Show STRIKE OF HINDUS BECAUSE E DOGS ARE KILLED I Effort of Bombay Authorities ties to Observe Sanitary Laws Causes Strife BOMBAY IBAY Via London July 22 I Bombay Bomba has been the scene of ot a curious curious curious curi curi- ous incident during the last few tew days Illustrating how Eastern gastern and Western thought occasionally come into conflict in India There has been a strike of Hindu merchants and shop workers against the destruction of pariah dogs The The sacredness of life is of course an article of the Hindu creed creed if if creed it itI itcan itcan I can be called called and and the Jains in particular particular particular par par- par par- hold to this tenet with great sacredness They carry their views on this question to such extremes that the wealthier of or their community buy decrepit oxen and rather than allow them to be killed place them in pin homes homes of f rest they might euphemistically be called where called where the poor beasts come to a natural If it painful painful painful pain pain- ful end In famine times when fodder is scarce Jains Jams of the more rigid sort also go to the markets and buy up large numbers of cattle which the poverty poverty poverty pov pov- erty stricken farmers are compelled lo to get rid of ot At enormous expense they thus prevent the animals falling as they would in the natural course of events e Into the hands of the terman teman Some of the community even goso go so far as to tie a bandage over the mouth so that it breathing they shall not accidentally inhale swallow and kill lem some microscopic fly Iy With such beliefs and practices In to vogue it can be understood that the disposal of pariah larlah dogs is no easy mat mat- ter These unpleasant beasts are to tobe tobe tobe be found Cound everywhere in India Even EvenIn In a modern city like Bombay there are thousands Owing to the peculiar views of the there has always been heen great grat reluctance to kill kilt them however disease Jaden laden and unsightly they ma may be For nearly a century their thir d destruction true lion tion has been legally authorized but the regulation has been very spasmodically spasmodically and sporadically enforced even If iC the animal went mad and bit other dogs and human beings Infecting them with rabies In Tn recent years rears the growth of or Western VEstern Ideas Idas of ot sanitation and hygiene hy- hy hygiene hygiene hy hy- giene has stimulated public opinion to such an extent that the government a afew afew few tew years ago after an Inquiry Into the pariah dog danger compromised with Hindu views by bv permitting the pin authorities to collect dogs liable lia lia- liable ble to destruction by reason of ot disease se seand and keep them in until the they got Rot be better or lied died This was well as asfar asfar asfar far as it went but it did not go far The efforts of ot dog protectors were wert of ot little use lIse in keeping down th the number of pariahs and five e years ears ago alto these and the dreaded disease ease of rabies were wert I found to be bt Increasing The police thereupon began the systematic de destruction destruction de- de I of ot homeless and diseased dogs Their heir methods for want of ot better better bet bet- ter were Ore distinctly unpleasant and decidedly de- de not human and pending the rho adoption of or better be ones little that was effective was done Ultimately tho the municipality quietly began the lethal chamber s system stem which of course coune Is painless swift and cure That was about six months ago All would have havo gone well wen no doubt but unfortunately unfortunately- the executive e health officer of ot Bombay perhaps thinking I religious ious prejudices against dog doS killing killingI I had died down mentioned In his monthly bulletin the number of dogs dog I that had har been officially killed This showed a total of 99 for tor January Januar and for tor April with approximating figures figures fig fig- fig I ures urs for Cor the intervening inter months This wholesale destruction at once aroused a section of the Hindu community community com com- and on the representations com I of ot ofa a II hand bill bUl published b by a mysterious Individual who ho has not yet yd be been n traced a a. large Jarge number of or servants In the cloth I mark market t and share hare market went on strike and as a consequence quence business s I was WaR temporarily brought to a stand stand- still There can be no doubt that the I mo movement had the general gentral sympathy of the Hindu merchants India however howe has not b b been en n in touch with British constitutionalism all an these years earS for nothing and a meeting of Hindu merchants decided that the action action action ac ac- ac- ac tion of the malcontents malcontEnt was absolutely Irregular and that the proper thing to was to petition government gO In constitutional constitutional constitutional con con- fashion Not a few of the tho speakers severely blamed the e native authorities for tor their remissness remissness remiss remiss- ness and all were agreed in deciding that the strike must mut end forthwith The market marlet have ha now nov written I a letter humbly praying for forgiven forgiveness ss and there for a time the matter ends Pending inquiry into the whole question question ques ques- tion by the municipal commissioner dogs clogs are aie not to be he caught In Hindu districts Although Hindu Bindu feelings are art artel el very I strong on the matter the the trouble Is likely to be smoothed over o This Is the land of ot Kuch Kuck It does doE's not matter and things probably I will drift along more or less as usual I It If the dog murder business is kept quiet The affair is is however an interesting In- In exemplification of or the fact tact that East is FAst East and West est Is West and of the difficulty of or assimilating the customs and thoughts of or the one with the other |