Calcutta, Nov. 22.
So much has been said and written on the dise for Home Rule for India that it seems necessary to pause for a moment to take stock of the case against Home Rule being granted to the people of this coun-{try under any scheme that does not advance by very cautious stages.
India is completely different from the self-governing parts of the British Empire. The present Reforms system works quite as well any premature Home Rule gov-jemment would. India is not Jgoverned in the material interests of Britain, and when the time is ripe concessions are readily granted so that India ean—and does—move along the road to self-government.
India is not a nation, but rather 'a congeries of races spread over very divergent areas. Net only are {there many different and discordant races intermingled in- some places and predominant in others, but the ferences of languages are even Native States compare unfavourably with the British provinces, though there are admittedly one or tye cases of exceptional merit, but there always a British administrator The repressive measures which the Indian people frequently complain of are directed solely against the bands of reckless and irresponsible agitators whose activities threaten to destroy India. They are deplorable but very necessary, and any Government would be bound to fact in a like manner when the sabre of the State was endangered.
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