The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1894-04-21
General Comment.

The Forum by Virchand A. Gandhi,
and it is worthy of study by all who
are interested in religious problems.
Max Muller says that the Hindoos are
"better fitted for Christianity than
any people who have accepted it,"
and the author of the article in 9ues-
ton claims that Buddhism is a much
further advance in the direction of
truth as applied to ethical problems
than is Christianity itself. Be this as
it may, there are many scientists in
this country and Europe who believe
that Buddhism and Christianity, of
all the religious of the world, are
nearest the scientific truths of
existence, and who attempt to prove
that true Christianity, stripped of
what they term it's mythology and
what is called "esoteric Buddhism"
are one and the same. According to
this Hindoo writer, no true Brahmin
has ever been converted to Christi
anity in all the years since missions
were started in India, while many
/ Christians have been converted to
Buddhism. Perhaps after all, the
Jews were not the only people who
knew Christ, and in attempting to
convert the Hindoos we are trying to
teach Christianity to a people who
are better Christians than we are
ourselves.
g.
Leaving out of the question all the
scientific disputes which have arisen
regarding each religion, sect and
schism, it does seem very peculiar
philosophy and rather a relic Of
barbarism than anything else, that
we, who preach religion of univer-
sal brotherhood, should so strongly
claim that the truth has been re-
vealed to us alone-that no other
people-and in the days when Christi
anity was established the Jews and
even the Roman Empire, were but a
small part of the world-have had
That is universal brotherhood" with
vengeance. And how dare we,
looking at Christian countries, as
they are now and as they were in the
middle ages, say the lives of the
other peoples of the world prove
that they did not have the true
religion? l firmly believe that when
all is revealed to us we will see that
God had his own way of making Him
self known to all nations, and that
our mission has been to develop and
reform, rather than to originate, a
belief which is present everywhere
where man has risen above the con-
dition of animalism.
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The ROUNDABOUT has received
from Senator Worries, Chairman of
the Senate Committee on Finance, a
copy of the Tariff and Administra-
tive Customs Acts of 1890" and the
bill H. R. 1864" or more popularity
known as The Mckinley and Wilson
Tariff Bills, which are compared sec
ton by section, and thoroughly in
dexed. The pamphlet forms an in
teresting study, but it is hard for the
average person to form any intelligent
comparison Of the two bills, for the
reason that the duties in the McKin-
ley act are mainly specific, that is at
SO much by weight or quantity,
while the Wilson bill is mostly con-
structed on the principle of 80 much
per cent. ad valorem. One must be
walking cyclopedia on the market
prices to tell how much per pound,
ten, twenty or thirty per cent. ad
valorem will be.
So"
This difference between the two
acts has caused much discussion pro
and con in the newspapers and re-
reviews. One side insists that the
ad valorem plan has given scope for
frauds wherever tried, and has had
to be abandoned in every case for the
specific system; and that it is retro
grade movement to adopt the latter;
while on the other hand it is contend.
ed that the difference in grade or
quality of the variouspr should
be provided for by the valuation, and
that cheap goods should not be COM
PEELED to pay the same specific duty
as the more expensive ones. 1t is al