The Indian Review February 1911 A Monthly Periodical devoted to the discussion of all topics of Interest

This argument is as I hale I now come to the consideration of said unanswerable from the point of view the third alternative for the solution of mere logic—but tat is the point of view of that difficult question of the Excisof the doctrinaire not of the statesman. [...] The blem in the country ? competition of unt.axed British goods would Sir Syed Ahmed Khan said : The Hindu prevent any injury to the consumer—and in and the Mahomedan are the two eyes of a fair the case of the cotton-clothing of the masses maiden ; if you injure the one you injure the it would appreciably cheapen it. [...] Do not pretend that she does He appealed to the vulgar instincts of the not for the recognition of the price and the electorate but thanks to the noble principles of willingness to pay it may be a vital part of Liberalism even among the masses of Englisthe gain. [...] But his primitive but natural since in that land the great bulk product no longer filled the requirements of of the wealth of the lfation is in the hands of the farmer who desired to till a larger the farmers—not in Wall Street which is the acreage. [...] Thus agriculture hundreds of crores of rupees into the coffers of has walked hand in hand with industrialism the tillers of the soil—crores that the farmers across the plains of the United States of America are not reluctant to spend—thus keeping money and to-day you could no more expect the in ready circulation in the Land of the Stars manufacturing interests to succeed without the and Stripes.