THE CONDITION OF INDIA-RAILWAYS
Bhils, the Pindaris, the Assamese and, the Thugs are, our own countrymen. To conquer them is your and my work. So long as we fear our own brethren, we ere unfit to reach the goal.
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The Condition of India (continued) Railways.
Reader: You have deprived me of the consolation I used to have regarding peace in India.
Editor: I have merely given you my opinion on the religious aspect, but, when I give you my views as to the poverty of India you will perhaps begin to dislike me, because what you and I have hitherto considered beneficial for India no longer appears to me to be so.
Reader: What may that be?
Editor: Railways, lawyers and doctors have impoverished the country, so much so that, if we do not wake up in time, we shall be ruined.
Reader: I do now, indeed, fear that we are not likely to agree at all. You are
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