Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 February 1901 — India Threatens Re-Volt. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

India Threatens Re-Volt.

The news from the far east is not encouraging to England. The mighty empire of India is getting ready to revolt and before long the coast cities held by the British may be reduced by overwhelming numbers. There are in India 650 native states —great and small. They are governed by their own princes and chiefs with the advice and help of British residents, representing the supreme government of India. Some of these rulers administer the internal affairs of their respective states., with almost complete Independence. Their authority, however, is limited by their individual treaties and engagements. The euserain power does not allow them to go to war with one another, nor to form alliances with foreign powers, and it intervenes in cases of bad government or oppression, exercising a

general control in the direction of peace and contentment. • These feudatory rulers possess revenues and armies. The gross income of the princes of India is ±115,000,000 ($75,000,000), the sum of their tribute is £600,000 ($3,000,000 )per annum,and they maintain in all 80,000 native troops in addition to those they furnish for the imperial service. Thi relations between British and natives have until lately been perfectly amicable. All are equal before the law. A native can earn exactly the same wage as a British workman. But inasmuch as Europeans have a far greater capacity for work than the natives and are able to do more work in a shorter time, a consciousness of superiority sometimes produces arrogance, which is a fruitful source of racial disputes and probably is at the bottom of the present disturbances.

MOSQUE AT BENARES—FANATICS’ HEADQUARTERS.