Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1911-09-29

the government. which devotes ali itS
labors to improving the material for
tunes Of the poor. 1t is the abused
civil servant who has given India an
idea at all Of democracy and 1t is the
civil servant who governs for the
many and the poor and the general
welfare.
AT every railway station, even the
smallest, you may see something Of
the infinite variety of Indian man
kind. Men of noble stature and in
tellectual countenance, men to all in
tents negroid and bestial. men of
Jewish character. men like Chinese,
men black, brown. chocolate, yellow
and almost white. move about among
a womankind degraded to the lowest
forms Of labor and debased out Of the
likeness Of humanity. The turbans
and loin cloths of the men are differ
ent; the fashion of wearing the hair
is different; they eat different foods,
worship different gods or devils, speak
entirely different languages and will
have no more relations one with an
other than exists between an English
crow and flying fish in the Red sea.
The sects Of Christendom are as one
loving and united church as compared
with the religions of India. Something
like quarter Of the population OF In
dia. let us say 100000 Of men and
women, are regarded as outcasts.
helots and abomination by the other
three-quarters. And these helots have
their separating prides and customs.
In every little village the outcasts
live in quarter of their own, and II
they would worship a god, must make
their own temple and employ a priest
Of thefr own order-a, priest despised
and loathed by the religious leaders
They are worse treated than the
CALLED bullocks under the yoke Of the
transit handy and they i'll treat each
other.
MuItltudes Ruled by a Despot
From the ascetic and refined native,
who will not eat animals, down to the
native who eats lizards and mice, and
downward still to the native who lives
upon the human corpses fished from
the Ganges, there is in India every
height and every depth Of the human
mind ever comprehended in the soul
of Shakespeare or the heart OF Dante
In England one might classify Eng
lishmen with perhaps 200 tempera-
ments. In India one has to speak to
1000 different species. Reflect upon
this fact until 1t is realized; reflect
that the dense millions OF India are
races OF men as various and disparate
as the leaves Of forest. the birds
of the air and the fishes Of the sea;
definitely possess the mind of the
idea that between these groups of
crowding humanity there are greater
CULTS than anything which separates
an intellectual Englishman from
Scandinavian peasant and you will be
at the beginning Of true conception
of India's mystery and at the door
through which European must first
pass truly to comprehend and feel her
infinite charm and the sorcery Of all
her multitudinous glamour.
Caste, you may be told. Is breaking
down in the cities. This is partly true.
but only in q general sense. And II
caste broke down absolutely in all
the cities 1t would not altar the truth
Of Sir Bamfylde Fuller's statement.
For the cities are only specks on the
map Of India and the people who dwell
there are but a child's handful out
Of the s00.000,OO0 inhabitants. Some
thing like 80 per cent. of the popula-
ton live on the land, and among these
100000 the system Of caste is not
merely lieutenant governor or vice
roy, but king Of India, the one su-
preme and unquestioning obedience is
rendered by all the peoples.