Show 9 rl W 5 I 1 T W 4 I 1 r I 1 N I 1 1511 1 1 7 vt ina 7 11 7 LI I 1 N I 1 P i r A 2 1 I 1 1 r barr d UNREST AND 1 1 WHAT ir ats P U IS 1 ism ot it pre of r XU 1 aon ft WM take man years 9 I 1 ba weeded to ta va j WOULD wish to say a few words in b lao conclusion ne con can corning the spirit 11 0 of f unrest which is to eo visible almost 1 I 1 everywhere in the ie india of today to day sa says a foona correspondent cora cara a I 1 en of the london do stid standard some of the english yape papers appear to be inclined to exaggerate things to mix up the poona murd murders era and d the calca calcutta tta riots riota an aa it if they were both caused by the same people no one who has any knowledge of india today thinks that there was any real erml connection between these eventa both were brought about by purely local causes still less has bw the shooting of an old sentry or two in the valley taney anything to do with th the e disturbances in india proper although 1 I have seen that some same london papers have lumped them all together as if they were part and parcel of the same sam e conspiracy but though the causes of the calcutta riots and the poona murders murden were purely local there was one point of resemblance between them and between all the serious breaches of the peace demo that have taken place during recent years I 1 mean that there is a a widespread idea that the gove government ran ent no matter whether it is that of bengal or bombay or any other part of india Is afraid to take severe meas measures urea in quelling disturbances there is an idea that the authorities thorl ties will allow their district officers no sort of diacre to in dealing with riots and the like and that it is perfectly sate sat e to embark in the pronounced outrages and breaches of the peace because the government is either unwilling or unable to suppress them the native press has so encroached on the toleration of the government so freely pawed passed the une line which divides liberty from license has indulged with impunity with such outrageous slanders and libels on the officers of the government even the very highest that there is no wonder that a belief has spread abroad that the government la is afraid to exercise its full powers and that it will not extend to its officers any sort of protection when they are assa assailed fled with the abuse and reviling of the native press in fact fo bengal it has bw been a custom of recent years to positively encourage the attacks of the native press on the indian civilians who administer that province similarly we have seen how nothing was waa done to protect mr rand band from the slanders of the mah ratta press all this and many other things dating from recent years have resulted in a loss of prestige which it i will take years to remedy on eve every side there are rumors of disaffection it is said that mat brahman emissaries are attempting to tamper with the men man of the native corps containing Hin doos ind so long as the government shows a weak front to the seditious attacks of disaffected persons in the p press ress and elsewhere so 80 long may we expect to see lee this spirit of unrest which Is 8 so marked a characteristic of the india of today increasing and multiplying on every side it is hardly necess necessary arT to add that the news of the frontier disasters and murders of isola isolated ted british officers which have been coming in so frequently of late only tend to encourage and strengthen this spirit of unrest already the ignorant peasantry in various parts of the country tally believe that the british raj must surely s be beaming to an end evil disposed persons go freely among them telling how the fan famine itne the earthquake the went of rain and every other ather evil is directly attributable is to the alien ruler against whom mr and follo followers wArs are am s so 0 f fond and of I 1 in weighing hing noba ahat WS we want in india now we are strong men this is no ao time for tb I 1 of radical doctrines or cm r remedies it we are to am our position in the country we aaen SUMS a war more determined attitude ahm we have bave dose or of isell |