Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-03
BRITISH MISRULE IN INDIA
SEVERELY ARRAIGNED BY PUNDIT

is increasing her army in India and
at the cost Of India is not the Russian
invasion of India, but the growing
population of England cannot find en-
ployment In England, hence it is for
the benefit of English people to in
crease their army in India, which is,
of course, at the cost of India. India
pays for the maintenance Of the, Eng
lish army in India almost $125,0OO,O 900
a year and India gets from her own
tion of 300,0OO,OOO people.
Again there is another system by
which means the English capitalistic
system has become a curse to India,
and that is in order to benefit a few
English capitalistic robbers. England
puts heavy duty on the Indian goods
made in India and at the same time
secures money out of the Indian treas
ury for the maintenance of the Eng
lish steamers which run between
Europe and India.
THAT is the worst thing for India,
because those English manufacturers
remove the raw materials from India
and ship back in manufactured form
these goods at the cost of natives of
India.
Income Is Reduced
"In the year 1895 it is shown on au-
thority the annual income per head
after the British rule of 11O years the
present English capitalistic system has
reduced the income of the natives of
india to $2.75 year. Now, do you
think for a moment that even those
smart American girls who REQUIRE as
much as IS month for chewing gum,
that the poor native of India can live
on $2.75 a year? Now, these things
are not known to all people. The peo-
pie of the United States will say that
the natives of Asia are idle, but 1t
is false, because you do not see even
in the Japanese quarter of the towns
in the United States so many loafers
visional loafers in your large cities.
The reason why there are from forty
nine to f1fty-one deaths to every thou
sand and the highest in the United
States Is tWenty-one to every thousand
is because England taxes directly and
indirectly annually from India the sum
Of from $650,000,000 to $750OOO,0O0 and
that Is what causes the natives of
India to die of hunger and starvation.
You will see at present there are al
most 300 Englishmen In the Indian
civil service and the lowest salary is
$4,000 and the highest is $S0,000 a year.
In the whole of India there are almost
400 Englishmen whose salary is from
$4,000 year up to 100000 a year. The
starving millions of Indian little over
$1,000,000 annually
Political Wickedness Is Problem
THE government of India, the i'm
perial ministers in Calcutta, the gov
ernors, the lieutenant governors, the
judges of the seven supreme courts
the commanders in chief, and all of
these men retire with a life pension of
$4,000 a year after they have served
five years In India, so In fact you will
see the castles of India is not a prob
lem to the Hindoos, but the problem
in India is how to stop the political
wickedness of these robbers. So you
will see that although q few ladies of
India have learned to talk English and
a few improvements have been made,
these are not due to the generosity
of the English people. 1t is the time
and the evolution that compels them
to have these things. The Indian civil
service, the Indian medical service, the
Indian police service, the Indian public
works service. the Indian army and
navy, all these examinations are held
in England hence you will see, al
though there are thousands of talented
men and women in India, they cannot
go to England to pass these examina-
tions, as they are financially very poor,
so give to understand to my American
lElSiluS tlldI We, lHe ASldllCS Oh lOQdy,
have the highest admiration of men
like Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln
and several others and at the same
time we admire and respect what there
is good in this country, and if you
Americans are so generous as to send
some missionaries to the orient send
there men like Thomas Edison, Pro-
fessor Jordan, Professor Butler of>Co-
lumbia, such scholars and the men
who can teach us the economic in
justice. Hence what we want from
you people is, as I have said before,
the economic and scientific teachers and
not the missionaries. because re-
ligions. we have plenty of them and
Asiatics are not religious orphans.
neither are they political orphans, but
what they want is things that will
make them to think and mind their
own business; but as far as your re-
llgious teachers are concerned 1 ask
your intelligence and self-respect.
Think for a moment-you mind your
own business religiously and we will
mind our own business religi0usly."