The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-08-25
LONG FOR REVENGE.


even the widest org the Hindus for tho
struggle 20 restore 20 lndia her
'plundered lands and palaces. l'ie
appeal reads
"For long and painful century you
have lain under the feet OF heartless
and tcranpical race. whose only care has
been how 10 might best assure TO itself
the ,spoils .of our .labors by crushing
your liberties taxing your industries ana
corrupting your princes-a race that mas
not even hesitated in the arrogance OF It's
power 20 pollute your mosques and tenn
Piles. violate the sanctty or your homes
and the honor of your families.
Now when new and stronger chains
are being forged TO bind you by the
English, 10 is time TO definitely say
whether you will submit The way you
now choose To act, under the infamous
coercion to which you are about TO he
subjected. must be taken as final
answer 10 all questions, whether you are
Aryan or Dasya, a superior or inferior
race, IA servile or a noble PEOPLE.
" Tho English journals have publicly
melted their government 10 selzr the
opportunityiofferedGby the plague in Bonn
bay and kurachee To pay frequent visits
TO Hindu ana Mahometan residences and
places OF worship. and by this means
bring down two birds with one stone,
breaking down the absurd social system
of these 1Ldian fanatics while using
effective measures against the epidemic.
This stragetic measure for the de-
grafton Of the Indian people was sug
g3sted. the Iimesjasserts 'by old and ex-
perienced Indian officials, who have gone
through all tho horrors Of the Nutiny'
And so it would indeed appear that
the ruthless scoundrels who blowed your
fahers and brothers from the cannon
mouth (whose bload is yet unavenged)
and who 'on tho honor Of English gem
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from their retreat to butcher them in
cold blood at the tomb Of their great an
cestor-it would appear that these same
CORY fiends are still to the front, unceas-
ing in their endeavors 10 degrade and
persecute you, to violate the very purity
of your homes and sanctity of your
places of worship under pretense Of sani-
tary measures, when il Is well known in
India that apart from the city sewers
there is no focus OF corruDtion more dead
ly than those that English officers have
organi zeu around their cantonments, and
whose unnameable crimes and unspeak-
able filth have at last brought down the
punishment of GOD on the people who
have tolerated them.
But q greater and, IL possible, worse
humiliation. is in store for tho people OF
India-Hindus and Moslems, Sikhs and
Parsees, Tams and Buddists alike. A
petition has been presented to the queen
Of England (who styles herself empress of
Indial!D praying that English officials
may be allowed to enter your houses, and
after detailed examination OF your
daughters. To carry off to their canton
ments, forcibly, such as may be by them
selected as Official women for the most de-
graded and most brutal soldiery in the
world.
This Infamous petition is signed by
the Princess of Wales. and the wives OF
nearly all the English nobility. and is
certain to be granted, being only delayed
pending the organization OF another de-
partment TO carry ION the shameful traffic,
and for which you will 10 obliged to pay.
as for every other degradation to which
you are su bjected.
"Your zenanas have been invaded by
sneering English officials, who have
written to the magazines in England de-
tailed accounts OF how they arc breaking
down your customs and forcing you to
accept theirs with infamous imputations
against the honor OF your families and the
honesty Of your private life.
Your temples and mosques have been
desccrated out of pure diaDolical love to
humiliate You and spe you whine as
whipped ours at their feet while they
kickeG YOU aside. and with the mud of
tho streets on their feet forced themselves
into the most sacred places.
Your great humiliation is now at
monthly as the price of the honor OF you
name the purity of your daughters and
the sacredness OF your rights.
"lf you permit this, tho lowest the
vilest, the most abominable of all, you are
indeed unworthy Of the sympathy of
civilized nations; you can never after
ward demand the respectful consideration
of Europeans. for you would be- unworthy
TO be included among the Aryan races
and they would DO disgraced in recogniz
ing the kinship.
ain order that this, the greatest crime
of all, may be brought into force without
exciting the peoples Of q united India IL
is proposed to suspend the freedom Of the
press, so that the full measure Of their
iniquty may DO perpetrated in relative
secrecy.
"Ihree hundred millions of oppressed
humanity are irresistible il united. The
valiant Pathan and the Industrious Bur-
mesa will know how to profit by the &C.
casion. iand the struggle once begun must
be continued TO q successful end that will
not toierats the least yestigs of English
suzeranity in all your broad land.
mo sacrifice is too great that helps to-
ward such a result and no reward will be
too great for those who attain it. Non
com mbatants. especially women and child
rem, must be respected and protected but
in your reprisals on your tyrants learn to
be relentless ns they are.
"Your and my enemy is now reduced
To the rank of second rate power in
Europe, despite her colossal navy. which
cannot. however powerful, sail over the
Himslayas; Amerioo has insulted her. the
Transvaa. has slapped her face and.,6 Ger
many has tweaked her nose Her only
answer has been ridiculous blustor. We
are preparing TO strike her at the heart.
be you ready to cripple her resources and
oil the civilized world will cry Well
done.
Consider il wcll, whether YOU prefer
to die Of hunger as whining slaves or
your honor. the purity Of your homes and
the sanctty Of your mosques and tom
ples II you fal! as the former human
ity will scarcely drop tear over your
grave; IL you fall ns the latter the world
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