Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-13
|ENGLAND'S NEW POLICY IN INDIA

Lord Morley promised in the house OF
lords, December IL. 1908. that he would
change things in India.
Morley's and that when a royal
commission to study
6IoMlSe. conditions there had re-
ported he would frame a bill to correct
certain abuses. Lord Morley quoted on
that occasion from Mr.. Bright's speech
on India in 1883:
1--WE do not know how to leave 1t, and
therefore let us see II we know how to
govern 1t. Let us abandon all that sys-
tenn OF calumny against all natives
which has lately prevailed"
As a result OF the measures provided
by Lord Morley a new imperial coun-
Gil has been constituted. in which
natives have been accorded a larger
share in the affairs Of British India.
Lord Mimic, governor general. pre-
sided at the opening session Of the
imperial council and referred to the
event as "a great historical occasion,
opening a new era with the Inaugural
ton Of broader principles Of govern
ment"
The viceroy. however, accompanied
this declaration with a statement which
was in the nature OF q cold doucHe to
the aspirations OF the Indian reformers.
He would not support those who would
follow in the wake Of Turkey and
Persia. and he declared emphatically
that Representative government In the
western sense was totally inapplicable
to the Indian empire" Lord Mimic also
seized the occasion to refer to the an
archy and laWlessness which were seek
ing to subvert not only British rule, but
the government OF the Indian chiefs,
and while admitting that much of the
political discomfort was justified, yet
the British administration would No
longer tolerate the preachings of the
revolutionary press, which would be
restrained.
Following this declaration a dispatch
from Calcutta reported that bill to sup
press sedition had been offered in the
legislative council. The particulars in the
bill relate to instigatiOns to murder or
anarchial outrages; tampering with the
loyalty of the army and navy; exciting
racial class or religious animosity and
contempt of the government or native
prince: criminal intimidation and interior
ence with law and order and attempts to
intimidate public servants with threats of
injury.
Sir Herbert Hope Risley. secretary of
the home department in Calcutta, explain
ing the bill in the council,
SedltlOuS stated that 1t was needed
A.4 badly on account Of the
AetAsAIy' growing unrest among
the natives. who are constantly being in
cited to revolution by seditious articles in
the newspapers pamphlets and leaflets
from certain leaders, who permit their
f,,l fo bo irc{f-
ing. The leaders themselves work
secretly. while the young men blindly in
wade peaceful villages in certain guises
and openly preach the doctrine Of an
archy.
A Calcutta correspondent telegraphs
that the Bengal leaders. including Mr..
Rash Behari Chose and Mr.. Surendranath
Banerjee, have issued a manifesto on the
subject of the reforms. They declare
that the regulations regarding the new
council are in striking contrast to the
spirit of Lord Morleys utterance when
he announced the reforms, and that they
clash with the idea of representative gov
eminent and make invidious class dis
tinction.
A dispatch from Bombay February 26
declares that Lord Minto's health is bad
and that -Anglo-Indian opinion is discuss
Ing the viceroys retirement. It has all
the appearance of what occurred In
Egypt. Lord Cromer committed fatal
error at Denshawi. Lord Mimic has been
unfortunate in the matter OF his speech
in the council at Calcutta Lord Cromer
was suddenly stricken in health and Lord
Mimic is now in the same situation. Lord
Cromer was retired and the same fate
awaits Lord Mimic.
The Saturday Review in an editorial Of
recent date entitled Lord Minto's Apol-
ogy' writes: 1.-The thing which Lord
Mimic was at most pains to disprove was
that the new councils act was not granted
to India as concession to SedttiOus agi-
tation. But 1t was, perhaps, 80 regarded
by the agitators and the act was accepted
by them as an encouragement. 1t has
been attended by assasstnations: the
Kennedy ladies; the attempted murder of
the collector Of Dacea; the discovery Of
the Aepur conspiracy and the assassi-
way through parliament when Sir Curzon
Wyllie and DIR. Lalcaca were struck
down. Its final introduction was the oc
casion for an attempt on the ytceroy him
self and the murder Of Mr. Jackson and
now the assassination of the police in
spector ShamS-ur-Alam Lord Mimic, the
review concludes. has acted tardily. and
the tone of the article indicates that his
mission is ended
Another dispatch from Bombay Of the
of things in India is grad
Women ually taking the place Of
the old and the purdah
AcsAse' system will be swept
away. The correspondent cites as a re-
markable feature Of the situation in
India the part being played In politics
by women, who are intensely interested
and are working for their complete
emancipation In the Bombay presidency.
for example, Indian women are far more
advanced in their views than in many
occidental countries. They have a club
of their own in POona, Of which many
English women are members.
An Indian writer in the Contemporary
Review, Mr.. Bipin Chandra Pal. under
the title of THE Forces Behind the I'm
form what was said several months be-
fore by Mr. Francis Mury on the troubles
in India What these two writer's have
to say about the troubles in India is
both Interesting and instructive.
According to Mr.. Bipin Chandra Pal,
the present problem in India Is the di-
rect fruit of the history Of the British
last two hundred years. He says 1t is
due to the creation of English education,
British laws and methods of administra-
ton, increased facilities OF intercommu-
nication. growth of the native press and
foreign travel. The awakening has been
a desire for freedom and national great
ness; the breakdown Of old ideas in the
lusiOns of classes and the masses alike in
regard to physical and moral superiority
of the country over the governed In
a word, 1t is the spirit which awakens