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with Mr. Watson's gratuitous and irrelevant insult to the Press, as an excuse for perpetrating a needless and indefensible injury to the centuries' old rights of the Jain community. The point of primary importance to the Jains assembled in Conference is to see that the present injustice is righted, that concrete steps are immediately adopted to secure that end, and that precautions and safeguards are adopted to prevent any recurrence of troubles like the present.
Of those two problems, naturally, the first attracts the most considerable attention of the Jain. Resolutions condemning Mr. Watson's award are natural and inevitable; we have no fault to find either with the wording or the speeches accompanying the resolutions. The wonder, if any, rather is that, with such a cause of grievance against the supreme Government, the Indian people have nevertheless become dispirited enough to think of nothing else than wordy bombast, which does no harm to any but the speakers themselves. If the Jains of India wish to manifest their sense of grievance against the Palitana Durbar and their abettors like the Hon. Mr. Watson, they must not trust to mere speeches. For our part, we have already advised the Jains, and have no hesitations in repeating the advice to-day, that if they desire a real, radical and lasting solution of this eternal wrangle
