Mr, Ramsay Macdonald, in his new book on the Government of India, says a message from Allahabad, condemns diarchy as clumsy and in every sense inexpedient. He considers it would be better strictly to limit the powers transferred at first, and allow them to be freely exercised, than to transfer more subjects and impose the somewhat petitfogging network of entanglements and checks proposed in the Montagu-Chelmsford report. Mr. Macdonald advocates the extension of the representative principle, but makes remarkable admissions as to what that represents and its results. There must be representation of the working class cultivator and cooperative interests. They cannot at first be effective.
In the meantime some are of opinion that the lines of Indian politi development will be set by the classes prepared to make full use of their political powers in their own interests. New India will be started by Nationalists and commercial minds and, so far as Fiscal policy is concerned, they will ce that if the excessive influence of the rick classes were counterbalanced by the political activity of the common people, the Indian demands for w tariff would not be so conspicuous but, as it is, the Legislature will erect a tariff in the interests of Capital. The tariff will not revive village handicraft, but it will protect factory production in Bombay, Ahmedabad and Calcutta, Ispia ror Manuracrurine. its one certain. effect will be to increase the pace by which India is to become a great manufacturing nation and it ought not to be granted without concurrent legislation protecting the wage-earners, both in their factory and in their housing conditions." Social and Labour legislation is so backward in India that the policy of rapid economic development.can only enrich the few at the cost of many lives of the masses. Mr. Macdonald goes on to assert that the factory industry has created a landless and homeless proletariat and he dwells on the latter's response to Trade Union methods.. He declares that the capitalist Fiscal policy will reproduce amidst the wage-earning population of India all the features of what is known in Socialist quarters here as "class struggle." the popular conception this police dog is a new member of society dating his activities from the beginning of the war; but as a matter of fact police dogs were used to assist in bringing the breaker of laws to justice before the word police was ever known. In olden days bloodhounds were used on the borders of Scotland in certain districts infested by murderers and robbers, and a tax was laid on the inhabitants for maintaining then; also there was a law in Scotland that whoever denied entrance to one f these dows shon!4 be treated as an. accessory to the crime.
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