The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-08-18
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recent issue of the Minneapolis
journal contains the following

A recent issue of the Minneapolis
Journal contains the following:
THE Rev. G w. Scott, a native Hindoo
missionary stationed at Roorixi India. ar
rived in Minneapolis yesterday and will
give public lecture tonight in the chapel
of the Minneapolis Academy corner Of Har-
ward and Delaware street. southeast. No
admission Is charged and the lecture will
be illustrated by stereopticon pictures.
Mr.. Scott. though native. derives his
English name from the fact that his father
was baptisted under the name of Scott
when he was converted to Christianity He
is a missionary Of the r Reformed Pres
byterian church. all Of whose missionaries
are natives and enjoy far more than
ordinary success He came to America as
boy apd educated in Westminster
College and Allegheny Seminary. He has
been stationed at Roorko for Is years.
In discussing the situation In India to-
day. Mr.. Scott took very gloomy view
of the immediate future. He thinks the
situation will not be noticeably relieved be-
fore the harvesting of the next rice crop
of October. The last wheat crop is being
saved for seed, and wheat is accordingly
extremely high. Only the wealthy can get
1T at all Mr.. Scott thinks the English gov
ernments relief measures are totally in
adequate The upper caste of natives
through whom the distributions are made
take care that only their friends are
benefited. The natives are prevented from
begging on account Of their caste and who
receive no food, either die of starvation or
commit suicide Mr. Scott assisted in. dis
tributing the Christian Herald fund, and is
therefore competent to speak Of the Situa-
ton.
There are in India today" says Mr.
Scott, ''25. 100000 paupers. Provisions are
very high both on account OF their scarcity
and the fact that the falling price of silver
raises their prices while wages are not
raised. Wages only 5 or 6 cents day
in silver
"At Hardwar on the Ganges thousands Of
pilgrims collect every year and on that &C
count thousands of beggars come there to
beg aims. Since the famine has been on
from 20 to 30 natives die there of starvation
every day So terrible is the need of food
that when l gave starving man two cents
he presented me with his in return.
So 1 bought human being for two cents"
This is dreadful picture of the re-
suits of mans inhumanity to man. We
showed the other day that so far as
the food supply was concerned there
was no necessity for the death of
single one of the eight million human
beings that have persisted in Ind.N.
during the past few months. There
AiAo ''"oJo OoOA l10C eHOuSu W support
the population, but the poor wretches
have not had the two cents a day
necessary to pay for their food. 1t
was the same in Ireland in 1847. While
million and half of the inha bitants
persisted from famine and famine fever
food enough to feed them was shipp> -
from Ireland to England and the money
received from it went to the support
of the debauched landlords, in their
rlotous living in London and Paris
If there is no hell-as Bob Ingersoll
tells us-there certainly ought. to be
one, and big hot one, too.