THE UNREST IN INDIA.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLII, 2 October 1907, Page 3

THE UNREST IN INDIA.

;';■- " •'.: C^.IRRESPONSIBLE M.P :: :'' : :^, : '.^;~ : --'&X LARGE. j ■ VDON^S CARE" BARDIE AND THE :i : >r ■ BABOOS. [United _Pbess Association. — Copi--(Received Oct. 2, 8.40 asm.). .:.-.. CALGU.TTA, Tuesday. ■;'- ---.(Slum- Hufryv a barrister, who is headi. •: iag r tfl6 Swdeshi (or boycott of Euro'"'■■'.B«an trade), agitation, accompanies Mr : IKeil^Hardie, -M.P., during his visit to — Ind&^Crowd> -gave an ovation to Mr : ' Hardkv -• Bengal; newspapers, in re- ■•'-■■. Mrts': of-: interviews, assert that -Mr 7 Hardis -"declares that the condition of the - country. :j§ worse than that of RUEsi.a, and he accuses officials of i dtrocities.Lord. Qnrzon, at tne dinner of the , . Brftceirs' Cfein^aliy, in a spirit of , - bptliDlsin in: regaTd to the unrest in - Ihdia: ■-- i< Vigilanc€ ) firmness, coupled . : with the sympathy of comprehension, ■ .. fj?">will, : we are convinced, get rid of the - .f; present perplexities. If we prove to -/V : liievnMjiers of and those on '-' v^feosS: prfej'udiMs they operate that we .;are\'in nonsense dismayed by seditious rhetoric, and that we do not mean To yield' to panic either in the direction of unwise concessions or unwise violence of action; they will soon abandon as useless their .atempts to undermine '■ our 'rule: The real danger would arise if, unhappily the impression should h« '"- bohveyed that they ate over-ajlSious or :: ; ithiJik.ojiirJSlvfiS 111 peril. In this coilt«xt |~ Tipfo' the "interesting quotations from t)ie Bande Mataram given in the .VS^'Siffles:"; The Bande Mataram in a : ~;t>J jsome. -:lierary : . merit, .depicts '■-~\~Mi; Morlejjc^ -'-as 'being blinded by Di-:.T:-vme~Pr6yidence. in order "that he may the better bring, about' those conditions ,; which Tare the sure precursor of the ' fall of Empires and the beginning of a n«w order 'of "things. Though these attacks, are. interest ing from the- literary point of '"view, wo. must never forget that they, are only heard of by a microscopic section of the jvast Indian population/ And not understood by more than a small' percentage even of those whose ears they reach. Their sole danger sonsiEte'in the fact that they give the . impression that some one is defying the. Government, for every Asiatic tendi- to : - think that a Government . ; which allows itself to be defied must '"■-be going to. d9B*tuction."