THE TROUBLE IN INDIA.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 6 May 1907, Page 2

THE TROUBLE IN INDIA.

'flic, disposition of tile Hindoo to rise tip and toll tile British ho 11; is rights and (o threaten to tifrht for them is a sign of the times. it is 0110 of d„. wonder* of the world that Britain keeps a nirii oil lU" hundreds of millions of Hindoos in ln.Ha with a more handful of men. It is also a mat tor to marvel at that the Hindoos, who arc highly intellectual people and who command wealth that is unthinkable and enormous bv our standard of measure, should still he content to accept British rule. There is trouble now in India. Trouble is always -fomented by those people 111 British countries who have been taught, the most by Britain, bui the veal danger is [always in the control of the intellcctujals over the mob, The accepted status

of the white man in India, of course, f lias a tremendous ciTeci oh the mass of}; Hindoos, but the muss of Hindoos am i easily led by their own prince* and imoi of mark who have the advantage of a 1 perfect understanding of British eu torn and the possibilities of their own people. It jiuibi be remembered (hat sine" the Indian mutiny it has heeu (liepnlicy of Britain to educate the Hindoo, and many of the greatest men in India have received their schooling in the. public schools of England. That coloured Indian troops are a source of danger in times of native unrest, just a« they are a souree of strength ag.iiiM intertribal or foreign aggression, Mas proved in the inn.illy. An up-to-date instance conies from Fiji, where Hindoo ex soldiers of the .Indian Army have '"played up" against authority. The Hindoo fast wiping out the native in Fiji, and there are so many millions of Hindoos available that this is a very easy matter. Their particular vices arc destructive to everybody but theui-etvcs. jn>t as the vices of their cO-Asiaties, the Japanese and Chinese, are TiU.il to •'insiders. The problem of Britain's coloured subjects is full of dread possibilities. but Britain, despite this, appears to be willing to undertike the problem of dealing with countless Asiatics who are not subjects and who should never under any circumstances be allowed ; the protection of the British flag.