CH2 THT EDITOR MANAGER MONTHLY SUBSCRIPTION. 00 QUARTERLY IN ADVANCE SINGLE Corv. 25 PUBLISHED SATURDAYS S: NATION APARTADO 123. CARTAGO WEEKLY NEWSPAPER Devoted to the Interests of The Province of Limon Costa Rica generally YEAR LIMON, COSTA RICA; SATURDAY 23. AUGUST 1930 43 The Indian problem as Compared to the Negro question the pen of the mind comtasks There has been so many opinions subtler condemnation by whose spell sized Hindu town sickening of its own British judge or a British official. those Gratitude to Britain relative to the similarity of treatments the victims own! mind becomes his accumulating filth because, by some rights so the Untouchable persistently executioner?
declares. have been Yet in an Untouchables declaration handed out to the Negro race as local accident, Untouchables were lachonored and defended.
dating back to 1917 and covering deccompared to the Indian problem now «Untouchability, so the Hindu code king to remove it and no caste man in discussion, that we are tempted to ades then past a declaration in part teaches, is incurred by sin. For exam would stoop to the task. have seen Taking, then, the two influences to quoted and reaffirmed by the Untouchreproduce the following article from ple, the man who kills a Brahman, after another Hindu town obliged to aban gether that of certain uncompromisable member of the Indian Central famous American au myriads of reincarnations upon earth don its site and build again at a distance ing Christian missionaries, whose field Committee of 1929 (Report, 377. thor Miss Katherine Mayo; so that our for the same reason. An Untouchables boy. of operations and influence has been we find these words: readers may get an inside glimpse of be born an Untouchable. As Untouchsome of the real causes prompting able through thousands of rebirths the list emight therffore be not without much restricted by their own small numbers, and that of the British judge Our improvement in the social and Ghandi civil disobedience, and see must expiate in degradation, want and means organized intelligent effort. see and administrator, whose field has been economic scale began with and is due in how far they coincide with some to the British Government. We shall pain, the crime of which his re amongst you, my Untouchable broth the whole of British India the treatments to the Negro of a couple tains no memory but the conclusive fight to the last drop of our blood any ers no leaders capable of directing such mon denominator of their effects upon decades ago, as well to see how in proof of which lies in his birth status. elfort, your possibility of boycott, therthe Untouchables is a slowly increasing attempt to transfer the seat of authorefore, fails see (cf. Freedooni Batle, trigues by Religion, and other diplorestlessness under the Hindu yoke, ity in this country from British hands aristocrat in his walks abroad meeting Gandhi, 157. More forcetul methods and an obstinate loyalty to the best if have ill treated us in the past and would matic propaganda, are brought to di vide the thoughts of solidarity of any an Untouchable, orders him off the should disapprove if undertaken by not the only friends that history has subjected races; rendering the of King highway, lest an unclean shadow you. And thus the conclusion emerges do so again but for the protection of British laws. Madras Adi Dravida Jana leaders to higher thoughts of freedom defile the caste man sun; when he Now, whether personally or political Sabha. Address presented to his Excelthat, for any marked elevation of your so onerous, and almost impossible to commands him to cover his mouth, lot, you may patiently toil on, restingly, neither one of these phenomena is attain the success achievable only by lency the Viceroy and the Honble.
though speaking from far off, lest in the hope that somehow, sometime acceptable to Gandhi. Therefore he unification of ideas and actions be Secretary of State for India. unclean breath pollute the caste man a spoutaneous change of attiude toward meets them, when he must, in characcause how can any cause, be it ever By 1930, however, even Gandhi could air, when he forbids him religious you may develop in the Hindu men teristic fashion; first, by telling himself no loger remain blind to the incipient so inspired succeed in the uplift of teaching, lest unclean lips defile the tality, Meantime, venerate the Hindu re and the outer world that they have a Race, when propaganda of class against mutiny in the stoke hold. The stokeword of the caste man gods, he arouses ligion and help me and my (free rulers) never existed; secondly, by casting dis hold, to be sure, lies exceedingly far Mass Keeps the group divided and no resentment in his victim mind. Swaraj. ists to rid India of the Satanic credit upon specific instances of their antagonistic to themselves, Poor Ghanbelow water, the ringleaders are few, Herein emerges the masterpiece of British Government exislence. Take, for example, the Undi being a Caste Hindu by birth the the mutineers little practiced in muthat mysterious soul force of which Work of Christianity touchable repeated, passionate and political stunt is used against him, that tiny. Still their patron had best drop we hear. Cunning and foresight, using spectacular mass outbreaks of devotion he cannot engraft his feelings into a them a word: Let the Untouchable soul force alone, have accomplished Considerably earlier, however, than lavished upon the Prince of Wales on his similarity of those of the unwashed. what must have failed with might of Gandhi adoption of Untouchability visit to India in 1922 a welcome brethren, he exhorts them, not be lured from the common goal because it arms. Implanting and maintaining a as a talking point, two active influences poured forth, as should be recalled, delethal idea in the minds of both exspite Gandhi utmost and blood stained was the presence of Englishmen that each of the steady, plodding and unIn the midst of the civil disobe.
ploited and exploiter, it has drugged vocal type, had begun affecting the efforts to prevent it, and duly chronstimulated Hindu thought and brought to the Untouchables a sense of their dience campaign launched by Gandhi the self respect, atrophied the very and the outbreaks of violence in many situation. The first of these was and icled in the press of the day. Five years manhood of its prey, producing there parts of India, the Simon Commission is the reclamation work of the Chris later, being reminded of that demons rights. As rulers they can do, have by today 60, 000. 000 creatures in hu tian missionaries. It is now some sixty tration, Gandhi quite humanly finds (Young India, April 17, 1930. has published its recommendations for the whole man shape, most of whom submit to years since that work began, and of the far reaching changes in the memory not only personally unflatregard themselves as no better tham 5, 000. 000 present day Indian Christianis rassment; he therefore divests himself tering but also politically an embar And then, with assurance that system of Indian government. These aawling worms and all this for the the large majority are Untouchable in hundreds of Hindu reformers greatly proposals tend, it is said, to still more sole comfort, profit and material serorigin. Too much credit can scarcely of the fact by the simply expedient desire the removal of Untouchability, stringent British control and for that vices of upper classes who do not twice bes of dubbing it fiction much progress in that direction reason have met with opposition from be given to these simple and devoted outnumber their serfs.
all shades of Indian opinion. Miss workers of the Salvation Army, the was already been made, that his last Again, in 1928, upon the arrival in Gandhi has long denounced this sysCongress actually appointed a commitMayo analysis of Gandhi attitude mission of Dornakal and certain others Indian of the Simon Commission and tem. Untouchability, he writes, is a tee to secure for Untouchables admistoward the Untouchables may perhaps snake with a thousand mouths through age, of Hindu politics and ot the pleasant who, regardless alike of personal advant the appearance before it of the first of many Untouchable delegations to plead sion to Hindu temples, he ends by once arouse a controversial storm comparable each of which it shows its poisonous favor of the intelligentsia, have plunged the Untouchable case, Gandhi, serimore adjuring the accursed millions to to that provoked by her book, Mother India. Miss Mayo article is followed fangs. See Ghandi newspaper (Young into mud waist deep and set thei ously mettled rushes to kill the mesleave their fate in Hindu hands, and if lodian, July 11, 1929. And again. Hinshoulders to the burden of the slaves they will not join him in attacking the senger credit Did not a so called by a comprehensive summary of the dus must hang down their heads in The material result, wherever these British, at least to refrain from action Simon report.
deputation on behalf of Untouchable shame as long as the curse of the on their own behalf until the British The Underdogs people have dug in. is cleanliness instead welcome the commission as its true Untouchability persist. Young Indian, of squalor, health instead of rottenness, deliverers? he sneers. make bold to have been driven from India As we read each day d! spatches Aug. 29, 1929. To the present But the alarm roused by the saint courage instead of cringing, a percent. assert that they no more represented (March 17, 1926) he declared. Untouage of literacy high above that of the the Untouchables than would a party fulminations of the previous year had India, most of us, probably, sympathize chabality is for me more insufferable Hindu body and, education once receiv of Japs, for instance. See his Young already spread. Mahatma Gandhi, with the sunderdog. Such sympathy than British rule, thereby recalling such ed, a frequent and most un Hindu like India, Feb. 9, 1928, 44. one slave had cried to another, swas comes naturally to Americans. But in of his earlier assertions as: We shall willingness to return to the village Yet only seven days laiter, we find our lip service friend. Now he would this case we face an obstacle. The be unfit to gain Swaraj (home rule) as and live for the less fortunate of the the chief official spokesman of the hold us down with one hand while with actual underdog lies buried at a depth long as we would keep in bondage the other he raises our enemies, the same blood.
whole Untouchable body declaring in we can hardly plumb. He strangles at a fifth of the population of Hindustan Now the fact may as well be faced his community behalf, on the floor of Hindus, to drive out our real protecthe bottom of the heap. Moreover, he also it is a reform not to follow Swaraj that the decisive agent in effecting this tors! One Untouchable association the legislative Assembly in Delhi: sends us no dispatches, no poets, no but to precede it. See (Freedom Batle, metamorphosis, has been the miligave forth this desolate wail: We welcome this commision. We feel advocates, no publicity agents. Mahatma Gandhi. Ganesh, Madras, 1922, tant teaching and the full acceptance that there is a possibility of its proving Disastisfaction over subscriptions In British India, every fourth person pp. 160 and 164) Alluding to the Hindu of the doctrines of Jesus Christ. Our is a slave held in a type of bondage intelligentsia blanket formula, Political liberal tenet that it savours of impu commision would have been suicidal a blessing to us. We feel that a mixed misappropriated compared to which our worst Negro power will cleanse us of all social sins: dence to urge upon alien non Christian from our point of view: Referring to slavery was freedom. Dim ages ago, meantime why bother he has sharply peoples our own religious views is, to Millions of rupees have been gathered; Brahman priests originated the system.
asked, as to the assumption that under the Untouchables at least, as useful as the Hindu poiiticians objection to the in the name of National causes, but Maintained and elaborated from that Swaraj the Untouchables will be free all Britisth composition of the Simon lavished on the aggrandizement of the a chestnut roaster in hell. To quote the Commission. You (Hindus) will not time until this present hour, it has be from oppresion, Why can we not de recent words of an eminent Indian Mus face realities. You knovv full well that higher castes, on loud boastings of come, as an eminent Indian Muslim clare their freedom now? If we are lim, for the Untouchable millions there the depressed classes cannot accept Hindu Spirituality before foreigners, or describes it, one of the most terrible powerless today sall we be less power is no emancipation from the bondage the humiliating position they are in on Congress propaganda here and abroad engines of tyranny and oppression which Iss under Swaraj. Young India, Jan. and thraldom of the crushing yoke and yet you expect them to join you image of God, are perishing. Somewhilst millions of souls made in the human ingenuity and selfishness can 14, 1926. of birth and the inexorable law of in boycotting the Simon commission.
invent. See. Dr. Abdullah al amun Karma, so long as their belief in the times our hearts cry outWhy have Suhrawardy. Report of the Indian Cen His ery borne but little Fruit We form one fifth of the humanHindu religion remains unshaken.
we been placed among Hindus?
tral Committee, Supplementary Note, But Gandhi vehement outcry over From this grim religious obsession today. We may be denied education, we ity in this country. We may be depressed Other Untouchable unions, more 1930, of soul slavery, only an antipodal creed, boldly assertive, offered Satyagraha Ву all the years has borne small fruit, this device. Untouchability, the may be treated as slaves, but we are before Hindu temples, day after day defiled as it is called over 60, 000, 000, amongst those reproved, other than brought by men themselves white hot bound to be counted upon, and we shall approaching the precincts, to be beaten mere words and barren gestures. It has with belief in the supreme efficacy of (The total number of the Depressed say to the country and to the world that their own faith, could set the victim back with sticks and stones, or barring created only surface ripples on the Classes is variously estimated. The the race is not always to the swift nor free. Such men, though few, have come. the fight always to the most vociferous.
the entry to the temple with their own figure here used is that found in the deep, still ocean of Hindu custom.
And while a more polite and conciliabodies stretched upon the earth so that We shall go before the Simon Com1929 27 statement of the Director of When, however, turning from his Hindu audience, Gandhi has addressed tory type of missionary, happy in tradforth from worship India. See also Report of the Indian mission to place our case frankly. Leging dogmas with high caste intellectuthe Untouchables themselves, his tone must touch them and be defield. And islative Assemby Debates, Feb. 16, 1920, Central Committee, 1928 29, pp. 366 has changed. Now no longer the reals, has scarcely either a convert or a of these demonstrating 431. British Indian subjects are denied all former, but the politician, he looks to reason to show for his decades of commasses was stayed in its course to be social rights, including such elementals warned that Gandhi would probably the future, and invites no dangerous fortable keep, these robust, hidden, as access to the public water supply for humble folk down below have done a Sets Party against the other codemn its aggressiveness, its spokes they are believed to convey pollution upheaval of the ground beneath his man is thus quoted: We know Mr.
by touch, by approach, sometimes even feet. Flowing somewhat over. easily, job of humanizing work, have aroused But Gandhi, having long considered a volume of outspoken gratitude and perhaps, from the assured material Gandhi is against it. But we don care.
the Untouchables as his special proby visibility: they are forbidden any affection, have developed a propagan tegés, and their behavior as subject to comfort and social prestige of his own calling save those deemed shameful, ordinariy life, Ghandi We will resume Satyagraha if Mr.
counsel to dizing power, not without potentiality his control, can hardly persuade himGandhi or God himself is against it.
and are barred from the means in future India.
This particular incident occurred in hope of making their children happier ism and submission can have brought less than dogs a counsel of quiet self that the position has changed. If November, 1929. Five months later, than themselves.
Work of British Justice the less than dogs dare now refuse when Gandhi had launched his present them little more than sheer despair.
to heel, surely there must be a reason To live in poverty and ignorance What though the toddy palm inThe second influence that has worked other than that he, as their patron, attack upon the government and start vite you, flaunting its wanton plumes whlle Gandhi has talkedhas been Brited on his shuarch to the sea, Untouchsaint, has been weighed and found Yet, uch as this were all, an honable representatives convened in your face so his scattered pre ish justice. Bound by the old official Poona wanting. Casting about for relief, he est thinker might commit the case to cepts may be summarized turn not pledge not to interfere in the religious presently finds it Look, he cries, at issued a signed manifiesto in part as follows: natural adjustment and say: So great for solace to its fermented juice. Nei beliefs of the India peoples the Gov the shameless manner in which, for a multitude, so goaded, must, sooner In view of the fact that Mr. Gandhi, their eat rotten meat from abandoned ernment of India has refrained from sustaining the spoliation of India, Britor later, stiffen its back and save itself.
the Dictator of the Indian National Concarcasses, even if better food you have bringing force to the rescue, and it ish statesmen are setting one party The law of biological evolution will gress, has declared a civil disobebience none. Continue quietly in that calling was not until 1919 that it actually gave against another. They have suddenly work the surest cure. But the phys to which you and your fathers were to the depressed Classes euphemis discovered the Untouchables for they movement before doing his utmost to ial aspect of. Untouchability is its born. The chief of these being scaven tically so termed, some slight measure secure complete removal of Untoucha more innocent part Openly to condemn ing, it is, of course, theoretically possi of representation in Indian legislative dissensions alone might not prove seem to fear that the Hindu Muslim bility, it is decided to organize the all men of a given blood to live out ble that you might, by adopting my bodies. But wherever the equal rights security enough for retaining possessions Indian National Anti Revolutionary party.
their lives, from birth to death in filth, own weapon of boycott, by flatly refus of the Uutouchable as a human being of the most glorious diadem in the The party will regard British rule as poverty and ignorance, is monstrous ing to scavenge for the Hindu, bring and a fellow subject have rested for absolutely of Untouchability and the British crown. Young India, March 1, enough, but what shall be said of that the Hindu to terms, have seen a good raciorecognition on the forestActeubendecas1928, ispric618. ultura y Juventud, Costa Rica.
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