AN INDIAN SEDITION LEADER.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 89, 11 May 1909, Page 2

AN INDIAN SEDITION LEADER.

l'audit Shyamaji Krishuivarma, the Indian barrister in London who was struck off the roll of English barristers last ■week on account of his seditious Writings, was called to the Bar by the Inner Temple in 1884. Like many of his race, lie is exceptionally gifted intellectually. Neither language nor race checked tile course of a brilliant university career at Oxford, of which lie is an M.A. It is on the moral side that men like Krishnavarum. go astray. Benevolent, philanthropic, helpful to the less wealthy members of his elass, the .political faith lie unconsciously—at least, he did not appear to recognise that lie was saying anything abnormal—avowed in his letter to the London Times goes far beyond the theories of statecraft commonly associated with the name of Machiavelli. He does not openly advocate murder as a political weapon, but he expresses no sympathy for victims of the bomb. lie openly eulogises the fanatical wretches who have translated his teaching into •practice, and lie calmly declares that the cruel deaths of Mrs. and Miss Kennedy were "accidental and incidental, - ' the bomb being really intended fur .Mr. Kingsford, an unpopular Calcutta magistrate. There was excuse for the assassin, but no pity for the murdered innocents. " The murder only proves Clint the habitual associates of wrongdoers or robbers keep such company at their peril," and as "all Englishmen in India are regarded as robbers," the co-iclu sions to be drawn from this hideously inhuman doctrine are obvious to the most ignorant. The assassin is assured a crown of martyrdom, and his family and relatives become a charge on the Reformers. Mr. Krishnavarma was also the founder of the notorious college .-t Higligate, London, known as India House. Of this institution it is sull'ici cut now to say that among the pamphlets issued by it and circulated in Calcutta appealed the following:

Then let him fullil his mission ami "gather arms." if swords are denied, let daggers dash; and. if guns are prohibited, let bombs boom. Murk, ye martyrs, mark well this wretch Kings-* ford, ilyhig from Calcutta! Follow Khiuliram, follow Prafulla, follow the renegade fast! Fast is lie pursued, thunders forth tbe bomb, the renegade escapes, but the blood is shed and attempt is well made.

It was certainly time that All'. Krishnivarniii was removed from the roll of English barristers, and it is time also Itliut the jaMhoritiisj took .ai'tion tn break up the hot-beds of anarchy existing untrammelled throughout the various foreign quarters of London.