The ‘Bengalee’ and ourselves.

A few days ago the Bengalee was pleased to state that we were among those who had changed their opinion in regard to the reforms scheme. We had no difficulty in showing that we had done nothing of the kind. The journal has now discovered that our “leanings are distinctly on the extremist side”. Even a casual reader of this journal knows that this statement is incorrect, that we have taken no sides in the present controversy and that we have scrupulously sought, of course, according to our own lights, to understand and do justice to both. At a time when passions run high, it is not possible for one who, like the writer in the Bengalee, is a partisan himself to understand or appreciate the position of those who like ourselves belong to no party, unless it be the party of the Motherland.

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