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56 above all-Eurpoeans or Indians, who desire to put you down, or to humble you, are not to be trusted. Assert your independence and follow your own judgment and remember that if you accept an insult you are insulting your country. You are sons of God and the divine spark is within you. In the guidance of this country and in the guidance of the Empire of which this country is a part, as loyal subjects of the King-Emperor, our first duty is to see that our own brothers in our own country are happy and prosperous, before we see to any thing else. And so, day after day, when you offer your prayers, pray for the deliverence and freedom of our Motherland so that within the boundaries of the British Empire she may become a free country like other free countries. Let me assure you, when you do offer such prayers, those great Guardians of humanity, those Rishis, who watch our country, will bless you and help you to attain that freedom. THE SECOND LOCK-OUT Of Messrs Binny & Co. in Nov.-Dec. 1918. On the morning of November 27th the second lockout was declared by Messrs. Binny & Co. in their two Mills, the Buckingham and Carnatic. Its causes and the atmosphere in which the lock-out was declared and the method of handling it from the point of view of the leaders of the Labour Union is well brought out in a leading article in New India of November 28th : "The Buckingham and Carnatic Mills have ordered a lock-out on the ground that the Manager and the Accountant of the first and the Weaving Master of the second mill were assaulted yestereday and Monday last,