Arizona republican., 1907-02-19

the British manufactures. What the
country needs he declares is more edu-
cation and more knowledge Of the arts
and industries and a government that
Will protect instead of rob it, or at
least give the people a chance to work
out their own salvation with the ma
tural conditions the country affords.
Asked in a private interview concern
ing his religion. DR.. Krishna. said that
he was by birth a Brahmin. the religion
Of Brahma as everyone knows being
the prevailing one among the natives
of that land with Buddha as a later
manifestation OF religious sentiment.
The church of England .predominates
naturally among the Christian institu-
tons. Then there are the various
PROSECUTING denominations founded on
the Bible. with theosophy and a hun
dred other cults more or less repre-
sented. After securing his education
he fOrsOOk the religion of his ancestors
and became an evolutionist, a disciple
of Herbert Spencer. under whose per-
sonal direction he pursued his studies
for about five years. He believes Spen-
Ger, Huxley, Darwin. lola. Yolstoi and
Oned among the greatest thinkers the
world has yet produced and the most
learned of men.
Asked what his opinion was of the
American missionaries in his country
and the efforts of the various churches
toward the spreading of the gospel of
Christ, he quoted Socrates when he
said, "A good motive with wrong deal
ing. is the mother of all the crimes"
Continuing he said he believed the mis-
sionaries were the greatest disgrace of
this nation in that they demonstrate
that America is not tolerant, is not the
democracy she pretends to be as evil
denced by the practices Of her people
in trying to interfere with the beliefs
and institutions Of other peoples. and in
the third place. that while Darwin.
Spencer and Huxley have destroyed
the previously supposed virtues of
what he terms religious hObOism," the
Hindu cannot perceive how in honor
each of the numerous Christian
churches can claim to have a monopoly
in the doctrines of the love and truth
Of God. Explaining the term religious
hobOism he said he meant to describe
all over the earth trying to force their
peculiar religion on others, using the
word hobo as meaning a peripatetic
and perpetual traveller. Concerning the
alleged monopoly" of each group of
missionaries he said that representa-
tives Of many churches, all more or less
antagonistic to each other, come to the
so-called heather country each with
the message that it has the only true
religion. As all are founded on the
Bible il occurs to DIR. Krishna that if
the Bible be the one true religion. the
Christian churches should all get to-
gether and harmonic on the points Of
difference and find out just what that
religion is. before trying to force il
upon other people. The people of the
United States, said DR.. Krishna. point
10 Gladstone as a most exemplary
Christian. He says he had the pleasure
OF a personal acquaintance with the
great Englishman who told him with
his own lips that religion is a personal
affair and no man has a right to de-
nounce any religion unles he is pre-
pared to accept the beauties Of other
religions He said that the British
D4SlolS were pdlu OuJ u lHe STATE taxes
in India and they did not hesitate to
take the money while 100000 Indians
were starving to death annually. a fact
the natives could not harmonic with
the teaching Of the missionaries. The
American missionaries he mentioned as
more modest but nevertheless he said
the average missionary lives in greater
luxury than the average American bus
mess man. having usually a summer
and a winter residence and carriages
and never less than three servants.
Still he said he did not want to be IN