The Jasper news., 1908-08-13

body polite. The arteries OF indus.
try, manufacture and agriculture have
been slashed and the life-blood of the
country drained away to enrich the
occidental island which controls af..
fairs in India.
The aim of the English in India has
been to crush the native East-Indianss
grind their substance into POWDER.
and then employ it as fertilizer "
enrich the British soil. England has
built her empire in the orient at the
expense of the East-Indian tax payer,
and East Indian men and money
have helped even to extend Britain's
dominion in Africa, Malta, Crete, etc.
It was a company of British COM
mercialists who fo"-In', &be British
rule in India. To students of his.
tory 1t is patent how the British mo-
nopolists, under the aegis Of British
East-India Company, used notorious
and INSCRIPTIONS methods to plum
der Hindostan. When the British
crown took the reins Of India in her
hands in 1858, the policy of governing
| India remained unchanged. AS in
the days of the East-India Company,
1t continued to be the exploitation of
Hindostan for the benefit of the Eng
| lish. 1t still continues to be the
| same.
AS a direct result Of this policy,
every means, fair and foul, overt and
covert, has been utilized to hold down
India and to tighten the British bonds
on the unfortunate and famishing peo-
pie. The lucrative government ap-
pointments have been reserved for
Englishmen. Each year the British
government in addition to paying
princely salaries to its own men and
women in India, transships $780,.
900, 900 to England. Seventy-five thou
sand British soldiers are year after
year nurtured and equipped at the ex-
pense of the East-Indian tax payer,
nominally to protect India from Rus
sian aggression, but virtually to eX.
tend and preserve the solidarity of the
British empire in the orient, Africa
and elsewhere.
AS an essential feature of this pol
icy OF repression, England has cease
lessly endeavored, and with great sue.
cess, to keep tanning the flames OF
religious and racial animosities among
the people. Divide and rule has been
the motto of the British official in
India, and he has done everything in
his power to keep the congeries OF
East-Indian populace from fusing into
one mass of people with community
of interest and with patriotic, national
ist ideals and ambitions. BY means oil
playing the Hindoo against the Moham
medan, the Sikh against the Hindoo;
by petting the military races of Indis
and leaguing them against the non
military East-Indians. 10000 British
ers have despoiled 300,000.000 natives
The same policy is responsible for
emasculating the people In genera
and the martial races of India in par
ticular.
A spurious system of education re
tailed from schools and universities
built and engineered by British Off
cials, with East-Indian money, has also
been used to weaken the people. The
young men on graduation from col
lege have found that their physique'
have been ruined. Physical culta~
has been conspicuous in the educa
tional system by it's woeful absence
The instruction has been of a nature
that has invested the young men ant
women with contempt for agricultu
raj and trade work; and has engen
dered within their hearts hatred fol
men and women of sects and drcaste.
other than their own. Nothing ha:
been taught in the schools and col
leges that would tend toward uniting
the people and evolving an East-In
. dian nation. The history Of India ha!
not been given so that it would stimu
late the pride Of the people and in
vest them with the desire to emulate
those who have gone before them ant
to keep abreast of the march Of civ
ilization. In the school text books EN-
phasis has been laid on the achieve
ments of foreigners; on what aliens
did for India; and much has beoI
made of the degradation in general
! and especially Of the defeat at arm!