The Phoenix index., 1941-05-31
An Open Letter TO
His Excellency
By MACK v. NANCE
Nogales, Arizona
May Is, 194l

V1dy ~,
The Most Honorable Mahatma
Gandhi,
Indore, India,
Noble Sir:
retain both the honor and
pleasure, 10 have befcte me,
message from their Excellencies,
CMahatnaa Gandhi -Pandit Java
harlai NehrU to the American
people. Your very interesting mes
sage, coming from a deeply rellg-
ious and Christian heart, never
theless reveals the astonishing fact
that your eminence has been mis-
chieviously and even criminally
misinformed as to the true condi-
tions here in the United States.
Notwithstanding, my unequivo-
cal loyalty, love and a deep respect
for my fatherland, I feel it
my sacred duty to express condi-
tions as they are, in this land of
false democracy, the land of de-
ceptive and misleading propaganda.
Please be informed that the same
people, the same specimen of free
dom snatchers, the same Anglo
Saxons progeny of an evil past,
that have held your people in ab-
ject slavery and want, for the past
33 years, to certain extent, are
in complete control in this land
that your Excellency call free.
Please be advised that a cobra
shipped from India to the United
States will not destroy or even oi-
lutte the venom resting in the poi
son sack of the reptile Neither
will the transfer of the Anglo
Saxon, from one hemisphere to
another. decrease their unsavory
appetite, to exploit and enslave all
nou-white races upon the face of
the earth.
Obviously, Your Excellency has
learned this You intimate, in
your splendid message, that the So
called Americans do not need your
council, because we are free. This
sir. is an assumption that should
not be taken too seriously, by you
or your good people. The source of
such information, obviously is de-
rived from bunch of irreSpon-
'ible chauvanistic penny grabbers,
whose only interest in you or your
people, is of a commercial value.
Have any of these synthetic, hui
nan parasites made any strenuous
efforts to alleviate your mental and
social status, other than a line of
deceptive Zip service?" Can you
sir, imagine group of slave
1olders, of the United States. trav-
cling thousands of miles to liberate |
;laves in another country, when at |
home abject slavery exist in its
meaneSt form? Believe me sir.
when I say thai these so-called
sympathetic emisSaries, from the
United States, are in fact couriers
Of white supremacy, race hatred
race prejudice, have and will do
more to clinch or perpetuate the
social status of your people than
to alleviate same
Be not deceived by the perfid'-
ious Anglo-Saxon races. The Unit
ed States, like India, has its idle
and non-sympathetic Rajahs in
the form of the very wealthy dollar
barons. They are more heartless,
more beastial than those of your
country. Like India, my country
possesses non-touchahles. While a
mild form of -touchables ex-
ist in your country, a very cruel
and villainy form exists in the land
that you mistakingly call free.
Here too, the caste system, in it's
most despicable form thrives and
grows more noticeably each day.
Please believe me, when 1 say that
babes of certain "caste'' are in
dicted, tried, convicted and SEN
fenced, while yet in their mothers
womb. Here in the United States
in the backwoo6s and
Gods cruel south, there exist slav-
cry, forced labor and in many in
stances, forced bastardy; all
against an innocent people, whose
only sins are an ardent aspiration
for life, liberty and the peaceful
pursuits of happiness. Thus, well
known American once wrote:
Look 1T Thy Hands; They Are
Stained With The Blood Of An +,
Innocent People" Is this the quail
ity of democracy You aspire for
your people? May the gods forbid. |
Here, shall expose just a few of |
the vile products of democracy, as |
lived and practiced in the United |
States: There exist economic and |
industrial slavery, disfranchise- |
ment, taxation without representa- |
tion, Jim-crowism, lynchings, un-
equal education system, murder
and terrorism in a primitive and |
pagonistic style. This, mostly, in |
what is known as the barbarious |
south. From 130 million 1nhabi- |
tants of the United States, there |