Physician Heal Thyself

OUR Anglo-Indian contemporary of the Upper Mall has assumed the role of a mentor and proceeds to moralise on the frailty of 'Indian managed newspapers.' The occasion for the homily is offered by the complaint made in these columns that we were unable to publish the speeches made by His Honour the Lieutenant Governor in course of his recruiting tour for the sole and simple reason that these speeches were never sent to us, nor did we receive an invitation to send a representative to His Honour's Durbars. The Civil and Military Gazette forgets the well known saying that those who live in glass houses should not throw stones on their neighbours. It is noteworthy that the homily preached by our contemporary comes not before but after our own paragraph on the subject. Are we to take it then that the homily is not so much on our failure to print the speeches as in defence of the invidious distinction to which our complaint drew pointed and public attention?