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We have no fault to find with the conduct of the case before Mr. Watson. But we must confess to a sense of complete disappointment and dissatisfaction with this the sum total of the activities of the traditional leaders of the Jain community. We consider their attempts at stifling energetic agitation, while such agitation was appropriate and timely, by procrastinating advice regarding a clarion call to be addressed to the entire community in all the four corners of the country, as suicidal and reprehensible to a degree. They seemed to have forgotten that after all the Jains do not inhabit only,-or even principally,--the Palitana State ; that the community was co-extensive with the British dominion in India : that the sovereign authority had obligations to that community, which it could not lightly ignore. Why then, a policy of hushhush, a systematic endeavour to suppress or at least to put off the outbreak of an agitation on this vital concern to the entire community. The community ought to consider this decision not merely as a judgment for their sins of indifference. Its leaders must also regard it as a warning, lest, if they continue to be lulled into a false sense of unwarranted security, worse may still befall them in this as well as in other similar concerns. The Hon. Mr. Watson has, in his wisdom, ruled that the case is to be reopened ten years hence. He may be sure the case
