The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-08-30
WHY THEY STARVE,.
SENATOR HALE's WORDS ON.
THE INDIA FAMINE.
Drones Eat All the Honey In the Hive
While the Workers starve for suste-
-Goldbug Imperialism Seen lat
Its Worst In That Sad Land.


nance-Goldbug Imperialism Seen lat
Its Worst In That Sad Land.
Senator Perkins of California, few
days before congress adjourned, offer
ed petitions in the senate, asking con-
gress to appropriate money for the
relief of the starving subjects of Great
Britain in India. He would not press
the matter, he said, for fear it might
insult England for the United States
government to undertake the task of
feeding her subjects by appropriating
the public money. His only reason
for not being willing to send our
money to the relief of those whom
the government of England had rob-
bed to starvation was that it might
make Lord Salisbury and Lord Cham
berlain mad at us to do so. The re-
marks of Senator Perkins called up
Senator Hale of Maine. Mr.. Hale pro-
ceeded as follows:
"The world has been Mortified al
most stupefied, at the suffering now
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chief of England's colonies. The pesti-
fence 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 proposition that we should
appropriate money for the relief of
these people. 1 should like to ask the
senator what England has done for
the people Of India? She has spent
tens and hundreds of millions of dol
lars in striking down and crushing re-
publics. 1t Is the most brutal mani
festation of strength against liberty
and weakness that the world has ever
seen; and am moved, therefore, to
ask the senator what Great Britain
has done to relieve the suffering of her
Indian subject? What has he in the
way of information upon this point?
What information has he as to Eng
lands action in this matter while 1t is
spending hundreds of millions in des-
troying 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 country? In India, where
The working people have been plum
dered by the tax-gatherer of all
they can produce, the high salaried
officials and the privileged trusts and
monopolies are prosperous and -four
ishing, even as they are in this coun-
try under the great wave of prosper
ity" which has swept millions of prop
erty into the possession of the few,
while labor all over the country is
struggling for bread and making its
presence felt only by means of the
strike and boycott.
"In natural resources India is as
rich country as this. The Great
Father has stored his bounties to
the human family as lavishly in that
country as he has in this. Then why
are the people starving there by the
million? 1t can be accounted for only
by the fact that the drones have taken
all the honey from the hive and 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 pro-
duce the wealth have not the instinct
and courage equal to the bee, which
saves its honey by killing the drone,
then it is only a question of time
when the bones of the starving mil
lions will bleach upon the soil Of
| India.
Like causes produce like effects in
| all ages and climes."