The Holbrook news., 1911-10-27

labors to improving the material for.
 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
 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 a quarter of the population of In- dia, let us say 10,000,000 of men and women, are regarded as outcasts. helots and abomination by the other three-quarters. And these helots have their separating brides and customs. In every little village the outcasts live in a quarter of their own, and if they would worship god. must make their own temple and employ priest of their own order-a priest despised and loathed by the religious leaders. They are worse treated than the galled bullocks under the yoke of the transit bandy and they i'll treat each other.
 MuItitudes 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 2, 1000 different species. Reflect upon this fact until it is realized; reflect that the dense millions of India are races of men as various and disparate as 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 gulfs than anything which separates an intellectual Englishman from a Scandinavian peasant and you will be at the beginning of a true conception of India's mystery and at the door which a 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 trne, but only in a general sense. And if caste broke down absolutely in all the cities it would not altar the truth of Sir Bamfylde Fuller's statement. For the clIleS are Ouiy SpSCAS OA tuu map of India and the people who dwell there are but a child's handful out of the 300, 100000 inhabitants. Some thing like 90 per cent. of the popula- ion live on the land. and among these 17O, ,0O0,0 the system of caste is not merely lieutenant governor or vice -oy, but king of India, the one su- oreme and unquestioning obedience ia by all the peoples.