THE CONDITION OF INDIA.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9577, 25 August 1909, Page 4

THE CONDITION OF INDIA.

' While there is so much that is occa--1 fionaliy disqukti a: in the news that reaches us from India, it is reassuring to learn fron an impartial and independent source what is the real state of things in that groat dependency. This forms the theme of an article in the "North American Review," by Dr. Thiving, President of Western Reserve University, U.S.A., who evidently writes with much fulness of information on the subject. He sets out by declaring that the rule of England in India will certainly continue, and that "no force, either within or without, is emerging which CBn expel her." Not only so, he adds, but India knows that she cannot spare England; for, inasmuch aa the political union of the forir.er has been promoted hy the latter, "if England were to leave to-morrow that union would dissolve,in fact and in idea on the day following, and scores of separate States and provinces would fly at each other's throats. Wars, in comparison with which the guerilla conflicts ot the Thirty Years' War would be civilisation, would immediately spring up. The Mahometans would arm against the Hindoos, and the Hindoos against the Mahomet-1 ans." The more thoughtful of the population of India know this, and, therefore, value British rule fori the peace an-3 security which it

guarantees tiiem. "'i'he larzer part of the world," remark Dr. Thwing, "also knows it to be best for the world that England should retain her Indian Empire."