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the British public against India. Some retired Anglo-Indian High Officials also mislead the Btitish publie by the asser tion of untrue andincorrect facts while some few Anglo-Indians real and xenuine friends of India, men like Sir William Wedderbern, Sir Henry Cotton and some others try their best to disabuse the public of erronous impressions and onclusions by their writings, speeches. and questions in Parliament.
HABE X. N. BANEJKA.
In view of the gravity of our present ituation it was an advantage of no sinal magnitude to find our esteemed friend, goble son of Bengal, life-long worker in the field of politics, the life and soul of the Swadeshi movement and mauh abused genuine patriot and the leader of the Bengal Moderate Party, Babu Surendranath Banerjea in England only a short tune ago rendering signal and magnificent service to his mother country and his fellow-countrymen. The other day there was a public meeting at Calcutta in the Town Hall to express gratitude to him for the invaluable services rendered and the suocess achieved by him in England in fully representing our present situation, our grievances and our aspirations and in suggesting ancasures and remedies which alone would restore peace and rest in India generally and in Bengal particulaly. I take advantage of this oppor tunity of offering him personally and on
half of the whole Province as President of the Conference our sincere thanks and expressing our deep gratitude to him for the noble, magnificent, solid work he has done and the signal services he has readerito is country in a most unselfish way and at grewal sacrifice. I am onfident you all share the same feelings. with me and you all join ine in offering our thanks to him for the deep debt of obligation and gratitude under which he. has placed not only the Provinces of Bengal taken as a whole but the whole of British India.
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WHAT OUGHT WE TO D NOW? Now comes the question what ought we to do now? What should be our line of tion? The answer may briedy be given a few words in an abstract form. Obey the laws of God and man, march on in the path of rectitude; try to do your dution. your God, to your king, to your fellow ntrymen, to your motherland mrself, unmindful of fear or favour. To be more specide and suggest in a senorete form I should like to say that should show the highest regard for law and orderand that for that purpose we should co-oparate with the Govern ment in eradicating the roots of anarchi al movements and try to find out those pot where revolutionary seeds have beou shown and the hands that have sown them. I admit it is very difficult for us to do so, when the Government, too powerful and with so vast agencies for the detection of crimes are making so serious blunders in discovering the culprits and the seats of crimes. But I venture to think that if the Government will take the real leaders of the community into ita onfidence, the situation will be greatly improved.
(2) In the second place it should be ur chief object to improve our industries. and art and impart education, general tehnical on national principles relying on ur own resources and not wholly lating upon state help. We should apt at starting more mills and far
and we should encourage the openof small industries and the hand lems specially.
(3) In the third place we should attempt to adopt measures for the supply of good drinking water to our fellowcountrymen and devise measures for the Sanitary ip:ovement of not only urban Tract, but of villages in the interior inIs it metly by agriculturists. Diffenlties, insanitory improvement of urban and suburban areas, are very great and our efforts may not be very successful, in the Lear future, but I venture to think that by the joint efforts and the combined action for the Sanitary improvemert of agricultural villages success can be easily achieved, if the landholding
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class would only join hands with the in- FOR GENUINE SWADESHI GOODS. teleptal section of the community and maks little sacrifice How the adeguato grgirth of population in Bengal has been checked by its insanftary condition is grell known to you and it is therefore the duty of every woa of Bungal-according to his own nienna and powers-to help the cause of sanitary improvement. I regret to say I cannot congintulate the Government on its success in this direc tion. Though there is a machinery at the disposal of Government consisting of a
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(4) In the fourth place we must stand to our post and stick to our guns. We must work soul and heart for onr Swadeshi movement. The spirit which has been already created, and which has taken a deep root, 'needs no outside influence for its existence or continuerce, All that we have to do is to remember the solemn pledge which we have taken to use indigenous articles in preference to foreign articles f a similar nature and to fulfill the pledge even at a sacrifice where
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(3) In the last place I would urge that we should live harmoniously with our Mahomedan brothers and try to act hand in all matters of reformn and improvement. Perhaps the time han come when in conection with separate electorates for the election of members for the Provincial Councils, the attitude of our Mohamedan brethren may not he what may he desired, but I should remind my Mahomedan brother-delegates
and Mahomedan gentleman present that their leaders do not agree amongst themselves as to the nature of electorate and they must not allow themselves to be carried away by the idea of a separate electorate of their own consisting of people of their own faith and creed: they should think over the matter carefully and con sider the disastrous effects of the prono sal even on their own community. We should now merge ourselves into a coinmon fraternity and serve the country as a loyal and patriotic spirit. CONCLUSION. I do not wish to detain you longer. I have the greatest faith in the dianeneation of Divine Providence. I have the greatest faith inthe justice of our cause, and I see the hand of Providence in the creation of the Swadeshi spirit, which alone by united effort and action will bring about the regeneration of our mother land, and I am therefore inclined to take the optimistic view that if we carry on our constitutional agitation with due regard to law and order we are bound to succeed. I now invoke the aid of Providence so that He may gnide us in our deliberation and bless 114 with the capacity and the strength which rav enable us to arrive at correct conclusions. and to adopt right measures and methods, T further prav that His Excelency the Viceroy may be pleased to order the r toration of liberty to the Political prisoners আজিকার তা সর বর্ষণ ব'ে ब -মयী Biff
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