The Columbia evening Missourian., 1922-11-27
BRITISH TEACH
GOVERNMENT
BY NEW PLAN
India Receives Training in Leg
islation' by Taking Con-
troll of Single De-
partment.
RICE TELLS OF CHANDI
Missionary Gives History of
Mild Uprisings Against
English That Failed
Repeatedly.

In about twenty-five years, according
to Roy E. Rice, an. American missionary
now in Columbia on leave Of absence
from Indie. the natives there will be suf-
fciently trained 10 conduct all depart
ments Of the government. The British
government is carrying out plan under
which natives are given control Of one
department Of the government at a time.
At present they are in charge Of the de-
pertment of public education.
The greatest figure in recent Indian
politics has been Ghandi, the leader of
the non cooperative movement. The man
himself is well educated and has had a
great influence among the people who
regarded him as superhuman. He was
sincere in his program of offering pas
sive resistance to the British government
as a means Of obtaining home rule for
India. His first attack was through the
schools. All natives in attendance at
government schools stopped going. and
the Chandists raised a fund of $l0.000.-
600 for establishment of native schools
and colleges. However, this sum was
insufficient for establishing many schools.
and the drive failed in a year from its
beginning. His next move was against
the government courts. All native law
yers left the courts and took up their
practice in their homes. This, too, failed
mainly because of the inconvenience TO
the people of going 10 the lawyers homes
TO have their cases tried. The third
drive, which had little effect. was one
of having all natives holding honorary
titles from the government forfeit them
Is protest. The fourth move was to
have all native employees Of the govern
ment give up their positions. This failed
also, for economic reasons. The fifth
move was TO cut down the revenue by
bringing prohibition into the country
and thus eliminating the duties from i'm
ported liquors. All castles formulated
rules to prohibit the Use of liquor by
their members and set up a system of
punishment for yiolators. Also the
Chandists tried to prevent the sale Of
licenses permitting natives to sell i'm
ported liquors. They picketed the gov
eminent Offices Of the day for the issu-
ance of these licenses and few licenses
were sold. They also refused to wear
clothing made from English cloth and
established a spinning industry by which
all clothing was TO be spun at home.
This failed because enough cloth to sup
ply all the people could not be made and
also because this homespun cloth was
more expensive than the cloth imported
from England
However, Chandi was unable to con-
troll the hOodlum elements of his party
and they went to greater extremes. They
boycoited the visit of the Prince of
Wales, and several riots took place be-
tween the Chandists and the Christians
and Parsees who remained loyal and
turned out 10 welcome the prince.
Alr. Rice served on a municipal COM
mittee at Damon, where he was stationed.
with one Of the Chandist leaders. and
he asked this man what their next move
was 10 be. He replied that they would
use civil disobedience in certain centers
and. if this failed. it would become mi.
versal among the masses of the people.
The Mohammedans in India, who num-
Der 66,OOO,OOO, offered to aid the Hindus
in obtaining home rule if in turn they
could count on their help in getting an
other fOOthold in Europe. However. this
plan failed for the time being. The gov.
eminent arrested the two great Moham.
medan leaders. Mohammed Ali and Shau.
Kat Ali, and all of Chandi's lieutenants.
Ohandi himself, they thought, if given
enough latitude, would lose the conf.
dence OF the people. However, the Lon.
don newspapers clamored so hard for
his arrest that he was taken in February
and sentenced to six years in prison for
stlrring up the people. Other leaders
are still carrying on his program but the
entire movement has lost much of its
power.
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