Modern Review July 1910

"They herniae& and sweated the Ryot." "They sucked the life-blood of the latter and fattened theselves on the fruits of others labours." "They cared not a brass farthing for the people and the country." Day AnglIndian critic from the amiable Sir Fliderick Lely to the incorrigible Rees has drawn fanciful pictures of the rapacious character of the Zemindars of Bengal and has held them up as [...] The Editor of the Modern Review in his comments on the speech of the Maharaja gave a crushing reply to the latter but we think it is also necessary to let the Indians have a further and deeper insight into the character of the man whom the Maharajas insulted and who at the present moment holds a unique position in British politics. [...] Unless History entirely misleads us the future is in the hands of the would-be Keir-Hardies of Indithe Sirdar Coolies of that vast peninsula who are receiving a training for their future work in the dark and dingy schoolrooms of their villages or in the special classes opened in some places for the education of the children of the so-called depressed classes. [...] It is from the ranks of labour that the future leaders and prophets of the Indian democracy will rise and prove to the world once more that the greatest and the best nobility is the nobility of mind of character of mission and of service in the cause of humanity. [...] I have pointed to God as the source and pledge of equality among men to the moral law as the source of all civil law and the standard by which you must judge the conduct of those who make the laws; to the people to you ourselves the universal body of citi/ens who form the nation.