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appointed by the Crown. The people of
India have no representation in,the Eng
lish Parliament; they have a minority
/ of two out Of fourteen in the Viceroy's
Council, to witness the making Of Indian
law, the fixing taxes, and the expendi-
ture of Indian funds, raised by taxing
the people Of India. 3
! Every legislative, executive and high
official post in India is appointive from
the English Crown, is held by English
men and is barred to Indians, with the
single exception Of the Judiciary; but
| no Indian Judge is allowed to try an
Englishman, for whom separate courts
are maintained at midas expense.
! India sends to. England an annual av-
erage revenue Of $500, 900, 900 out Of a
total annual revenue Of 100000, 900. In
dia pays for the maintenance of the
British Indian army which keeps her in
subsection, sos, 100000 annually, yet no
Indian is allowed to hold commission
therein; the monthly wage Of an Indian
of private is $500. Indian troops, like
Indian people, are kept completely dis
armed, except when in the field
Formerly one-fourth, by recent legis-
lation one-half, Of the Indian budget is
expended on the army, while less than
ne-sixteenth is spent for education and
sanitation Education is neither free
nor compulsory. Seven per cent of the.
total population receive schooling. Four
out Of every five villages lack schools
of any kind. Every European and.
Eurasian of an age to receive education
is getting it. The government expends
$1.5O a year per head for the education
Of its Indian subjects; $40 per year for
each European and Eurasian.
The Indian Civil Service consists Of
1888 Englishmen and 46 Indians. The
Indian Medical Service consists of five
per cent Of Indians in subordinate posts,
the rest being Englishmen. Examine
tions for both services are governmental,
and are held in England with severe re-.
strictions governing the Indian competi-
tors, who must graduate from college at
81, cross the water at their own expense,
take an examination in a foreign tongue
on prescribed subjects such as Latin
and Greek, and Withal make a grade
sufficiently high to receive an appoint
ment. The highest posts are closed to
him, either by examination or promotion.
The British-Indian Government main
tains a monopoly upon land, railroads,
telegraphs, salt, OPIUM. liquor, precious
stones and metals. It taxes the Indian
peasant from SIS per cent to 70 per cent
upon the produce Of his land, which is
three times higher than British subjects
in England are taxed. In 1916 it re-
ceived an income from land taxes of
800, O0Q,OOO; $15,0OO,0OO from its liquor
traffic; s25,0OO,000 from its opium
traffic which even China had made illegal,
and $35.00O,OO from excise taxes levied
upon the. products manufactured within
India.)
Indigenous Indian products are taxed
from 3 1-2 per cent to 10 per cent in their
own markets to prevent Indian manu-
faccturers from undertaking the English
! made goods which are brought In duty
free. The result has been to ruin In
dian industries and to throw 40 600, 900
Indians out Of work, while flooding the
country with English goods and ex-
plotting the cheap labor and fertile
lands to provide raw materials for Eng
lish mills. The average annual income
Of an Indian is $500 a year, or less than
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