On the other hand, it is idle to pretend that
the new Legislatures will -be either as -experienced or as easy to work with as the Old. The bad tactics of the Swaraj Party gave a chance to the Indian experimerit, but that breathing space is now over, and the extremists will have everywhere to be reckoned with. 'The Government has evidently an extremely difficult time -ahead of it. We publish in our leading -columns an article from Lord Inchcape, who, with his Retrenchment -Committee, has done so much to put Indian finances on a sound basis. It is, of course, on sound finance 'or the reverse that the Indian Government, like all other -Governments in -diffi- culty, must stand or fall, and it is a good augury that Lord Inchcape, after -his exhaustive inquiry into ilndiaa resources, can -write in a hopeful spirit.
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