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\n\tCALCUTTA, August 12th, 1907 }
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\nMarionettes and Others
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\nThe Englishman <\/i>is naturally making the most of the Loyal Manifesto, but that most is miserably little. The unspontaneous
\ncharacter of the effusion has been emphasized by the difficulties and vicissitudes which it had to go through before it saw the
\nlight. Conceived in the Black and White Club, begotten, it is said, by Sir Andrew Fraser on the brain of Mr. Blair, the first
\nattempt at delivery with Sjt. Pradyot Kumar Tagore as midwife ended in an abortion. Even the second time with an older and
\nmore experienced hand at work the pains of parturition were excessive. Not a single leader of the people or prominent political
\nman signed the absurdity, even the most moderate declaring that no man with any sense of self-respect could sign such a document. Of the few Zamindars who have a real political sense and some position in politics, only one has signed and he, we believe,
\nunder the mistaken impression that the objectionable portions had been omitted. There are only two or three solid signatures,
\nif we measure solidity by brains or public influence and not by wealth. Some of the signatories have obviously signed from
\nfear of the consequences of refusal, others belong to that type of people found in every country who consider it their duty to
\nbow their knees before the powers that be whenever required. Their loyalty is uncaused and unconditioned. It knows no ebb
\nand flow, it is a constant quantity and can be manifested at the bidding of a superior person. These people are so well drilled and
\ndisciplined in loyalty that the master has simply to look at and down hangs the head, the hands automatically join and every
\nlimb falls into its fitting posture of humility. This dancing to the pipe is a natural phenomenon without any particular meaning.
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\n\tSo this loyal manifesto of the Bengal landholders has excited
\nless interest than even a bear-dance or the performance of a clown. There are professional and mechanical genuflexions with
\nless significance than the automatic movements of marionettes. They think that the bureaucracy has made them and can unmake
\nthem at any moment, and the very instinct of self-preservation forces them to their knees. The surprising thing is that so able a
\npolitical race as the English should think they can make anything substantial out of an advantage so unreal.
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\n\t__________<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

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\n\tA Compliment and Some Misconceptions <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

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\n\tWe extract in another column the opinions and interpretations
\nof the London Times <\/i>anent the Bande Mataram.<\/i> It is gratifying to find the Thunderer so deeply impressed with the ability with
\nwhich this journal is written and edited, even though the object of this generous appreciation be to point us out as the tallest
\noak of all on which the lightning may most fitly descend. But we feel bound to correct certain misapprehensions into which the
\nTimes <\/i>has too readily fallen. It suits the Times <\/i>to pretend that the Nationalist movement in India is a pure outcome of racial hatred
\nand that the creation and fomentation of that hatred is the sole method of Indian agitators and the one object of their speeches
\nand writings. But Nationalism is no more a mere ebullition of race hatred in India than it was in Italy in the last century.
\nOur motives and our objects are at least as lofty and noble as those of Mazzini or of Garibaldi whose centenary the
\nTimes<\/i>
\nwas hymning with such fervour a few days ago. The restoration of our country to her separate existence as a nation among
\nthe nations, her exaltation to a greatness, splendour, strength, magnificence equalling and surpassing her ancient glories is the
\ngoal of our endeavours: and we have undertaken this arduous task in which we as individuals risk everything, ease, wealth,
\nliberty, life itself it may be, not out of hatred and hostility to other nations but in the firm conviction that we are working as
\nmuch in the interests of all humanity including England herself   
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\n\tas in those of our own posterity and nation. That the struggle
\nto realise our ideal must bring with it temporary strife, misunderstanding, hostility, disturbance, that in short, it is bound to
\nbe a struggle and not the billing and cooing of political doves, we have never attempted to deny. We believe that the rule of
\nthree hundred millions of Indians by an alien bureaucracy not responsible to the nation is a system unnatural, intrinsically bad
\nand inevitably oppressive, and we do not pretend that we can convince our people of its undesirability without irritating the
\nbureaucracy on one side and generating a strong dislike of the existing system on the other. But our object is constructive and
\nnot destructive, to build up our own nation and not to destroy another. If England chooses to feel aggrieved by our
\n\tnation-building, and obstruct it by unjust, violent or despotic means, it is she who is the aggressor and guilty of exciting hatred and
\n\till-feeling. Her action may be natural, may be inevitable, but the responsibility rests on her, not on Indian Nationalism.
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\n\tPal on the Brain <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

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\n\tWe have commented on one misconception of the Times <\/i>about
\nourselves which it perhaps could not help, so necessary was the error to justify its own position, but it has perpetrated another
\nwhich seems wilful,\u2014 unless it is the result of monomania. The Thunderer seems to have Srijut Bipin Chandra on the brain; it
\nsees him gigantically reflected in every manifestation of Nationalism and is rapidly constructing him into a sinister Antichrist
\nof British rule. So it insists on identifying him with the Bande<\/i> Mataram
\n<\/i>and will take no denial. Somebody has been pointing
\nout to it that Bipin Babu severed his connection with the paper nine months ago, and this is how the
\nTimes <\/i>disposes of the
\nattempt to dissipate its cherished delusions: “Mr. Bipin Chandra Pal has nominally ceased to edit the paper, but there can be
\nno question that he is the dominating force behind its policy and comments, which are stated with a literary ability rare in
\nthe Anglo-native Press.” The Times <\/i>is evidently not going to be   
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\n\tdeceived. The literary ability with which the Bande
\n\tMataram <\/i>states its views is rare in the “Anglo-native” Press but it is known that Bipin Pal has a rare literary ability, therefore it
\nis unquestionably Bipin Pal and no other who really edits and writes in the
\n\tBande Mataram<\/i>. There seems to be a flaw somewhere in the Thunderer’s logic, and we do not think the Bengal Government in its recent affectionate enquiries has come to the
\nsame conclusion. Bipin Babu has his own sufficient portion of anti-bureaucratic original sin without being burdened with ours.
\nThe Times <\/i>should realise that almost the whole literary ability of Young Bengal is behind the movement of which we are the
\ndaily expression, so that the ability and literary excellence of our paper is not to be wondered at.
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