ANOTHER INDIAN MUTINY.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1599, 25 June 1887, Page 4

ANOTHER INDIAN MUTINY.

Ever and anon the question crops up among thinking men—" Will there be another Indian Mutiny ?" We give a few reasons for and against such a contingency. The Optimist's' view •—The_ mutiny of 1857 was only a mutiny ofnative soldiers. The soldier of, to-day is far .more loyal and enlightened. There are thousands,of native sold-'ers drawing pensions whose voice is in favour pi peace, tiet the present ruling power be overthrown, and thtVlarid' ia a pt'ey to the feuds of Mussulman and Hindoo. Missionaries are yearly extending Christianity. By a.eans of the railways now in existence, troops—of whom there are more than 70,000 in India-can be rabidly massed, and crush out any incipient rebellion. \a little as the Indian loves the English, he loves the Eussian lek The manifold interests of all India are .bound up j n p reger yation of peace. The Pessimist's view.:-:The next uprisen" will not be a mutiny of soldiers, but the revolt of a people. The native soldier pensioners could easily be alienated by guaranteeing pensions under a natiye form Sf government. Although there are differences between Mussulman and Hindoo, it is nothing like as marked as in years past. British educat'on is dissolving the o'd faiths, but is putting nothing in theL places. -The missionaries, cannot keep pace with the State--ided schools. Christianity amon-j the natives is yet too small a force to eater into prr Hical politics As io he railways, t'je Government has allowed native'engine drivers, stokers and guards ; the lioes are too long to be well guarded, and in case of revolt, would practically be under.native control. The trade of Indians quite independent of the Government. To Indian toleration is coming a powerful iVy—lho g; owth of national life. Englishmen have given the educated natives of all creeds a common language. .A blind devotion to their leaders is a characieristic of the Indian races. There is very much less respect for ihe European than formerly, lhe taxation of India, for interest on debt, railway loans, pensions, etc., is oyer £37,000,000 per annum, a'l of which would be wiped out if India were free from England. The national concressM are the beginnings of national life, ine national vanity of the Indian native is rising like a flood. He sees no reason for being taxed to pay Europeans to govern him, when he could do it h'tnself, and for far less money than it now costs him. "England in Jirfm," to quote a native writer in the native press, M w simply a wise and benevolent despotism. Frank Stuart, of 28 Freeschool-st. Calcutta, a gentleman widely and favourably known throu«hoa< the length and breadth of India, and with unsurpassed opportunities in hie professional capacity for obtaining inside opinions of national importance, tells the following interesting and remarkable' acory: —ln 1875 I arrived in Calcutta. About three months after that time, one afternoon in the Great Eastern Hotel, I was prostrated with a sudden attack of illness. I did not know what was the matter, but a gentleman present said, " W*J° 6 * ] ™*' l wa?i conveyed to Scott .Thomas s ..to see tfr. Ferris, but he wai oat i I: was .then taken home in a," pqlkee," and a medical man called, who said I had c0ng98,,. 0 n _of the liver. I was very HI for the following ten days. Between 1875 and 18811 had in Calcutta, Madras, Bombay, Rangoon, Hong Kong and Shanghai, twenty of these terrible attacks. In 1881, when in Shanghai, beinst very. UK I determined to go to Japan. En wtfe, I met Cppcain Connor, of the " Geukai Maru,' Japanese Steamship Company, and he at once accosted r*e with,/'Good —, man what is the matter with you V I replied « Liver and kidneys." "You look terribly ill. Have you trie 1 so-and-so 3 -naming a proprietary medicine. "No, with rt forced smile. He then told me how he had suffered from the congestion of the kidneys and liver, that to was so bad that be lost four stone in weight > resolved to feive up his command, and bad almost seriously contemplated suic.de when casually an American passenger told him of the wonderful results achieved by the use of Warner's safe cure. " Any po.t in a storm," said the gallant skipper, and as soon as possible began its use. In a week he ffot great relief, and two months after -at the time he told me this-he had made up his lost flesh, with a bit over, and was the personification of health and strength. He .concluded his narrative with :-" God bless ibe day I took Warner's safe cure. You try it, Frank. I did, and before 1 had finished the first bottle the pain under my right, shoulder was much easier, the acid eructa.iona ceased, and my stomach began te do its work properly. I continued to improve and when I had taken, fifteen bottles 1 found myself a new man, with a sound, hearty appetite, tl orough enjoyment of the society of my friends, zest for business, fulfand troe appreciation of easement, and'a calm pleasure in life, unspeakable. To all these things n^ad, been a ganger forsixlong.years. Would I not indeed be-ungrateful did I. not earnestly and conscientiously urge all suffering from internal mutiny, to, at once put it down and foreyer, by the use> of lhat •peaceful power I have mentioned whictt not only heals existing evils, but permanently eradicates bad.blood~.he po.ent factor in all raVolts.-FBANK Sttjaet.