The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1909-02-26

| been far more peaceful than Europe.
There is no record of Indian wars
worse than the Wars of the Roses in
England or so bad as the Thirty Years
War in Germany, and non that CON-
| pare at all in loss of life with the wars
of Napoleon; neither does Indian his
tory show anything that in anarchy
and violence equals the Reign of Ter
ror in France" AS to disturbances
between Hindus and Mohammedans,
these have lived side by side without
conflict for hundreds of a at a
time, it is asserted, under both Hindu
and Mohemmedan rulers, and there
has at no time been any greater hos
tility between them than between the
Roman Catholics and Protestants IN
Europe.
The British are "Birds of Prey"
The letter goes On to fatty contra
dict the Presidents claim that Eng
land does not draw a penny from In
dian for English purposes, n Hkens
the presence of E~nglish1nen in India
to that of the carpet baggers" IN
the South. "Englishmen in India Of
ten speak of themselves as birds of
passage. Edmund Burke, that great
and just Englishman. called them
birds of passage and of prey The
people thus 'plundered' and deprived
I'll lhS AASiI III JooSAS IbS1OhS
to all civilized men, are not barbar-
ians, obscure people without a past.
They are n of the great nations of
history. Many of them are Aryans, of
the same race with Greeks and Ro-
mans, Germans and Englishmen.
Their civilization is one of the most
ancient in the world. They have Civ
en- to the world two of the great his
toric religions and PHILOSOPHERS as
profound as any that have preceded
from the mind of man. They have ere
ated a literature which ranks with
the literatures of Greece and Rome,
England and Germany. AS Lord Cur
zon himself said. Powerful empires
flourished in India while Englishmen
were still wandering painted in the
woods. India has left a deeper mark
upon the history, philosophy and re-
ligion of mankind han any other ter
ritorial unit on the universe"
Impoverished by England.
These are the people who rear after
year are forced to contribute of their
poverty to England's wealth. Ave
nues through which this tribute is
drained are enumerated as ID Rich
pensions received by retired English
officials; (2) Salaries of English Off
cials in India, the highest paid in the
world: (3) Business profits sent to
England by Englishmen in India-Eng
lishmen who are charged with having
deliberately destroyed Indian enter
prises for the purpose of supplanting
them; ca Large remittances to Eng
land by the Indian government for
military stores, equipment and arms
in India. partly for purposes of
defense against possible foes, but
more to hold the Indian people
surely in subsection" (5)
on English investments made
in India most of them not desired by |
India of for her beneft"-merely |
forms of exploitation"
The annual tribute thus paid by
India to England is rated at from |
$125. 000. 700 to $150.00O,0 900.
1000 per cent. Salt Tax.
b letter asserts that according to
ability to pay India is taxed by |
her foreign rulers more than twice as
heavily as England and more heavily
than any country In the world. The
tax on salt alone has reached 1000
per cent. OF its cost price. England
is b~urdening a starving people with
the payment of wars carried on out
side of India, "some of them far away |
Africa" The letter also asserts |
the terrible famines in India are |
not caused by any lack OF food, but !