curzon.
there are about ], 400 government places
each of which pays $1,000 and upward
year. OF these all but 100 are filled by
British. OF the lower offices. the salaries
of which range from 5000 to $4,000 a year.
about five thousand are held by Euro
peans and five thousand by Eurasians.
while more than eighteen thousand are
held by the natives. AS TO the Offices
lower than these. they are held by the ma
tives. and their wages fall to a rate ex-
ceedingly small. Take the teachers in the
primary schools. / am told that they get
something like So month, and in certain
places not more than 81. 1t is said that
If all the teachers of India could have
their salaries raised TO 81 per month they
would esteem themselves happy.
This new movement is largely intellec-
tual Said one of the officials to this
week:
THE unrest is the rousing OF the soul OF
the Indian people. You can see signs OF
1t everywhere. One is in the increased
desire for education and another in the
native newspapers The latter have been
springing up all over India, and, al
though usually OF small circulation. they
are having great influence. Already more
than LOCO native journals have been es-
tablished. There are more than 2.2O
printing presses at work, and something
like 1000 different books i'm the various
dialects are produced every year. The
newspapers are published In twenty-five
different languages and dialects. includ-
Ing ASSameSe, Bengal, Hindu, SanScrit,
Arabic, Tamil and others. Some of these
papers are in the native states, where
they are subject to the rajahs, who sus-
pend them and Danish their editors at
will. Others are in the provinces under
the British rule. There they are prac-
tically free from censorship.
What kind of books do the natives
publish? % | asked.
Every kind" was the reply. They
are writing books on religion, on poetry
and the drama. They are turning out his
tories and biographies. and also treatises
on medicine, mechanics, philosophy and
law They issue political pamphlets and
hooks plblic Questions nf V3ripnS
kinds. Many of their books are we'll
written and some of them have a consid-
cradle sale"
FRANK G.. CARPENTER