Book Title: Karmayogi
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________________ 2 KARMAVOGIN.. the Boycott, of course, the Conven. the back and says in etiert. "What truth is that they have been the tion has boycotte - nothing about if we have kicked you downatnira? Hy worsted in their diplomatic the Bengal deporteers, only a few Can't yon be a good fellow and hit tions with British Librrlishu Anit words about the Transval. The quietly on the bottom step until they are now trying to exeul pech 14 relly wech about we take it in our heads to pull you, themselves before the public bu the fortum and every other great up a little further." Ani Moderatiam' throwing the blame on their allir quration of lulian politics WiL4 mnt comply if it wishes to be toler- No English slatestnan can be georglected. The attitude atert. demned for trying to get the best of the Convention on the Reforny The Allegod Breach of Palth. of a diplomatic bargnin of this kimi; 14 tiket boy that own insincerity 1 The Moderate critics are never the Inger munt blame his own fulle which is the hallmark of Moderate tired of harping on the difference not the good faith of the whit politics The Convention tosolute between Lord Morley'scheme and party. Did not the Bengal Molertion is mul up of two parts, and the R elations anil alleging or ntos recently propose a similar bar static tribute of prin t ti. hinting that promises have been gnin to the Nationn lists in the tude to the two Dr Mosley ingil to the car which have been Unitel Congress Committee's nogur and Mintos, for their carnestoken in the act. The Shtermen tintions! And, if the Nationalists and runn" dan cara, (not very naturnlly rerents the impliet had been fools onough to AVI the grotesque aburdity of the lan charge of breach of faith. We do would they have been justitie King) in extending to the people tot know whnt private hopes the afterwarris in quarrelling with the oi' this country a "fairly liberal Secretary of State may have held goodl fiuith of the Moderates merely measure of constitutional refonin, out to Mr. Gokhale or Sj. Suren- because they themselves had chosen and a detailed and lanming indiet Iranath Banerji, but, judging from to enter the Convention on condi mout of the near for restrictions Lord Morley'n public utterancer, we tions which would have means and provisions which are "excesiveo not think the charge of n breach hopelen ineffectiveness in that and unfair," "unjunt, invidious and of faith can be for a moment sun. i bwly and political suicide onitside! huniinting." "arbitrary and me tainer. He has never pretended If infants in diplomacy choune retom ." ind for the teal that his reform with the granting of cherish an obstinate iulmiration for distruint" of the educated CINC democratic constitution or the their own Machiavellien elevernes and the ineffective and unreal first step towards Parliamentary or mere bookmen who do not composition of the non-officinl if-government. On the contrry understool thu A. B. C. of practical majority. If there is any meaning politics, elect to play the game in language, the second part of the thonght his mousure to be anything with pust masters of political stateresolution gives the li: direct to of the kind he woull hare immedi- crnft, the rohult in a foregone conthe fint. The language is farately withelmwn it. All that he clusion. We have expened over stronger than any the Karmoyayin promised was a scheme by which and over again the hollowness of has ever perunitted itself to employ Indinn public opinion could be the pretensions of this measure to in its condemnation of the Reforms more liberally consultel, and there figure is a great step forward in and, if the condenmation is at all were from the beginning listinct Indian subministration or the begin justified by ficts, the Reforms atre indictions that the Govern ning of a new progressive rain dructionary and not a progressive ment would put its own mean. Indian politics, but we did not beel pices of legislation. And yet who ing on the phense and drawn the publication of the Regnlatioris is the chief monthpiece of the listinction between Indian opinion to open our eyes to this bullewke's Convention and the met lamng- and Indian cuenta opinion. If Lord Morley's own statements, the ing critic of the Reforms? A gentle the Moulerntes chose to interpret nature of things and of humanity man who le net the neal of appro- this limited concennion ns the grant and the cluuscs of the Reform Bill val on Lord Morley' mente by ing of a constitution and new itself were a sufficient guide to anyentering the Council of his province Magna Charta, neither Lord Morley one with even un elementary knowWH an elected meinber. Actions nor Lord Mintos are to blame for ledige of politics. pouk more strongly than words, deliberate and gratuitous self- The Nasik Murder. and the Government of India atre deception and deception of the The tale of Linations is ev. little for criticism in douail no long people. The complaint that the dently not at an end ; and it in un they get acceptation of the non-official majority is ineffictivo difficult to believe that they will be whole. Frote the Viceroy down to iul unren, men simply that it until were normal condition the b est Anglo-Indian scrib- is not it popular majority. We do things has been restored. The Uler the appeal to the Moslerates is not think the Government sporadio and occasional character of to critice details hereaftur, if they proinised a popular majority: they these regrettable incidents in suftichoose, but to nccept the Reforrs, pomised non-official majority cient to prove that they are not the thu perpetun division of the two and they have given it. If the work of it widespread 'Terrorist Indian communities the humiliation Moderatoy chose to believe that organisation, but of individuals uk of the Unce, the extrusion of the the Government would go out of wall groups raw in organisation echiented chests from their okl leul- its wny to inake the non-ufficial and irresolute in action. The ing position, the denial of the only ninjority * popular one, they have Anglo-Indian superstition of'great trup basis of self-government,--to let, themselves to thank for this pitiful Revolutionary organisation like the As the Indian Deily Veuw persu.t- self-delusion, against which the Russian Revolutionary cwmitters sively puts it, bygories be bygones. Nationalists have been warning the l is a rotuantic delusion. The factor Anglo-India pats Moderatismi un country for ne timo pust. The are enui:cly ir.consistent with it.

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