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\nBande Mataram <\/font><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

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\n\t{ CALCUTTA, September 4th, 1906 }<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

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\n\tPartition and Petition
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\n\t\tThere seems to be a recrudescence of the old and decadent praying mood once again in certain quarters, and attempts,
\nwe understand, are being made to induce the leaders of public opinion in the mofussil to join the Calcutta clique for sending
\na fresh representation to the Secretary of State for India, for the revocation or modification of the Partition of Bengal. The
\nrecent reply of the British Prime Minister to a question put to him by Mr. O’Donnell seems to be partly responsible for this
\nrecrudescence, which, we understand however, is mainly due to wire-pulling from Palace Chambers. Some of our own countrymen now in England also seem to be playing into the hands of our Parliamentary friends, who are clearly anxious to help their
\nown Government out of a very uncomfortable and undignified position in which the present agitation in Bengal has clearly
\nplaced them. Similar hopes were held out by some of our British friends, about six months ago, and it was in consequence of these
\nthat people were induced to join the last Town Hall demonstration against Partition; and it was practically stipulated that that
\nwould be our last prayer on this subject to the Government. The same game, however, is going to be played over again. We do not
\nknow if a Town Hall meeting will be convened for this purpose; but advices from England seem to hold that no public meeting
\nwould at all be necessary, a carefully drawn-up petition, signed by a few leading men, and submitted, not through the local
\nGovernment, because the matter affects two Provinces, and the Government of any of these would not be competent to receive
\nit, but through the Government of India, would equally serve the purpose; as the Government in England is said to be favourably
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\n\tinclined to a reconsideration of the Partition, and a representation from Calcutta would be very helpful at this moment.
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\n\t\tWe have no doubt that it will be so; but why, in the name of
\ncommonest political wisdom, we ask, should we be so anxious to offer this help to the Government that is clearly seeking an honourable means of retreat from a very difficult and untenable position wherein its own perversity and folly have placed it?
\nWe are all anxious to have the Partition revoked, but we are so anxious not because Partition actually works irreparable ill
\nto the country, for the ends of the authors of this evil measure have been completely frustrated already, and the political life
\nof Bengal which it was their avowed intention to weaken or kill, has been made almost infinitely stronger than it ever was
\nbefore or could possibly be in the near future,\u2014 by this very Partition itself. The outraged sentiments of the country have
\nfound relief in the consciousness of a new power among the people. Outrages wound only because they are a proof of the
\nweakness and incapacity of the outraged; if this weakness is not felt, and this incapacity fails to be established, the wound also
\nceases to exist. This has happened in Bengal, and more particularly in East Bengal in connection with this Partition outrage;
\nand there is a growing indifference in the country as regards the fate of this measure. People have found a larger and a more
\nprofitable object for their public life. They have commenced to grow into a vivid consciousness of their own strength; and they
\nare, accordingly, growing more and more indifferent to what the Government may or may not do, either in regard to this or to
\nany other matter. They know and feel that their fate lies in their own hands, and in the hands of God, who guides the destinies
\nboth of individuals and nations.
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\n\tEnglish Enterprise and Swadeshi
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\n\t\tThe Anglo-Indian papers are nowadays repeatedly referring to the Jamalpur Railway workshop as a Swadeshi enterprise. The
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\n\tof that Swadeshi which our benevolent Government so unctuously professes. The Jamalpur workshop does nothing for India beyond employing a number of coolies who are ill-paid and
\ntherefore underfed and a staff of Bengali clerks. It adds nothing appreciable to Indian wealth, on the contrary it diminishes it.
\nAll that can be said is that instead of taking 100 per cent of the profits out of India, it takes 90 per cent. This is precisely
\nthe meaning of Government Swadeshi\u2014 to provide a field for English capital, English skilled work in India and employ Indian
\nlabour, not out of desire for India’s good, but because it is cheap. If the Government really desired India’s good, it would provide
\nfor the training of educated Indians so that such work as is done in Jamalpur, might be executed by Indian brains and with
\nIndian capital as well as by Indian hands. But we do not ask the Government to give us such training. It would be foolish
\nto expect a foreign Government to injure the trade of its own nation in India. We must provide for our own training ourselves.
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\n\tSir Frederick Lely on Sir Bampfylde Fuller <\/b>
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\n\tSir Frederick Lely’s was a name well known in
\n\tGujarat and
\nnowhere else in India. He has now earned a cheap notoriety for himself by holding forth in the
\nTimes <\/i>on Sir Bampfylde Fuller’s
\ndismissal. Sir Frederick is full of dismal forebodings on the effect of this dismissal, which has evidently shaken the foundations of
\nBritish rule in India. One cannot help reflecting how weak, in that case, those foundations must be! Sir Frederick adorns his
\nlamentations with an imaginative reference to people’s tongues being cut out for speaking against Brahmins some short period
\nbefore this particular Heaven-born’s sacred boot soles hallowed the streets of Bombay! Evidently, Sir Frederick is brooding regretfully on the impossibility of adorning Belvedere with the tongues of Babu Surendranath Banerji and Babu Bipin Chandra
\nPal, red sacrifices to the stability of British rule. That might certainly simplify the task of Government,\u2014 or it might not.
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\n\t\tOur correspondent’s report from Jamalpur gives the sober facts of the situation and clears away the mist of misrepresentation
\nand wild rumour with which the Anglo-Indian journals have sought to obscure the incident. From the beginning the English
\nversion has been an attempt to throw the whole blame on the workmen by charging them with rioting before the gunshots.
\nTheir version has varied from day to day. With the exception of one or two minor details, the opposite version has been
\nthroughout clear, consistent and rational. There will of course be the usual cases and counter-cases and diametrically opposite
\nstatements sworn to in evidence. But we have ceased to take any interest in these futile legal proceedings. An Englishman
\nassaulting an Indian may be innocent or guilty, but, as he cannot be punished, it does not matter an atom whether he is innocent
\nor guilty. The fight has to be fought out to the end and the resort to law is no more than a persistent superstition.
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\n\tThe wailings of the Englishman <\/i>for Sir Bampfylde Fuller do not
\ncease. The Rachel of Hare Street mourns for the darling of her heart and will not be comforted. We wish our contemporary
\nwould realise that the rest of the world are heartily sick of this daily ululation. Deeply as we sympathise with his grief we
\ncannot help thinking that it is indecently prolonged. Rest, rest, perturbed spirit, rest!
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\n\tThe Englishman <\/i>makes, after his fashion, a curious use of the
\nsevere criticism on Babu Surendranath’s Shanti-Sechan which have appeared in the Bengali press. He thinks that it means the
\n“repudiation” of Surendra Babu and the abandonment of the Partition Agitation. Prodigious! Apparently the
\nEnglishman <\/i>has
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\n\tany single man and does not depend on any single man. It is
\na great natural upheaval and the leaders are no more than so many corks tossing on the surface of a whirlpool. If one or more
\ngoes down, what does it matter to the whirlpool?
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\n\tIt is amusing to find Babu Bipin Chandra Pal represented as a fanatical worshipper of Surendra Babu. “When Babu Bipin
\nChandra finds it in his heart to condemn the editor of the Bengalee<\/i>,” cries the
\nEnglishman<\/i>, “then indeed all is over.” Shabash<\/i>!
\nThe humours of Hare Street are mending.
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\n\tThere is another kind of humour which pervades the columns of the Indian Mirror<\/i>, but it is not so pleasing as the
\nEnglishman<\/i>‘s.
\nThe Mirror <\/i>poses as a Nationalist organ, but its paragraphs and articles often breathe Anglo-Indian inspiration. Its comments
\non the official version of the Shantipur case are an instance. It even goes so far as to call on the Railway authorities to punish
\nthe “Bengali Stationmaster” because Mr. Carlyle complains of his conduct in the matter. We had to look twice at the top of
\nthe sheet before we could persuade ourselves that it was not an Anglo-Indian sheet we were reading.
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\n\tStill worse is the paragraph on the Jamalpur affair. The Mirror<\/i>
\ncalls on the promoters of the Railway Union not to do anything which will provoke the feelings of the workmen to a white heat.
\nWe had thought it was the gunshots of the European railway officials which had done that work. But no; in the eyes of the
\nMirror <\/i>that seems to have been a harmless act. It is Mr. A. K. Ghose and Babu Premtosh Bose who are to blame. Yet the editor
\nof this paper is one of our “leaders”.
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\n\tThe Mirror <\/i>farther gives hospitality to an amusing utterance of Kumar Kshitendra Deb, that renowned statesman who is
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\n\tstanding for the Bengal Legislative Council. This Kumar first
\ncarefully differentiates true Swadeshi from false, the true being the kind of Swadeshi which allows Kumars and others to become
\nLegislative Councillors, the false the kind of Swadeshi which doesn’t. All this is to prevent misunderstanding about his views
\nwhich he innocently imagines that the public are anxious to learn. We think our Kumar is rather ungrateful to the “false”
\nSwadeshi, but for which he would have had rather less chance of becoming Legislative Councillor than the man in the moon. The
\nworthy Kumar has no sympathy with martyrs naturally enough. We want, apparently, not martyrs but men who are determined
\nto attain a position. No, thank you, Kumar, we have had too many of that kind already; the little change to martyrs will do
\nno harm.    <\/span><\/p>\n

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