People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1899-11-16
A Letter From India.

A Letter From India.
The following extract from letter from
a former pupil, now missionary at Ran
COON, Burlnah, will explain itself. The
poem following comes also from that far.
off country:
- have not the slightest idea of what
position you have taken on the ques-
ton of expansion, but I am confident
that if Americans knew the East as well
as the fifty missionaries IN Burmah there
would be no great desire to see our great
nation step down from her position Of
freedom into race expressing imperial
ism. The United States may extend to
the oppressed friendly hand of exist
ance.
But to maintain her own freedom she
must extend to all her races the same
privilege. Wherever spark Of the ele-
ment of freedom is found in the breast of
man, she should kindle into blaze.
ANY step in the direction of servile
imperialism will be link in the chain
which will bind her own freedom.
America may yet foster free govern
ment, but she can never do so by
power centered in Washington. No
nonresident government can ever be a
government for the people.
The British colonial policy is The best
in the world, and yet it may well be
spelled british.
l am enclosing few verses in reply to
Kipling's white Mans Burden" which
will give you an idea of what ninety per
cent. of our American missionaries think
Of the colonial policy of England in the
land of Kipling's birth.
am now in charge Of the normal de-
partment of the Baptist college here.
We have about 100 students, and are
trying to prepare young men to take up
the "White Mans Burden" of thi
country. 1t will be glorious day for
Burmah when she is relieved of the bur
dens imposed BY the white man.
THE WHITE MANS BURDEN.
The white man has burden,
But not of blood bought gains,
Go tell the slave cursed race
Tied down by white man chains,
BY Afric's sunny fountains,
Your sons in penance give,
An earnest of redemption,
OF souls that ever live.
The white man has a burden,
A yoke that many bear;
His sons are sold in bondage,
And loved ones bound with care,
His rum has crossed the ocean,
Where weaker races reign,
And homeward ships returning
Are lade with soul-bought-gain.
The white man has burden,
In midas fairy land,
Where childhood's widows weeping
Was heard on every hand,
Say not that he has freed them,
When virtue stands in need,
OF one bold brave defender,
Whose voice the laws will heed. A.,
The white man has burden,
In China's ancient land
Where white mans opium breweth,
Like Satan's smoking brand,
Where white men stand like vultures,
To rend the kingdom old,
Each nations sphere of influence, >"
Is measured by her gold.
The white man has burden,
Which he has failed to bear,
When men were hunted exiles,
Like wild beasts in their lair,
The blood of brothers CRYING,
From valley hill and plain,
Fell on the ears of white men,
And echoed back in vain.
The white man has burden,
Why bind it on the weak?
He strips his race of honor,
Though wars of peace" sounds meek,
While boasting of his meekness,
His end is 'captives" gold,
And weighed in righteous balance,
He's wanting as Of old.
Of famine mouth to fill"
Not wrought by grievous taxes,
Ground out by iron mill,
Will white man learn his lesson,
With earth's declining sun,
That mankind all are brothers,
When will divine is done.
The white man has burden,
By prophet yet untold,
The debt he owes to nations,
Is measured not by gold,
he mas greater mission,
Than seeking to expand,
He learneth yet but slowly,
To rule his Father land"
"A. FAAR, Rangoon.
The Trust Age.
There you have the slight and half
told story of the trusts. They are
merest vines of rapacity Laundering on
the trellis of the peoples needs. This
is the age Of saurian business-the age
of the mammoth frog and giant lizard Of
commerce-the age of a reptilian ayarice