For our own part, we feel bound to say that
the longer and more closely we study the question, the stronger becomes our feeling that Lord Morley is running a very groat risk in insisting upon adding a native to the Executive Council, and that for running this risk he has not the excuse of saying that he is doing something which will give great satisfaction to India as a whole. Under existing arrangements the Mohani- inedan community will not merely not be satisfied, but will be given grave cause for dissatisfaction. Indeed, they will seer what in their opinion is a wrong and a humiliation. Again, there seems' little doubt that the native Princes, whose opinion in such matters is of the very greatest importance, will view the change with suspicion and dislike. Their pride will be wounded by the notion that the body which controls them personally, and settles the affairs of their families and dynasties, will reckon among its members a native whose interference they may for various reasons consider highly derogatory. To them British control, just because it is alien, seems far more endurable than that of a native who is not a Sovereign. Looking at the matter as a whole, we do not believe that the new plan will make either for efficiency of government or for the contentment of that native opinion which it is designed to please. .
