Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1914-07-07
Mystery Of the Hindu Character Fails
TO Make Any Appeal to Ed Hone

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exhausted. The Hindu is precisely
what ne was when The whine man fual
learned Of his existence, except that
he does not now rule hrns, Ion
5000 years he has made no new CON
quest over nature, carried science no
higher, or invented no new science
OF life.
Hindu Thrift Is n Marvel.
The Hindu is SO steadily and rigid
| ~ ahstemiOus that he lives by wages
/ upon which white men would actuu4
siarve. Millions of men IN India live.
marry and rear apparently healthy
children upon an income which even
when the wife works. Is rarely above
| fifty cents week He goes neariy
without clothes, gives has children
none, and dresses his wife in long
piece OF the most wretched muslin.
lie cats absolutely no meat, nor any
animal fat, nor any expensive grains
like good wheat but lives on millct,
or small rice, a little milk and butter,
ana the vegetables he grows.
Even of these he eats sparingly; he
never has enough, except perhaps
once In three months, dllring some
festival lie knows accurately what
VIII sustain him, ana Is enraged if his
wife prepares more Millions of them
eat but one meal a day, There is no
thrift like Hindu thrift, and abstemi-
BUSINESS is its root Thus abstemi-
BUSINESS may be a virtue, but it is a
curious problem FOR the teetotalefa
ana vegetatiaus and lecturers on thrift
that the Indians, who do not drink
who avoid meat, and who save with
persistent care, have not made India.
which is in the main fertile CONT
nent very rich.
These people could live better, If
they chose to. The man in waist cloth
and nothing else hus always "A hoard
of some kind, often hoard so large
that its multiplication by millions
explains the drain of silver to India
which has worried economists ever
since the English reign began a hun
dred and fifty years ago. The woman
with a thin sheet for her only cover
ing, tinkles at every step she takes,
her ankles and arms being loaded
with silver bangles The child who
runs without a rag on is burdencd
with silver anklets, and tempts every
scoundrol to murder her merely for
the value of her heavy ornaments
While the money they waste on festi-
walls and marriage ceremonies,
TO an enormous total.
Why English I,ulc Persists.
Why do 300, 100000 people submit !
To the rule of less than $4,000, Off /
cials and soldiers included? If So /
biologists can find out they have dis
covered something worth while. For
one thing, the English rule in India /
easily because of the quarres of the /
Indians of different beliefs. to learn (
nl that goes on; the In lans tell ON
each other, they would rather see a
neighbor punished than Join with the /
neighbor in repelling Invaders.
Every living creature must learn /
from experience. the lower animals ,
10 il. aud man Will not be excused ii (
he does not when a supposed truth (
is found to he untrue, il must be aban (
loned But the Hndus, when they 7
discovered that their supposed truths
were absurditles. became more active .
IN advocating them A Hindu fanatic \
will lie naked on sharp spikes. lie |
,an give you no reason whatever why /
he should thus torture himself: 1t \
hoes no good, and is not sensible or \
pleasant The man would be more
employed in honest work \
Sut this man is proud Of his folly 4
he regards himself MS superior to his \
masters. the English. who have too
much practical sense 20 endure un. 1
necessary pain and prvation.