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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81912, 28 December 1906, Page 3

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o A TIIK NATIONAL COXC.RKSSM MOVEMENT FOR AI'TOXOJIOI/A (iUV KKXMEXT. I A NATIONALISTS SPEECH. 1 Received 27th, 10.10 p.m. I Calcutta, Dt'tt'iubir 27. 1 There were ten thousand persons! present at th<> l|«'"-an National ( >n-| press. The keynote of Mr Xaornji's address was .Sir 11. Cainpbetl-liannor-nian's remark at Stirling on the 23rd Novemlx-r, )!>OS, that good government coull never be subr-iitiitcd for government by the people themselves. Jlr Xaoroji a-ked how iiitieh less could an economically evil and uncoil- | stitutional Government? He inslanej ed the Boer, securing self-government, and the Russian jicasaiits and the Douma. lie niigl.t quote Campbcllliinncrauns "long live the Douma." Surely, he said, Campbellßanncrmau's free-born Indian fellow-citizens were more entitled to self-government. The latter should gradually become automatic. He urged the presenting of a petition for their rights to King toward and the British Parliament, and active agitation in India and Great Britain. Incidentally he declared that the partition of Bengal was a bad blunder, and hoped it would yet be reetiiied. lie recommended the uniting of all Indians, in order to achieve seli-goveuruieut, whereby the millions now perishing from poverty, famine and plague might be saved, and India occupy her former position among the greatest of civilised nations.