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in that large country represents 5O'- fl
non 600 people and you admit that G.
those 3O.OOO.OO0 people-whlch means Z
a much larger population than many +
other smaller European countries
are educated and as. fit as other
similarly educated persons IN seVeral h
parts of Europe. Then you style 2
Yourselves the trustees OF the whoIe
of India, and as trustees you take gol- I
w coed care to see that the otner
100000, 900 of people remain lgnor- {
ant, illiterate, uneducated, with no
freedom to call their souls their own. ]
You tell those 30,000,OOO people that
although they may be educated, and
SHANNON thew NAV be fit-and in a
cbort time those 30,000,000 will be-
come 4OOOO.OOO or 45,000,000; as big
incubation as whole of Great Brl-
tain-because Great Britain to SUIT
her own purpose treats those 20O,-
600 600 persons as so many animals
or beasts of burden, these 4O,OOO,OOU
or 5O.OOO.OOO of educated people Will
have to lead an unnatural life and
will have to believe and practice an
other.
Is there a single British man or
woman today, is there person III
any country in Europe, IN any Oh
the backward countries, in the BAL
kan States, in any of the small ma
tiOns which are not yet so fully oS1
velOped as Great Britain who should
tolerate for one day a power so des-
motto and arbitrary as the Crown,
under the Imperial system, is insist
inc upon enjoying in India? There
would not be a man or woman who
tomorrow would not rise and light TO
the bitter end to claim their rights
of monarchy, claimed one-tenth OF
the privileges which in the name OF
fine Crown are exercised over the peo-
ME of India. Because you keep the
other 28O,OOO,000 people back, you
are asking the 80 or 40 millions Oh
educated people there also to swal-
low such an indignity and such an
impossibiity in public life.
Monarchy in the East. !,
# NAV be said, indeed it is said
for it is a Western idea, that the
Asiatic people always allow a gooC
deal of latitude to their monarcnS
That is Western ignorance. Easter
neoDle have never tolerated antl-de
mocratic rights and privileges Il
their monarchs. You see in the 2Otl
century the Chinese people have OV
erthrOwn their monarchy, which wa
5000 years old, because the monarch.
did not square in with the demOcratl
opiniOns of the people. The Persian
have OverthrOwn completely one mon
archv after another and have pu
their mOnarchs under lock and Ike
for not Obeying the peoples wishes
You see the same thing in Turke!
No Eastern country would tOlerat
as the British people have tolerate
the humbug and nonsense from TT
governing classes; they have owe
thrown them and established the Pc
ME. the peasants in power. 1t is
untruthful statement to say that u
people of the East are toleratn
high privileges in monarchy and
their ruling castles and classes.
is a false notion. 1t is the Weste
conceit; it is the Nesterner adm
ing himself, as though the Weste1
ers have the highest consciousness
human life.
How does the Committee reconc
the idea of telling 100000 peol
that thew are British, that they ha
British culture, that they have
ceived British education and yet tn
must put up with the privileges a
rights that have been claimed unC
the British Crown by their rulers
India and which the people In t
country would flint to the bitter 6
rather than they would accept. +
man feeling, the human heart
the human mind are just the sa
in India as here or elsewhere.
call the Indians sediticus when Il
protest against these things,
when YOU rise in revolt in this CO
trv against the ruling classes it
called the spirit of democracy.
India it is sedition, conspiracy, S
versive propaganda. Is 1t the int
ton of the Government, and is
their claim, that the people in In
should call themselves British
zens, having equipped themselves
w with education and historical ia
and having received fully the ID
of the progress of the world, and
mt nm with an out of date form
Government? Day by day they
that the Chinese people, the PerS
people, the Turkish people, and OF
Oriental nations are asserting Il
rights, the right of the people bel
the ruling classes.
Do you seriously purpose that
dia put up with form OF Cr
government which was possible
years ago but which today not
the people of the smallest Bal
States would put up with? l pu
to nv Indian friends that no sens
persons expect them to submit to
an unnatural state of mind and
such hypocritical expressions in
speeches. They are fully entitle
strain every nerve to carry on '
is called seditious propaganda, y
is called a revolutionary moven
and to fight with all their might
main such iniquities and unjust
brutal privileges as are claimed
the Crown, through their Agent
India. 1t is perfectly right. You
all do it. No one doing it in
country would be condemned fol
ing it. That is the position v
has to be viewed in the first pla
The Noble Lord was very a
with my Hon. Friend the Membe
Dundee (Mr. Johnston) because
tried to scratch the surface.
not say that he was angry from
personal motive, but through
habit of mind that believes that
tain human beings must be s.
Mr. Friend from Bombay who