Because they knew they could do more and they would work because they knew they were getting money
Kipling, like many individuals in his generation, viewed colonialism as a positive force. Kipling believed that it was a facilitator of civilization, it provided important moral and educational benefits and was the responsibility of more advanced nations to bestow on less advanced nations.
He led the soviet union during the height of the cold war
the sons of liberty used it as leverage and overdramatized it to get more people to join their cause, calling it a massacre and saying that the men were ordered to fire when they weren't