The Holbrook news., 1911-10-06

the goveIhL.v.... mni.n uevotes all it's
 labors to improving the material for
 tunes of the poor It is the abused
 civil servant who has given India an
 idea at all of democracy and it 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 a 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 h. dia, let us say 10000, 900 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 a 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 2,00O 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 "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 Scandinavian peasant and you will be at the beginning of a true conception of Indias mystery and at the door through 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 true. but only in a general sense. And if 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 3O0,OOO.000 inhabitants. Some thing like 90 per cent of the popula- tion live on the land, and among these 27O, 1000, ,000 the system of caste is not merely lieutenant governor or vice 1 roy, but king of India. the one SUI preme and unquestioning obedience is rendered by all the peoples.