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they must learn to depend on themselves. Mr. Watson may suggest any imputations he chooses against the integrity and independence of the Press in India and of such leading Indian communities as the Jains, in order to escape the inconvenient situations in which and his likes find themselves. The Jains must read between the lines of the rationale of this extraordinary judgment, particularly the passage dealing with the principles (?) of intervention by the Paramount Power in the disputes between the States of India and the Indian people. It indicates, -brutally, perhaps, but quite clearly-the altered angle of vision of the present administrators of India. They have nothing to do, it seems, on the authority of Mr. Watson, with the question of right and wrong, between the Indian people and the princely autocrats. They are far more concerned with the maintenance of the "prestige,"-in the first place of the British Government, and, when that is not affected, of the allies of the British Government. The Jains must realise from the verbiage and prejudice of Mr. Watson's judgment that the longdrawn out agony of a pseudo-legal trial only results in vast sums being wasted on the legal advisers of the parties; and that, wiser by the experience already gained, they must now see the futility of having recourse to such semijudicial tribunals. It is, after all, not a ques
