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

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\n\t{ CALCUTTA, April 23rd, 1907 }<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

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\nA Man of Second Sight
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\nThe tendency not to mince matters is in itself a virtue seldom appreciated by people who in consequence of long subjection
\ncannot rate boldness in any form at its proper value. But to awaken boldness in a nation which has lost the sense of honour and self-respect, has always been the first engrossing effort of those political thinkers who meant to do their duty by the
\ncountry honestly and sincerely. The capacity to look facts in the face and support a true grasp of the situation by a programme
\nat once bold and heroic, has always met with a belated recognition when fallen nations have begun their first struggle towards
\nemancipation. The charge of being wild and mischievous dreamers, cursed with satanic perversity and a rash haste to mislead
\nand destroy, has invariably been laid at the door of people who tried to initiate great national revivals. The outburst of indignation with which the new school propaganda is being received in some quarters, is therefore perfectly natural. But it is not
\nthese unbelievers whom we want to reach and influence. The Pharisees and Philistines will ever dog our footsteps and try their
\nbest to dissuade us and to defeat us. They will even try to bring about the persecution of the true patriots; but this too none need
\nfear; for suffering only makes men stronger to bring about the redemption of their country. Timidity at such times is dignified
\nwith the name of prudence, moderation and humanitarianism; but it is mere scum and dross which bubbles to the surface;
\nmeanwhile the true metal is being purified for use below. The process of purification is always accompanied by such surface
\nimpurities, but they only serve to bring truth and sincerity into bold relief. These politicians are intoxicated with the ideal of 
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\n a prosperous serfdom and cannot realise how it eats into the
\nvery vitals of a nation. It is largely because the honour and emoluments of a selfish few, whom the alien bureaucracy seek to
\nhumour for victimising the rest, are brought into jeopardy that we hear such hysterical denunciations of the straightforward
\nand fearless efforts of the Nationalists. “Let their conduct be such as not to savour of ingratitude to the benefactors. When
\nwe find so many broad-minded Englishmen fighting our cause in and out of Parliament, when we see a Viceroy showing every
\nconsideration to our feelings and sentiments, when we see a Secretary of State openly sympathising with our aspirations,
\nwhen we see the administration of the country shaping itself to modern needs, when we see all these and many more signs of
\nthe bright future awaiting us\u2014 we should take heart to abandon petty querulous feelings and set ourselves earnestly to the task
\nof self-preparation. Before we aspire to govern our country we must learn to govern our own selves.”
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\n Such are the ratiocinations and exhortations of the prophet of the Indian Mirror.
\n<\/i>His powers of vision evidently excel the
\nability of common men and amount to something more than second sight. He sees Englishmen fighting our cause in and out
\nof Parliament, where the ordinary eye can only see a number of insignificant Members of Parliament asking questions which
\nlead to nothing and advising an oppressed nation to wait in patience for a far-off millennium. He sees a Viceroy showing every consideration to our feelings and sentiments where common beings can only see a policy of insincere conciliation
\nand tentative repression. He sees a Secretary of State openly sympathising with our aspirations where others can only see
\na Radical Minister professing liberalism and practising hidebound conservatism. He sees the administration shaping itself
\nto modern needs where we poor mortals can only see an out-of-date and semi-civilized system, refusing to be modernized and
\nreformed. This it is to be an occultist and dabble in white magic! And what does it all come to? That some slight and ineffectual
\nreforms have been vaguely promised, whose only result will be to give a few more individuals the chance of getting name and 
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\n\tfame at the expense of the country. The Mirror <\/i>is in terror of
\nlosing this chance because of the spread of Nationalism; hence its hysterical appeals and chidings. The country is not likely to
\nbe diverted by these selfish and narrow-minded considerations from the mighty movement into which it is casting itself or held
\nback from the great goal of national autonomy.
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\n\tPassive Resistance in the Punjab <\/b>
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\n\tWe are glad to find that Passive Resistance is being boldly carried into effect in the Punjab. The recent demonstrations at Lahore
\nwhich followed the Punjabee <\/i>conviction have evidently come as a shock upon the white population. So long as the political ferment created by the new spirit was mainly confined to Bengal, Anglo-India comforted itself by saying that the Bengalis
\nwere an unwarlike race unlikely to cause real trouble. Their main uneasiness was lest the agitation should spread to the
\nmartial races of whom alone they are afraid and whom they lose no opportunity of flattering and trying to separate from
\nthe Bengalis. Englishmen respect and fear those only who can strike and, being a race without imagination or foresight, they
\nare unable to realise that national character is not immutable or that the Bengalis, who could once fight both on sea and
\nland, might possibly revert to the ancient type and put behind them their acquired timidity and love of ease. Now, however,
\ntheir fears are being realised. Anglo-Indian journals had already begun to perceive the truth that there is a real unity in India
\nand that “Lahore has become a political suburb of Calcutta.” The Lahore demonstrations have carried the conviction home.
\nAccordingly we find the Englishman <\/i>groping about in an intellectual fog in search of such novelties as concession and reform,
\nwhile in the Punjab itself the panic is taking the form of incipient terrorism. Sirdar Ajit Singh of the Lahore Patriots’ Association
\nhas been doing admirable work among the masses. His most recent success has been to induce the Jat peasantry to boycott the
\nGovernment canals as a protest against an iniquitous water-tax.  <\/span> <\/p>\n

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\n As a result the Deputy Commissioner in imitation of the Fuller
\nAdministration, published this remarkable order,\u2014 “Ajit Singh of Lahore is forbidden to address any public meeting in Multan
\ndistrict. If he disobeys, he will be arrested.” The only result was that Sirdar Ajit Singh addressed a meeting of 15,000 men in defiance of this ukase and the police stood helplessly by. We pointed out in our last article on Passive Resistance that Government
\nby ukase would always be one of the methods the Government must instinctively resort to in order to snuff out our resistance
\nand that it was the imperative duty of every patriot to resist such arbitrary orders. We are glad to see that the Punjab has promptly
\ntaken up the challenge thrown down by the bureaucrat. <\/span><\/p>\n

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