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Issues and Events That Should Not Fade
Some Interesting Tit-Bits of Information
ALL INDIA REVOLTS AGAINST RULE OF
BRITON.
Hindus at Mass Meeting in Fresno Contribute $1,000.
Five hundred Hindus, residents of Fresno and the
neighboring communities, gathered here on Sept. .24
to pledge their financial support to the anti-British
revolutionary movement now being agitated in India.
A fund of $1,000 was contributed by the audience and
placed in the hands of the chairman of the meeting,
Ram Chandra, editor of the Hindustan “Gadar,” a San
Francisco publication. The money will be forwarded
to the headquarters of the revolutionists and will be
used to arm the rebels and carry on the revolt against
what Ram Chandra yesterday declared was “Britain’s
murderous career of aggression and exploitation.”
A number of prominent Hindus addressed the gath-
ering, all speaking generally of the anti-British feeling
nowiprevailing in India and exhorting their listeners
to lend both their moral and financial support to their
struggling countrymen. The former can best be given,
it was pointed out by the speakers, by the maintenance
of a strict sobriety and abstinence from all forms of
gambling and carousal.
HAUL DOWN THE FLAG!
(Philippine Weekly.)
It’s time to pull down the American Flag! The
United States of America may nominally retain their
sovereignty over these islands, but the real sovereignty -
seems from all appearances to be vested in the British
Government, with Consul Rentiers as the dictator and
lord supreme. Apparently Harrison doesn’t amount
to a damn in the ideas of the local British colony and
what he thinks or says is treated with as much con-
sideration as would be the words of a petty Indian
prince by the Sirdar. The English are running the
business of these islands, and many neutral firms and
American concerns are compelled to do whatever the
British consul demands of them in order to get per-
mlSS10I1 to continue in business. Firms are placed on
the blacklist and they arenotified of the action of the
English authorities. They are told that they have
been convicted of dealing with the enemy, and hence
they can get no more goods carried on British ships,
and that every means will be used to ruin them. The
manager of the American or neutral firm wants to find
out what he can do to get off this list, and is told that
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he can put up $100,000 as a guarantee of good faith
that he will not in future trade with the enemy, and
this sum must be deposited with some bank designated
by the consul. He must also agree to submit his
books to examination at regular periods of an English
accountant or auditor, and must pay the auditor for
such work. The auditor's report is submitted to the
English consul to be used by him as he sees fit. If he
agrees to these conditions his name is taken off the
list. But where does he get off at the end? Why,
as the story goes, the auditor steals all his business
secrets, "what he pays for goods, whom he gets them
from, to whom he sells, and at what prices and terms of
payment, etc. It is rumored that this information is
peddled to the English firms who are in the same lines
and used by them to put the poor sucker out.of busi-
ness. What becomes of the $100,000 that he has put
up as a guarantee that he will not do business with a
German or Austrian? Why, of course, the money is
used either by the English banks or the English Gov-
ernment to help tide over a hard time when sovereigns
are scarce, and he would not have any chance to get it
back before the war ended. But suppose after the
war ended he asked for his money? Well, he is told
that complaints have been filed against him accusing
him of selling goods to the enemy and his guarantee
or deposit has been forfeited. He has no holler! He’s
been stung! Plain robbedl And l'le'l‘l'lLlSt take his
medicine.
But the American Government, can it do nothing?
It seems not. A spineless outfit is on the lid and even
at Washington the British Ambassador seems to be the
boss. Oh for one hour of Grover Cleveland!
The World says in an editorial: . .
“Why American consumers have to pay exorbitant
prices for meat is clearly enough explained by the
statistics of meat exports compiled by the National
City Bank. Not only did the exports of meats of all
kinds rise from 455,000,000 pounds in 1914 to 1,339.-
000,000 pounds last year, but fresh beef shipments dur-
ing the same period jumped from 6,400,000 pounds to
231,000,000 pounds. Most of this was c0nsigned't0
the belligerent countries, Great Britain, France and
Italy taking 214,000,000 pounds of American beef last
year, as against none at all in the year before the war.
In other terms, the United States has exported to
Europe during the two years of the war twenty-nine
times as much beef as in the two years immediately
preceding the war, and this in the face of a decrease
in the supply of cattle and a decline of domestic imports
of meat to less than half the amount for 1914. Is there
any wonder that the price of meat for home consump-
tion is higher than at any time since the Civil War?".
We have received proof of a new trick employed b)’
the English mail robbers to infiuence sentiment in
neutral countries. They use all wrappers and .611-
velopes from Germany, containing German pamphlets
or other printed matter and substitute pro-Allies litera-
ture for the contents. A firm in San Salvador, Central
America, which had been receiving a German page’
regularly, all of a sudden found in the wrapper a Swiss
announcement regarding the publication of “Because
I am a German,” the notorious anti-German book. In
another envelope, stolen from the German mail, the
Allies’ cuckoo had laid a French weekly, La Verite.
. -N. Y. Herold.