Show E The In india arx to all account hOB has assumed vast raal proper proportions It Is now hOW estimated that In do Brit Ish por persons ons are Me and th t Il a greater ater number le II In the n th states Anti If the crop on un tin lands will be lost and the distress to t tIle 0 other distrIcts Ile he history or of the he country le Is fun full of ot of such uch Between I ISO SO and Are million wern wem lost loat 11 by Between and 1179 the tho I lets 1 bY hunger r le Is estimated nt at I Ies In ISH 1174 the Ule scarcity of food fod wee not confined to a 11 to few dis districts but It wu was common to alt 1111 British h India At that time the government ca camps camPI with people In each Ach on halt hatt rations cl d und and badly sheltered and c cones le artIM aITA with Uh diseases The St at PaUUl Pioneer Press speaking f In lake j ji i c rd tile the country of that O occur Cur rencA is fA hy by ridding It ii of I Its religion lon Abolish saga that pa paper r child mar with II its inevitable consequences In 10 the degener of Ute the race abolish the superstitious fear of whole tame of 01 td feud forbidden by Hindu law abolish caste rute In short hort substitute the usages of Christianity for tor those thoo of oC an antiquated and the l physical hr redemption of would follow its Ita religious To abolish caste and compel the peo pia 1110 to cat ent food tood prohibited by their line rot records can however not be bedone bedone done with the sanction or of true Chris which le II based on the of liberty It cannot bo b e accomplished b by the tho commonly accepted religion of Chris Christian tian countries for tor nil all through Chris Christendom Christendom caste exists a as badlY ns as In India and It seems to bo be growing On Onu onus u us So If that l Is the Iho only remedy India must continue to 10 suffer periodically from famine Besides the substitution ot of Christianity for and Buddhism would mean the tho general In or of the saloon and 1 as Is II In evidence In all 1111 oriental clues where Christian has lIal obtained a foothold and that would perhaps be equivalent to the decimation ot of the Indian population by Intemperance and other vices Ices train from which they now are aro entirely tree free Even Evon It If child marriage is III an objectionable Indian would It be an any gala gain galato to prohibit It In favor tavor of certain not 1101 unknown In the Christian Occident Indian famines are always caused b by bythe the lack ot of rain and the consequent failures of the tho crop Just as In this country floods have havo been charged to the sheep so In India It ha has bean beon lIu sup supposed po posed l the goats o are Bre responsible for tor the drought Flock ot of from to 20 goats goals will III roam over n a tract or of land and In Il a short time denude It of 01 all young trees and green shoots Soon the forests die out as would the population tion of a city were all the children to tobe tobe be taken oft off Hut But when the forest I Ip gone the is short and the con can consequences sequences sequenceR are 1 a scanty harvest and hunger bunger A rational system of tore forestry try and attention to irrigation over oer that Is possible would be the s l atlon of India A religious lion would but Lut add to famine and pee peB thence mence another curse curee During the present British crisis It Itis is hi not probable that the government can enn pay Jay proper attention to the needs of time the stricken Indian districts The 1 B nn are aro fatalists and submit to what they accept III as the will or of the AlmI Almighty but when the pangs of hunger spur them on they will become bec loe lawless There le Is some lorne danger In this nt at 1 a time when J enemies are on the out outlook outlook look for or 1 n chance chanco to get gal even with that countr country for tor diplomatic victories won In the past |