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adopt the logic of the "fait accompli.” Let him not drive the Jain community, by sheer despair, to adopt measures in mere self-defence which might not only embitter the relations that have been peaceful and happy for nearly three hundred years, but which might quite conceivably prejudice the entire matter in dispute by raising an unwholesome but unavoidable miasma of irrelevant and unsavoury issues that are bound to arise once a community is driven to despair. Even a worm trodden under foot will turn. And though the Jains of India are notable among the communities of India for their extreme peacefulness, the armoury of peaceful weapons to carry on the fight is not by any means exhausted. It is in the best interests of all concerned that the matter be inquired into by an impartial, dispassionate, authoritative Commission of inquiry conimanding the full confidence of both sides. Those who have justice on their side need fear no such investigation; and when the findings of the Commission are published let the supreme Government again act the umpire of the final tribunal of appeal. We the Jains have full confidence in the integrity of British justice in matters like this; and there is no reason to believe that the State has any doubt about the fairness of the final decision, given, as it must be, after full, frank and free investigation of the entire question in all its bearings.
