Inter-Mountain Republican | 1908-03-29 | Page 5 | Indian Empire is Ready for Revolt

INDIAN EMPIRE IS I READY FOR REVOLT Hindu Professor Lectures on British Oppression and Misrule New W Toik March 2 28 S or S S. C C. K IC Hutman a o nall Hindu u and arid president or of ti the Central college at tl Colombo Ceylon Cerlon In hm his u address at atthe at the time HU on fon heater l tOday declared th time thu 3 Indian empire Ls iH ready read for fOl revolt against tho the oPPIe oppression lon ami and misrule of Great Britain lIe He spoke under the auspices of the educational alliance I r am amsi not a revolutionist le he saidI KaldI said Kald I r do not that dynamite should be pc used In settling settling- tho the ties of or India n la I 1 am um a n peaceful citizen citiZen citi clU- zen and a loyal loal subject of oC th the empire but It H Is 11 m my may dut duty to speak the truth Great Britain limos hoa broken the promises made lon ion long ago and the time time limo has come for fOl In India la to s save ave lice her I self elf This Ilmis feeling Is growing growing- an and dally daily becoming more Intense b by ode OUI realization or of what America has done for the negro We Ve have hayo no nn voice Inthe In Inthe the time government go of the great continent of oC India o We tee see suffering and starvation star tat atlon upon the faces aces oC of millions nt imf It l CI Time The cause of ot our ou great greal unrest l Is dimeto due dime to the time way tsay this country countr has of working out the problems of government and amid Justice to lo all people particularly in educational anti and missionary fit fields After After AtLer Af At- ter Ler one hundred and fifty years ears of oC English rule in India not more than 10 por per cent of or the tho people can read reali and md write writ And yet el it was only about malt half a u century ago that the United Stat States gave guve Ja Japan an Its awakening The average lL Income of or the Lural people o of India Is only emily on 1 6 per II licad menu ell 11 tier pcr year fhe They arc uie compelled to topa pa pay one fourth to tu one fifth of or this poor Income In iii taxation to to the time gov- gov and amid out of or this taxation and anti customs receipts anti and other othel receipts the time government So has haM an alt Income of nearl nearly four our hundred millions of or doll dollars rs per CI annum