The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-07-29
THE BROWN BROTHERS
British Are Gods And Yankees Comrades And How The
Problem Works Out Governing India With The Chest
The American Way.

To the bentghted Hindu the Brlton
is a god; to the equally backward
Filipino the Yankee comes as a
brother. So the stars of the East look
down upon two Numerically opposite
methods of handling Oriental peoples
one plan aristocratic, the other dem
ocratic. The Briton thinks the Yankee
is silly to treat the Malay as an equal,
and predicts all sorts of blue ruin for
the plan, but the Yankee is just nat
urally built on democratic lines, and
can no more wear evening dress at a
jungle camp fire than the Briton can
shake hands with a brown or yellow
palm. Each must be himself and go
his own gait, and only the outcome, in
the far future, can tell which is the
better. That is the gist of an illumina-
ting account in Everybody's, entitled
Gods and Brothers," telling how the
two styles of treating the Oriental
work out. 1t seems that an American
who is called Granger" by the writer
to disguise his real name, was for
three or four months a member of the
forestry service in the Philippines, and
when he got his leave they sent him
home by way of India to spend a few
months studying forestation methods
in the lee of the Himalayas. At Cal
cutta he met Henry Kitchell Webster,
an epigrammatic finger. "The Eng
remarks" followed. But these re-
marks were enough to send Mr.. Web
ster over to the Philippines, and to in
spire him with the present article.
The two sat in the heat of midas
midday sun. Their meeting was still
but few brief minutes old
Granger tapped his shirt-front with
an epigrammatic finger. eth Eng
lish," said he, govern India with their
chests"
And how do we govern the Philip
Zines, inquired Webster. The other
replied:
with a baseball bat and a tin of
Hope Deferred smoking mixture"
My first iota of enlightenment came
few days later while exchanging
notes with fellow tourist named Jen-
kinson, says Mr.. Webster. Jenkinson
was Just one of the come-on or Kodak
variety of people-"like myself"
rive been having a queer expert
ence," said I. mot unpleasant, exact
ly, but rather embarrassing. Evident
ly 1 look like somebody; I'm always
getting mistaken for him. l can't be
sure whether he's in the army or the
police, because the native soldiers and
the constables are equally respectful
He must be a pretty high-up person
age, because they know him as well
here in Delhi as they did in Jeypore.
And in Jaypore-well, the other day
as l was passing one of those forti-
fed gateways, a whole squad Of big
Sikh soldiers stood at attention and
saluted when l walked by. I'd meant
to take a picture of them, and the
gateway and all, but, when they did
that hadn't quite the nerve"
That's very curious" he said, be
cause the very same thing has hap
pened to me. I've been thinking that
looked like somebody"
AS soon as l found an approachaole
AngloIndian, asked if native soldiers
and police were under instructions to
salute every white person they saw
tourists and all. "Oh, yes" he said;
they can't be taught the difference
II would be most dreadfully bad for
them to teach them to discriminate
between one white man and another
Kiplings British soldier observed
that there were no Ten Command
ments east of the Suez. But one com
mandment that goes with the full force
of decaIogue, says Mr.. Webster, Is
that one which DEGREES that the white
man must be always god-not neces
sarily a good god, but at least a god
of some sort.
Yet this goddishness of the govern
ing Englishman is not necessarily
pompous nor offensive. There
are three hundred million In
dams in India. The invading horde
that holds them in bondage, counting
civil servants, planters, merchants
white soldiers on garrison duty, men
women and children-the whole white
population of India numbers less than
one hundred thousand-a ratio of one
white person to about three thousand
blacks. Apparently it can hardly be
by brute force that the English have
held the empire for a hundred years
And as the topcaste Hindu is highly
intellectual person, with sophisticat
ed, metaphysical mind, cunning be
| yo,,5 tho understanding Of tha SimDle