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It caused no sense of shame to the Indian troops that, at the time of the war with China, when the troops of the Allied Forces saluted according to rule such Indian Officers as Jemadars or Subadars, the British, Germans, Americans and Russians stopped the practice, for-bidding their soldiers to salute. Such is Indian slavery. you were not dead to all sense of shame, surely such things would affect you. Alas that you are so exceed- ingly contented patiently to toil more arduously than
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tlie beasts of the field. I do not know from what policy or with what end in view you accept the British as your hereditary masters or why it is engraven on your minds that you were destined to be their servants. If such be really your ideas what difference is there between you and the brute creation.
People come to America from all parts of the world. The Americans sympathise with any nation that is noù free like themselves and give monetary assistance I will give you a few examples, viz.: - the Jews, who have been appressed in Russia, the Armenians, Boers etc., These people have come to America and made a statement of their condition, representing the manner in which they had been oppressed. They naturally look to America for help and sympathy since America knows that these people are inferior in every way, especially in point of numbers, to their oppressors.
But when any Indian appeals to America in this way, the Americans wonder and jestingly reply. "You Inidan people number 500,000,000 and the British army in Hindustani is not more than 100,000 (exclusive of native troops). How can it arise that 100,000 men oppress 300,000,000 ? If you people were to arm yourselves with
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