"The millions of tolling workers," continued Sir Samuel Hoare, "cannot be treated as an isolated part of the population unconnected with the rest, certainly do not suggest self-government ig in itself preferable Good government. That would entirely inconsistent with the record of our rule in India. But I do main-fain that the od system of paternal government, great as have been its achievements on behalf of the Indian masses in the past, is no longer sufficient. "However good it has been, "cannot survive a century of western education, a long period of {free speech and of a free press, and Jour own deliberate policy of developing Parliamentary "government.
"We have reached a point when the welfare of the people depends upon ce-operation between the govern~ ments and Indian political elements jand when the most difficult social questions, suety as the status of, women and child marriage, can only be settled by the Indians themselves. Hin the conditions of the present day, the interests of the people as a whole will be most effectively served by a wide franchise that will give them, for the first time, a say in their own Kovernment and by a system of responsibility and political opportun-that will attract the best men Into public life'
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