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Anti-Foreign Agitation Is Due
Largely to Activities of
Their Class.
LOSS OF POWER IS SPUR
Influence Whirls. Tlicy Formerly
W ielded Has Been Largely Done
Anay With Vnder Kule
of British.
BY PEFtl'IVAU LAN DON'.
P1MLA. India. Dec. Id. (Special.) (
The anti-forelsrn movement wan origi
nally conceived and organized, and is
n..w belnK carried out. by the Brah
mins of India. In no part of the coun
try, north, south east or west, have
the Mohammedans had part or lot with
the aKilators. The lower castes have
been content to allow their acquies
cence to be assumed, rightly or
wrongly-
The country districts art entirely un
affected. Ilelijrion so' far -plays, an In
significant part in the agitation. It '
is not necessary to labor over the
vital differences which are to be
noticed at first glance, between the
present disquiet and that which pre
ceded the Indian Mutiny of ISoT. Then
the two great warring creeds joined
forces for a moment in a manner that
was as remarkable, as it was un
expected. Long, indeed, tills unnatural alliance
could not last, but even this momen
tary rapprochement for a common
purpose Iihs formed the text of many
who wished to prove that there must
have been good grounds for the Joint
action of such eternal enemies. More
over. . in 1SS7. the rel'glous supersti
tions of both Islam and Hinduism were
played upon with unfailing assiduity,
and. throughout Hindustan all castes,
in town and country alike, were stirred
up by the wandering sunyasls and
bhalragis. whose co-operation. 1n spite
of reckless mis-statements, has been
conspicuously absent from the present
movement.
Brahmin's Activities Twofold.
But. It may be demurred, if religion I
plays little or no part In the present
agitation, how conies It that the Brah
mins are at the root of it all? The
answer to this is that the religious
functions of the Brahmin, though in
herent In his caste, are not. and never
have been, the most important or re
spected attributes of the class. That
the moral supremacy enjoyed by the
Brahmins is based upon and enforced
by their control of the religious office
is indisputable. It Is quite another
thing to assume that when the political
leaders of the Brahmins wish to agi
tate for reforms they necessarily have
behind them the ecclesiastical organi
zation of their order.
If nothing else could be .cited In
proof of this, the bare facts that In
Benares. Purl Szlrangam Trichinopoly
and other places of pilgrimage or re
ligious authority in India, not even a
passing breeze of sedition has ever
arisen, while the action of the priests
of Kali's Temple, in Calcutta the
mujtheds" of Kastern Bengal In pub
licly disowning and denouncing the agi
tation, has a significance that the most
versatile of Bengalis is put to it to
explain away.
tinlf Widens Dally.
The truth is that between the highly
educated and mentally brilliant Brah
min of political life and his religious
brother, a daily widening gulf is fixed.
The curious part of It is that the old
weapon of superstition seems to have
broken in the hand of the priest, and
there is no class of Brahmin so de
spised and socially degraded in the
caste as he who ministers at any. but
especially at a great center of public
worship, or performs religious offices,
even In private, exrept in the exclu
sive circle of a private house, of which
the-owner is at the lowest a member
of the Valsya caste.
As a matter of fact, the leading
Brahmins of Bengal or Poona. the cen
ters of disaffection, have never had
any connection whatever with the per
formance of any religious function. In
that thev are strfttly within their
rights. The. supremacy of the Brah
inin was flue from the first to the fact
that scholarship was their especial pri
vilege, and. as elsewhere In the world,
scholarship and ecclesiastical Influence
have gone hand In hand. Kspeclally
wss this' hound to he the case in India,
where untutored men were excluded
from the priest hood, as much by com
mon belief of lavmen that they were
ignorant of the all-necessary formulae
as by the deliberate disqualification
imposed by the popular hierarchy.
But the priesthood lias generally
found the monopoly of scholarship to
be of a double-edged nature, and India
Is no exception to the rule. Today the
cleverest among this clever race have
chosen politics rather than religion
as a field for their energies, and we
shall make a serious mistake if we do
not separate the ecclesiastical aspect
of Brahniinism from their political
activities.
Why Brahmins Are Angry.
The true causes of the Brahmin agita
tion are to he found. In the fact that be
fore the English administration of Bengal
and other parts of India, the Bralimin
was all-important in civil as well as reji
gious affairs. The vast advantage which
education conferred upon him made his
services indispensable. Whatever the
nominal sovereignty of the state, it was
the Brahmin vicegerent who actually
governed, even in Mohammedan courts,
and this double advantage made it impos
sible for any one of a lower caste to rise
to any position of real importance in the
administration of India. The great wea
pon in the hands of the Bralunins. the
power of decision in all matters touching
caste, was used relentlessly against ad
venturers, both civil and religious. There
were, of course, exceptions. Low-caste
men succeeded both in directing an ad
ministration and In founding new cults.
But these did but emphasize the fact
that the Brahmins rule the natives of In
dia, body and soul alike. The Incoming
of the KtuHiah altered all this.
Probably none of the many conquerors
of India has ever treated th Brahmins
with the iron-handed Justice which they
have experienced at the hands of the
Knglish. By them the service of the
state was thrown open to every man.
high or low. and the knell of Brahmin
preponderance was sounded. At first the
ar.i-ient tradition of cduration gave the
Brahmins an advantage, but this has van
ished with the spread of education, and
the ancient ruling class of India has had
to come down into the arena and strug
gle with the schooled Valsya or Sudra
tor the prizes of official life. On the
whole, he has done extremely well and
creditably.
The Bralunins still possess large and
justly-gained majority of tlie more im
portant positions in Northern India. But
It hi poor thing compared with what
they possessed a hundred years ago.
.Mwnvs over tliem Is the sirong hand of
the Englishman, .a very different super
BRAINS
CAMS
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INDIA
visor from the Idle acquiescence of their
old masters in any polio- that provided
them in peace. Once get the English
out of the country and their old ascen
dancy la secured to them. For no race
in India, except the Pathar.s of the
northwest frontier, would British expul
sion be fraught, with more benefit more
apparent benefit.
Chaos Would Follow Independence.
Yet should the reins of government
ever fall from British hands, there
would arise In India from the Brahma
putra to the Indus a sanguinary chaos
which would have no parallel in history
since the days of Jenghiz Khan. But the
Brahmin takes short views, believes per
haps that tlie Hindu regiments would
retain their efficiency, and passively ac
cept tlie changed allegiance, and cer
lainlv refuses to have brought home to
him tlie unpleasant truth that for his
caste the day of supremacy has closed
and closed for good, Control of the agi
tation is rapidly pacing it the hands
of the most openly seditious, and the ap
proaching congress at Madras will prob
ably witness the practical extinction of
most of the demagogues whose names
are known to tlie public in England and
merica. -Moderates" never won a
cause vet. and if the precedent of his
tory Is to be observed, we shall find the
actual management of any future open
sedition entrusted to the hands of the
most hot-headed enemy of tlie Knglish
occupation.
SPOILS SYSTEM HOT DEAD
CIVIL SERVICE REFOKMERS
STILL FIND TRACES.
Exi.-ts in Xer Census Bill, Says
League Clionte Iiuds Roose
velt, but Makes Criticism. v
PITTS Bl'RG. Pa., Dec. 18. IMesates
to the 28th annual convention of the
Civil Service Reform League, which
opened Thursday are highly elated over
the recent order granting a large num
ber of fourth'class postmasters the
protection of the merit system. The
president of the league, Joseph H.
Choate. ex-United States Ambassador
to Great Britain, was instructed to
telegraph President Boosevelt congrat
ulations on his recent order "in aid of
civil service advancement."
The report of the council was sub
mitted by R. H. Ifctna. of Boston, chair
man. He told of tlie success of the
council In defeating the patronage pro
vision of the Crumpacker census bill at
tlie last session of Congress, but re
gretted that the House last week had
passed a census bill with spoils provisions.-
Referring to the protection re
cently given fourth-class postmasters
north of the Ohio River and east of
the Mississippi, the report expressed
the hope that all such postmasters will
soon have the same protection.
At a public, session tonight President
Choate delivered an address. Political
activity In the unclassified list of office
holders was criticised by the speaker,
who advocated the Btriking out of "per
nicious" in President Cleveland- memo
rable "pernicious political" order, which
has been continued by President Roose
velt. He continued:
The situation In regard to activity of un
classified officials in the North and West is
much better tlis In the South and apparent
ly Improved durinK the present Administra
tion. But the undeniable fart that elections,
caucuses and conventions are to a consider
able extent controlled by Federal office
holders is a menace and tends to breed mis
chief and we venture to recommend to the
president and Civil service Commission that
something ought to he done to strengthen
the Cleveland order.
BUY SPURIOUS PAINTINGS
Old Bunco Game Revived In Paris
With Sew .Feature.
PARIS, ec. 18. DiSpecial.) Trade in
spurious paintings, which seemed to have
been almost extinct for tome time, is re
viving. Judging from the number of cases
brought to tlie notice of the Judicial au
thorities. The producers of spurious
works no longer confine their efforts to
palming off so-called) Rembrants or Bou
chers on the public; they have the au
dacity to copy the signatures of living
painters of renown, and sell these works
at a high price as authentic.
Some time ago a Parisian fancier pur
chased a painting from a dealer which
represented a picturesque ecene in one
of the streets of Montmartre. and was
s'gned "Claude Monet." Several friends,
on seeing it. expressed a doubt a to Its
being a genuine work of that painter.
An expert was consulted, and a photo
graph of the painting sent to M. Claude
Monet, who was Ht Venice. He replied by
return of post that he, had not painted
the picture.
A complaint wss lodged against the
dealer, who gave the name of the person
from whom lie had acquired t.ie painting,
and who in turn aid that he had pur
chased It at a public sale in lxndon. The
same magistrate who Is Inquiring Into
this case. lias received the complaint of
another collector, who paid XirK for a
spurious Charles Jacque.
ALL MINERAL WATER ALIKE
Two Paris Walters Sell Spring Water
for Imported Article.
PARI3. Dec. 18. (Special.) Pure spring
water is just as good a any' mineral
water, thought two waiters in a Mont
martre cafe, and this Is the only quality
which they served to customers. They
left the labels on the bottles, and imply
refilled titem with ordinary water In the
kitchen or cellar. Many a customer may
have wondered why the Saint Galmyer
tasted exactly like the Vichy spring r
the Source Exlan was no different from
the Vals or other products. But the bot
tle and label, and above ail the high
price seemed to warrant that it was the
genuine stuff.
The two waiters continued to do a
thriving business in pure spring water,
supplied by the City of Parle, until one
night the director of a mineral water
company happened to be supping, and
was astonished at the taste of the water.
He asked for another kind, and got a bot
tle with a different label, but th water
wa still the same. Others mljht be
tricked, but not he. and the consequence
va that both waiters were prosecuted
for the swindle. They were sentenced to
three months' imprisonment. francs
fine, and I'D francs damages.
BLIZZARD RAGES IN EAST
Snow Falls, Temperature. Drops
' Along Atlantic Coast.
WILKES BARRQ Pa., Dec. 18. Snow
which beean falling at noon today hss as
sumed blizzard proportions througnout the
Wyoming Valley. The snow is drifting
and streetcar traffic is seriously im
paired. XEW YORK. Iec. 18. Half an Inch of
enow fell here today. The temperature
dropped from 28 at noon to the freezing
,point at aiiUnitTht.
TO CI RE A COLD IN ONE OAT
Tsks LAXATIVE PROMO Quinlna Tablets.
rriiKits refund money if It falls to curt.
E. W. UROVE'S signature Is on caca box. 20c
RED BLOOD FLOWS
Socialists in Lively Row in
Seattle.
E. J. LEWIS GIVEN WOUND
Oregon Proselyte Tangled In Fray.
One Woman, by Use of Chair,
Beats Off Four Sergeants-at-Arms
Police Stop .Riot.
SEATTLE, Wash., Dec. 18. After three
bloody encounters in the corridors of
the Labor Temple last night the Titus
faction of Seattle local body of Socialists,
won at least a temporary victory.
The trouble started with the passing
of the lie direct between W. P. Parks
and James Jseilsen, and ended only after
Parks wae expelled from the meeting and
his wife, Winnie Parks, had stood off
four special sergeants-at-arms with a
chair and was escorted fighting . and
scratching from the meeting.
As a result of the fights between Mrs.
Parks and the sergeants-at-arms, E. J..
Lewis, Oregon state organizer of the
party, who Is n Seattle for a month
proselytising, and IX H. Fogarty. Ste
vens and Parks were beaten about the
face and head. Fogarty was struck a
blow in the face.
The police were called in to stop the
riot.
"I left the hall, without any disturb
ance," said W. P. Parks. "As I crossed
the hall to go downstairs I met Mr.
Clare, a carpenter. He stopped me to
tell about a tool chest he had lost. This
man Lewis, who has openly bragged that
he is an ex-prizefighter from Philadel
phia.' came outside with Nielsen and
started to make trouble. I turned away
from him and continued to talk with
Clare. He struck me several blows
before I could turn around, Jumped on
me. knocking me down."
Mrs. Minnie E. Parks, the wife of the
ejected man. was also voted out of the
meeting. C. C. Stevens, one of the four
appointed to eject her, carried her out.
As the crowd from the lower floors
rushed upstairs Mrs. Parks was lying in
a corner, her hair torn down, her clothes
awry, and a crowd of angry, gesticulat
ing men around her.
Parks had rushed down the stairs
and Lewis after him. Others rushed for
the telephone and called the police.
The crowd surged around the doors,
some trying to help Mrs. Parks, others
muttering threats against "the woman
beater."
Mrs. Parks was hysterically telling
of the attack.
"I am through with that gang," she
said. "I wanted to show them up and
put them on record. I pasted that
Stevens one on the nose. And, O, if I
could Just have hammered one of them
with that chair or stuck him with my
hatpin." . . ,
The crowd surged down" the stairs,
after the door had been locked In their
faces. Three or four other fights took
place in the hall before the police ar
rived. The policeman- said , that as
there was no warrant he wtuld make
no arrests, but toJd Mrs.. Parks 4o get
a warrant in the morning.
BELATED EFFORT IGNORED
English A. A: A.'s Effort at Self-Vln-dicatlou
Receives Xo Xbtlce.
LONDON'. Dec. 18. (Special.) The be
lated efforts of the English Amateur
Athletic Association to vindicate its
character for fair play and intelligence
in the conduct of the Olympic games is
magnificently Ignored by the bulk of the
London newspapers. There is very nat
urally a feeling here that enough has
been heard of that orgle of muddle and
bias the British Olympic games.
The A. A. A., having dealt very inef
fectively with some of the American com
plaints, says that the Americans were the
only foreigners to protest against the un
fairness of the English committee of
honor. This statement is directly the re
verse of the truth, for there were at dif
ferent times French protests. German
protests. Italian protests and Scandinav
ian protests.
The high and mighty attitude of the
bunglers who. contrary to precedent, took
Into their own sole control the manage
ment of the contests instead of having
an international committee, as in other
cases, created the worst possible impres
sion among all the competitors. The
best proof of this is the indisputable fact
that if it were proposed to hold the Olym
pic contests here under the same man
agement again, it is doubtful if any sin
gle country who has. experience of the
Stadium officials at Shepherd's Bush
would enter.
PASS RELIEF RESOLUTION
Unionist Association Wants to Do
Away With Unfair Competition.
DUBLIN, Dec. 18. Special.) A large
meeting on the subject of tariff reform
was held in Dublin this week under the
auspices of the Dublin Liberal Unionist
Association. Lord Mayo, who occupied
the chair, said the distressing phenom
ena of unemployment showed that some
thing must be wrong with free trade as
It exists. Major G. B. O'Connor moved
a resolution declaring that the meeting
pledge itself to maintain the act of
union, and at the same time held that
any change in tlie fiscal system which
would relieve Irish agriculture and man
ufacture from unfair competition would
nraterially help the business and trade
or Ireland. The motion was adopted
unanimously.
SEARCHLIGHT SOON TO GO
Experiments Being Conducted With
Floating Acetylene Shells.
LONDON. Dec. 18. Special.) The Ger
man naval authorities are said to be
experimenting with acetylene shells,
which are, if tests succeed, to be used
Instead of searchlights. The projectiles
are filled with calcium carbide, and
tubes are fitted for the admission of
water. They are fired into the sea by
a gun of special construction, and when
they return to the surface the action of
the water on tlie calcium carbide pro
duces a brilliant acteylene light of 3000
candlepower, calculated to burn for three
hours. The advantage is said to be that
whereas the use of a searchlight dis
closes the position of a ship, the use
of these shells will enable .it to work
in the dark.
TIMBER SALES DROP THIRD
Government Accounts for Shortage
hy Action of Forest Service.
ington. Dec. 18. The following para
ington, Dec. 18. During the 12 months
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FOR CHRISTMAS
It will be decidedly to your advan
tage to make your selections at the
headquarters of the largest musi
cal instrument " establishment in
the West. Any given sum will buy
higher quality at the House of
Eilers than anywhere else in crea
tion. All' instruments' sold on mod
erate monthly payments if desired.
, Open until 10 P. M.
'-msstenaw or
353 Washington Street.
Forty Stores in the West
Expert Piano Tuning,
Polishing, Repairing,
Moving and Storing
at Lowest Rates.
which ended June 30. IMS, over 38fi.0Oft.0O0 .
feet of lumber were sold out nv:vwv "
ment forest reserves, and yet this total
Is but one-third of the amount old -during
the previous year. The falling off.
it Is explained, was directly due to the
refusal of the Forest Service to eH the
Government timber in large quantities.
It is strange that while there was a
great decline in the amount of timber
sold, the amount that was actually cut
during the year more than doubled the
cut of 1907. This discrepancy is explained
bv the fact that heretofore when reserve
timber was sold in large quantities the
purchasers were allowed a period or
years in which to cut and remove. It.
Under the new policy it Is required that
the timber shall be cut' within a reason
ably short time after it is sold.
In addition to the 386,000.000 feet of
timber that was sold at an aggregate
price of J850.000. the Department issued
free permits for cutting 130.000.000 feet
of timber for domestic purposes. This
amounted to a donation to the people of
practically $170.000 worth of timber.
JOURNEY PROVED "FBflST"
MEMBER OF TRAVELING PARTY
W'AXTS MOXEY BACK.
Caught Cold, Rode in Open Car
riages, o Place to Sleep Are
Reasons for Snlt.
PARIS. Dec. 18. (Special.) Allured by
advertisements, a Frenchman, fond of
traveling, paid $600 to join a personally
conducted party to Norway and Spits
bergen, to see the midnight sun. But
when he got there he was disappointed.
To begin with he had been promised
sport with "curious game." such as polar
bear, reindeer and walruses, and the
traveler had gone armed with the latest
things In weapons and ammunition,
bought at great expense. But thv
steamer did not, contrary to the adver
tisement, call at various points where
the game was to be found, and the only
creatures to be shot at were seagulls,
and the captain of the steamer forbade
the sportsman potting at them.
In Spitsbergen "ice cliffs and blue sea"
were nowhere to be seen, and.- worst of
all, when the midnight sun should have
made his appearance pitch dark "reigned
instead. v owing to the fog. In Norway
the party was shown nothing at all. and
the reason proved ta be that the guide
and Interpreter did not know a single
word of Norwegian. Although it was
snowing hard, open carriages only were
provided, and the unhappy traveler
caught cold.
At length, when the party got back to
Stockholm, civilization and comfortable
hotels, the latter were all full, because
a medical congress was in sessison, and
the entire party of excursionist had to
be accommodated in one bedroom, the
guide arranging that they should sleep
in the one bed. "turn and about for one
hour each." This was the last straw
for the traveler, who has brought an
action against the tourist agency which
arranged the expedition, claiming $500
damages. The agency retorts that it
cannot be held responsible for fog or a
medical congress. " '
NOW PORTLAND DISTRICT
Senate Changes Name of Willamette
Customs in Rose City's Honor.
WASHINGTON. D. C. Dec. 18 Tho
Senate yesterday passed a bill chang
ing the nams of the Willamette cus
toms district to Portland customs dis
trict. A similar bill passed the Senate ac
the last session, but erroneously de
scribed .the boundary of the district,
and it was necessary to pass it again In
correct form. The bill makes no other
changes In existing condiitons.
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HARNEY SEEKS ROAD
Urges Idaho-Oregon Congress
to Demand Railway.
LARGE MEETING AT VALE
Development League Favors Pro
posed Government Irrigation
Project in Malheur County.
Dr. McClure Talks.
VAL.E, Or.. Dec. 18. Special.) The
vast possibilities of tlie Inland Umpire
of Oregon, Teaching from Vale to Coos
Bay and from the O. It. & N. railroad
on the north to the Southern Pacific on
the south, constituted the scene of the
orations of yesterday's session of the
Idaho-Oregon development congress.
Judge Stephen A. Lwell. president of the
organization, and J. C. Turvey. of Burns,
spoke upon this great territory, and the
need or transportation facilities In order
that the natural resources may be de
veloped. In the evening. Dr. W. S. McClure dealt
with the livestock indusrry. at present
tho principal business of the country.
About 150 delegates from the two states
were in attendance when the session
opened. The little town of Vale was dec
orated for the occasion and the most de
lightful weather prevailed.
Hntbusissm in the cause of develop-
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mcnt is marked. The principal project
beini? boosted is the Government Malheur
irrigation scheme.
The Coos Bay Railroad was another
topic. After brief addresses of weloomo
in behalf of tlie i-lly hy the president of
the Commercial Club, President Ixiwoll
made his address. J. C. Turney, of
Burns, was tlie next speaker. He said
that tlie Great Harney Valley had pro
duced on the average 50 bushels of wheat
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Harney people are not asking for irri
gation, but for a railroad.
Mr. Turney declared that the continu
ance of tlie Harriman road from Vale to
Coos Bay would open up a tejritory
which would provide freight sufficient to
pay dividends tho first year, and that
the resources of the country never had
been properly laid before the railroad
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