Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 170, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 October 1926 — Page 25

OCT. 22, 1926

MORE THAN 50,0 W SLAVES SET FREE • BY INDIAN'RULER Emancipation in India Is Met With Little Opposition. Bu United Press CALCUTTA, Oct. 22.—The last trace of slavery has-been wiped out j of NVjml. A total of 57,889 slaves j were efnanclpated as a result of the I action of His Highness the Maharajah Chandra Shum Shere Jung Bahadur Rana, according to an official communique Issued by the antiBlavery*6fflce Katmandu. In 1920 certain anti-slavery laws were enacted whereby escaped slaves Who had resided for ten years or more In a foreign land, would automatically be declared free men and 1 that those who had been away for three years might, on their return home, claim emancipation on payment of the legal amounts to their former masters. Other laws passed about the same time Invested the plaves with the right bf property ownership. Made Stirring Appeal It was not until Nov. 28, that the most Important step toward abolition was taken by the Maharajah. At that time he issued a stirring appeal to his countrymen for emancipation of slaves, the imresult of which was to rousn the consciousness of the people to the evils of a practice which was, In the words*of the Maharajah “overloaded with the leaden tears of parents and children” and on which rested the curse of the gods. Within a few months of the Issue of the appeal it was found possible to ignore the original arrangements tinder which emancipated slaves fvere bound to labor for their former piasters for seven years. The appeal Was quickly followed up by an announcement from the Maharajah of p, generous grant for this humanitarian work. In all matters relating to the abolition of slavery and the scheme of oompeysatiwn tha government, instead of coercing the slave-owners in* tny way, appear to have given the lost anxious and thoughtful considferation to their legitimate grievances. When opinions were incited from all the slave-owners it was found that an overwhelming*majority declared themselves in favor Df tothl abolition. $ The Question The question as to whether release

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should be Immediate pr preceded by a certain number ofVears of apprenticeship was also decided by a majority of opinion in favor of immediate release. With regard to compensation, 1,281 slave-owners volunteered to release their slaves without payment. Altogether 498 slaveowners demanded a higher rate of compensation tlmn thnt fixed by the government, while all the rest were agreeable to the liberal terms offered. The compensation offered in the case of female has been higher than in that of the males because the female slaves were regarded by

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their owners as of greater marketable value. . The work of emancipation Was begun early last year when the antislavery office was established at Katmaidu and a large number of officers were deputed to -different cedt ters where operations were to begin. A law was passed tibolishlng slavery altogether and forever in the whole of the kingdom of Nepal aifd strictly prohibifYng any sale, purchase, transfer in any other way, or 'mportant from outside the country and retention of any human beings

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as slaves. The penalty fixed *for transgression of this law was Imprisonment for seven years to be increased 25 per cent on every subsequent conviction. WOOLLEN QUOTES BORAH Candidate Uses© Senator’s Words in Attacking Bureaucracy. Bn Times Special LAWRENCEBURG, Ind., Oct. 22. —Senator Borah was quoted at a Democratic meeting here Wednesday by Evans Woollen, nominee for the

United States Senate, in support of the speaker’s argument agsflnst a tendency toward bureaucracy. Woollen said: #'We have moved far, are steadily moving toward the point where, in the Senator's words, 'we will still have a republic its name, but a bureaucracy in factthe most wasteful, the most extravagant, the most demoralizing and deadly form of government which God has ever permitted to torture thd human family.’ ” A weather vane, brought to the ■Dutch settlement of Albany In 1656 Is still use. j

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