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the provisions of the Bombay Act. The Bombay Act has been used to paralyze public activity of kind inconvenient to the Government in that city. What, moreover, the necessity of suddenly resorting to the stringency of the Bombay Art at this particular juneture. It is not alleged that any of the meetings or processions recently organized were disorderly or led to disturbance or public inconvenience. The only fresh emergency was the political.
A Hin: from Dinajpur.
The Amrita Bazar Patrika
notices a case from Dinajpur which may give a few hints to Sir Edward Baker if he really wants or is wanted to establish police antocracy in Calcutta. Mr. Garlick there justified the caning of witnesses and neensed by the police as a necessary
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the strength of police reports, and the plucky struggle made by the Company against overwhelming
odds.
The Company represents an output of patriotic effort and selfother has suerifice such as no behind it and it would be a public disgrace if its appeal went unheard.
A Swadeshi Enterprise.
19 of a novel enterprise of considerable magnitude and it has suffered more than ethers from competition supported by official symthy. To Nationalists it will be tient to recall the name of
baram Pillai, condemned to A term of imprisonment on
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One of the great weaknesses of the Swadeshi movement at present is the oase with which, under the stress of necessity, admit articles as Swadeshi which are to all intents and purposes foreign. It is always therefore an encouraging sign when a real Swadeshi enterprise is started which liberates us from the necessity of such humiliating compromises, especially when they affect articles of daily necessity. We take for an instance. what we choose to call Swadeshi umbrellas although these are Swadeshi only so far as the labour of fitting the parts together is concerned. Sirdar Rajuachikar of Poona and his brother have done a service to Swaleshi by starting a factory in which all the parts except the iron ribs and stretchers are either made in the factory or, in the matter of the cloth,
method of examination" without which the administration of justice in this country cannot be carried on. He says "I daresay the police frequently quicken the witness' answers with a cut from their riding cans. Such methods of eruminaTon are no doubt to be deprecated but withont them I do not suppose the police would get any information at all". The case will come ap before the High Court and we await with interest the view that authority will take of this novel legal dictum. Meanwhile why should not Sir Edward Baker take time by the forelock and, after a now familiar method, validate such methods" beforehand by a clause in his Police Bill empowering any policeman to cut with a cane any Citizen whom he may fancy guilty of breaking any law so as to per suade him to desist? Of course the said policenian will not be liable to punishment unless it can be proved that he cut in bed fith. The Swadeshi Steam Navigation Company. We publish elsewhere an appeal from the promoters of the enter prise which first encouraged Indian energy and capital into the new path many are now preparing to follow. This Company, as the pioneer, had to face all the difHeult- YOUTH AND THE BUREAUCRACY.
procured from Poona and Bombay mills. The only drawback is the high prices of these articles compared with the cheapness of the fractionally Swadeshi umbrellas. This we believe, is largely due to the high prices of the cloth produced from the Bombay mills, but the people of Bombay and Poona are taking these umbrellas by the thousand in spite of the difference. We hope Bengal will be as patriotic in this small but important matter. The prices will come down as soon as a sufficient market is crented. Meanwhile we must take the Swadeshi article at a sacrifice As we have pledged ourselves to do by any number of vows and resolutions. To replace foreign by indigenous in the objects of daily use Is the very lifebreath of Swadeshi.
Sir Edward Baker is usually a polite and caretul man and a diplomatic official. It is not his fault if the policy he is called upon to carry through is one void of statesmanship and contradictory of all the experience of history. Neither s
it his fault if he lacks the necessary weight in the counsels of Government to make his own ideas prevail. He carries out an odious. task with as much courtesy and discretion as the nature of the task will permit and, if we have had to criticise severely the amazing indiscretion foreign to his usual habits which he was guilty of on a recent occasion, it was with a recognition of the fact that he must have forgotten himself and spoken on the spur et the moment. But as the Angl Indian bureaucracy is now consti tuted, Sir Edward's personal superority to his two predecessors is of no earthly use to us. We acknowledge the politeness and self-retraint of the wording in his recent advertisement to the educational authorities and the public at large of the inadvisability of allowing students to mix in the approaching Boycott celebration. But his reserve of language cannot succeed in blanding the public, still less the parties addressed, to the real nature of this promulgation. To parties circumstanced like the authorities of the Bengal Colleges official or private it is one of those hints which do not differ from orders. The whole
Calcutta University has been placed under the heel of the Executive authority and no amount of writhing or wry faces will sav Principals and Professors from the humiliating necessities proper to this servile and degraded position. They have sold themselves for lucre and they must eat the bitter bread of their self-chosen servitude.. If they are asked to do the spys office or to be the instruments for
imposing on young men of educa tion and respectability restricttions unexampled outside Russia, it is not theirs to reject the domand instantly as freemen would indig nantly reject such degrading proposals. They must remember that the affiliation of their colleges and the grants which alone can enable them to satisfy the arduous conditions of affiliation depend on the fiat of those who meke the demand. These things are in the bond. For the rest, the unwisdom. of the wise men and the imprudence of the prudent who stopped the students' strike is becoming more and more apparent. Prudence and wisdom for the proprietors private schools. for the country K was the worst imprudence and
