The Friend of India and Statesman Tuesday September 3rd 1878

The copy of letter of remonstrance from the late J. B. Mackonochie Deputy Commissioner of the Sultanpore district upon the suicidal policy" that was being followed in the collection of the land revenue during the last famine must we think prove to the most sceptical the truth of our impeachment of Sir George Cowper and the impossibility of blame being fairly transferred to the shoulders o [...] Behold the gulf between ourselves and the people 1 So wide so hopeless is it that hundred s of thousands of the people may be dying of hunger in the neighbourhood of places like Lucknow Agra and Bareilly without a whisper of the dreadful fact reaching Calcutta on the one side or Simla on the other 1 Nay so complete is the gulf that the true state of matters does not seem to have been known [...] Blue takes the report of the Deccan Riots Commission and from its unquestionable statements shows what horrible prison-house of debt and servitude we have made of our Indian Empire for the meet peaceful the most numerous and the most industrious portion of the people—we mean the cultivators of the land. [...] The ease has been treated of as if it were a drawing aside of the ved from the secrets of the mama and an exposure of the vice which the rules of native society 'strive to conceal. [...] This would in no very long period of time bring about the transfer to the State or to the societies of the bulk of the property of the country real and personal.