Show DS DIRE PERIL th SUMS seeds 0 of treason ding sown son ROM 1 cast la a the min indian empire Eci the revolt devolt is general and gyo wida aps and ate are united against thisie hulets plague precautions ians have aggravated Aggravate a the tha up hp rising odd state of things thin in ia the indian array army the dispatches I 1 indicate that greit great britain is ig on the eve are of serious trouble with its eastern empire the richest of its ioa possessions ses the spirit of revolt is movin moving india from the arabian sea aal and the bay of bengal on the south to the domains of the czar on the far north only the arold bro td peninsula forming the extreme rou bouthern thern part of the country appears to remain loyal an appeal to natives widely circulated among both and moslems in india reads in part for a long ions and painful century you vou have lai lain n under the feet of a heartless tyrannical race whose only atre has as been how it might basi best ai abare to itself the spoils of your lalora labors by crushing your liberties taxing your industries and corrupt iZ your princes s a raco race that ha has i riot not even besotted hei ted iri thi the arrogance of its power to pollute ft and te lea violate oa d th 11 les I 1 now aheu cew an and d stronger chains chain are bein being forged 1 to bind you by the enish english a it is ia time to 10 definitely say eay whether you will submit three bun hundred drell millions of oppressed humanity are ir if united unite ij the valiant and the industrious burmese will know how hot to profit profil by the occasion and the struggle it aale once be betin begun 0 tin must bo be continued to a success successful fal end that will not tolerate the least vestige of english suzerainty in all your broad bread land should the present prent unrest develop into actual uprising wherever it prevails and at this moment there is indication that it will the great mutiny of 1857 which plunged all 1 I england into arief and horror will become historically insignificant hy by comparison the causell cause too are deeper seated annd faither reaching at this time than were those leadin leading up to the blitch ery cry of men ft iNo omen itten and children that characterized tile the revolution ol of 1857 18 37 then it waa mere fanaticism that brought about rapine and mur murder der believing that their forein foreign n rulers were about to force upon the natives english habits babits customs and religion and d destroy c the sr acied social anil and religious fabric patiently built up tip through long ages anti and venerated ii ith spiritual frenzy 01 THE RF T unrest now while superstition is being freely used to foment ill beilin feiling against the english Eng listi the real cause of odthe the feeling is ie a alt hatred atred of british rule and what appears be bea a general and concerted tal ort to throw ot off the yoke the seeds of revolution or what the english please to call treason have been rown gown i in it bombay on the arabian sea in the south tile the of england 4 indian likewise in calcutta directly direct opposite on the northeast on th the bay of bengal and thence throughout the country directly north from born bay and northwest from calcut Cil ta al along oil the track where is traced the mutiny of IS 1857 to ani in including afghanistan in the extreme north N nest eat A portent ious feature of the trouble is that for the first time since the mutiny the mahometano Mahome tans arid the Ilin doos are united in common hatred of their r ulers heretofore the two parties have been at daggers points and every now and then there here has been a fierce racial riot in in which they have fought each other in most murderous fashion for many years the ma home tans have been the most loyal section of the population but now according acco iding to the official reports the they are areas as strongly imbued with unrest and pronounced disaffection as aro are the Hin doos amon among 7 them the priests are preaching treason and far away the princely prince brahmin Brah mini are telling their heir lower caste co religionists 0 all manner mander of what are termed seditious lies in the bombay district the hin doos dooe h have ave been greatly agitated lie be cause of f the sanitary methods employed by the government while the bubonic plague prevailed in the hospitals there was no legard for caste and patients were placed side by bv side without reference to their social condition they were also treated medicinally according to modern methods and certain religious beliefs and sentiments of the Ilin dooB were outraged although ah the outbreak at this moment engaging enga ging the most attention is near dear chittal Chil Ch itral ral on the extreme northern frontier there is every reason to believe that between these hill men of the upper country and the people of faraway calcutta and bombay tharo has been an understanding that chat the english yoke is to becart be cast off itis it is pointed out as certainly very singular that so many and EO marked symptoms symptom of hatred for the ruling race should occur almost simultaneously and that it is easily seen that a general fermentation affects the whole population from the slopes of the 0 great reat northern ramparts to the soft plains of bengal already not a few of the lives of british officers and soldiers have been sacrificed in the conflicts with the hill bill tribes in the neighborhood of the Mala kand pas north of the baniah friy itier near chittal Ch itral STIRRED BY A FANATIC here the revolt was instigated by the fanatical preaching of it a ma mullah hi high gli priest in the swat valley the fortified station of if the english wat wai by nearly 1000 hill men while many many garriton officers were playing polo four miles away the rebels were joined by about others the next day and in the fighting nearly officers and soldiers were killed or badly wounded tile the uprising was soon subdued for a time but now it has broken out afresh and reports declare that the entire frontier is fl flaming arning r with revolution even the agridis who were loyal during many diany indian outbreaks and guarded the pass for the british during tile he afghan af ban war have turned upon their erstwhile friends arid and are marching to deal death to tile the european residents much aluch the same methods are employed now to arouse and infuriate the natives as were used to bring about the mutiny of 1857 stories are devised and circulated that work upon the fears and eions of the ignorant the educated and better classes find their grievance in the burden of taxation they are forced to bear and the fact that their lealih is being drained out of the country to enrich the distant government THE TAX ON COMMON SALT the higher people of india have asked and even begged f for reform e f rm in the system of government and england has been warned warded that its end was coming in india if there was wag not some relaxation of the pitiless rule there bin both blead pleadings and warnings have been bean disregarded A study of the official reports shows that india is being governed in a most extravagant manner by high salaried Balari frd and high bili tensioned english officials and that the ordinary laborer does not earn nearly enough to supply himself and his family with the meanest necessities cesi ties the people of india do riot not have enough to eat awl anil many cannot even have common salt io FO heavy ii the tax upon it for revenue and military purposes to ghete people who are vegetarians vegetarian the lack of salt has brought about tho the worst of diseases ind and general sull suffering ering the troubles cg of today are not of recent origin for three years of 01 more the alie eyes of the english people have been turned anxiously no now and then towards the tha rich colonial possessions of the east there have been petty pett y uprisings that while to a 3 superficial ob observer erver they seemed of little import yet to who had bad studied the situation as straws in the wind originally the natives of india were thought 0 to be timid arid and peaceable for nearly a century they obeyed their masters will in the early invasions of india by tile the english and the french the native natives had been mercenaries fiah fighting ts under the banners of either in in bading nation as they were paid and for many years showing no animosity to their white rulers they placidly saw the english secure the greatest power and gradually extend it northward from bombay and the southern peninsula until it reached the hill countries of the north and sought might to envelop afghanistan arid and continue on until it ruled the whole country to the russian border kingdom d alter after kingdom was seized upon under one pretext or another and no sooner v was as the mutiny of 1857 7 put down than did great brit britain ain i continue her victorious encroachment northward now it is the proud boast of an Englis englishman linian that the sun never dever sets upon their queens domain and it is is with feelings of the greatest anxiety that the eyes of the english are turned toward the great country they have so persistently gathered to themselves ODD STATE OI OF THE INDIAN in 1855 there were only Eun troops to and within a distance distaD ce of miles there was only one european real regiment soon afterward the european force was much weakened by withdrawals withdrawals of regiments from service in the crimea and elsewhere and when the mutiny showed itself there were six natives to every european in the army but this proportion was reduced after the mutiny to two natives to one european and the artillery was waa placed almost entirely in the hands bands of europeans the army army in india is therefore much better prepa prepared rei now to cope with an uprising of the same importance yet it is doubtful if considering the general discontent the force now in tile the em emire ire would be qualified to put down a general cpr uprising ising new york world |