We do not expect any Indians to thank the Government
publicly for helping them in a piece of necessary work which they could not perform, and we expect the Congress Party to condemn the proposals unread. Until they are passed by Parliament the way is still open for Indians to produce their own agreed scheme if they will. No Province is likely to do so, and they will have to accept this scheme, which lays a wholesome check upon every great majority. While writing of India we record that at last the Indian Assessors have given their verdicts upon the charges known as the Meerut Case, in which 31 men were accused three years ago of conspiracy against the King-Emperor. Eighteen prisoners were found guilty by all the Assessors. One Englishman was found not guilty by four of the Assessors, but we have to chronicle with shame that these Indians all found two renegade Englishmen guilty. * * *
