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 attitude taken up by every section of the Indian press show that for two such questions there can be but one answer,

I shall take the liberty to give one mora quotation from the same journal :

The question with which Mr. Chamberlain was called upon to deal cannot be BO easily reduced to concrete terms. OQ the one band he clearly laid down the principle of the " equal rights " and equal privilege of all British subjects in regard to redress from foreign States, It would, indeed, have been impossible to deny that principle. Our Indian subjects have been fighting the battles of Great Britain over half the old world with the loyalty and courage which have won the admiration of all British men. The fighting reserve which Great Britain has in the Indian races adds greatly to her political influence and prestige and it would be violation of the British sense of justice to use the blood and the valour of these races m war and yet to deny them the protection of the British name in the enterprise of peace. The Indian workers and traders are slowly spreading across the earth from Central Asia to the Australian Colonies and from the Straits Settle- ments to the Canary Islands. Wherever the Indian goes he is the same useful well-doing man, lawabiding under whatever form of Government be may find himself, frugal in his wants and in. dustrious in his habits. But these very virtues make him a for- midable competitor in the labour markets to which he resorts. Although numbering in the aggregate some hundreds of thousand?, the imigrant Indian labourers and small dealers have only recently appeared in the foreign countries or British Colonies in numbers sufficient to arouse jealousy and to expose them to political injustice,

But the facts which we brought to notice in June, and which were urged on Mr, Chamberlain by a deputation of Indians last week, show that the necessity has now arisen for protecting the Indian labourer from euoh jealousy, and for securing to him the same rights as other British subjects enjoy,

Gentlemen, Bombay has spoken in no uncertain barms, We are yet young and inexperienced, we have a right to appeal to you, our elder and freer brethren for protection. Being under the yoke of oppression we can merely cry oub in anguish. You have heard our cry. The blame will now lie on your shoulders if the yoka is oot removed from our necks.

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