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of two different races. In questions of Government we should
of course request the Government to reach a settlement but
when we say a settlement by Government that by no means implies requesting the Civil Governor to urge the diplomatic authorities
Not at all: merely to take the case up as firmly as possible.
that course would be quite useless. The present proposal is
that we should merely put into force forthwith self determination
or in other words merely rapidly recapture our country's soil and
recover our sovereign powers. If we do not, then the dangers of
our future path will be still further intensified even when
compared with the present lamentable murders.
These are not alarmist words of mine nor are they uttered
to excite my readers.
Anyone examining an Englishman's character must know that
he is extremely jealous, truculent, haughty, arrogant of his
He has hi therto origin and prejudiced against other races.
looked on us as money-grubbers, cowards, blockheads, weak, poor
and disunited animals. He has accordingly always taken up
towards us a jeering insulting and threatening attitude without any thought of fear, but this strike has given him a big lesson
and he has suddenly received a little enlightenment. Habitually
arrogant and artful he is quite unable to be sincere and straight-
forward in accordance with the correct principles of humanity
towards friends and so his attitude has now been transformed into
one of rage and resentment and it can be predicted that his pre-
cautions against us in the future will be still more strict and
his plans still more laborious.
I remember during the Duropean War Indians who in any way
were men of note in the community were without exception shadowed
Students too have special cause for
by British detectives.
resentment/