Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1905-06-06
1 HINDU HINDU HTfifR.
q. Mukerji, O. A. &C. Student,
Writes on Conditions
i'm India.
(Centinued from Last issnel

CONTINUED from last issuel
When the christian missionaries first
came to India they were so astonished to
lind the singular condolences in the lives
and teachings of Sree Krishna, Buddha
and Christ, that they satisfied their
questioning minds by assuming, as Sir
''illiam Jones said, THAT the devil,
foreseeing the advent of Christ. orginat-
ed system of religion in advance of
His and just like it"
Readers of history of symbolism know
that the cross as a religions symbol
existed in India ages before Christ was
born. Prof. Wilson, in his celebrated
essay on Swastika, or Cross, which was
read before the Smithsonian Institute,
not only supports the theory of migration
of the symbol of Cross from East to
West, but believes that it migrated
earlier than the 9Th century B. c. I can
prove from the historical researches con-
Quoted by eminent scientists. with facts
and figures, that the Word and Cross
both came from the Indo-Aryan religion.
The main purpose is to show that
Hindus don't find anything new either
in religion or morality from the deep
fundamental principles to the ordinary
idea of religion. They are almost al
similar to our own, and as we are an
older people We feel justified that all that
has come later, being as yet nothing new
and better, We will have nothing to do
with at present. If anything new comes
off and is denied by our native people,
surely We ought to be called just what
we are represented today.
1t is not my intention here to make
propaganda in these ques ions unless
anyone wants to find it, but the point is,
1 am driven to inform the good people
here what We really are, simply because
these people are often told such errene-
Gus and queer stories by tie ignorant and
uneducaed folk who visit our country.
And, as American people are spending
millions of dollars for carrying on this
sort of work, against which the very
people for whose good it is professed,
protest. Even of those who have been
converted, how many have come to you
and asked you to do this way? On the
contrary, sincere well-wishers of India
have been receiving due help from the
people themselves. Now look to Mrs.
Aanie Besant (an English LADY,, Col.
Olcot IAN American); they have been
working for the last 80 years, yet they
have not appealed to foreigners for
money nor sympathy. Yet their philan-
thropic work is daily gaining ground.
We, young men are coming to you for
education in arts and industries that we
may improve our backward state of
material prosperity and have permanent
effect upon our people.
1t is therefore, thatwhen seasons of good
crops come most of the so-called baptised
young and old folk return to their own
homes and live as they used to live.
When man is in helpless condition
it is against the principles of any chival-
GUS nation-not to speak of chivalrous
christian knights-to attack him. Now,
when man whose mind and intellect is
yet undeveloped and not free from
ignorance, to ask him to, and try to
make him, believe in anything, however
good, blindly, is inconsistent with
American freedom and the American
flag In view of immense sums oil
fn,orey you spend and are trying to spend
annually, without appreciation and with
protest, the matter merits close examin-
alton.
Some ignorant people talk to you about
our caste, but this will remain misunder-
fstood unless you tr! to be unprecedented
and then look at it. They say the
Hindu boys do not go to foreign coun-
tries for fear of losing caste. Now ]
, ish you t., ask Ia. yo-.n... -
Wallis and Portland, How many letters dc
We receive? Then come and examine
what they contain. All their authors are
anxious to come to your educational in.
stitutioas and sit at the feet of the teach.
ers-the uncanonized saints of America
and build up their deficiencies and
wants. tits this liberal American educa.
tion, practical and scientific, that We
need.
You may hear of the school starteds by
missionaries; / again ask you to exam
inc what they teach-all, without excep
ton, the old English literature and scrip
lures, purely literary and theoretical
What can they do with this ? The age il
industrial But, alas We cannot expect i
from England, for our industrial develop
ment means the stoppage of the market
for English goods We looked for assist
ance in industrial development to th