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"I do not except you to execute this improvement or to surrendar the prejudice in my time but at any rate it shall not be my fault if the improvement remains unknown or rejected. There shall be on man at least, who has surrendered the prejudice, and who does not hide that fact"
Mr. John Morley.
Of
GASTRO
VOL. IV. BOMBAY, MARCH-JUNE, 1908. No. 8-11.
THE SAMETSHIKHAR
AFFAIRS & THE RUINOUS POLICY OF CERTAIN ANGLO-INDIAN PAPERS.
If there be any one more responsible in creating the present unrestful elements which have been spread far and wide from one end of the Country to the other, and which have partly resulted in the assassination of the two most innocent ladies and their Syce it is the conductors of certain AngloIndian Papers. They often poison the ears of the Government by giving false version to any movement going on in the country for the general upheaval of the people. The Government depending fully upon the reports which every now and then appear in the columns of these papers becomes more rigorous and passes a number of oppres sive and repressive measures quite un-suitable to the Indian nature. People generally by such harsh measures are
Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
driven to dispair. From dispair some of them grow desperate. The balance of their minds becomes disturbed with the result that many a time they lose the sense of distinguishing the right from the wrong and then become prepared to commit any sort of atrocities.
It is the fact known to the whole Indian world that the Government against the wishes and the religious susceptibilities of one of their most loyal, law-abiding and peace-loving subjects, Jains, have decided once for all to convert their (Jains) most sacred place namely The Parasnath Hill into a place of sanitarium or to allow permission to erect buildings thereon. The Jains on their part made all the possible constitutional
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