The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-02-22
Rule Based on Force

Gently delivered a speech in London concerning
India of which the following is part:
We are in favor of "swaraj" they call it, with
in the empire. We will lead them there in the only
we believe they can be successfully led there 1t
pathetic that those disturbing the peace in India
today bear on the forefront of their banner the de-
mand for precisely the 'swaraj,' self-gov-
eminent but they think they get it faster by
| oution. ''
1t is by evolution, not revolution that progress is
possble therefore, there is no way of dealing with
their efforts except by the rigorous enforcement of
the law and the repression of those seeking to
disturb it. .....
This is unusually disgusting bit of hypocrisy
for English Imperalist signing with typical English
cant over his white man's burden. '~.
Mr.. Montagu knows that a self governing India
be partner in the British Empire He knows it is
impossible because the people of India hate England
account of wrongs inflicted upon them greater than
wrongs inflicted upon nation by another in the whole
course of the rest of human history.
The people of India hate England for the destruction
OF everything which every holds dear-the destruc
ton OF their culture education, agriculture industry
commerce, prosperity self and scores of millions
of their very lives
There nothing in the records of the which equals
the destruction of life from the progressively increasing
amnes in India caused by British misgovernment and
robbery organized a mammoth scale.
Thirty-three million people died of famine in India
four ago because England took by force from India
millions of tons of grain which would have sustained the
life of every man. and child of those thirty three
Of starvation in 1918
The hatred of England by the Indian people is irrecon
cabe because England destroyed the great Indian cu
ture 1t a splendid culture having background of
1000 years-which included eminence in philosophy
and the arts and sciences of which any nation could have
been proud.
Their hatred England is rreconcilable because Eng
land, she could, with deliberate intention of
assassination destroyed the educational institutions
of India under which 60 per cent Of the people able
to read and write $50 years ago. when the English them
selves almost totally literate. ~
When the English seized India her agriculture, indus
try and commerce fourshng and the fame of her
wealth, the Wealth of India a byword through
out the world Like the most monsrous bloodsucker that
ever took the form of government England has been
transfusing India blood into her for hundred
and fifty years During the last century the basis of
England's industrial and commercial progress was the
blood drawn from India
Today bled white and starving, India is preparing to
free herself from this slow torrng assassination or die
at
For these reasons Mr.. Montagu knows that India will
never stay in the British Empire moment after she &C
qures the physical to get OUT and he knows that
self government, that the power to organize would
Immediately give three hundred million people plenty
power to rid themselves of their undesirable partner
living ten thousand miles away.
Indeed if India had none of her terrible grev
ances against England, the difference in her culture
geography, and material interests would make such
/ partnership ephemeral figures in the clouds.
Mr.. Montagu and every intelligent Engishman knows
that Engand's partnership" with India must be based
upon forcethe crueest kind of force-and that even
this kind of hold is slipping every day.