The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1900-09-27
SENATOR HALE ON THE IhDIAA FAiNE.

Drones Eat all the Honey in the Hive
While the Workers Starve For sus-
tenance.
Georges Weekly.
Senator Perkins, of California, a
few days before G ngress I'D journed,
offered petitions in the Senate asking
Congress to appropriate mon y for
the relief Of the starving subjects of
Great Britain in India. He would
not press the matter. he said, for
fear 1t might insult England for the
Uaited States government to under
take the task of feeding her subj acts
by appropristing the public money
His only reason for not being willing
to send our money to the relief of
those whom the government Of Eag-
land had robbed to star, at on wa
that it might make Lord Salisbury
and lord Chamberlain m ad at us to do
SO. The remarks of Senator Perkins
called up Senator Hale of Name.
Me. Hale proceeded as follows:
"The world has been Mortified, al
most s,upefied, at the suffering nov
being endured in India. That is tn
chief of England's 9 lonies. Tn.
pestllence and famine are appalling
to the imagination.
Whole families are being wiped
out OF existence; the babe lies dead
beside its mother. Now the Senator
comes here with a proposition tina,
We should appropriate money for the
relief of these people. / should lik.
to ask the Senator what England
has done for the people of Inoia7 She
has spent tens and hundreds of mil.
hons Of dollars in striking down and
crushing republics. 1t Is the mos,
brutal manifestation of strength
against liberty and weakness thai
the world has ever seen; and / an
moved, therefore 10 ask the Senate,
what Great Britain has done to re-
lieve the suffering of her Indian sub
jsctsf What has he in the way OF
information upon this point VIVA,
information has he as to Eagland's
action in this matter while it il
spending hundreds of millions In de-
stroying the Boer republic?
"Do the American people realize
that the same kind of government
which has brought starvation and
death to the common people in India
will produce the same results in this
or any other couptryf Ia India
where the working people have been
plundered by the tax gatherer of ali
they can produce, the high salarled
officials and the privileged trusts and
monopolies are prosperous and f our
ishing, even as they are in this couu
try under the great wave of prosper.
ity" which has swept millions OF
property into the possession of the
few, while labor all over tt 9 country
is struggling for bread and making
its presence felt only by means Of The
strike and boycott.
"In natural resources India is a.
rich country as this. The Grea,
Father has stored HIS bounties to
the human family as lavishly in tina,
country as He has in this. Then why
are the people starving there by the
millionf 1t can be accounted for on
ly by the fact that the drones have
taken all the honey from the hive
aud left the workers to perish. The
same kind of drones are extracting
the honey from the American hive
and BY the same process. If the
workers who produce the wealth
have not the instinct and COURAGE
equal to the bee, which saves lts hon.
ey by killing the drone, then il is
only question of time when the
bones OF the starving millions will
bleach upon the soil of America
too.
Like causes produce like effects
in all ages and climes.n