The Holbrook news., 1911-10-27

flying politician, taken in
 hand by a Bengah, sees in finitely less in India than British workingman sees of Germany con- ducted through manufacturing cities by a tariff reformer. It is a most foolish and a most dangerous thing for man of little observation, small imagination and no reflection to race through one or two Indian cities and then express himself on Indian pol Itics with more authority than man of science would speak of chemistry after a life of incessant investigation
 It needs actual experience to appre- ciate this amazing variety of human types; and yet until this variety IS realized in the mind of a European there can be no intelligent under standing of anything that has to do with India. The very first thing a man must do who would form rational opinions on Indian politics or carry in his mind true picture Of Indian color and Indian feeling is to realize that the BOG, O,OOO, ,0O0 of humanity com prising the empire of India are not one race or two races, but are 2,OOO species of mankind as different from each other as snakes from elephants, tigers from firefies and mosquitoes from buffaloes.
 Directed by Handful of British.
 You cannot dogmatize about India. You can no more speak of India as one complete and single thing than you can exhaust botany by smelling a rose or paying sixpence for bunch of lilies. India is infinite. A man with seeing eyes begins to perceive this baffing truth on his very first walk through a street, and he is at once on his guard in forming opin- ions, and most dif1dent in venturing to utter even the least uncertain of them. He who speaks of India as a nation of Hindoos and Mohammedans would speak of the constellations as consisting of Orion and Ursa Major
 There are many good people in England who think of Indians as two peoples, Hindus and Mohammedans. purposely kept apart and purposely held down by an immense army ot proudful, iniquitous and atrabili- ous civil servants exported year by year by the India office. Let these good people bear in mind that the inhabitants of | India represent 2,000 species of man. kind, that not only is each species opposed socially and intellectually to i the rest, but that they practice to- ward each other an ostracism which |
 fv, no1ond hnfWnnn the greatest Swellfoot and the most | hind; and. further, let him definitely apprehend and reflect upon this fact, that the whole com pany of British civil servants, in cluding military officers holding civil Is only 1900. India is governed by Indians, a tremendous army of them, with just 1,2OO British citizens at their head. One might far more truly say that India employs handful of Englishmen to direct her own government than assert that England holds India in the grip of an iron hand.
 Influence of Caste Everywhere.
 have seen nothing of violence or even rudeness on the part of English men toward the natives; but I have 10 doubt that instances of this kind could be cited and perhaps proved
 have seen. known and I see it every lay I live in India. and every mile .ravel in the country. instances of he most intolerable exclusiveness md appalling pride between native md native. Consider these two facts: A Brahmah priest will not visit a ow caste person, however extreme lis need; and high caste doctor will lot go to the bedside of a dying ,oolie. Thanks be to God" said to ne a benevolent and educated Hindu, for the hospitals set up for poor peo- ,Ie by the British government" A ,ostman will not deliver letters into he hands of a lower caste man than Iimself; he filings them down on the round. Democracy has no expres- ion whatever in India except through l he government. which devotes all its