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IS 183.2 Story of an Emigrant.
audacious pluck which they showed when a handful of their
soldiers and citizens conquered that great country with its
innumerable inhabitants. The only thing, however, that
made it possible to do so, and which makes it possible to
hold India to-day, is the internal strifes, the jealousies and the
religious intolerance among the natives themselves. If they
were united they could free the country from the foreigners
in a month. But why should they? The country is better
governed than ever before, and it is gaining fast in progress
and prosperity. Still there is a deep hidden feeling of ill-will
toward the English, and the time will vet come when a ter-
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rible struggle will be fought in India. Perhaps Russia will
have a hand in the fight. It will be a bloody, savage war,
and will cause Great Britain serious trouble. I said that
India is better ruled now than ever before; but that is not
saying much, for it ought to be ruled still better and more
in the interest of the natives. India has civil service with a
vengeance, the office-holding class being even more arrogant,
proud and independent than the titled nobility. They rule
the country with an iron hand, regard it simply as a field
for gathering in enormous salaries, and after twenty-five
years’ service they return to England with a grand India
pension. The English look down upon the lower classcs
with haughty contempt, chiefly because the latter try to
insinuate themselves into favor with the former by means
of all kinds of flatterv. Nobodv is of anv account in India
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unless he is an officer, either civil or military; hence all the
best talent is circumscribed within narrow office routine
limits, and nothing is left for the peaceful industrial
pursuits except what the government may undertake to do, and
that is usually confined to railroad and canal improvements.
England wants India for a market, therefore nothing is
done to encourage manufactures, but rather to cripple them.
With the cheapest and most skilled labor in the world, the
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