DRAMATIC
and SPORTING
SECTION FOUR
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VOL. XXVII.
PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDA,' MORNING, JANUARY. 19, 1903.
NO. 3.
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BRITISH RULE IS
ATTACKED IN INDIA
Hindu Leaders Use National
Congress as Means of
Spreading Discontent.
PEASANTS REFLECT SPIRIT
Government May Be Compelled to
Arrest and Imprison Agitators in
Order to Quell the Movement
Against the Authorities.
CALCUTTA. Jan. IS. (Special.) The
misnamed Indian National Congress at
Surat came to grief, es well-informed per
sons supposed it would, because it was not
really a Congress, having neither rules of
procedure nor fixed, representation. An
attempt o elect Dr. Ghose, a compara
tively moderate man, as president was
shouted down, though it was supported by
6urendra Nath Banerjeo, the famous hero
of the "crowning" incident little more
than a year ago. The explanation of the
uproar was that the extremists of the
Congress had determined to bring up a
series of violent resolutions directly at
tacking British rule. As a prelude to the
disorder, Rajpat Rai, the barrister, who
was deported early in the year from the
PunjaT for sedition, was given a wildly
enthusiastic reception by the mob of
Surat. , .
Tho national congress, so-called, exists
as a center of wordy discontent in India.
It is chiefly recruited from the Hindu
element, for '.he Ma-hommedans take little
part in its factious and turbulent proceeds
ings. For a generation its speakers have
lost no opportunity of attacking the Brit
ish government and denouncing the In
dian authorities, though the Indian gov
ernment has shewn itself ready to do all
that can reasonably or with safety be
done, to meet the complaints made. The
'educated native of character now has a
career open to him in the British service.
He can-rise high and receive-a large sal
ary. - But the system of education in
India has produced a large crop of natives
who are not fitted for administrative
work, and for whom there is little
opening.
Must Watch Peasantry. '
It is among these that the malcontents
are chiefly found. In themselves they are
not formidable, but recent events suggest
that their systematic attacks upon the
Indian government are beginning to in
fluence the Hindu peasantry. This is a
symptom which that Government would
do well to watch and, if unrest continues
to show itself, the Babu talkers and
preachers of sedition must be called, ar
rested and pert in prison. To ensure re
spect in the East, a government must be
strong and not .shrink from enforcing ia
will upon the Lala Rajpat Rais and their
like. While the situation is threatening.
and has been for some time, it is not be
lieved to be dangerous. It is a somewhat
singular coincidence, however, that at
the very moment that England was com
memorating the mutiny of 1857 the row at
Surat' occurred. . . -
Aswin Kumar Dutta, who has been pro
posed as the nationalist leader is very
well known in Eastern Bengal. He is
the principal of the Braoja Mohun College
at Barisal. He came to the front when
the anti-British boycott movement was
started, and organized the "national vol
unteers" and the village committees to
enforce the boycott. He possesses the
reputation iri Calcutta of being one of the
ablest living Bengalis. The Englishman
points out that the so-called national vol
unteers, while not "so keen on self-adver
tisement as formerly, are sll a live or
ganization. They were originally re
cruited from the akharas, or schools of
physical culture. . These schools are in
existence everywhere, and the exercises
consist of lathi play and the use of the
sword and dagger.
In Faridpur the National' Volunteers
have taken a firmer hold, and nowhere
have certain zemindars shown more
flagrant and impudent defiance of the
authorities. Two, - particularly, have
made themselves notorious by the open.
way In which they have entertained
bodies of lathials, for the sole purpose
of pushing on the boycott by violence
and for coercing those who refuse to pay
fines levied -on them for using British
goods. In the same district, moreover,
social ostracism has been carried to the
length of a fine art, and everybody who
is suspected of loyalty to the government
runs the risk of being outcasted. '
Destroy British Goods.
The National Volunteers -and the lathi
als of the zemindars conceive themselves
at liberty to destroy British-made goods
whenever they see them. In the village
of Pulta, Pansithana, British goods were
snatched away and burnt, a self-appointed
committee fined some people in cash
and put others out of caste, forbidding
priests and barbers to serve them, and
finally speeches were delivered from 9
P. M. to 3 A. M., at which the hearers
were exhorted to take lathials into their
service in order, that an army of sol
diers might be prepared to drive the government-out
of the country.
The martial ardor of the lathial la kept
up by such stuff as the following, taken
from the Jugantar, which has already
been prosecuted for sedition:
"Come, and let us learn a new lesson.
Iet us once, see what vivifying power
lies in the sweet dance of warrior
mother (the Goddess Kali), reveling in
the use of the scimitar. At the touch of
her feet even rotten corpses, 700 years
old, can regain life. Mother is the beauty
of the world, kind-hearted and pleasing
to look at. Her lips are curved with Joy.
The glances of her good eyes .beam with
affection eyes that surpass a hundred
moons in splendor. A graceful hand is
extended in granting boohs .and assur
ances of protection, and thus healing all
miseries. Why, again, does the sportive
mother dance, outvying, by elowinr arms.
scores of suns,, and covering the whole
earth with heads of demons, dripping
wiin Dioua : vv uy ucr wuu aance is cre
ation of the world; at every rhythmic
fall of her heel and graceful feet, the
dusts give birth to hundreds of Bhtsmas,
Arjunas. and Dadhlchis; and out of the
drops of blood shed from the whirling
scimitar rise gods. By thus dancing,
sweetly, and indulging in roars of laugh
ter at the death of demons, the universal
mother means to each: 'Oh! blind dar
ings, go and dance in war. .War is but
a life-giving nectar!" "
Recently the boys of Neile City School
became infested with the rowdyism . of
their seniors, and the two upper classes
greeted their teachers with derisive
shouts of "Bande Mataram." Nothing
was done to enforce discipline, and the
evil grew apace. ' The rest of the school
took uji the cry, and it became the usual
practice to shout it at the - heardmaster
and -his Btaft. Six classes fired it oft at
the inspector of schools in his round of
inspection. This was a serious matter,
and he called upon the school committee
to take action. In due course the com
mittee met. They took infinite pains, vis
iting each offending class in turn. The
boys of fonr classes apologized, with ex
pressions of repentance. The two senior
classes proved recalcitrant. Not only did
they refuse to apologize, but they yelled
the more. This time there was no hesi
tation. They were expelled. '
By way of protest they organized a
demonstration, impressing their school
friends, many of whom had Just apolo
gized, but evidently were not unwilling
to be impressed, and gathered to the
number of 150 in the entrance to the
school compound. Soon after Mr. Bray,
professor of English literature at the'
Morris College, which stands in the
same compound, appeared. The "school
boys repeated the tactics which they had
applied to their own teachers, only they
were more violent. The disorder was so
great that the police in a station near
by turned out and arrested 22. Later in
the day a disorderly mob collected, oat-
side the police station, and on refusing
to -diperse, a few more arrests were
made. The upshot of it all is that stu
dents and schoolboys' have declined -.rb
attend college or school on the ground
that they are liable to arrest. ' .
A Bengali Swami has just returned
from a stay in America, and has deliv
ered an address to his compatriots, in
which he pleads for the cultivation of
the ancient Hindu religion, in its purest
form, as the basis of all Swadeshi, .de
nounces political agitation as tts bane,
and quotes the work of Sinn Fein in Ire
land as an example of what can be done
by organization -outside of politics.-' The
speech was given in a public hall in Cal
cutta, before a crowded audience, and ex
hibits a -piquant blending -of modernity
and reaction. . A few samples may be
given: . . '
"I hate politics because it Is a pariah
side of life. I am a Brahmin and a her
mit, and have nothing to do with politics.
In' our country religion is the mainstay
of life and politics is the outermost .ex
pression of material life. Tou want to
be politicians. Where are your politics?
You have no politics, yem Hindus. You
humbug yourselves. You have been dis-
armed, you cannot sport a knife or a big
stick, and the government is armed to
the teeth. Swadeshi is a. God-sent thing
a dispensation in the march of the
world's events. - When I read of the
Swadeshi movement I jumped with joy.
"One day, however, I was alarmed,
when I noticed the. importation of your
political, claptrap into this God-sent
movement, which is to regenerate you in
your economic condition, in your materi
al condition, finally, in your spiritual con
dition. . Some of the extremists made po
litical capital out of it. "You must not
follow-thena.- They are your worst ene-r'
mies. They are wolves in sheep's cloth
ing. The Irish fought their political bat
tles in the British Parliament for 40
years. They gave up that game and
started the Sinn Fein movement for re
viving everything national, and in 13
years that 'yielded results far greater
than those achieved in 40 years of cam
paigning all round the country, and on
the floor of the House of Commons. "
"Be Swadeshi spiritually, religiously and
in your home life and social life, and in
the course of a' few years you will see
this grow into a huge tree for your dis
tressed people to sit under its shade."
TELLS STORY OF
HER
1
CRIMES
Career of Minneapolis Woman
, Presents Interesting Study
in Criminolcgy.
HELD POSITIONS OF TRUST
PUT SHIPS ON CHANNEL
Canard Company May Add to At
. . - lantlo Service. I
LONDON. Ian. 18. (Special.) Althoueh
the Cunard Company has promptly con
tradicted; the story that the Lusltanla and
the Mauretanla were shortly to be trans
ferred to the English Channel route, the
belief persists in well-informed shipping
circles that it still has an eye on the
Continental traffic. An obvious defect of
the statement was its assumption that the
.Mauretanla and the Lusltanla may be put
on any service wnlcn Mr. Watson and
his colleagues think fit. The fact Is over
looked that the leviathans were built for
certain . specified work, which the Cunard
Company . undertook to., do under a con
tract with the British- government. The
last word concerning any change of route
is, therefore.T-with the government, whose
views, in the controversy between the ad
vocates of -Liverpool, and-those of South-:
ampton are not difficult to guess.'
In order, however, to share the Conti
nental traffic the Cunard people need not
take the Lusltania and Mauretanla on
the Liverpool-Queexstown route. They
might transfer the Caronia and the Car
mania, and run them on the English
Channel route iri conjunction with- the
new boats they have for some time had
in their minds to build. These projected
vessels are to be bigger than the Car
mania, and they are to have turbines.
The Cunard directors would hardly be
men of business if they kept longer away
from the Channel, because undoubtedly
the stream of Atlantic passenger traffic
runs more strongly thWe. There are two
good reasons for this. One is that trav
elers incline more and more to count the
luxurious accommodation of the modern
large liner ample compensation for the
loss of an hour or two on a voyage. The
other is that the time gained in traveling
overland to join a boat is not so great as
it is sometimes 'made out to be. Of
course, the most expeditious route for the
mails from New York is their direct tran
sit to Liverpool.
LARGE ROOMS FOR PRESS
Reporters Have Fine Quarters in
Westminster Talace.
LONDON, Jan. 15. (Special.) Very
few structural alterations have been
made in the Palace of Westminster this
recess, except in the portion given up
for the journalista. The chief improve
ment in the public parts, and It is very
marked, is in the corridors leading from
the central hall to the two chambers.
For many years the stonework of the
walls and arches has been hidden under
a thick coating of paint- Following
the experiment made in the members'
lobby last year, this paint has been
removed, and now the beautiful design
Is revealed as the architect intended.
Upstairs the press accommodation
has undergone an extensive transform
ation. The idea of the Office of Works
Is to make the large suite of rooms
more compact. One of the greatest im
provements is the provision of another
large working room for reporters,
which overlooks the Speaker's court.
There are also great extensions of the
tearoom and . buffet space, the dining-
room and the kitchen.
In the latter, it is said, that the new
plant and equipment will compare favor
ably with tnat or any ciuo in London.
Another Innovation is a bathroom. . What
would the journalists of 40 or 50 years ago
think of these things? In their day their
presence was barelv tolerated within th
palace.
Augusta C. Fahrm, AVlth Appear'
a nee of Sunday School Teacher,
Victimizes Various Firms
of Total of $11,540.
MINNEAPOLIS,' Jan. 12. One of th
most rcmarkablo criminal manipulator
ever brought to the attention of tho po
lice of any city is Miss Augusta C.
Fahrm, who Is now in custody in Min
neapolis. Miss Fahrm is a demure blondi
young woman with a penchant for re
ligion, and yet within a short time she
.has victimized various employers out ol
amounts aggregating $11,540, according tc
the Minneapolis Tribune.
Miss Fahrm's latest victim, and the
one -which has brought her to face hei
accusers, is the A. E. Johnson Company,
of Minneapolis, to whom she has con
fessed her crime, and whom she begs for
mercy .hat she may lead a new and
a better life. Miss Fahrm addressed the
following letter of confession to Olaf O.
Scarle, secretary of the company:
Makes String of Confessions.
paving finally decided to make a "clean
breast" of everything", or give an near a
complete vtateiuetit as possible of what ha
been done with money taken from you, I
herewith submit the attached statement,
terribly humiliating as it is for me to do so.
Together with all my other suffering this
statement is costing me the effort of my
life -and yet the greatest relief experienced
as well.
Knowing and understanding as I now do
the full extent of my crime, and the pun
ishment it deserveE, I can only throw my
self on your mercy and feel that my life in
the future lies in your merciful hands, so to -speak.
If given an opportunity I know it will be a
great turning point In my life, and for the
better with God's belp.
I sincerely " hope I may have the oppor
tunity of living down my disgrace and some
day, Mr. Searle. I hope and pray you will
not be ashamed to know me and that in a
measure you will feel somewhat rewarded
nd blessed for helping the poor little
Omaha girl.
Miss Fahrm's confession is unique, be
cause it comes from her own hand, writ
ten without suggestion, and in her own
way. After tho short but complete con
fession, this young woman, who rivals
the famous Cassie Chadwlck, of world
fame, attache;, a two-page, closely writ
ten itemized statement of what has be
come of the money taken, in which she
is able to account for all the money se
cured during the six months of her em
ployment, with the exception of $254.45,
and all from her wonderful memory, as
sisted by a few notes in her possession.
Her Career of Crime.
The young woman now awaiting a dis
position of her- case in the County Jail
under indictment for grand larceny In the
first degree, has been a most methodical
speculator since she came into business
life. She is first heard ot in Omaha,
where she secured good positions by the
aid of recommendations from ministers.
The Omaha crimes she has not confessed
to, and she was never pb,t on trial for
either. It was three years ago when she
went to work for the Myron-Dillon Drug
Company, and there it is said she secured
$4000 before she was removed for cause.
The company really has only an indefi
nite idea of what was taken and nothing
could be absolutely proved.
From there the young woman went to
work as inventory clerk with the Linin
ger Implement Company, where nothing
developed. Next she went to the Bren-non-Love
Company, and while In the real
estate department she secured somethiner
like $3200. Nothing could be provtS
against her. Her next place was with the
Columbia Optical Company, where she se
cured only about $900 before sjie was let
out This firm could not trace the crime
to her positively.
From Omaha she came to Minneapolis
well recommended and secured her po
sition with the A. E. Johnson Company,
steamship agents, where she had access
to the cash, and there her system was
worked again, but during her trip to
Omaha it was fastened upon her. So
engaging is she that even her -attorney,
George Myers, to whom she pretended
innocence after she had made confessions
to others, could not believe her guilty.
Find Whisky and Revolver.
After her arrest, the authorities with
members of the firm of A. E. Johnson
& Co. went through er belongings look
ing for clues and stray cash. She dressed
so plainly that it was supposed she must
have secreted much of the stolen money.
There was found In one of her grips a
bottle of whisky and a loaded revolve
There were also letters from a woman
friend in Omaha, with whom she appears
to have been infatuated. '
It is a stranige fact that Miss Fahrm
wrote a first confession to the firm, from
the Berkeley Hotel, dated December 31,
Just prior to her arrest. In this confes
sion she states that she voluntarily
makes a clean breast of everything, and
prays for forgiveness. This confession is
being kept in case the culprit should,
through advice, at the last moment,
claim that the last confession was made
under dufess.
In appearance and action the young
woman is one to disarm suspicion. Neat
ly, even severely clad, with the appear
ance of a Sunday school teacher, she has
a sweet and. disarming smile and engag
ing conversation. She poses as a most
devout young woman, and her Bible is
ever present. Her talk Is of higher ideals
and the good there is in life.
"I know that the way lies clear for me
to lead a better life," she said yester
day, while speaking in the jail where she
is confined. "This misstep will all pass
away, and If I am given an opportunity
to retrieve this one bad action, it will be
a needVd lesson to me. "Winy I did it 1
do not know. I did not want the money.
I only wanted to do good to others and
make them happy. It seemed such a
little thing to do."
It is not generally known that she made
one attempt to leave the city Just be
fore she waa placed In charge of the of
ficers of the Central Station. She had
taken the Great Western train for
Omaha, but was intercepted in St. Paul. ,