THE INDIAN CONGRESS.
SELF GOVERNMENT WANTED
CALCUTTA, December 27
Ten thousand were present at the India National Congress. The key note of Naoroji's address was Sir H. Campbell-Bannerman's remark at Stirling on 23rd November l'» 0"», that good Government could never be substituted for Government by the people themselves He instanced the Boers securing self Government and the Russian peasants the Douina. He next quoted Sir H. Campbell-Bannerman's " long live the Douma." Surely Sir 11. Camp-bell-Bannerman's free born Indian fellow citizens were more entitled to self Government. The latter should gradually become automatic, He urged a petition for their rights to King Ed\.aid and Parliament, and an active agitation in India and Great Britain. He incidentally declared that the partition of Bengal had been a blunder which he hoped might be rectified. He recommended the unity of all Indians in order to achieve self-Government, whereby the millions now perishing from poverty, famine and plague would be saved, and India would reoccupy her former position among the greatest civilised nations.
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Waikato Times, Volume LVII, Issue 8089, 28 December 1906, Page 3
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