INDIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS

Horowhenua Chronicle, 19 July 1911, Page 3

INDIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS

A J.AUOI'K M.P. IN KAVOUII

HY ALMJIBIO TEWQfUPH-OOPreWrii.J [PBR ritKSB ASSOCIATION. J (deceived T1n, 0 Da,,U.30 ; . T8 ) The majority of provincial committees of the Indian National Conffi'ose ltavo agreed to invite- Air lttunsay Maockmnld to accept the I. resi(Wncy.

(Chronicle Note: ?dr Kam.sayM>acdonald is Lal.onr M.l\ for ];woceter. The Xrtt-ioiral Congtcss was formed some twenty years ago. Hvero are two (jhief parties in the Confess: the moderates, who accept the necessity of British rule, hut desire to modify it hy ohtaining pohtn-a.l privileges and. opportunities tor sel-o-overnment, and whose ideal is tho «Tt:itns of ;i self-governing colony; the extremists, who would £ot rid of British rule absolutely wlwtovor tho eonsof[ueuce«. The far-roaoli-in.-- seliomo of administrative reform outlined hy Lord Mnrley in 1908 was welcomed hy tho Coiifirow, but Tinoiv.- the .Mohammedan comiinuiiiiity, who number fi0,000,000, it elicited soniP anxiety lost tho.ir i-eprosento-tive rights should 'he overwhelmed' ,hv the numerical .superioritv of the Tliudus.)