. Where half the world is waking up; the old and the new in Japan, China, the Philippines, and India, reported with especial reference to American conditions. ire. Indeed, it is a greater featthan was performed under the Roman Empire. I was interested to find that the American-bom residents ofIndia give, if anything, even higher praise to British rule thanthe British themselves. I regard the English official inIndia, one distinguished American in southern India went sofar as to say to me, as the very highest type of administra-tive official in the world. More than this, 90 per cent, of thecomm
. Where half the world is waking up; the old and the new in Japan, China, the Philippines, and India, reported with especial reference to American conditions. ire. Indeed, it is a greater featthan was performed under the Roman Empire. I was interested to find that the American-bom residents ofIndia give, if anything, even higher praise to British rule thanthe British themselves. I regard the English official inIndia, one distinguished American in southern India went sofar as to say to me, as the very highest type of administra-tive official in the world. More than this, 90 per cent, of thecommon people would prefer to trust the justice of the Britishto that of the Brahmins. In Delhi an American missionaryexpressed the opinion that the American Government, if incontrol of India, would not be half so lenient with the breedersof sedition and anarchy as is the British Government. It should be said, however, that there are now fewer of thesemalcontents, and these few are less influential than at anytime for some years past. In Madras I was very glad to getan interview with Mr. Krishnaswami Iyer, one of the mostdistinguished of the Hindu BATHING IN THE SACKED GANGES AT BENAKES
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