The Timaru Herald TUESDAY, JULY 13, 1909. "INDIA FOR INDIANS."

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13953, 13 July 1909, Page 4

The Timaru Herald TUESDAY, JULY 13, 1909. "INDIA FOR INDIANS."

"India for Indians/' a cubic message yesterday stated, - was the claim nuplitd in a rambling statement made, in the Louden .Police Coi.rt by Dhingari, or Linghra, the assassin of Sir William AYyllic. The prisoner objected to tin; charge of " nnirckr," and claimed justilieation for liis crime on the ground of patriotism. As straws show how the wind blows, this frenzied Indian's pica shows the sort of teaching he had received from his countrymen. The problem of India to-day, the unrest amongst its peonies, is their movement towards liberty as they dream of it, and bomb-throwing and assassinations are, ■as has 1 been well said, the froth and scum of the agitation that is going on, not by any means wholly underground, but probably more actively in secret than enemy. The propaganda of revolt is even carried oil in London, wnere Indian preachers of anarchy issue a weekly sheet devoted to the vilification of the British rule in India, and the glorification ot anarchist outrages as virtuous and patriotic. The " Times " suspects that the diabolical methods of political argument now and then adopted in India (and now applied even iirLondon) proceed from Indians domiciled in England o:- on the Continent: and that these conspirators meet young Indians or their way to Kngland to complete theii studies, and poison their minds witl ideas that it is their duty to join ii every effort to throw off Hritish rub in their native country. ''Many ol them," says the "Times," " are sen sible enough to resist the pressure but others succumb cither on the firs' assault or subsequently in varying do giTcs. Some do jure tio much nion than attend flagrantly seditious meet ings, and applaud wild and whirliiif words, spoken by glib orators, and eul tivato sullen resentment of all thing! English. . . . Moreover, as rccen cases go to show, stories of ' insolence are -concocted, w ltJi a view to crcatinj or strengthening the racial hatred o the Anglo-Indian agents ol the Kritis! Administration." It is to be sus I'cctcd that tJiese stories of " insol once " are vi.y easily made powcrfti in their influence, by appeals to tin

young nu'ii's own experience. ]n England they are received with near approach to equality in public, by both men and women ; but they can bo reminded that that is not the case in India ; and it must be easy to poison the mind of the youiej; students with the idea that, at the best the English tuierato them good-naturedly, but. never forgot that they are " niggers." In a story published a year or two ago, "Sally," followed this year by its sequel " Saleh," Hugh Clifford' draws a dismal picture of the effects of a huge though well-intentioned blunder made by the liritish Government, in sending to England to be educated the son of a .Malay chief. Mr Clifford evidently knows the Malay, and what he says of the effect of British domination of them doubtless applies equally well to the British rule in India. " Wc English," he says, " have wrought some wonderful changes, have increased the wealth and well-being of the people enormously, have relieved them from evils and oppressions i» number past all counting; but, given the character of the natives, it were vain to hone that our rule will ever be universally popular." : The Oriental il es not resent oppression by his 'chiefs as we suppose he should, and We take more credit for the benefits we have conferred than he is inclined to allow. To the Hindu,, caste' is the ruling principle of life; and the British show little respect for caste. To the Mohammedan, his reli-non is all important; and though the British may

Ixi even tender to his religious prejuoiULb, tiie Aioiianimodan is being ui tight that it is iiii insult to his reli„imi imd any t»f its followers should ~e subjugatcu by tne infidel. Mr Clil'„*ic oiiS.iy jit iMirope.) a great li.uvtiiiKiiG lias been afoot -»i.o juv .j<-««»■» m winch that is v,ne tu.ii; 'iiiis cult of Mohaui-

.LicUiin mtuxicndeueo lms been, no suys, *>pivad lroin Alouea, tJlo centre of tho ..ni.slnu world, in nil directions, and .vlr Uill'ord thinks there are signs that uhc word will soon be given to strike ror independence. It' Mr Clifl'ord is .'iglit in so thinking, liero is another, and cf claim, "India for Indians," nd a shock of Dreadnoughts in tho S'orth Sea would probably be accepted is a signal for the conversion ' of the 'unrest" of India and Egypt into a. jehad, or " holy war."