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\n\tCALCUTTA, October 5th, 1907 }
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\nNovel Ways to Peace
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\nWe learn from the Empire <\/i>that on Wednesday evening the paharawallas
\n<\/i>got completely out of hand and that a number of
\nthem afterwards traversed the streets indulging in looting, destruction of property and assault. We are farther told by our
\ncontemporary that the moment the peace was broken, the budmash element asserted itself. And the
\nEmpire <\/i>winds up with a
\ngenial and smiling prophecy to the effect that the atmosphere will be more or less disturbed for a month (that is till the Puja
\nis over and the European merchants have been able to get their consignments through) and there will be considerable bloodletting over the business; at the end of that period, we are told, the relations between the Government and the people, especially the Extremists, will be substantially improved, because the latter will have fully realised by then what Calcutta would
\nbe like if the British Government were actually “overthrown”. We rather fancy the
\nEmpire <\/i>has carefully forgotten to include
\ntwo very important and indeed essential considerations in its amiable prosings on the orgy of hooliganism and police outrage
\nto which the unarmed Bengalis have been subjected in the interests of foreign trade. The first is that if the present bureaucratic
\ngovernment were to be, let us not say “overthrown” but to be driven to retire in dudgeon from the scene, the Arms Act would
\ndeal with them and the people would very soon have the means as well as the will to defend themselves. The second is that the
\npolice in a free India would be compelled to protect the citizens instead of supplementing the deficiencies of the hooligans. It is
\neasy to wrench all means of self-defence out of the hands of people, savagely repress all attempts at mutual protection, leave
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\nthem to the mercy of the turbulent classes, allowing even the police whom we pay to protect the peace to “get completely out of hand” and loot unpunished, and then taunt the victims with their
\ninability to defend themselves and the necessity of an alien and irresponsible third party for keeping the peace. The argument
\nhas worn thin and can no longer serve its purpose. The Empire<\/i> errs grievously in thinking that police violence and hooliganism
\nare the royal road to peace and conciliation. Jamalpur has not pacified and conciliated, East Bengal and the Chitpur outrages
\nwill not pacify and conciliate Calcutta. The only result will be to more fiercely embitter the struggle. One other result there may
\nindeed be,\u2014 to eventually dethrone the Nationalist leaders and destroy their control over the van of the movement as the control
\nof the Moderates has already been destroyed; for as the exasperation increases their attempts to regulate the movement will be
\nresented and themselves condemned as cowards and moderates at heart. But who will fill the vacant place? Police Commissioner
\nHalliday or Mr. Blair, does the Empire <\/i>think? Or prophets of desperation beside whom Bipin Chandra Pal will shine like an
\nangel of loyalty in the eyes of Anglo-India? Yes, the bureaucrats and their underlings are doing much to break down the creed
\nof passive resistance which we have promulgated and to prove our policy impossible. But will passive resistance be replaced by
\nquiescence? If so, we have much misread history. The immediate future looks dark and gloomy, a chaos the end of which no man
\ncan foresee. But whatever God does is good and still our cry to our Mother is the same, “Though thou slay us, yet will we trust
\nin thee.”
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\n“Armenian Horrors”
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\nIt has been pointed out to us that the tone of our reporter’s account of Thursday’s doings was hardly in consonance with
\nthe creed and the spirit of which the Bande Mataram <\/i>is the exponent. The facts reported are not materially different from
\nthose attested by other Indian dailies, but there is too much   
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\n\thysterical and lachrymose exaggeration of phrase in describing
\nthem. As it is no part of our policy to conceal our own lapses, we will at once admit that there is truth in the complaint. To
\ntalk of Armenian horrors in such a connection is the rhetoric of an excited Moderate disappointed in his reliance on European
\nhumanity and “superior” civilization, not of a sturdy Nationalist organ which has always foreseen the possibility of this and
\nworse things as the price we shall have to pay for liberty. We withdraw therefore this and all similar expressions. Calcutta
\nhas as yet suffered nothing like what East Bengal has suffered, to say nothing of Armenia and Bulgaria. We are as yet only
\nat the beginning of our journey and have not gone down into the valley of death through which our way lies to the promised
\nland. It will not do to whine or shriek over some shops looted and men robbed and beaten or even over a few corpses of our
\ncountrymen floating in the Ganges, if the report be true,\u2014 this and far worse than this we shall have to meet with a calm brow
\nand a brave heart. Not merely in goods and money but with the blood from our hearts we shall have to pay for the sins of our
\nforefathers.    <\/span> <\/p>\n

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