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of a Maratha Hit-Karini Sabha on the lines of the great social Kajaput organisation going by the name of that gentleman. With your advice such an institution ought to be a very material help to His Highness in accomplishing the great objects which he has always bad in a view. If the Maratha community were to move in the direction, no better promoters of their aims could be available than His Highness and yourself.
Were I to give expression to all my thoughts on this occasion, I am afraid I should tire out your patience. We are all-friends and foes alike-human beings and as such shortcomings are the lot of each one of us. I do not therefore claim for a person like his Highness who has every day to satisfy a hundred divergent claims any sort of Popish or Brahmanic infallibility. As true citizens we would be failing in our duty if we overlooked the mutual obligation of kings and their subjects to exchange views and help each other. These are mere platitudes that need no proof; but when under pretext of discharging a sacred duty, you aim a covert blow, there comes the parting of our ways. To those who here part company with us I have little to say, their interest with the masses consists in a permanently supercilious and domineering attitude towards the very men that in politics are approached as comrades and equals. The cry for justice raised by such men is never sincere: the only proper answer for them, in the words of a Persian poet, is:
“Thou who dost blame injustice in mankind, Tis but the image of thine own dark mind,” which is no concern of the men whose chief aim is the regeneration of the great masses of our fellows-men, our own kith and kin, the men with whom our destinies too are for ever linked.
Col. Ferris, I request you will now kindly unveil the oilpainting of His Highness the Maharajasaheb.
The Mission Press, Kenapur.
