The Boise citizen. (Boise, Idaho) 1906-1910, 1909-01-01
PITIFUL CONDITIONS IN india
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Mr. j. T. Sunderland who diligently its
people for 25 years has recently furnished the public with much
interesting information about them booklet entitled Causes
of Famine in India and in magazine and articles
verify They awaken the worlds sympathy but cannot the
world do something or help the natives to do something to pre-
Guiding Burah of over 100000 miles and has variety
climate soil and productivity If the rains def
Gent there is douh But there failure of all
There already considerable irrigation but
of the land On two sides is the and navgabe rivers
trae large sections The aggregate of rainfall is large in some
inches year the problems storage and dis
rbution for which facilities exceptionally good The
tans send forth ample water for the plains With irrigation
crops and certain Some 220OOOOO under
irrigation but large susceptible of irrigation remain
gected Most of the invested by the British governnet
in irrigation pays per cent and lives is
that of this work has not been done An
going waste of which could be utilized
Even with insufficient irrigation India is great food produ
have food enough for all its people But the people OF the famine
district buy at low They have
densey populated several Eupoean countries and its bhrate
less The natural of the country ample to
greater population comfort But agricultural
@ @ re & no fobG % for advancement Even IN wears Of
plenty majority of them the of starvation and
they lay nohng they than barely support
themselves without putting by So when crops fail they
died. literally of sheer starvation Sir William Hunter has
satisfy the craving OF hunger Other Enghmen have given
similar emphatic testimony An Indian paper
that the income of 100O0000 people of India not more than
s5 Many people live meal two or three days
outfit including house utensils furniture clothing and all
possessions than So English officers estimate that
80 rupees yearS6 $9bout cents day for each
Why this terrible poverty land rich beyond the in
Bright said half century that the
the Much earlier Edmund Burke said
friendship had brought ruin India Still earlier
Sir governor of india said the benefits conferred
than couterbaanced by evils nseparabe from remote
foreign dominion Other eminent Englshmen have
by their country of India blight and
curse drains wealth. is "a sordd system of msrue
an the ebood from the veins of national
dustry these few of similar expressions Of promn
the of India Herbert Spencer
denounced as cunning despotsm JOSIAH Oded described
terrible conditions india and asked what going to be
done about Recently S. Thorburn distinguished Indian
that 7O00000 people had been reduced
TO such of hopeless penury that reform was now I'M
possible.
and conditions will be considered later But
even these thus outlined sufficient to snow what
horrible tragedy government of India by highly engh
ened and Crstaned nation The vceroy certain occasions
millions dollars inaugural other parade and
show from people dying of starvation The only wonder
about the of the people of India to throw OFT
he British yoke they life enough left in them to move
at all