" Sviadeshi Stores, 8th January, 1907.
DEAL Sit,—Have you with you any sort of tea, which you could." supply at 2as. a lb. in bulk P By ' bulk' we mean, we don't want them in lb. packets. We want them loose in dealwood cases. We • don't care much about quality. It is intended for the consump- tion of the native masses. It should be the ' tea for the - millions': never mind if it is of the lowest quality, or more [P mere] rubbish or garden waste. All we want is something which could safely be called Tea! We undertake to order 1,000 lbe. at a time for cash. /Kindly let us have an early reply.—Yours faithfully, [We have omitted the name of the firm and the place where it trades, but of the genuineness of this strange postcard, of which we possess the original, there is no doubt. It was addressed to a tea-planter. If the " Swadeshi " movement is to be worked in this spirit of extreme commercialism, there is no great reason to be afraid of it.—ED. Spectator.]
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