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\n\tCALCUTTA, June 12th, 1907 }
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\n\tBande Mataram<\/font><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

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\n\t{ CALCUTTA, June 20th, 1907 }
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\n

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\nConcerted Action <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

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\nWe publish in another column a letter from a correspondent
\nsigning himself "Organised Co-operation", in which a very elaborate plan is
\nsketched out for ascertaining the opinion of the nation and following out in
\nunison the programme arrived at. The scheme is, we fear, more elaborate than
\npracticable. If the suggestion originally put forward by the Nationalists of the
\ncreation of Congress electorates had been adopted, such a plebiscite might have
\nbeen possible; as it is, the necessary machinery does not exist. Moreover, such
\nan all-India plebiscite covering the whole field of politics, even if it were
\npossible, would neither be useful nor necessary. The national programme has
\nalready been fixed by the Calcutta Congress and there is no need of a further
\nplebiscite to decide it; in Bengal at least it has been universally accepted,
\nwith additions, and reaffirmed by the District Conferences and District
\nCommittees appointed to carry it out. Our correspondent seems to have
\nmisapprehended the nature and object of a plebiscite. A plebiscite can only be
\non a single definite and supreme issue, the decision of which is so important
\nthat the ordinary representative assemblies cannot undertake the responsibility
\nof a final decision. A plebiscite on a whole programme is an impossibility.
\nNeither would it be binding. Bengal, for instance, is practically unanimous for
\nBoycott. If the majority of votes went against Boycott, would Bengal accept the
\ndecision and tamely submit to repression? Or if the majority were for Boycott,
\nwould Bombay City agree to carry out the decision? We sympathise with the
\nhankering for united action but united action is only possible in so much of the
\nprogramme as all are agreed upon; it is    <\/span><\/p>\n

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\nnot possible in those matters on which opinion is still
\nwidely divided. <\/span><\/p>\n

\n__________<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

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\nThe Bengal Government’s Letter <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

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\nThe Statesman <\/i>has recently become a confirmed
\nsensation-monger and treats the public continually to its thick-coming opium
\nvisions. It has recently brought out a sensational statement about Government
\nproceedings against the Nationalist Press in which a Bengal Government letter to
\nthree Calcutta journals received almost a fortnight ago, the recent Police raid
\non the Keshab Press, the Bande Mataram’s<\/i> posters and some luxuriant
\nimaginings of the
\nStatesman<\/i>‘s own riotous fancy have been mingled together in wild
\nconfusion. We were one of the recipients of the Bengal Government’s letter, and
\nif we have not written on the subject, it is simply because the letter was
\nmarked confidential. Now, however, that the matter has got abroad, we may as
\nwell correct certain inaccuracies which have appeared not only in the
\nStatesman<\/i>‘s bit of romancing, but in the Amrita<\/i>
\nBazar Patrika<\/i>‘s correction. It is entirely untrue that on Monday
\nafternoon or any other afternoon, evening or morning "a notice was served upon
\nthe proprietors, editor, manager and printer of this paper to the effect that
\nproceedings would be adopted against them under section 124A and the other
\nsections dealing with seditious publications, unless they moderated their tone".
\nOn Saturday before last, if our memory serves us, we received a communication
\nfrom the Bengal Government addressed to the Editor, Bande Mataram,<\/i> in
\nwhich we were informed that the Lieutenant-Governor had had under consideration
\ncertain articles (not specified) recently published in our paper "the language
\nof which was a direct incitement to violence and breach of the peace". This sort
\nof language the Bengal Government was determined to put a stop to, but before
\ntaking action they were gracious enough to give us a warning to mend our ways.
\nThat is all. It is not true either that a conference was held with the directors
\nor that the manager interviewed the legal    <\/span><\/p>\n

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\n\tadvisers of the Company in connection with the notice. No
\n\tsuch conference or interview was held for the simple reason that none was
\n\tnecessary. The Editorial Department is solely responsible for the policy of
\n\tthe paper and they have no need to consult lawyers about their duty to the
\n\tpublic. The
\nAmrita<\/i>
\nBazar Patrika <\/i>is therefore wrongly informed when it says that legal
\n\topinion has been taken and given in the matter. It is true that legal
\n\topinion is being taken by the Company, but it is on a point of law which
\n\tarose previous to the receipt of the Bengal Government’s letter and is
\n\tentirely unconnected with it. The Statesman
\n<\/i>has also absurdly distorted the "proceedings against the Yugantar <\/i>and
\n\tNabasakti<\/i>". No proceedings have been instituted. The police while
\n\tsearching the Keshab Press for manuscripts in connection with the pamphlet
\n\tSonar Bangla<\/i>\u2014 which has, by the way, no connection with the Hare Street
\n\tmare’s nest\u2014 stumbled on the forms of the Yugantar <\/i>then being
\n\tprinted. The Keshab Press is being proceeded against, but it is doubtful
\n\twhether anything will be done to the Yugantar<\/i>, as the printing of a
\n\tpaper in part or whole at another press in emergency is so common an
\n\toccurrence that, even if it be a technical offence, which is not certain, to
\n\tprosecute it would be purely vindictive. In any case the Yugantar <\/i>
\n\tbusiness is not, as the Statesman
\n<\/i>represents, the first step in a campaign against the Nationalist Press. Our
\n\town position is very simple. The articles to which the Bengal Government
\n\trefers, are, we presume, those in which we called upon the Hindus to defend
\n\ttheir temples and their women from insult and outrage. Every Hindu paper at
\n\tthe time did the same, even the Indian Mirror <\/i>and the Indian
\n\tNation<\/i>, and we do not think we did anything more than our plain duty to
\n\tour countrymen. The Lieutenant-Governor, however, takes exception not to the
\n\tpurport of our articles but to their language\u2014 which was less violent than
\n\twhat English papers would have used if a similar campaign of outrage on
\n\tEuropean women had been in progress. Be that as it may, the occasion has
\n\tpassed and until it is repeated, the question of complying or not complying
\n\twith the warning does not arise. We merely note it and pass on. <\/span><\/p>\n

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