A NOTED INDIAN.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 680, 3 December 1909, Page 7

A NOTED INDIAN.

'yDEAMI :pF';B6MESHVCfrONDEE-DUTT. (By.'; Teiecrapb— Press I '^Thevde4^Vw;Bilnona^;bf ; ;I)utji: a'prbmiAerit membbr.of the Eoyal , Asiatic ';Society;'..aged', {fc- ■;v.?4s ■• '£"'' )i- ' %■ '.' '^ : ; : ;K/,^;.Gy^DECEAS;Ep , S^MRiEI?. , :: v';;-., ~„.,; ■■; Born'.'.'iniCalcutta,'' ! and ;educated;;partly..', in■ Iniiid"?iind ,v •lege; -Mri ■ ; E.i.C.sDutt:had;a brilliaiit career in; the .IndianvCivil ; SerHcei I, being the.only'ViativiJ.6f..lndia rwhqi>duringjlost .centurJV reached- the, post.'of. Diyisippnl 'Commissioner. ":•. Hei ihasi-publislied: , a'" .number of : ; work3 I :':both,in: Bepgali.'.and'Eriglishi':: ; He has renderedilhdian poetry-ibto.:EnglishAverse,-has published ; in : different'..ybluhies :an.e'ebnomic :history of '• Jndia ; iunder;British 1 ; rule '■': from Hit , to..l9oo,','a' < sorie3;;of, historical ani\ : 6pcial' tioyels ;bf.; Palms, .a , Storj .of Indian Dbmcistic Life.:',;v : ; ;V ; ; ; ;>:.':;' v'.ln' i.yibwr ;of;'the recent': reference .by . Lord Morley.'cihi:the. r Houso:' : of•■.tbrdsi' itoVliidia's lot:under! tariff Reform;; it is, notible: that; Mr.. '.Dutt-rlike.'bther^lndians..who•• View -.the..,poM.tipn, from. the standpoint 'of ■ their -revenue "and; tlieir i growing not. see 'irith; English-. , tariff , : reformer'e.; i ':. ; ;l l ''br/instance, Mr;; :DuH' some V'titae,; ago -wrote ; in;.-.• "The ■ 'JLHmes ■":'■■..." In -iso .'far. .as ~' there 'Vis ■■. ihy; .'strong'^feeling■Vaniohg JthejVjebple ;0f , Itidia on the; fiscal question; it -is .'against 'inipo- ■ sitidh of.an' Excise; the inill-inade'cot-ton" gbods7o.r India , to. conclliiite .vhe British ■manufabturer.'w'lf --.the/ people;had 'their.-'own , , way,Vthey'would^retain".a' substantial,-duty-on: all ';imported'/goods, I British' .and , foreign-^for, revenue, purposes^-and. would abolish the Eici»'duty. T on.'lndian cotton; good^-ra , - duty' u'u ; . heard : ot.'irivany other.blviliscd couptry.'. '■■'';'':'. v-'The'import ; duty;on:;British':]iitinufactures' brings in alcoiisiderable revenn4to : India j. and: its remission jybiild be stroiigly opposed:by- the. people; of India;! and: : wpjild probably;' shift'the burdenV.of:taiatioii, sbottor or 1 later;-on".'• the ■{io'or.:.cuitivntprs 'of; India. ;The, tax ,oh" land; 'exoept>:'.*herß!-it Is perhianently settled*.-is',off';. fibially.:;admitted.;tb rise :u'p to , 50 per..cent: of. the'profits'.of Rgripiilture, and;' a great: d*al s Vmbre. in' some.; places;;, including; yaribns; oesses..;.The; tax'"on imports is Renerr ally.' 3J per,cent^.br:.s : :per:.cent: -ad .'yalo'renj.' Eemjf this.moderate'lmport dutVi ;and you re- , lieve British rmerchants, ..ultimately to :recbup: .the loss from'-theVlndißn cultivator, who f» already'.;bvertaxe4. : "-This:..may.';be '.'patriotic , - i»l|cy from'.the tariff refpfmer's point qf'vlew, put "do not :say '] that- we ■ Indians '.support 'or likeit." '■■■' fe^/":?-/';/:v'4 : '-'f'■;'■;':; ':--Y: :