Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-09-05
ENGLISH SCORED
BY HINDU DOCTOR
Said Government Forced Opium
Traffic Upon Unwilling
Oriental.
AN INTERESTING LECTURE.
Speaker Characterized House OF Lords
An Institute of Graftology-Com-
plimented This Country.

Dr. Krishua, the Hindu scholar lee.
tured last eyeningh Ia INLAY hall before
a small but appreciatiye audience
While the doctor has an excellent Eng
lish vocabulary, HIS enunciation IS not
good and It is difficult to understand
what he says in any connected sense
lie gave the English government a
scorching for forcing the opium trathc
on the unwilling oriental, and main
tanning an army and great corps OF
costly officials IN India at the expense
OF the life blood OF It's people. Dr.
krishna called attention to the fact
mat in the purely native provinces
there was no starvation or suffering
% speak of-thls is confined 90 British
India where 40 to 60 per cent ot the
natives product goes to the English
government for taxes. He called the
English house Of lords an institute OF
graftology. The lecturer Vac comb
plimentary 10 this country and It's sys-
tom OF government which he was much
pleased with. IN the course OF his adj
dress, the speaker said
The British people say today that
George Washington was traitor How
can you expect them 10 tell the actual
truth OF conditions IN India under their
rule when they denounce the great
American patriot? Those o. the Asia
Tie people who tell Of the wrongs that
are inflicted upon the natives OF India
are denounced by the British today as
traitors India Is the mother OF the
arts, the culture ana the civilization Of
the world The arts and civilization Of
india thousands Of years ago spread
% Greece, 90 Persia, to Italy and TO
other countries. gradually gaining foot
hold an over the world.
we Indians are not barbarous. We
have written history that extends IN
an unbrOken line for 5000 years. While
our temporal or profane history is 5000
years old our religious history is even
older. You call us idolat0rs. At the
same time the members OF the Greek
Catholic. the Roman Catholic and the
Moravian Catholic churches are not
called idclatrous when they worship fac
SMILES Of the cross OF Christ. What
the cross Is 20 the Catholic the EpiscO-
pal and other faiths, the wooden and
craven Images OF the Hindus and Mo-
hammedans are TO them-Symbols Of
something deeper, higher. broader than
the mere material form 10 which they
bow. You call us Hindus idolatrous
because We worship our ancestors. Yet
at the same time your homes are filled
with the pictures and images OF your
heroic dead-your Washington your
Lincoln, your Grant. Your living idols.
Roosevelt, Bryan and other statesmen
have their pictures on your walls. You
say you do not worship these pictures
aud images. but that you respect the
men whose lives have been an inspird-
ton 10 you. The same rule applies
10 the hundreds OF wooden gods OF In
dla You accuse US Of ancestor worship.
yet you heap beautiful flowers on the
graves % your dead. II is all right for
the Christians 10 do this. but for the
Hindu 10 DO exactly the same thing
and for the same reason, Il is all
wrong"
Dr.. Krishna viii lecture on Hindu
wisdom next Saturday night IN Unity
hall