The “Morning Post’s” Lie

Indiaman, the organ of the Indo-British association, is dead, but its role is now taken up by a section of the yellow and gutter press there, whose amazing perversity is only equalled by its colossal ignorance. Of course, we are quite familiar with the stuff these champions of reactionarism deal in, but we do not generally take notice of them; or where we do, it is only with a view to show up the brazen-faced effrontery of this section of the British press. The article headed “The Cattle and the Grass-hopper”, which appeared in the Morning Post of the 22nd July last and which will be found elsewhere, belongs to a different category, We feel no hesitation in saying that it easily carries the palm for wilful perversity. It is no doubt a subtle and mischievous attack on Mr. Montagu’s scheme of diarchy, but any one going through it will at once see that the reference to the case of Mr. Kalinath Ray is an egregious lie. The plea of ignorance cannot help this anti-Indian organ, for the article was published at a time when the text of the judgment in Mr. Ray’s case, which appeared in every Indian and Anglo-Indian paper, must have already reached England. It was never alleged that the writings of 

The Tribune urged the people to violence and murder. The precis of the charge and the judgment, which were published in every paper at the time, are in themselves a most emphatic contradiction to this wicked lie. But for this paper, evidently “no falsehood is too extravagant, no fabrication too absurd” for the purpose of the attack on Mr. Montagu and Lord Sinha. And yet these are the valiant allies of Lord Sydenham and his associates. Never was a more unholy compact seen, but fortunately the extravagance and the mendacity of its campaign has betrayed its own rottenness.