The Dillon tribune., 1883-04-28
,lsr1uc11ov OF INDIAN 11sou1o1a

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ANOTHER English authority says that
ndia was . paying country whom the Eng
M went into II. II supported the sxpen.
i've and troublesome governments Of it,
wn rule n. But under English rule India
IA sunk deeper ind deeper into poverty:
nd Mr.. Hunter confessss that be trembies
g he looks 10 the future Of India, while
he population il increasing 20 rapidly,
hould the means Of supporting Il fail.
rhe people are already paying II per cent.
4 their wretched income to the government
'or its support. and another penny added
o that might bring on revolt. Lord Mayo
aid that that would b the danger to Eng
ish rule in India in the future. In order
o supplement- that government revenue
The most oppressive regulations have been
70, ablished. The indigo business, for in
stance, was transplanted from America to
[, die during our revolutionary war; It was
tAsen III Bengal Certain farmers were re.
,uired to grow II and to cell It to the gov.
ern,asnt ouly. That II the reason why II
was impossible for our Southern States to
con,pe. with the indigo manufacture in the
East Then came . still mole ubiquitous
law in regard to salt manufacture. India
has Q long sea-coast under hot and burn.
ing sun, and native Of India that goes
down to the sea.coaat and makes little
shallow in the sands in order to make some
salt will, II the government finds him Ut It,
expiats his offence in prison. The people
throughout large part OF India live upon
rice. an article Of food singularly destitute
Of saline qualities, and therefore need more
salt that wheat eatera. This rice they sup
plsment with fish from the sea.shore, and
Mr.. Hunter declares that large quantities
Of fab are consumed in . rancid condition.
because the salt necs.s, ~ to cure them
properly cannot be Afforded But" say
the English statiats. :" the Indians get salt
enough. We give the prisoners in our pris-
ons 20 much day, and II you divide the
uA,uber OF tons BY the population Of India,
you will 6nd eash peraon gets little above
chat amount" At length, however, instead
Of guessing about the population Of India,
they took . census, and they found that
cir estimates were wrong BY something
like . hundred millions. The supply Of
salt in India was short by the quantity
neeled tor about one hundred million pe0.
plel
Now, there il In India the opium manu-.
facture. Perhaps you have thought Of II
only in connection with the Ubiquitous war
that forced it on the Chinese; but there il
. sadder aide to 1t than that. Opium 10
destroying India and Burmah - we'll.
WI. rever the British power goes in India,
the opium shop aud the liquor shop follow
1t. And it II from British Burmah that
tie cry comes Ut last, from the English OFF,
Gals themselves, that Up um ID running the
population. Chunder SEN says: III you
want to SEQ . people temperate and ab.
stemioMs, look ct the old Hindoos. II you
want to zee people whose young men are
dying by the thousand from intemperance,
look 1t India under English rule" When
the question il asked how to abolish this,
even the LondoM Spectator stands up for
this inquity on the ground that it, editor,
being an Anglo.lndian. knows that India
cannot DO governed without that money
that they must have It, and they see no
other way Of getting II.
In 1855 the British crown took possession
Of India, and the British officials looked
! around for something to get . revenue out
Of. They looked ct one thing after another,
and they could find nothing except Inn.
ported oottous and cotton yarns, and they
put duty ON them, which has lasted, with
one modification, ever since. At the same
time they got into their heads the idea that
they would improve India, and improve
ment meant railroads, and cacals, and pub.
lie works, and reservoir; and the money
tor building them was borrowed, not from
the natives, who can lend great deal, but
from the people Of England. and 40 much
Of ii ~ could DO expended in England in
the purchase of iron rails and the rest wa,
expended there. India has thousands ot
square miles Of iron ore ON her surface. ant
Thousands Of miles Of coal under her sur
face. and one.half her labor 10 running Il
waste; and yet the rails were made il
Central England and carried around thu
Cape to make Indian railroads. But il
order that the interest on those bonds an,
loans might be paid, England had to sci
exchange In Calcutta ON London to tn
amount necessary, and the result Of this wa
to force exchange down and under tn,
lection, Bengal has begun to set up its fac
tories and to put in English machinery n,
longer forbidd n to be exported, and 10 nov
making cotton not only for India. but evel
to some extent for the people of Japan
Hence the outcry year after year from
Manchester about this cotton duty. Tn
p ople Of Manchester 60 to the British Gov
eminent aud say: 1--WE need this Indi
trade. It il true these Hindoos have tn,
cotton at hand /; true also that they hav
plenty of labor In = country whore thirty
two shillings year is the average income
and where man works not six days in tn
week, but seven but take of this duty an,
We can crush this Indian manufacture out.
That is the English estimate Of their powe
In an industrial warfare and to-day tn
Gladstone ministry, carrying out the pledg
given some weeks ago, sweeps away thos
cotton duties. For once, let Us hope, Eng
land has overestimated her power +.
once let 10 hope that Bengal can snap he
fingers Ut Manchester and make her ow
cotton for her own people in spite Of tn
removal Of the duties.-Amertcan Man.
; tacturer.
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