G`Z Mr. Grant Duff should remember that an intellectual victory
is very often a moral defeat. Colonel Sykes on Tuesday asked for , . some more compensation for the officers of the old Indian Army, he said, had not obtained all their guaranteed rights, deduc-
”4"htions having been made from their bonus fund. Mr. Grant Duff -thereupon made a most able speech, disposing of their case—which, we may briefly remark, is bad legally, but good morally—but must needs hint that they had been too well treated already, their 4' regiments having vanished into space." Considering that very many of these officers succeeded in keeping their regiments, that many more were withdrawn by Government itself for civil 'employ, and that all faced death in order to keep them, a taunt of that kind, even if historically true,, naturally excites great irritation. And when one thinks of it, to tell the butler that because the under-butler has tried to cut his superior's throat -deductions shall be made from his (the butler's) wages, is rather hard. It was, perhaps, the butler's fault, but he thinks that as he fought for his master and paid in blood for his blunders 'censure hardly lies in his master's mouth.
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