England or Utopia?

HON. Mr. Thomson gave “an example of the sort of thing which happens in this country which would be at once checked by the natural operations of press criticism, if it happened in England.” “There was leaderette in one of the principle papers in the Punjab the other day in which political capital was endeavoured to be made and racial hatred was endeavoured to be fostered out of the alleged difference between the treatment which was accorded by the Bengal Government to a deputation of European planters and the alleged contemptuous rejection of the recommendations of a large number of the Hon. Members of this Council in regard to taxation of agricultural incomes during the discussions on the income tax last spring.”