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\n\tCALCUTTA, May 22nd, 1907 }
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\nThe Government Plan of Campaign
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\nThe bureaucracy is developing its campaign against Swadeshism with great rapidity and a really admirable energy and decision.
\nBarisal was naturally the first district to be declared, and now we learn that Dacca, Mymensingh, Faridpur, Pabna, Rungpur and
\nTipperah, the Habiganj sub-division of the district of Sylhet and the Sudharam Thana in the district of Noakhali have also been
\nproclaimed. Others, no doubt, will follow. All these districts have been selected for the prominence they have taken in the
\nSwadeshi movement. It is significant also that in Bakarganj the proclamation has been attended by a Magisterial order which
\nforbids the carrying of lathis <\/i>and swordsticks between sunrise and sunset and the gathering of men in strength after nightfall.
\nThis can have no other effect than to prevent the Swadeshists offering an effective resistance in case of an attack being organised at night under orders from Dacca; for it is not likely that a lawless mob bent upon mischief would pay any heed to
\nthe Magisterial ukase. Meanwhile we have seen at Tangail a foreshadowing of the first line of attack on the students under
\ncover of the Risley Circular. The objective of the authorities is clear enough. It is to prevent the promulgation and organisation
\nof the Swadeshi and Swaraj sentiment in Punjab and Bengal. In the promulgation of Swadeshism we have used three great
\ninstruments, the Press, the Platform and the students. The Press by itself can only popularise ideas, it cannot impart that motive
\nimpulse of deep emotion and enthusiasm which is given by the direct appeal, the personal magnetism of a born speaker. But the
\nwork of the Platform in its turn is not sufficient in itself. The motive impulse created by the orator is apt to be evanescent,
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\n\tunless it is confirmed by daily insistence on the note sounded
\nand the inspiring sight of the idea being actually carried into practice by devout and enthusiastic missionaries of the creed.
\nIn the Swadeshi agitation this part, the most important and necessary of the three, has been played by the students. It is they
\nwho have been the active missionaries of Swadeshism, carrying it into practice with the divine ardour and eagerness of youth,
\nwithout the reserves of caution, temporising, doubt, half-belief with which colder age would have killed it in its birth; wherever
\nthey went, they have created a permanent Swadeshi atmosphere<\/i> in which the tender plant of Nationalism could grow, could put
\nforth leaf and bud, could flower into the religion of patriotism. <\/font>
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\n\tThe English have a long experience in the art of political
\nagitation and it could not take them long to discover where the strength of the agitation lay. But they were for a long time at a
\nloss how to deal with it without losing their prestige and reputation as a strong and benign Government. They tried experiments
\nand would not carry them out to the end. They took up a policy of direct and violent coercion in a limited area and then, alarmed
\nat the noise and opposition created, dropped it like a hot coal. Next they tried the effect of a general attitude of “sympathy”
\nand calm toleration covering with its specious and ample cloak a great deal of petty local persecution and secret undermining
\nof Swadeshism. Meanwhile they were preparing the ground for an anti-Hindu campaign through the instrumentality of the Mahomedans which was only to be brought into use if the policy of “sympathy” failed. The policy of sympathy did fail and the
\nlocal authorities were allowed to let loose the Mahomedan mob on the Hindus. Here again there was a failure or a very partial
\nsuccess. The first attempt at Comilla miscarried owing to the high spirit and good organisation of Comilla Swadeshism. The
\nsecond blow at Jamalpur fell with tremendous effect, but the additional outbreak on the 27th upset the official apple-cart. It
\nwent much farther, probably, than was originally intended; for, possibly, the original intention was simply to teach the Swadeshi
\nHindus a lesson and perhaps to give an excuse for exceptional measures. But the second outbreak went too far. It drove the
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\n\tHindus out of Jamalpur, it identified the officials publicly and
\nunmistakably with the hooligans, it lit a fire that spread all over Bengal and created a commotion throughout India; it gave a
\nstupendous impulse to the self-defence movement all over the province; it found a few scattered
\nakharas <\/i>and left the whole
\nHindu population feverishly drilling and standing on guard. Finally, it threatened to imperil Anglo-Indian trade by prolonging
\nthe disturbances into the critical part of the jute season. Moreover, the attempt of the officials to isolate Swarajism in East
\nBengal had failed. Swarajism had set fire to the Punjab, it had begun to permeate the United Provinces, it was spreading with
\ngreat rapidity in Madras. Another year and the whole of India would have been submerged.
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\n\t\tIt was these circumstances, apparently, which led the Government to the resolution of grappling with the Frankenstein
\nmonster Lord Curzon had raised and of deploying all the powers and instruments of despotism for its suppression. The panic
\ncreated by the Rawalpindi disturbance has only led it to unmask its batteries sooner and concentrate all its fire on Swadeshism
\nwith greater energy and rapidity than might otherwise have been the case. No direct attempt has yet been made to silence the
\nPress, but we have no doubt it will be done, if the Government find that the deportation of Lala Lajpat Rai does not produce a
\npermanent change in its tone. On the other hand, very effective measures have been taken against the Platform. The wholesale
\narrests in Rawalpindi, the monstrous charges brought against Lala Hansraj and others for no worse offence than being present
\nat a public meeting which happened to be followed in point of time by a riot, the deportation of Lala Lajpat Rai are all
\nmeasures of intimidation against the Platform. Lest these should prove insufficient, the bureaucracy has armed itself with powers
\nwhich, if carefully used, will put an end to Swadeshi propaganda from the Platform and can in any case crush it by violent and
\npersistent coercion. It is applied, on the familiar principle of localising opposition and crushing it in detail, to East Bengal
\nand Punjab only, but can easily be extended, should occasion arise. Finally, by the Risley Circular it is sought to strike out of
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\n\tthe hands of Nationalism its chief strength, the young and rising
\ngeneration whose political activity in their student days means the creation of a new race of men whom it will be impossible
\nto rule by despotic methods. If we submit, therefore, to these bureaucratic measures it means that the three potent instruments
\nof our movement will be rendered useless for our purposes and Swadeshism is at an end. The bureaucracy will necessarily wait
\nto see how we take its attack. If we submit, they will not incur unnecessary odium by pressing the measures too hard but will
\nhold them in terrorem <\/i>over us and apply them lightly wherever necessary. If we try to carry on the movement, they will carry
\non the campaign of Russianism to the bitter end, regardless of ulterior consequences, unless the developments are such as
\nto convince them that the Russian method is useless or worse. Meanwhile, as is shown by the deputation of Mr. Beatson Bell
\nto Mymensingh, efforts will be made to get the Mahomedan outbreak under control again, if for nothing else than in the
\ninterests of jute. The Anglo-Indian cry of “jute in danger” is one which cannot be ignored. Until the gathering in of the jute,
\nthere will probably be no farther Mahomedan turbulence except in sporadic instances. What will happen afterwards, will depend
\nmuch on the course of events between. We may also expect other attempts besides the mere application of the Risley Circular to
\ntake the sting out of the volunteer movement.
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\n\tSuch is the prospect before us. It is high time that we should
\ndecide how we are to meet it. Our leaders have evidently abandoned the helm and are merely sitting tight watching the stormy
\nwaters roll. So poor is our organisation that even a meeting of mofussil and Calcutta delegates to consider the crisis has not
\nbeen arranged. There is a talk, we learn from the Friend of India, of an extraordinary All-India Congress at which Mr. Gokhale
\nand some other delegates will meet in Bombay under the aegis of Sir Pherozshah Mehta to protest against these new settled
\nfacts. All this will not help us and we must find out our own salvation. We shall devote the next few days to expressing our
\nown opinion of the possibilities before us and we earnestly invite the attention and opinion of our readers upon them,\u2014 if they
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\n\tagree with us that there is still room for the open agitation for
\nwhich we have always stood and which we still advocate. <\/span><\/p>\n

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\n\tThe Nawab’s Message
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\n\tIf the Mahomedan community is to look for a leader, they should turn their eyes not towards the upstarts of Dacca, but to the scion
\nof the historic house of Murshidabad; and if a contradiction is required of the lying and interested statement that the Hindus
\nand Mahomedans have not lived as friends in the land of their birth, we cannot do better than bring into requisition the
\n\thigh-minded pronouncement of the Nawab of Murshidabad on the subject to which we so gladly give publicity elsewhere in our
\ncolumns. The present rupture artificially created between the two communities is extremely painful to the Nationalists of both
\nand this seasonable gospel of peace and goodwill should direct into the right path the patriotically disposed Mahomedans of
\nthe country. The Nawab’s message is a convincing proof of the dissociation of all right-thinking Mahomedans from the hired
\nhooliganism to which a number of unscrupulous Mahomedans have most unfortunately and disgracefully lent themselves.
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