The Story Of Swami Rama - Holybook

The Story Of Swami Rama
[From a Minneapolis Paper—Minneapolis Tribune]
WOULD SAVE COUNTRYMEN
SWAMI RAM PLANS THE REDEMPTION OF THE
IGNORANT MASSES IN INDIA
AMERICAN EDUCATION
HE WOULD HAVE THEM COME HERE, AS DID THE YOUNG
JAPANESE
―IN India we have no such spectacles as this‖,
remarked Swami Ram, the noted high caste Hindu,
at the university this morning as he indicated the
audience which was composed nearly half of girls.
The Swami, who is visiting in this country to
secure aid in promoting a plan for the redemption
of the ignorant masses of India, spoke to the
university students who crowded chapel hall to
hear him. He painted a stirring picture of the
destitute condition of India.
"The people," he said, "are dying every year by the
millions. It is the ultimate result of their own
ignorance and superstition. The caste system is at
the bottom of much of the trouble. The lower caste
cannot tread the same highways as the upper class.
They are not admitted to the universities. Even the
upper class is not well off. A college graduate
receives $20 a month or less, and is then expected
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