Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1914-02-06
ENGLAND FACES
REVOLT IN INDIA
Discomfort Has Now Reached
the Danger Point.
PEOPLE BURNNG THEIR GOLD
Native Mistrust ParaIyzes Banking and
Industry-SeIf Government Refusal,
Civil Service and British Policy To-
ward Turkey Among the Contribu.
tory Causes of Present Sedition.

tory Causes OF Present Sedition.
A crisis. monetary. industrial and pO-
litical. now prevails in India. As re-
suit the people of iIindustan are re.
verting to their former ASiatic method
Of buryng their gold and silver. thus
withdra wing them from circulation.
The failure of the Bank of Egypt.
less than two years ago. has been fol-
lowed during the last two or three
months by the collapse of Il whole
string of native owned. native man
aged banks in India. carrying with
them in their downfall all sorts Of na-
tive industries such as cotton mills.
etc. which they were financing.
The consequence of all this has been
to cause Il run of considerable proper
tons on all those other Institutions and
undertakings in which native capital
has been invested in recent years. Grip
ping their resources and in many in
stances compelling them to 20 out o.
business.
1t Is no eXaggeration to assert, says
the Boston Globe. that the political sit
uation just at present In India fur
nishes plenty Of ground for uneasiness.
not to say alarm.
Voices india's Suspicion.
Even so loyal champion of British
rule as Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy. fifth
barOnet Of his line and acknowledged
leader Of the important and wealthy
community of Parsees. in Hindustan.
has telegraphed from Bombay to the
vicerOy mt Calcutta and to the secre-
tary of state for India in London de-
claring that the recent events 'tOlerat-
ed in South Africa by the imperial gov
eminent imperil the faith Of the peO-
pie Of India in the good will toward
them on the part Of the crown"
They cannot be brought to under
stand how 1t is that England. having
granted self government to her great
colonies. such as South Africa. Canada.
Australia and New Zealand. should lie
pOwerless to prevent these autonomous
dependencies from enacting laws and
devising measures aimed against the
people Of India. either excluding them
altogether from the country or else
subjecting them to ignOminiOus treat
ment
That the Hindu population is filed
with more or less latent seditiOn is a
generally acknowledged fact and has
found expression in the numerous at
tempts in recent years upon the lives
Of high English officials, eliminating
in the bomb outrage which so severely
wounded the viceroy, Lord Hardinge.
OH the occasion Of his state entry into
Delhi year ago. The revolutionary
utterances Of the native press leave no
doubt about the matter.
1t is n seditiOn to which there have
been many cOntributory causes. chief
among them the indiscriminate spread
Of education unsuited to native cOndi-
lions. the refusal Of the crown to sat
isfy their demands for self govern
ment. to which they were encouraged
to aspire by irresponsible English poll
ticians. and. lastly. the completely
transformed tone Of British official
OOm IN lnO1a.
Dissatisfied With Civil Service.
Formerly. before civil service cOmpe-
tition was introduced. the officials were
recruited from the best classes in the
British isles. The members Of the
civil service Of India OF today-frOm
these exempt the older geEeratiOn-be-
long to u lower social grade. to whom
the natives are but "niggers" and who
have no manners.
Another disquieting feature Of the
present situation in India is the discOn-
tent Of the SO.OOOOOO Moslems with
the policy of Great Britain toward Tur-
key ever since. after the memOra BILE
interview between the czar and Ed
ward VII. at Reval, Great Britain be
came united by the bonds Of II de-
factO alliance with RusSia-that Is to
say. with the hereditary foe Of the
only MOhanlMetlan power in Europe.
Until few years ago the MOslens
Of India We're regarded both there and
In Europe as constituting the princi-
pal bulwark Of British rule In the Dec
can. Today they are source Of dan