Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1911-06-09
Durham Brothers Co.

of the consultations as consisting of
Orion and Ursa Major.
There are many good people in Eng
land who think of Indians as two peo-
pies, Hindus and Mohammedans, pur-
posely kept apart and purposely held
down by an immense army of proudful,
ubiquitous. and atrabilious civil servants
exported year by year by the India Of
flee. Let these good people bear in mind
that the inhabitants of India represent
1000 species of mankind, that not only is
each species opposed socially and intel
lectually to the rest but that they prac-
tice towards each other an ostracsm
which has never existed in England be-
tween the greatest Swellfoot and the
most downtrodden hind; and further, let
him definitely apprehend and reflect upon
this fact, that the whole company of
British civil servants, including military
officers holding civil appointments,
is only 1900 India is governed by In
dams, a tremendous army of them with
just 1900 British citizens at their head.
One might far more truly say that India
employs a handful of Englishmen to di-
rect her own government than assert
that England holds India in the grip of
an iron hand
l have seen nothing of violence or even
rudeness on the part of Englishmen
towards the natives; but | have no doubt
that instances of this kind could be
cited and perhaps proved. | have seen,
known, and | see it every day | live in
India, and every mile | travel in the
country, instances of the most intoler-
able eXclusVeness and appalling pride
between native and native. Consider
these two facts: a Brahmin priest will
not visit a low-caste person, however
great the poor mans sorrow or however
extreme his need land high-caste doc
tor win not go to the bedside of a dying
coole Thanks be to God" said to me
| a benevolent and educated Hindu, for
the hospitals set up for poor people by
the British government" A postman
will not deliver letters into the hand of
lower-caste man than himself; he
/ filings them down on the ground. Democ-
racy has no expression whatever in In
dia except through the government,
which devotes all its labor to improving
| the material fortunes 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 well
fare.
At every railway station even the
smallest, you may see something of the
! infinite variety of Indian mankind. Men
| of noble stature and intellectual counte-
nance, men to all intents negroid and
bestial, men of Jewish character, men
like Chinese, men black, brown, choco-
late, yellow, and almost white, move
about womanknd degraded to the low
/ est forms of labor and debased out OF
! the likeness of humanity The turbands
and loin-cloths of the men are different
the fashion of wearing the hair is diff
| ferent; they eat different foods. worship
different gods or devils, speak entirely
different languages, and will have nc
more relation one with another than eX'
lists between an English crow and fly
ing fish in the Red Sea, The sects OF
Christendom are as one loving and united
church compared with the religions Of
India. Something like a quarter of the
| population of India, let us say 70OO0,00I
of men and women, are regarded as out
casts, helots and abomination by the
other three quarters. And these helot'
have their separating prides and customs
In every little village the outcasts LIVE
in n quarter of their own, and If they
would worship a god, must make theil
own temple and employ priest of theil
own order-a priest despised and loathet
by the religious leaders. They are wors
treated than the CALLED bullocks unde
the yoke of the transit handy, and the!
ill-treat each other.
From the ascetic and refined NATIVE
who will not eat animals down to tn
native who eats lizards and mice, anC
downwards still to the native who live
upon the human corpses fished from tn
Ganges, there is in India every heigh
and every depth of the human mind eve