“New India” and the “Commonweal”

NOT a day passes without one or other of the extremist Anglo-Indian journals presenting us with extracts from “New India” and the “Commonweal,” whose wisdom we are asked to admire. We put it to the Local Government that it is scarcely right that the people of this Province should have no first-hand knowledge of the articles from which these extracts are quoted and should be made to depend upon Anglo-Indian journals for a supply of the material from which their own judgment regarding matters of national importance is to be formed. Further if these Anglo-Indian journals are to be believed “New India” is now a far more moderate journal than some of those which rightly enjoy free circulation in this Province. With what plausibility, then, can its continued exclusion be justified?