THE INDIAN VERNACULAR PRESS.
A writer in the London "Daily Mail" tails U3 that hardly any capital is required to launch a vernacular newspaper in India. A few cases of battered type and a hand-pre3s, paper of the roughest kind, and ink to match, suffice to convey to the people the 1 poisonous advice of the agitator. The influence of these journals is greater than one would judge from circulation, for one copy passes through many hands, and in some villages the schoolmaster—the only man who can read—reads from a sedition sheet t) the assembled villagers, who implicitly believe all that they hear. The Indian ha 9an ex- ' traordinary veneration for the printed word. If he reads in his paper the wildest charges against the Government, it does I not occur to him to doubt them. It is in print; therefore it must bo true. The probable reason why the Government refrained so long from employing drastic measures was chat the prosecution of a vernacular journal meant a huge advertisement for it. Tilak, who has just been severely punished for publishing seditious articles, is said to owe his rise in native politics to a similar prosecutiun ten years ago.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9156, 1 August 1908, Page 4
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199THE INDIAN VERNACULAR PRESS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9156, 1 August 1908, Page 4
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