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"The feigget their eyes glare upon us, the 10oner our eyes will be openeds the tighter hey draw the cords that bind us the sooner ur bonds will be broken."
And then there is that absolute faith that 10 obstacles or difficulties can shake" the faith hat our goal is at hand. It will be attained, it aust be attained. The result or our Sadhana rill be realized.
"forfir few rear enfant #virt, aft at fire, authe che et " Day and night eherish this faith, my best, at even we must and shall do it, if we are overn to the task' and clear that with shall and and fulfil itself."
Such then is the hymnotody of the present eriod of Indian History, a free love of the other-land a love for her sorrows as well as ys her vices aswellas virtues a love for her she exisls today. The physical beauty and e moral elevation of the motherland has been Idom, if even, so wonderfully interwoven ith the national literature of any other country e love every creek and corner, every hill and le of our motherland. She is to us the manistation of the divinity. She is the mantra our yoga and sadhana.
"देवी चामार, साधना चामाद वर्ग चमार, बाजार देश।"
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"O my godd., O my Sadhana, O my Paradise y motherland !".
UCCESS OF SWADESHI-BOYCOTT IN INDIA: VIEWS OF THE MANCHESTER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
We have noticed how throughout last year the Swadeshi-Boycott vement gained ground and in conquence British piece-goods trade lost hold in India. Even the Anglodian papers could not help comment3, from time to time, on the loss. Tered by Manchester owing to the cess of the Movement, and specially > Dewali and Lucky-Day Sales were nmon topics for discussion to them least for a time. The Official reports Districts and Provinces also were 1 of significance on the subject. But latest testimony to the success of Movement comes from England elf. At the last annual meeting of Manchester Chamber of Commerce, F. Ashworth, in his Presidential dress, remarked:-"Our exports of ton manufactures in the first half of 18, compared with the corresponding months of 1907, showed a falling in value of £2,600,000, but matters at much worse in the second half 1908, the contraction of trade comed with the same period in the vious year being £12,740,000,"
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made articles was, and here we have the following unreserved observations of Mr. Ashworth on the point. He
In this connection it will be interesting to hear from the mouth of the President to' disaster which well nigh had befallen them in 1904. Notwithstanding the depression the Manchester Chamber of Commerce what throughout the whole manufacturing world part India plyed in the above total Bombay mill are now safe in their positions. contraction of Manchester's piece goods trade This general depression has not had any and what her corresponding increase in telling effect on the share-market, wages, and production and consumption of home-industrial gains in Bombay chiefly owing to the prevalence of the Swadeshi-boycott movement in the country. The rich Bombay Mill owner unmindfull of the depression. abroad, is busy increasing his spindles and looms and is calculating his well earned profits in all ease and comfort under the blessings of the Swadeshi boycott movement. "The Dawn."
said:
"The growth of home-production of cotton goods in India is becoming a factor of Increasing impor
tance in relation to our trade with that country. The "Swadeshi " movement has established a marked preference for Indian made cloths in some districts, and has thus stimulated manufacturing enterprise. two years the recorded number of power-looms in work has increased 25 per cent from 52,200 to 65,700. Thirteen new textile cencerns were registered during the last official year. The production of cotton cloth in Indian mills for the year ending March, 1908 is given as 189 million pounds that is equivalent to 945 million yards. Taking our exports to India as 2,350 million yards average, the relative proportions imported and home made-cloth were therefore respectively about 70 per cent and 30 per cent. Again, the statistics of spinning and weaving in India (both British India College, Oxford, and the and United States) during the last ten months, April, 1908 to January, 1909, show an output cf 546 million pounds gainst 553 million pounds for the same period of the year 1907 to 1908.
A further light on the success of Swadeshi-Boycott is thrown by the following lines of the "London Times" in a recent review of the world's trade of 1908. It says:
So great was the depression in Lancashire that the official return show that about 50 mills stopped, while 160 were working, and that £50.oco,000 of capital I was lying idle. Over 400, 000 operatives were out of work; and the weekly loss in wages was about £330,000. Even after the mill again began to run, it was found that the stoppage had not been long enough to ease completely the over-stocked markets; for many weeks after work was resumed, spinners complained that they had no margin of profits, and that prolongation of the lockout would have been beneficial. In the last lean year 1904, Bombay had to suffer a great deal; some mills were working only for a short time. and somewere even on the verge of being put
for sale. But since the birth of the Swadeshi
boycott movement, the mills have been work. ing ncessantly, and in 1908 were unable to supply the demand. It is this movement that. saved the Bombay mill in 1908 from the
PROF. LEES SMITH ON INDIA.
SPEECH TO YOUNG SCOTS.
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Scotland.
The Ninth Annual Conference of the Scots Society Was held on Satur day 24th April last in the Guild Hall Perth and was attended by about 60 representative delegatos from the various branches in The office-bearers were electedfor the year of parts and thereafter resolutions bearing on current politics sent up by the branches were considered and confirmed. Mr. Robert Hay, President of the Society was in the Chair. Professor H B. Lees-Smith of Ruskin London School of Economics moved the following reso lution sent up by the Edinburgh Centre. "That this conference desires to record its appreciation of Viscount Morley's wisdom and courage in appointing native Indian
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to the Executive Council of the Indian Empire As the vindicating proclaimed intensions of two British Sovereigns Further desires to commend the wise statesmanship which despite the prosent political unrest in India, seeks in Liberal principles to join the people of India with us in the Government of that great Dominion. Trusts Viscount Morley will withstand the Hous of Lords, presont attitude to the Councils Bill seeing it has the full approval both of the Government of India and of the elected representatives of the people of Great Britain."
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Professor Lees-Smith said the reason he had. been invited to submit that motion was that the last Conference he attended and took part in was the Indian National Congress representing the educated opinion of every race and every clime of the dominion, which had met for the purpose of expressing the judgment of the educated classes upon those reforms with which the resolution dealt. It was very clear to hini as he watched the proceeding of that Congress that they realised as could be realised by the people of this country that Lord Morley's Reforma had taken a decisive step at the parting of the ways in Britain's policy with regard to Indian administration. East. is East and West is West was a kind of vague general statement which was very popular in India and which had about that measure of half-truth which deluded and bewildered the public mind. In
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