The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-02-27
ON BOARD THE GOOD SHIP EARTH"
Se1eu R,rl of Humanity. No. 4--7he H,nau Peril
BY HERBERT QUICK.

war has been forbidden them by the Roman peace
of~fhe British rule. su But still their ignorance and
squalor their neglect OF sanitation and supneness
under disease keep down the multiplying hordes And
famine deseends upon them whenever rain falls to
come with the southwest wind which Is called
monsoon-the rain brnger for the Hindus. The gov
arameRt puts aside millions Of rupees every wear
as famne-insurance fund to keep the people from
starving In years OF drought: but this do good
More people Will live over this famine and therefore
there will be more mouths to feed when the next
famine comes The OF famines In India 10 not
drought, but too many people and bad distribution
of wealth. And II the distribution be remedied, the
people will multiply take up the slack
liberated by better institutions The situation is per-
fecty hopeless in the absence OF enlightenment and
the adoption OF sane beliefs For population depends
beliefs than on food and clothing and shelter
SO. unless the Hindu myriads In some way lift
themselves be lifted to a higher and more active
intellectual life. there is no hope for them. And we
their Fellow Passengers the Good Ship Earth.
allow ourselves to think that II Is matter
OF no Importance to us that these teeming millions
lie there. sodden seryile. and sQualid>
II is OF Importance to all Of 1t is of Importance
in a thousand ways For one thing. plague testers
among them all the time, and has found foothod
in California, and threatens the United States. For
another cannot as human beings De happy Win
these brethren miserable
And there are more concrete dangers When the
= Mohammedan Peril takes form, II may one day.
and Islam marches forth under the Green Banner OF
Mahome the Caliph OF all the Faithful will find In
India his best base Of operations. Islam lacks mas
terry Of Industrial craftthe making Of powder guns.
railways ships smelling ores. mining coal. all the
facts processes OF science She will find them In
the 81 900. 900 Mussulmans now In India. She Will
find ports and cities and British drilled army.
Here she may establish her Cordova. Her first
blow will be close the Suez Canal and seize India
Can India and her related nations ever emancipate
themselves from their poverty and benightedness?
That question is the which constitutes the Hindu
Peril Humanity. / do not know The curse OF
these three hundred millions Is caste. Caste means,
the hundreds OF different classes hate each other
and despse each other. There is love sympathy
between class and class. How could make any
progress toward better institutions II the preachers
loathed and despised the doctors: the doctors the
lawyers; the lawyers the merchants the carpenters
the masons and II to each the below
unclean that they could not eat together to-
geher associate In any way terms OF equality!
Yet such 10 the caste system Of India. The scaven
gers must be scavenger and marry scaven-
gers daughter. There 10 rising In the world. In
our sense. 1t is awful thing when to one occupa
ton those below unclean; but when such
ceanness is supposed to nhere in the flesh OF every
baby it, the belief II too terrible for utter
Caste keeps the people from uniting for better
things. 1t keeps them under the British dominion
keeps them the In all Of some conqueror
On a mission In Bombay 10 q sign which reads Caste
Is our curse but Christ Ii salvation That caste
is their curse true And their salvation, II not
Christ must be that democracy for which Jesus stood
and which nominal Christians have yet to put
fully into effect. Until. through democracy. these
people gain enlightenment and general prosperity
the Hindu Peril will always lower over the Passen
gers of this Good Ship Earth
See tomorrows Times for announcement Of the next
article in this great series.