Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1897-09-08
WEDNESDAY. SEPT. 8. 1897
Starvation Abroad Plenty at Homo

Inc 6OOJPCt OF the starving people
Of India and the plenty If the Unit
ed States considered collaterally. has
been pretty well thrashpd over by all
the newspapers of the country, but
there seems to be yet one phase OF
the situation which deserves more
general notice, namely: To whom
does the respops bility for the starv-
my condition OF India's multitude at =
tsch? p
Az a broad minded, philosophical
and reasonable people. we harbor, and
should harbor, no narrow feelings of
petty enmity against old England
the mother country. Onr differences
were settled more than a century ago;
to her We are bound by every tie that
holds mankind together toward
higher civilization and more refiued
life. Community Of languages, kin
dred interests and the gravitation OF
common purposes and impulses draw
US yet closer together and bind us
with chains which nothing but open
and inexcusable effrontery and de-
fiance should sever. We must not
always hold people responsible for
the n Ito OF their repre- sentatives. as
we have learned by sad experience.
But notwithst anding all this, the re-
sponsIb. ity for the dying condition OF
thousands of helpless indians from
starvation must be attributed to SOME
cause and where does it properly be.
long?
India is dependency of England,
is under her rule and dominion. is
subject to her deman Tia, and her peo-
ple are under the Influence of Eng
lands laws.
For ears. India. vast empire. pro-
ducing wonderfully. rich III the natur-
al resources which go to make up
great country. the home of millions
OF people. has been the almost mex.
haustible bank from which England
has drawn her funds. India has been
bled to the uttermost, her people have
been taxed to pay tribute to the
Queen, her abundance has been gar.
nered to enrich the exchequ9r of
Great Britain her wonderful, resour-
ces have been husbanded by her peo-
pie. only to he harvested by Eng
land'- greed. For decades she has
been the inpotent object Of 4 power
fu' nations requirements-requ
ments which verge closely upon pnre
avarice. Her countless stores have
been horded by the rich and her peo-
ple counted rs but slaves. cen worse
conditioned than those which at least
had food and clothing during the
days Of slavery for which every Ameri-
can weeps.
To impose upon them further hard
ships, to reduces them to the brink Of
absolute helplessness their money
metal was declared by the Country
which rules them to be no longer a
money metal. to be little if any bet
ter thnn the commodity which they
handle or the produce which they
raise. The mints were closed against
them and one more resource was cut
off.
Some months ago and even while
the opeu months Of starving millions
we're crying out for food, and women
aud children we're dying of exposure
through want OF proper raiment,
England, whose Golfers have been
filed to overlowirk by treasure drawn
from this vast storehouse, spent mil
lions of dollars in m effort to out do
the world in splendor through a ju-
bilee to hcr Queen.
Knowing all this. where can the re
sponsib.lity be placed but ut Eng.
lands door? Justice is the essence
OF true civilization; it applies how.
ever. not to particular instances, but
to all cases.
AZ for the plenty at home and the