The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1919-03-17
Britain's Job in India
By REV. J. SUMNER STONE, D. D.
Written for The Wheeling Intclligencer.

I've got n little job on and. and the
lime is DRAWN nigh.
I wants to aye it nice and neat, and
plcaSin' TO the eye,
And I 'OpcS tho God Of soldier men will
see me safely through it,
How thoroughly the British have done
their bit and the part they have played
rs soldier men in the. great war. histor-
inns will he long time in telling. There
are events assocat cd with tho titanic
struggle launched BY the unspeakablc
Turk Of Berlin that have been named
Miracles. To many students of these
times the miracles have not been the
battles fought and won by the Allies so
much as the spontanicty and whole
hcartcdncsS with which South Africa
nnd India, Boer Hindu. Moslem and the
disciples Of the Great Gawd Budd"
rushed men and money to the help OF
britain in the hour of her need. Again
we learn that the greatest thing in the
world is not fear or force. I've been
to Woolwich and know which side TO
take" may have been the reply of the
Nizam, midas greatest Moslem prince
when the Indian mutiny threatened
British rule in Hinudustan. But a
mightier force than England's arsenRls
drew Bocr Moslem and Hindu to Brit
aims side when the storm burst over
Europe in August 1914. Berlin though
she had mined the Moslcm world from
Morocco to Singapore with dynamite
sufficient t. destroy the empires OF
France and Britain when she dared set
off the blast. Her follow conspirator
,oh 70
malignant than Abdul the Damned
Young Turk and Hun failed. But with
hclliSh malice they shot their bolt. Only
Armenia the martyr nation OF the ages
suffered as tongue nor pen can tell. II
Justice fail not the twin Molochs. Turk
md Hun will atone for their unparalleled
I'd cruelty 10 the Armenians. Not un-
needed is the prayer.
"Avcnge, o Lord. thy slaughtered saints
Even them who kept thy truth SO pure Of
old"
But France and England were sup
in Paris and London. AS in the ghastly
siege of Lucknow.
Ever upon the topmost roof the BAN
ner Of England blew"
But for the loyalty of india Egypt
and South Africa. loyalty that spared
neither treasure nor blood. the British
would have lost the fight. That British
was not, as many say, caught UMPIRE
pared. let the devotion of her colonies
attest. Stronger than guns and navics
for the defense was the astounding loyal
~ Of her far flung colonists, diverse IN
creed and color. but one in dccotion to
the British Raj.
Now for my story. We were riding
IN the smoker of a Pennsylvania Limit
cd years before the war, when dispute
arose, II know" cried a German who
had the stage. II know the practice OF
the British in India They treat the ma
tivcs as niggers are treated in your
southern states" Have you ever been
In India" gently intcrjected. mo, but
1 have the. facts upon the best authori-
". The British are tyrants. ruthleSsly
tranpling upon the rights OF the ma
tivcs. NigScrs receive no worse treat
mcnt anywhere than do tho Hindus at
the hands Of the British" Born a vIr-
ginian having spent seven years In In
dia, assumed that I was competent
witness While held no brief for the
British. proposed TO state certain facts
as to a jury and submit the matter in
dispute to my fellow countrymen. II
was in the carly eighties. Il new police
commission had been appointed in Cal
cutta- who proceeded to issue some new
and drastic mandates. among them ono
bearing upon the rights OF free speech
a right imbcdded In the Magma Charta
of the British. The new ruel that crc-
ated ttn Indian mutiny on small scale
was that open air speakers must receive
license from the police commissioner
before they address crC@'ds in street
park or bazaar. Shades If Hyde Park!
Cans Americans imagine the shindy
that order stirred up? The town fairly
stzzlcd. not with tropic heat, but with
British fury. Being Americans ana
accustomed to the mild rule Of the Irish
policeman. We abstaincd from offending
md permitting the British to fight their
own battle. I shall never forget tho
first evening following the new order
We, as was our custom. resorted TO GU,
old stand in Wellington Park. but this
time we went there not to speak. but Il
sec tho battle open. A crowd greatly
magnified was waiting the first shot
Our soap box pulpit was occupied by a
ono armed eNBritiSh officer. We knew
him we'll. Captain j. had had his
arm chewcd off by a tiger. At one TIM
In his career the doughty captain had
invaded AfEaniStan single handed when