The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1911-09-29
Riding a Buffalo.


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 II 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 IL,
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 turbana
and loin cloths of the men are differ
ent; the fashion of wearing the hail
Is different; they eat different foods
worship different gods or devils, speaA
entirely different languages and will
have no more relations one with an.
other than exists between an English
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 outcast.
live in quarter Of their own, and II
they would worship a god must make
their own temple and employ a priest
OF their 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 Ill treat each
other.
Multitudes 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 pretended 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
Ia the leaves of a 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 sepa rates
an intellectual Englishman from a
Scandinavian peasant and you will be
at the beginning of true conception
of midas 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 a general sense. And II
caste broke down absolutely in all
the cities II 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 300.Oo0.ooo inhabitants. Some
thing like 90 per cent. of the popula
ton live on the land. and among these
270,000,000 the system of caste Is no,
merely lieutenant governor or vice
roy. but king Of India, the one su
preme and unquestioning obedience Il
rendered by all the peopleA-