TOPICS OF THE DAY.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 12850, 8 July 1907, Page 6

TOPICS OF THE DAY.

A writer in 'The Times," Sack who has worked for many to the years in the Punjaub, and Mutiny, claims to know every grado of nativo life, takes a gloomy view of the unrest in India. The present troubles will pass, but beyond that he will not prophesy. The English must realise, he sjys, that the spirit of the Mutiny is not dead, and that a very large proportion of the educated classes hate them. Their hatred differs only in degree from the blood thirst of the Mutiny. This feeling is often personal. Educated Indians generally live in daily contact with Englishmen, and there can be few of them who have never been insulted, or imagined themselves to bo insulted, by members of the dominant race. "The English private soldier has almost as bad a reputation ac he could have, and a reputation very much worse than he deserves. Ho can hardly epeak to any man, or go anywhere, without his motives and his manners being suspected and resented." The whole English race, not merely English administration, is attacked by the agitators. For instance, a paper at Lahore, the editor of which, is now in gaol, said recently in so many words, that all Englishwomen who went to dances were of loose character, yet most educated Indians really believe that the prosecution was an act of racial tyranny. The writer says it must be borne in mind that the Oriental mind is free from tho trammels of logic. Wβ find qualified native doctors enforcing sanitary measures to which their own families are entire strangers, and astronomers who can predict eclipses, and who yet believe that eclipses ere caused by a dragon swallowing tho sun. Similarly, tho agitator doos not think that a policy of outrage against the English race is inconsistent with a desire that the arm of England should remain to protect him. ''Tho ultimate goal is to be an Indian Government ruled by Indians, with an Euglish army to protect them from invasion, and to keep down the fierce warlike tribes who would sweep the whole of India were the strong arm of tho British Government once lifted." The clock has been put back, according to this authority, and India has returned to about where it was after the Mutiny.