Show J England Worried England at the behest of her money non y lenders and her of officers i- i cers in India who wanted their pay in gold the litt little I mints in India which for centuries had been the reliance of I the the people of when times of scarcity of food prevailed They could take tak their silver bangles bangle and other trinkets to the mints and have them coined into rupees with which to buy food Soon after the mints were closed a great famine swept over India and thousands and hundreds of tho thousands sands of the poor wretches died of hunger because they could no longer longet have their hoarded silver coined into rupe rupees s. s And England sat calmly and looked on That was las twenty years ago England reconciled herself her her- self with the thought that she had done what she could to maintain main main- tam tain sound money which was mo more e vital to the ts of the s state te than the lives ies of sc several ral hundred thousand poor wretches who had not much to live for an anyway vay At the same time England was pushing her railways into the cotton and wheat producing regions of that country arid was congratulating ing herself that after a while she would be able to g get t her wheat and her cotton from her own colonies But five or six years ago began to draw upon England for her balance in The amount thus exacted rapidly increased and now it Amounts to half as much as the pro product of the Rand and Rhodesia mines The drain is most alarming to such Englishmen English English- men as think of the near future when those mines will cease to pay but the demand for Win will be bc increased And And v no now the people of India are dO with gold as they did with silver put ting it into ingots and hoarding it i The wisest men ot of England cannot see what the end is is' to be |