Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1930-11-27
Freedom of India Should
Come Through OWn People
StiYrinq Address ON This Burning
Question Given by the
Req. Hojbjerg.

The Rev. C. P. Hojbjerg of Tyler,
who is head of the Danebod folk
high school, delivered the sermon in
the Danish Lutheran church at Askov,
Sunday forenoon and remained here
to deliver five lectures on different
subjects which were much appreciated
by folks in the community.
On Sunday evening, the Rev. Hoj-
bierg spoke on the race question, prin-
cipally the negroes. Monday and
Tuesday afternoon the subject was
about Erasmus of Rotterdam and
Martin Luther. Russia and religious
problems there, were discussed Mon
day evening, and the final lecture on
! Tuesday evening was about India and
the power that England Yields over
that country. All of the five lectures
were interesting and enlighten1ng.
The lecture on India will be briefly
reviewed here.
The Rev. Hojbjerg stated that India
has a population of 320, 100000 people
and is subdued by England. In the
last century-the nineteenth-32,OO 600
900 people died from starvation in
India and the conditions there are
nothing short of deplorable. The two
big leaders over in the antipodes are
Mahatma Ghandi and Rabendranath
Tagore India is looking to America
for understanding of their problems
and their fight for freedom to throw
off the shackles. 1t has been said
that the people of India do not under
stand, and that the country cannot
rule itself. The same was said of the
original 10 colonies in America.
Ramsay Macdonald wrote a book
on India some years ago, the sale OF
which was stopped. His heart is with
the Indians and other depressed peo-
pie. He is the man that is now Brit
ish premier.
The Rev. Hojbjerg said that the
Ghandi movement is non-violent anG
, if war can be avoided it means a great
gain, for war means lies, propaganda
, hate, and so on. Ghandi lays his
f cards openly on the table. The speak
err stated that nearly all literature
on India was written from the Eng
lish standpoint in years past and thaJ
it is only in the last Is years thai
he has gotten the other side of the
question. He advised his hearers t.
: read the book entitled, India in Bon
dage."
England has ruled India for ovel
200 years. They have plundered tn,
country and made India the poores
is, however, now an uprising and /;
determination to change conditions
, and the people of India are boycott
ting British-made goods The export
from England to India have decreased
n 1910 in the last few months. Tn,
r speaker explained that diminishe,
: export of manufactured wooden goods
J.. formerly sent in great quantities from
n England to India, is naturally shut
: ting down some factories and givin;
p less employment, and for that reasol
n is also doing some harm in England
d but the matter must come to a show
l. down, and there is no use of havin
one country feeding on another. O
~ one country living well at the expens
of starvation in a land under thei
! rule. Four-fifths of England's Ian
is owned by wealthy individuals TO
, selfish purposes, and the speaker sug
gested that such lands could be PAL
. oelled out and made more productiv
!, and of benefit to the laboring classe
that need it. The speaker stated tina
at a meeting in India last year whic
was attended by between $4,000 an
10000 people against the wishes {
l. the English lords and superiors i
d that country, so of the English mill
t, tary men came in and simply move
e people down. injured, manned, an
murdered right and left A few hour