The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1913. SEDITION IN INDIA.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 10, 12 September 1913, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1913. SEDITION IN INDIA.

Mr Geoffrey Cookson puts forward .nauy reasons which he considers are responsible for what he alleges to be a fact, in an article appearing in the ".Nineteenth Century." This disquieting ''fact'' is that the British are confronted with a dark and murderous conspiracy directed by Indians against their benefactors. In the tirsfc place, he considers that the manner,:* of the British in India are most offensive towards the natives. He speaks of "our proud, cold hearts, our brutal manners, our arrogant aloofness,'" and lays blame on Englishwomen .even more than Englishmen. He also considers that the ideal of material progress in India is a great mistake. Railways, he says, are not unmixed Westings. To the Oriental mind they corrupt manners and morals, and injure, native craftsmanship by distributing the cheap trashy manufacluroi of Europe so as to oust the neautiful native wares, The people ••v t')o nine]] pre-oceupietl with a future lite to care about material progress. The writer considers it remarkable that British rule in India has lasted so lung. "Our ideas of liberty have g'ven India the semblance of freedom," he writes, "while our love if power ha:' withheld the substance ,f it." To the Indian native religion -. everything; to the average Briton in Icdia it is almost nothing, is the view \!r Cookson lakes, and he thinks it s time that Britain made some effort ~ servo tli> spiritual needs of India ,s well as to satisfy her material | lVM3 ,ts. An Indian University ani-j nated by Indian religious and moral d-als, is Mr Cookson's idea of how to dart on a safer road.