REMARKABLE ARTICLE BY THE TIMES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXV, Issue LXV, 24 December 1913, Page 5

REMARKABLE ARTICLE BY THE TIMES.

DIFFERENCE BETWEEN WEST

A'NDWEST.

aX CABLE—FaESS ASSOCIATION—COPYBIGHT. LONDON, Dec. 22. The Times, in a special article on India, insists that a strong government and a firm administration are imperative. The Government must concern itself less with politics and more with econoihics. The great question to be solved is: Can a democracy govern a vast Eastern Empire? Let the conscientious democrats of England reflect on the tumultuous forces latent in 295 millions of people, wholly uneducated, inheriting strong fighting instincts, split into discordant elements and thousands of castes, and quickly roused into violent fanaticism. What power is there to preserve this stupendous mob from blood-stained anarcfiy? If British rule is weakened or removed, who is to hold hack the armed warrior tribes of the north-east from the rich plains and cities of India? Let the democrats realise that if British rule fails, ele-' mental instincts will ruthlessly assert themselves until some other western power restores order by the sword.