INDIA

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13638, 4 July 1908, Page 5

INDIA

ARREST OF DYNAMITERS

Press -By T«lcji"i»pli-fonyright Received 5.15 p.m.. <Euly 3rd. ,LONDON, July 2. Ssyen person's, including • Gosli, the famous Bengal doctor and • Tarkaraga, a. professor Sanskrit C«""ge. hn'-e been arrested in connection ; with an attempt to dyr-Hiti'ie ' the Eastern Bengal mail' train at' Kankanara. ;

A 1 the close of a lecture. •on the Indian Mutiny last niirht the Rev; W. Hewitson mude a few remarks on the "unrest" which Iris rt 1,-ite fm-med th" ,s"'y"Ct of numerous cable m^sages" from India, and on this subject »Vo he spoki from personal inquiry. Fifty vears liav» paused sincethe mutiny, and'Tndia has b»«n profoundly altered" in that time. The dissatisfaction of which Ave hmr is tl"» insult of Britain's own action. India is not one nation, "but many—an Indian of the south could no more understand an Tndian of Delhi tjlian a Russian could a Parisian —but all had b"en unified /by the TSvi'ifili Government and Brit'sh missionaries, by the acquisition of the English language, bv w-crtem education, and by the inculcation ; of ; . w°stem irlei>'R. political. social and moral. They have been imbued ..with ideas that' tend to makei them; discon'ented. Mr Hewitson quoted some remarks in. explanation of this discontent made to him by a Hindu Professor, afc Calcutta.' This gentleman, a man nf \he/hiirfi'wt and. of the hi<?li<>s l .education, cheerfully admitted that Brifn'n had-done great things for India, and had given- the'people a-fr-?edoni that they liad ••dreamt of before. Refcrvintr to the seditious language that could be heard or read among the people, Mr Hewitson said to the Profresor that, if they-weiv> in 'Oermany the ripople dare .say such tilings, if in Ri'rf-ia they dare Tint, crf-n think then 1 . 'Hie l'vof-iss-qv admitted that . yet—. "I am equal to tji« Britishers in Calcutta," he said. " 111 education I am superior to mrst of them, in character not bshind some of them: yet I am excluded from positions that other men occupy because I have a brown and they lin\"> whj+e" ct 'ns. Erlyca+P'' wen "fll over India feel this, and are asking whv the British Government do not. trust, lisi" Viscount- Morley. -h» went on H o >"y. before he went to India, waited file Government that unWs seme change, of'treatment were adopted Britain • would los 4 her Indian Empire. It- must be. admitted, said Mr that, th© problem of the Empire now. was India. It-was a problem; of extraordinary difficulty, owinar to :the sTiperstitiousnels of the peop'e. which still'remained a erei't force in spite of the progress that had' been ;made.