Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-09-20
THHIGREA2 POWERS.
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the Indian situation in these ominous
words, "There are more people every
wear TO feed from the land which In many
psrts of India is undergoing gradual de-
terioration." He then pointed out tnat
while wages rose at the centers OF indian
Industry they did not rise In agricultural
India, the result being "the Indian agrl-
culturist gets the same dole out OF the
land that he did In the last generation.
Numbers OF such people are increasing
and their condition is becoming every
day more desperate" Eight years OF q
decade have elapsed since these words
we're written and now, thanks In part 10
the fail in silver, the drain from India 70
England which in 1874 was $500, 00O, 900
annually has now risen to nearly S2OO,-
100000
In an important work by Hyndman,
which will appear TO morrow, entitled
"The Bankruptcy Of India" 1t is clearly
sci forth that at the present time 224, 000,-
600 people are living in India upon the
produce OF I4s,000,000 acres OF land, a
statement which shows that Ini so far
from being able with advantage to herself
to throw her grain into competition in
England with the grain of the Western
states of America Is actually unable to
feed her own population adequately, her
great and growing grain export being
drawn from her to meet her vast and ever
increasing liabilities to England aud giving
no commercial return to the Indian peo-
pie of any class. In this situation no
margin Is left whatever for increased
taxation in India, and 1t is officially an
nounced that the burdens imposed ON the
Indian government by the Burmese war
and by the threatening attitude OF Russia
at the present moment cannot be met by
taxation. The relief expected from
the reconciliation OF silver by England
or by an international agreement cannot,
therefore, in the judgment OF men well
informed on Indian affairs come day too
soon to mitigate the pressure which is
beginning to eXasperate the Indian popu-
lation, and which threatens the fabric OF
British dominion more seriously than
anything since the outbreak of the mutiny
of 1857.
Navroji, the ablest living Parsee finan.
cier of India, Is now in London, brought
hither by the stringency of the existing
situation to urge upon the imperial gov
eminent the Importance of action. BY
his elaborate calculations he shows that
the value OF the production of the PuDjab
are Of the most fertile provinces in India
is at the outside twenty rupees, or $40 o
our money, per head per annum. These
figures tell their own tale, which is fur
Their illustrated by the statement thai
while the common price OF grain in oul
own Southern states on which the free
negro laborer is fed, is the same as tha'
of the Indian laborer, the average wagC
Of the negro laborer in the South is eigh
times that Of the Indian laborer. Lore
Rosebery, who is going to India in Octo
Der, informed the Tribune representative
yesterday of his intention to make per
sonal investigation into the condition
of the Indian problem which, in thu
language of Robert Giffen, head stats
tician OF the board of trade, makes the
solution increasingly dangerous. Tit
facts cited show the Importance Of THU
problem TO our own wheat-growers o
the West, the enforced export of Indiar
wheat to England having been the lead
ing factor during the last four years il
the fall of prices which has so iniuriousl.
affected the great West.