| Show r ENGLANDS DANGER News comes from Benares the saored city of the Hindoos of serious riots rots and L widespread discontent growing out of the recent destruction of one of the old temples hv the government authorities t mnlro room for the erection of waterworks erection vatrworks The natives it seems took unkindly to this to them sacrilegious act Excitement increased in-creased hourly until suddenly the shops were closed work in the city and vicinity was stopped and largo crowds of excited people gathered in the streets and the riots began The East Indian is a patient crea ture and has quietly submitted to the gall Ing yoke of En gal English bondage when people of another race with much less cause fewer in number and with onetenth the resources would have cast it off long ago But worms will turn being trodden on and doves will fight in safeguard safe-guard of their brood So the East Indian although patient under oppression to the very verge of being spiritless as compared with the western part of the same great Aryan race can be aroused to indignation n l uu J1UUL j ana notnng wil so quicklv move him as to interfere with his religion Hence I behooves the foreign rulers relgion of the land to be careful how they lay unhallowed hands on his sacred edifices The religious relgious sentiment Is strong in the nature of the East Indian and that fact is calculated to make a war waged in what waed they may consIder j con-sIder tho defense of their religion an ex 5 tremely cruel affair and as there are about 3500 natives to every European any inconsiderate action on the part of the authorities calculatedjto provoke such a war is seriously dangerous to those Europeans This rising and rnnstrmMvinnrfinsiner ciis content in India attracts attention anew to the exceedingly precarious hold which England has upon the widely separated fragments of her great empire Here is Canada looking with halflonging eyes to apolitical a-political union with the United States Newfoundland Is determined upon a political politi-cal separation and Australia a continent by herself mutters ominously about tho same matter The latter has recently adopted a constitution and is big with hope for the future but never speaks of that future in connection with the throno of England Of the discontent in India whichever which-ever and anon makes itself mani fest we have already spoken Enough appears ever upon the surface of affairs l these r parts of thn I British empire to indicate that slight in deed is the hold which the ancient kingdom of Great Britain has upon these branches of her domain which are fast outgrowing the parent stem But one course is open before England if she would retain politi polti cal possession of her colonies and that is E federation By the adoption of that principle prin-ciple she may continue one of the great political powers of the earth the proud mistress of the ocean otherwise she will doubtless sink to the level of a fifth rate wi monarchy with scarce a remnant left of that glory which has challenged the admiration admi-ration of tho world The prevailing discontent dis-content in her colonies in all parts of tho earth should warn her not to delay too long the adoption of the principle upon which the integrity of her mighty empire depends te |
