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The Friend of India and Statesman Tuesday June 4th 1878

1878

The other week however the &Odium') was enabled to summarise in its editorial columns the contents of en important despatch to the Local Goeeromentson the subject of the armemente of Native Stutes--a despatch which the Government of India had &Arum' to be strictly confidential It appears to he contemplated to prevent the increase and perhaps in some cases to enforce a reduction of the armies o [...] Incredible as the resuscitation of such a character may seem in these days Lord Beacounfichl has used the temporary madness of the nation to take up the position of Court Payout! a and is determined to rule the contrary by the personal influence of the Crown. [...] A third of Mysore has been depopulated a fifth of many districts in Madras what proportion of the miserable people of the Deccan no one can tell ; while on the top of all come these dreadful disclosures from the North-West with the plain positive proof that our recurrence to the Orissa policy has resulted in the hands of Sir George Couper in maing the people pus through the very valley of [...] When Russia took advantage of the Franco-German war in 1870 to repudiate one of the articles of the Treaty of 1856 affecting her position and rights in the Black Sea it was the clear full consciousness of Europe that the article she repudiated was originally unjust to her and was inconsistent with the well-being and natural rights of her own people—that made Europe refuse to listen to the wil [...] So long as the right sad honour of the Crown remained intact the Tories have not the least desire to restrict the liberties of the people They have indeed always been lathe widest sense of the word a more popular party than the Whip as though they know leas (Mont the people lu the abstract they know more about them In the flesh." In a word Short is the people's friend not Codlins.
government politics public policy
Pages
26
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120041
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