Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-08-20

~ wages Suppose you had to
4 y work for or cents an hour
s,,,ose YOU could have only one
imam meal every day ana night after
,,gbt your family should go to bed
angry These are the conditions OF
millions ~ Hndus. Suppose they, ex-
i,.d at home? Would we not have an
,,,est with vengeance? | refer the
,psstion To Brother Gompers for an
swer
LOW WAGES IN INDIA,
nave before me list of the wages
t. natives are paid. l take them from
"a. statistical abstract sent by the
LEROY 10 the British houses Of parlia-
,.,,t and therefore reliable. At CAT
rtrt and therefore reliable. At cal
.,,s ere now receiving less than SO
south. and that would be high
s,.,aee for mechanics through Hin
Gstan In the province OF Dude they
sr Maid less than 50, and at Agra only
81 more.
A. Patna able bodied farm hands re-
Give less than s. per month. For this
,hs, work IL hours a day and In some
.s.es have to take grain for their
.,ges The average income for all
uindpstau * only about 4 cents day
Nm long ago there was famine In
.opthern India. during which the gov
srrment relieved the people 10y giving
,tsn labor on public improvements. II
,aid 4 cents To the diggers and 3 cents
\, the women who carried the earth
f-,r one place to another I'm baskets
They worked from daylight till dark.
rfo children were paid 2 cents a day
They were used TO break up the clods
and smooth over the ground.
THE RICH AND POOR AT CAL
CUTTA
The truth is the inuian empire Is
prg,ly an empire If paupers, and that
tsus.lllc they are up To the neck in the
waters of poverty, with rich fruits OF
ail kinds hanging over their heads.
When they grasp fpr the fruits they
.anlsh, and they strive and strive and
strive in vain. | was struck by this
AZ calcutta. That capital is known
As the city OF Palaces, but IL ~ also
3 city Of novels II has It's thousands
u splendid carriages and automobiles,
with coachmen and chauffeurs In the
most gorgeous liveries. II has rich
Eng.ishmen and native rajahs and
nabobs who are loaded with Jewels
bat with them is want so keen that IL
cuts 10 the heart. There are thousands
upon the street who go almost naked.
The dress of the common people Is
such that the legs OF the women are
oNan bare to the knees and of the
men 90 the thighs The bones are clad
only In sinews and skin. There Is not
enough meat on the legs to tempt
hungry dog They are as straight as "A
pipe stem, the dwellings OF the calves
teing absent, The arms show nothing
But bones. The poor Bengali cor
r-.ronds to Npllng's description of the
woman who was "a rag. a bone and a
hank OF hair" save that there Is now
and then a stringy muscle thrown in.
These people work almost naked, and
their whole forms may be seen. l have
spent some time watching them bath
iHg In the Gangcs. The water CLUES the
clothes TO the skin, and YOU see thou
sands IT skeletons bathing and pray
Ing
And then the homes of the people
Outside the mansions Of the rich
which face the Madam and the fine
buildings Of the government. and the
palaces of few rajahs, the native
Quarters NJ Calcutta are largely com
l"''N W INliltT llN tikEfi hiAtAi lf'hN Mus
cases The stores are mere holes In
the wallis Whole families live In one
room and even out In the country the
huts are So small that the beds are set
outside I'm tho daytime.
THE FARMERS.
have Travelled extensively among
DE farmers of many countries, but l
know NJ no place where they work so
hard for SO little. This is an agricul-
iuTal nation Two-thirds of the people
rely upon farming as their principal
business, and this means about 100000
COL There are more than 100 100000
here who work in the soil. and there
are so0o0.0OO men. women and children
Who actually farm. II every man. |
woman and child IN the United states |
should go out In the fields every day to |
dig up the land or harvest the crops, |
}ou would have the farming situation |
lp India. In addition. there are some |
millions engaged In stock grazing and |
lRo or three millions who take care of |
Domestic animals OF various kinds.
The wages OF these farmers are low !
Beyond American conception. The EN-
poyes are often paid In. kind, getting. \
ln some cases their food and a small /
Percentage Of the crop. Where money \
Is paid the wages do not average S2.25
pr month, ana now here except In As
'am. do they rise to So. In the valley /.
OF the Gauges, where the soil Is as I
lal as that Of the Nile, the average |
wage is $3.50 month";. and in the prov
nee n Dude IL Is sl.2S. In addition to
'hs. some Of the lsborers are bond
fTNanis, who cot only their living, and
cent now ana then for n feast.
No farmers who have their own
ahls are mortEaged up to their eyes,
lha the money lender and the tax
INJECTOR give them no peace. The gov
lAinent lcvics on real estate have
Ken advancing. The agitators claim
n'y are cxorbitsntly high in comrar-
IN and current book ON India
'wtes That one-eighth Of the entire
',thlhs popplat IN OF Madras has been
tl OUT ~ mouse and home within less
t1'' tl decade. Not only their farms. but
'-p'ture and personal belong
. have been taken Tor taxes. ON
'1ter hand. II Is claimed that the
.Nauon today is less than IL has ever
,vh ana that IL is lighter per head
nan the taxes OF any other country OF
~ world. We pay 10 times as much
.Nf per head as the Hindus. Tho
,Dss.ans nav eight times a. much and
q" English 20 times rs much.
FPRESSED by MONEY SHARKS.
indeed. we shall have to look outside
Il government for the cs''ses Of In.
y. poverty. We can find one In 4
nature Of the people, VA'ch leads
~ 10 borrow whenever they can,
Y" ih the money sharks. who lend al
IL, l'us rates upon their crops and
/, ~ many such cases the inter-