The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-04-10
A. j. BLUMBERG, OF BOMBAY, FUR
NISHES A WORD PAINTING OF
ITS CONDITION.
MILLIONS WANTING FOOD.
SUPPLY THEIR NEEDS AT THIS
TIME.
Girls Marry as Young as Ten Years
and Have Families Before They
Are Fifteen.

lou Americans live an awfully mo-
notonous life" observed Alexander ].
Blumberg, of Bombay, India, at the
Ryan yesterday afternoon.
I'm what respect?" was asked.
We'll, you waste your time brag-
ging about your country, when you
ought to be at work wedding out the
thousands of evils which infest your
government, national, state and mu-
nicipal. There is so much monotony
about you all. You talk alike, speak
alike, dress alike, do everything alike
and take time for none of them
1T is customary for you Americans
to point with scorn at the standing
army as it is maintained in most of
the European countries. You express
horror Of the amount it takes But 1
believe it costs you more in America to
feed your aldermen, your state legisla-
lures, your congressman and their
packs of begging associates, than it
does to maintain a European army of
100000 men. 1t is astonishing how you
sit down and tolerate such legislation.
Speaking of cities, it is very depress-
ing to foreigner to come to this coun-
try and walk along your filthy streets
L presume you think of Bombay as
being filthy pest hole Perhaps GER
tain portions of it are, but the Euro
pean portion of the city will compare
with any city on the European CONT
nent. 1t is grand, it is beautiful, with
parks, boulevards, gardens and streets
as clean as a floor. 1t is so in all the
European cities. You could pave your
streets in America, keep them clean
the year round, and lay miles of boule-
wards every year with the money your
officials and your politicians steal from
you.
bombay is city Of million people
When left there a few weeks ago
the plague was taking thousands of
people. [ saw them carried to the Gre
mating grounds by the hundreds. but
they came from the Hindoo quarters of
the city. We people living in the Euro
pean quarters Of the city do not fear
the plague. A liberal use of soap and
sunlight will protect the ordinary for
eigner from the plague The. bubonic
fever attacks the threats and the bow
els of the people, and in twenty-four
hours they are dead There is abso-
lutely no known relief or remedy. The
season is approaching, however, when
the plague will die out It is a scien-
tl1c fact that the sunlight and hot
summer. atmosphere kill the bacilh in
stead of breeding them, as is the case
IN some other diseases The bubonic
plague is absolutely unlike cholera. vel
low fever or scourges of that kind. It
is called black death -.5- III
Did you see any evidences of the
great famine in India?' was asked
les, L witnessed hundreds of har-
rowing scenes. l Travelled through
what is called the Jubbulpore district
In which there are known to be 75O 0(J0
people actually dying But there arc
4V'oOO,o0O people starving in India. All
the countries in the world could NOT
supply them with food. There are no
ilIedhs OF transporting the grain into
some OF the districts and nobody TO
transport it. They tell you in the pa
perS that the English government can
cope With the famine, but that is nom
sense. The nations combined could not
do it. iio1
IT may seem like hcartIess, cold
Dlooded statement to make but this
famine and the plague will be good
thlng for India in the end. There are
loo many people in India There are
290OO0,O0O souls to be fed by the last
census. Four times as MANY as there
e.i0 IL the OHlIeu states, with only a
traction of it's area. The population is
too dense. Communities of a 100 600
people are there called villages. There
mas been no war in India since 1881
and consequently since that time the
population has increased over &c. 600 600
people. That is tremendous rate of
increase. In India girls Of ten wears
are married and at fourteen have whole
families. The government tried to reg
ulate this by passing what is known as
the child marriage bill" which pre-
vented females under the age Of thir-
teen years from marrying. But the
bill was failure. 1t was impossible
10 enforce 1t, except, perhaps in the
cities near the coast. In the interior
the bill has never been heard of. and
the rate of increase is just as great. IT
would seem, looking at it from a cold
standpoint, that the famine will be a.
benefit to those who survive it, The
people of India are doing all in their
power to assist each other. 1t is a part
of their religion to help each other, and
they do 1t more naturally and unosten-
tatiously than any other nation"
Mr.. Blumberg represents the greats
Indian firm of Teleigelo of Bombay.
makers of all kinds of East Indian
wares. The firm employs or controls
ever $4,000 Workmen and women. and
goes into every market in the world to
sell its wares
I'VE are interested in the Dingley BILL"
he said. ut will surely affect our trade
You already enforce a duty of from 30
to 90 per cent on the goods from India.
and the added tariff win keep finer
productions out of America While
passing through New York, / heard
man call the bill the 'Dingley highway
robbery and incidental revenue law /
think it is we'll named"
]. H. Campbell, of Custer City. or
namented the register of the Mer.
chants hotel with his signature yes
terday. Mr.. Campbell is we'll known
to the older citizens of the Northwest
He is an old government scout. and