Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-04-30
THE EARL OF MIMIC.

Of mighty problems and of some ale
most insolvable.'
HOW INDIA CHANGES.
But St is also a land which is rapid
ly changing is % nOt'"
YES replied his eNCcllency. 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
adapted TO the present In that lies
ono Of our great troubles. ] mean the
making our people at home under
stand our people have a new India TO
administer. They are apt 10 think "a
policy should be adopted because one
of the Auglo-lndians who left here 90
or 30 years ago said 10 worked well in
his day. and that 10 ought 20 work
well now. They appear to think that
a man who served India 10 years ago
should be able 10 suggest and advise
as % today This IS not so We have
here new India and "a now people.
Tho 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 inaugurated. We have
created an educated class, and this is
made up OF natives who are thinking
for themselves and who believe that
they should have a greater share IN the
government In the past our admins
tration was practically autoCrtic We
must rule the country today. but we
shall have 10 adopt concilatory meth
DDS We shall have 10 use more de
plOmacy and give the natives : greater
share in the administration. This
change is the natural outgrowth ~
movements which we ourselves have
started. and / think 10 is change FOR
the better"
THE AWAKENING OF INDIA.
Does this change exist among tho
common people, and does IL cover all
parts ~ India
''Thc awakening Of India. II YOU call
II by that name U.s. going ON iu nearly
every part Of the peninsula, although
10 lq more pronounced iu Bengal than
other where's There are several sec
lions Of the country in which Che
movement is quite active. The unrest
began previous 10 the Japan Russia
war and has grown rapidly since then
The natives. who are Asiatics, then
saw am AsiatiC nation victorious over
a European one. They began 10 'u-
quIre that n this were possible for the
japanese why should 90 not be possible
Tor them They asked their fellows
why India should remain under the
rule OF the British and discussed that
question here and there AN over the
country. I think that war was. 20
considerable extent. the cause OF the
great unrest Of today
IL THE BRITISH LEFT INDIA?
but. your eXcelleucy. what would Doe
the result il you should leave india
Suppose the British rule should Doe
taken away"
II don't think there ls any POSSIBLE
ity or az least any probability of tine
British rule being taken away from
India. We are bound to hold our place
here as a matter of national duty. not
only Co ourselves, but 20 the East In
dians and TO- the rest of the world. lf
We should leave the result would bg
chaos, and some other power would
have 10 rush in TO Quell the iutoruoclne
war that would ensuc and stop the
carnage.
zone cannot imagine the conditions
which would obtain upon our depart
ure,' his eXceIency continued. There
would be wars Of religion wars of
caste and wars arising out of long
time personal grievances. Tho Ncpa-
losc would rush down upon the BEN
galesc and massacre them. the Mo-
hammedans would 80 for one anothcrs
throats, and tho native rajahs IF Csr-
tain localities would wage war mon
each other The result would bee autr-
Chy The majority OF the better classes
OF india know this would De IN. case.
and 10 is ln their fear ~ such "a slfua-
ton that lies one of our elements or
strength. They realize that. ON the
grounds OF humanity In for nothing
else. the great powers OF tho world
would have 20 rush In 10 keep ORDER
and that this would result u india
having change OF masters. and also
that the change might not be Tor the
better"
MORE NATIVE OFFICIALS.
Does your eXcelloucy think that the
new policy you have instituted. giving
the natives a larger representation m
the government, viii be OF permanent
good?"
Most certainly yes Tho principle
of selection which has been aIouted !
for the now assemblies. both national |
and provincial means that from now
ON we shall have about tho best of
the natives in the councils The native
representatives viii Doe mon of reputa-
tion and influence among their own
people, and also men whose prlp. rty
will make them naturally
These men want ugape
and good government. and they viii be
backward In advocating anything that
would bring about "A revolution. We