The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-11-20
WHY THEY STARVE.
SENATOR HALE'S WORDS ON
THE INDIA FAMINE.
Drones Eat All the Honey sn fsse hive
While the WORKERS starys for susie
nancs-Gc.dbug Importation sesn iat
Its Worst in That SD Land.

Senator Perkins Of California. a few
days before congress adjourned. ozer-
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 a7propriating
the public money. His only reason
for not being willing to send our
money to the relief of those wno-.
the government of England had rob
bed to starvation was that 1t 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 horriied al
most stupefed. at the suffering now
being endured in India. That is the
chief Of England's colonies The pesti-
lence 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 should like to ask the
senator what England has done TO-
| 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, 10
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 be as to Eng
lands action in this matter while it is
spending hundreds Of millions in des-
troying the Boer republic2
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 thi!
or any other country? In India, WHERE
the working people have been plum
dered by the tax-gatherer OF al
they can produce. the high salariei
officials and the privileged trusts an,
monopolies are prosperous and -four
| ishing, even as they are in this eoun
! try under the great wave OF prosper
J ity" which has swept millions OF prop
: erty into the possession Of the feE
. while labor all over the country j
= struggling for bread and making it
i presence felt only by means Of tn
: strike and boycott.
I'm natural resources India is q
: rich a country as this. The Gres
; Father has stored his bounties
l the human family as lavishly in ths
: country as he has in this Then VII
5 are the people starving there by tn
u million? II can be accounted for onl
by the fact that the drones have take
all the honey from the hive and LEI
the workers to perish The same kin
OF drones are extracting the hone
from the American hive and by IN
same process. If the workers who prC
duce the wealth have not the instinS
and courage equal to the bee. whic
saves its honey by killing the dron'
|. then it is only question Of tim
: when the bones OF the starving mi
!. lions Will bleach upon the soil
! India.
Like causes produce like effects
: all ages and Chimes"