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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-08-21
The Rich and poor at CaIcutta.

The Rich and Poor at Calcutta.
The truth is-the Indian empire is large
~ an empire of paupers, and that of pau
pers surrounded by plenty. Tantalus-like,
they are up to the neck in the waters of
poverty, with rich fruits Of all kinds hang
ing over their heads. When they grasp for
the fruits they vanish, and they strive and
strive and strive in vain. | was struck
by this at Calcutta. That capital is known
as the City of Palaces, but 1t is also a
city OF novels. 1t has its thousands of
splendid carriages and automobiles, with
coachmen and chauffeurs in the most gor-
geour liveries. 1t has rich Bnglishmen and
native rajahs and nabobs who are loaded
with Jewels; but with them is want SO
keen that Il cuts to the heart There are
thousands upon the street who so almost
naked. The dress of the common people is
such that the legs OF the women are often
bare to the knees and of the men to the
tighs. The bones are clad only in sinews
and skin. There is not enough meat on hte
lags to tempt a hungry dog They are as
straight as a pipe stem, the swelling of the
calves being absent. The poor Bengal cor
responds to Kipling's description of the
woman who was "a rag. bone and hank
of hair" save that there is now and then
stringy muscle thrown in.
These people work almost naked, and
their whole forms may be seen, l have
spent some time watching them bathing
in the Ganges. The water CLUES the clothes
TO the skin. and you see thousands Of
skeletons bathing and praying.
And then the homes of the people. Outside
the mansions OF the rich, which face the
Madam and the fine buildings OF the gov
eminent. and the palaces of few rajahs,
the native quarters Of Calcutta are largely
composed Of homes no bigger than packing
cases. The stores are mere holes In the
walls. Whole families live in one room
and even in the country the huts are so
small that the beds are set outside in the
daytime.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-08-21
Oppressed by the Money sharks.

Indeed, we shall have to look outside
the government for the causes of India s
poverty. We can find one in the nature
of the people, which leads them TOT bor-
row whenever they can, and in the9money
sharks, who lend at usurous rates upon
their crops and lands. In many such
cases the interest is taken in kind, the
shark having his agent on the ground
ard grabbing a share of the grain it
comes from the threshing. The usual
rate Of interest is 81 per cent per annum
and many foreigners are paying per
cent q month and upward. In the in
terror of India the banks charge as much
as 10 per cent per annum, although the
government itself has recently been lend
ing the farmers something like 900
at or 6 per cent.
There is no country where banking is so
much OF a business. There are castles
here who thoroughly understand the
breeding value of interest, and there are
altogether in India 100000 bankers and
money lenders, of whom more than 5000
are women. Much money is loaned upon
real estate mortgages, and from this me
bankers are getting hold of the land. In
some provinces as much as 6S per cent
of the country belong to them, and in
others 70 and so per cent.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-08-21
Poorly paid Clerks.

This remark of the official reminds me
of an incident which occurred at the post
office here this morning. was waiting
to register a letter, when l heard quar-
reing among the clerks. The noise was so
great that 1 went to the window and looked
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-08-21
The Editor Explains.

No one knows the trouble OF an editor
but himself observes the stockport Qa)
Cyclone. AS we go out TO solicit subscrip-
tions one man says II you will make It a
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-08-21
: This Man Gels One Cent din Honr

this, some of the laborers are bond SER
wants, who get only their living, and
cent now and then for a feast.
The farmers who have their own lands
are mortgaged up to their eyes. and the
money lender and the tax collector give
them no peace. The government levies
on real estate have been advancing. The
agitators claim they are exorbtantly
high in comparison and a current book
on India states that one-eighth of the
entire farming population Of Madras has
been sold out of house and home within
less than a decade. Not Only their farms,
but their furniture and personal belong
ings have been taken for taxes. on the
other hand, it is claimed that the tax
alton today is less than 1t has ever BEEN
and that it is lighter per head than the
taxes of any other country of the world
We pay thirteen times as much taxes
per head as the Hindoos The Russians
pay eight times as much and the Eng
lish twenty times as much.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-08-21
Live an MUD Huts.

The average home of the Hindu peasant
is not as good as the average American
stable. 1t is often a mud hut from ten to
fifteen feet square, without doors or win
dows. The floor is plastered with COW
dung, and the furniture is a rope bed and
few pots and pans The house is usu-
ally matched with straw and its interior is
as bare as barn. II seldom has more than
one ROOM and In this the whole family
accommodates itself as it can. The stove
is fireplace made of three or four bricks
set on end and the cooking is done in pots
and pans. There are no chimneys and the
smoke finds its way out of the door and
from under the caves.
The most OF the farmers live in villages
OF such huts. In riding across India you
see these everywhere dotting the land
scape. They are built along mud roads
and have none OF, the surroundings or
convenlences of American towns. There
are no big sohoolhouses or churches, no
street lamps, no cutters and no sidewalks
There is an absence of painting and white
wash. the only outside decoration being
humps OF brown COW dung of the size and
shape of a fat buckwheat cake. These are
the fuel of the people, plastered upon the
walls OF the hut TO dry. This stuff is
picked up by the women and girls who
follow the cattle. They carry the droppings
to their houses and mix them with dirt,
patting them into shape with their bare
hands. Such fuel is used all over India and
the women invariably collect 1t.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-08-21
Horne Dyinu Of Grief.

Not man in the westchester police sta
tion laughed or was In the least skeptical
in New York City when the department
veterinary surgeon, after inspecting Hes
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-08-21

red-hot democrat paper l will take 1t, the
next one says If you say any thing about
polaucs 20 ucan take me off your list
now what is the editor to do every man
woman and child has their political prefer
ence and all talk polatics why not the edi-
tor you lltake political papers OF all par
ties for the purpose of reading why not
have your home editor contrible some OF
his talent along this line are you afraid
the cyclone will becomt popular or motor
ious? l announced I'm my first editorial my
position on the rights and wrong in the
political arennia and l repeat 1t am with
the man who is with the people and for
the people first last and all the time to
accomplish this end shall be my aim while
editor of this paper this be wrong and give
offence to any then we should not publish
a paper, to this end we have labored for
many years sink or swim survive or perish
we expect to containe along this line who
can say ma let us be American citizens.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-08-21

There was curious accident at the
Lyric theater In Minneapolis, The house
was crowded to the doors with an audience,
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-08-21
A starvation Of Diet.


The Hindu peasants have made feeding
science. They know just how much will
suffice TO keep them alive and they eat
little more, They save everything and
cook Just enough. Their diet is chiefly
beans millet and coarse grains, with chilli
peppers and other condiments, They sell
dom have meat and the castles of many
of them are such that they would die
rather than eat beef or pork. They con-
slider the COW holy and would as soon
think OF chewing their grandparents as
tenderloln steak. They use a rancid
melted butter called Ehee.
The Indian farmer rises at daybreak and
takes with him snack of~cold foed to
the field AT noon his wife brings him
hot dinner lie eats first and she takes
what is left. At home the people eat off
the floor. II they are rich they have sew
eral large dishes; II poor one or two. In
addition there are small dishes for curry
and codiments, All eat with their fin
gers and the men always first
II Is a well-to-do family that has two
good meals day. l am told that not
third Of the natives can afford 10 eat
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-08-21

HAT a big blacksnake of the
IN )vser" tribe is fond of baby's
bottle will be attested by Mrs.
MatJ Tull. wife of Samuel Tull,
a Wzil-to-do farmer living up
Wiocmico creek, Maryland, and
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-08-21

= IyIU, by FfauK q. CdTptHItIJ
)MBAY, 1910.-(Special to The
Bee)-The unrest of India is
largely a matter of wages. Sup
pose you had to work for or 2
cents an hours? Suppose you
Gould have nnlN nnn sn11a re
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-08-21
Low wages in India.

have before me a list of the wages
the natives are paid l take them from
the statistical abstract sent by the viceroy
to the British houses OF parliament, and
therefore reliable. At Calcutta carpenr
ters, blacksmiths and masons are now
receiving less than So month; and that
would be a high average for mechanics
throughout Hindustan. In the Province of
Dude. they are paid less than 50 and at
Agra only 81 more,
At Patna able-bodied farm hands receive
less than 81 per month For this they
work twelve hours day and In some cases
have to take grain for their wages. The
average income for all Hindustan is only
about 1 cents a day. Not long ago there
was a famine in southern India, during
which the government relieved the people
by giving them labor on public Improve
ments, II paid cents to the diggers and 3
cents to the women who carried the earth
from one place to another in baskets. They
worked from daylight till dark. The chill
dren were paid cents day, They were
used to break up the clods and smooth over
the ground.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-08-21

meals every day, and night after nignt
your family should go to bed hungry
These are the conditions of millions
OF Hindus. suppose they existed
at home? Would we not have an unrest
With vengeance? refer the question t
Brother Gompers for answer.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-07-07
Ben Buffers Grandson Fires
Broadside at Senator Lodge

pledged one way or the, other.
With his immense political and
financial patronage. Senator
Lodge might easily bring COM
Polling pressure upon unpledged
members of the legislature. The
machine of which he is the head
has thousand ways of reaching
a man, either through politics or
money. IL has been done before,
and it will be attempted again.
Senator Lodge is a reaction
airy. He is getting too old to keep
in touch with the younger gener-
alton, which more and more is be-
ginning to dominate American
politics. He has never been in
touch with the people, he has
never been of them. It is an up
hill fight on which have en-
gagged, but eight out of every ten
in Massachusetts, will be in SYM
pathy with me, for the revolt
against Lodgeism and bossism is
widespread. If the people them
selves have their way in the mat
ter l shall be elected"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-07-07
Especial Correspondence.)

BOSTON, July 7.-Butler
Ames, grandson of the famous
warhorse Ben" Butler, soldier.
insurgent congressman, million
aire, only thirty-eight years old,
and now aspirant for the seua-
torial toga worn by Henry Cabot
Lodge, says that he will, before
the campaign is ended, turn the
spotlight of publicity upon the
whole career of Senator Lodge,
and denounce him in every legis-
lative district in the state as "a
political boss who betrays q pub
lie trust.
To correspondent of the Times
Ames unfolded his plans, and out
lined the platform upon which he
will canvass the state.
This fight" he said, lis not
being waged from motives of per-
sonal ambition. l am fighting for
principle-for the principle in
public life of live and let live. for
the radiance of boss rule and for
the establishment of rule by
the people, through their repre-
sentatives.
Lodge is the embodiment of q
political condition which is hap
PLY passing. He is part and par.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-07-07

eel of a decadent order things.
His style of political manipulation
has brought the republican party
into disrepute. I AM FIGHTING
FOR THE REHABILITATION OF
MY PARTY. Today the people
through the republican party are
dominated by the bosses. There
is absolutely no chance for indi-
vidualism.
81 am contesting against a tre-
mendous political power, and ]
realize it. No railroad or other
corporation will back me. On
the contrary, they are frankly out
to defeat me.
II want to see the lobby di.
vorced from legislation. Under
Lodges tutelage, Jake Wardwell
has built up machine for politi
cal corruption in Massachusetts
that has few equals in the United
States.
81 am going up and down the
length and breadth of this state
and acquaint the voters with Sen.
ator Lodges true record, net the
hallowed, semi-sanctified record
of the scholar in politics. which
the people have swallowed SC
long.
81 shall try to have candidates
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-07-07
ENGLAND SEES FRANCH|SEMEN1
OF WOMEN APPROACHING

ton of an amendment or SUBJ
measure limiting suffrage to those
women who actually own prop
erty. This latter measure is prac-
tically assured of passage.
Heretofore Englishmen have
looked upon woman suffrage as
a thing to come at some time in
the indefinite future. Now it ap-
pears very near, and Englishmen
are growing uneasy.
"It would be absurd to dis
guise," says the Globe, "that the
bill now before the house of COM
mons is the first step toward
gigantic change. If the bin
passes it means inevitably the en-
Reimbursement of all adult wom-
en-"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-07-07

Tacoma shippers have won their
fight against the extortionate
charges OF the Northern Pacific on
switching in the local yards. For
years the road has been over
charging Tacoma shippers, thereby
discriminating against Tacoma
business and in favor of Seattle.
The Tacoma Traffic association
got busy some time ago and lodg-
cd formal complaint before the
state railway commission. The
whole situation was gone into. AS
result the commission finds the
railway is guilty and 1t has issued
an order for a reduction of the
rates amounting to from so 20 60
lrer cent.
The drop Is as much as s11.25
on a single car in some cases. The
whole situation Ia fixed up In a
very satisfactory way to the ship
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-07-07
Another Power Plant
On the String

The city commission may take
a trip Sunday to Mason county to
consider buying power plant that
according to report, will be q
whopper.
Frank Mackean, TN engineer
who has been working on power
plant project for the last three
years, this orning laid before the
commission an offer to turn over
to the city within a year plant.
all built and complete to generate
10000 horsepower here, for $780,
600.
With the plant will go 167 acres
OF land, all the water rights and
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-07-07
ASSISTANT FIRE
CHIEF IS
FIRED

Commissioner Roys and Chief
McAlevy have been gradually re-
adjusting employees in the fire de-
partment and several old names
are missed from the payroll now.
Yesterday Roys announced that
Assistant Chief Frank M. Lindsay
has been let out. Fireman Bor-
cher McQuillen and Lieutenant
Mendenhall are also gone. The
last named resigned, the others
were fired. Charles Nelson, cap
tain of Mo. IL company, was fired
because he beat his wife and she
got divorce. Chief McAlevy says
no wife-beater will stay in the de-
partment.
Otto Schlegel, captain of No. I
engine house, has been promoted
to assistant chief. The men drop
ped, It Is said, were not in SYM
patty with the administration.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-07-07
CITY WILL Be
DECORATED

Tacoma will be gay in bunting
when the great military tourna-
ment comes July "a to 80. The
Chamber of Commerce to stimu-
late activity along the line of dec
Grating has offered two prizes OF
$50 and $25 for the best decorat-
ed business houses.
This tournament Is proving the
best advertisement Tacoma ever
had. The railways are all making
It feature. The Great Northern
has just issued a booklet under
the heading Visit Tacoma July
"a to go" telling all about the
tournament and the stadium.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-07-07

(By United Tress Leased Wire.)
LONDON, July 7.-Conserva-
tive and progressive leaders today
are planning and devising ways to
smother" a suffragette bill pre-
scented in parliament designed to
permit women who rent property
to vote for members for parlia-
ment.
The bill restricts the voting
power to those women only who
are now entitled to vote in cleo
lions similar to the city and coun-
ty elections in American cities.
The best substitute offered by
the leaders who admit their fear
of the effect of the bill upon the
governing class should the meas
ure become a law, Is the introduce
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-07-07
PARK
BOYS HERE

Tacoma will tonight have the
opportunity of seeing and hearing
the famous Columbia Park Boys
club of San Francisco. Forty of
the lads are here and will give a
vaudeville performance at First
Congregational church for the
benefit of the Anti-Tu berculosfs
society.
The club band, orchestra, ath-
letes and vaudeville performers
will participate and the entertain
ment is said to be one of the best
possible to get up.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-07-07

everything necessary for develop
ing the plant still further up to
10000 horsepower.
The entire development of this
tremendous power would cost only
$2,708,O00.
The power is on the Skokomish
river, dozen miles from Shelton,
and can be brought to Tacoma by
way of cable under the Narrows
in Al miles or around by Olympit,
overland, in 20 miles.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-07-07
CROPS ARE
DRIED Up
!. ]. !, by DR0UTH

(By United Press Leased Wire.)
WASHINGTON, D. c., July e.
IUnirrigated grain crops in Mon
tana and western portions of the
Dakotas are literally dried up as
IA result of recent hot weather and
drouth, according 30 a statement
by the reclamation service. The
intense heat was accompanied by
dry winds that did enormous dam
age.
Irrigated crops in the Northwest
are reported in excellent condi-
ton.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-07-07
He BUILT HOUSE AROUND WIRES

ny United Press Leased wire.)
CLEVELAND, o.. July t.
lieut.. Jerry Murphy, chief cleo
electrician of the police depart
ment. has discovered a man who
figures 1t easier to build q house
around telephone wires rather
than have the wires moved. The
man is Adolph Berkovicz.
In putting up new wires for tho
police department few years ago,
the men strung the wires across q
vacant lot on f. ThirtyAthird
street, and when Berkovicz, who
owner the lot came to put up a
new house on II, he evidently imag-
ined that the wires could not be
moved for any reason, and went
ahead and built around them. 80
that now the wires enter tho
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-07-07
SAVES PLANT
BY BRAVERY

(By United Press Leased Wire. }
PlTTSBURG, July wv. A.
Weaver, superintendent of the At
iantic refining plant of the Stand
ard Oil, prevented a great con-
Migration yesterday by an act of
heroism. While the firemen play
ed ON him with a stream of water
he dashed through the flames and
shut off a valve which prevented
the fire going to a big tank of
benzine.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-07-07
CONCANN0N
NOT GUILTY

Contractor p. J. Concannor
after two days trial before JUS
tice Graham, yesterday was &C.
quilted on the charge OF cruelty
TO his horses. He had a lot Of
veterinary surgeons on hand te
testify the horses were able tc
work.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-07-07

that the rain spoiled the other day
We. clean, dive, curl bly, willow and
make old plumes into new ones. We
also have some trimmed hats that
are going at a big discount. Re-
member tho place
MODEL MILLINERY PARLORS
b22 ProYident Bldg.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-07-07
HOLDUPS
GET $125

I'D Lathrop, proprietor of the
Eagle Transfer company. was
held up at 1880 this morning by
two masked men at South Ninth
and X streets, who demanded and
got his money at the point of two
big revolvers. The thieves are
$125 richer for their Job.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-07-07
R.R. Commission Ruling
Means Money For
Tacoma Shippers

pers. It shows the railway mas
been robbing the shippers OF thou-
sands OF dollars every month by
its extortonate game.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-07-07

Drs. Thomas. osteopaths.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-07-07

Seven Other Stellar Acts.
Rfices-Itn a8t. BOX chaifs. zoe
The Green Forest tribune., 1910-12-02
INCREASE PRICE OF COTTON
Christian Monitor Says Upward Ten dency of Price of Staple Is Nat
 ural and Wholesome.

In regard to the higher price of cot ton, the Christian Monitor, published in Boston, prints the following:
 After the complaints from spinners and others who are interested in cheapening the price of cotton to their own advantage, 1t is certainly cheering and refreshing to read the following from paper published in Boston, the Christian Science Monitor. Here is what 1t has to say relative to the in- creasing price of cotton:
 The great southern staple has been making a steady advance since the middle '90s. Every recession, from whatever cause, has left the price per manently some points higher. About the time the Atlantic Cotton States ex- position was being promoted person would have been set down as dream CT If he had predicted that within fif- teen years the price of the staple would go beyond ten cents. Today the south is familiarizing itself gracefully with higher figure, and conservative men are looking forward confidently to
 
 same causes that have raised the price of nearly every other raw product are behind the steady increase in the quo tations of cotton. The principal of these, of course, Is the steady increase in consumption. Cotton is entering into more uses than ever before. It is in more universal demand. On the other hand, the south is not producing cotton anywhere up to its capacity. There is a decided disposition among southern farmers of the more intelligent class to prevent the cheapening of the stapl e by over-production. The movement for the diversification of southern crops has exercised a considerable influence, too. On the whole, the upward ten dency of cotton is natural and whole some, and one of the many things at this time adding to the sum of the south's prosperity"