ia who believe in the righteousness of the British nation as
represented by the electors of Great Britain and Ireland, and who are
afraid of offending them by the boycott of English-made goods":

If there are any two classes into which the British nation
can roughly be divided they are either manufacturers or
the working men. Both are interested in keeping the Indian
market open for the sale and consumption of their manufactures.
They are said to be the only friends to whom we
can appeal against the injustice of the Anglo-Indian bureaucracy.
Offend them, we are told, and you are undone. You
lose the good will of the only classes who can help you and
who are prepared to listen to your grievances. But, boycott
or no boycott, any movement calculated to increase the manufacturing
power of India is likely to incur the displeasure
of the British elector. He is a very well-educated animal,
a keen man of business, who can at once see through things
likely to affect his pocket, however cleverly they may be
put or arranged by those who hold an interest which is really
adverse to his. He is not likely to be hoodwinked by the
cry of _Swadeshi_ minus the boycott, because, really speaking,
if effectively worked and organized, both are one and the
same thing.

That _Swadeshi_ as understood by educated Indians of all classes and of
all political complexions means in some form or other Protection was
made clear even in the Imperial Council. The Finance Member, Sir
Fleetwood Wilson, was himself fain to pay homage to it, but his sympathy
did not disarm Mr. Chitnavis, an Indian member whose speech deserves to
be recorded, as it embodied the opinions entertained by 99 out of every
1,000 Indians who are interested in economic questions and by a very
large number of Anglo-Indians, both official and non-official:--

The country must be grateful to him [the Finance Member]
for his sympathetic attitude towards Indian industries.
"I think _Swadeshi_ is good, and if the outcome of the changes
I have laid before the Council result in some encouragement
of Indian industries, I for one shall not regret it." For a
Finance Minister to say even so much is not a small thing
in the present state of India's dependence upon the most
pronounced and determined Free Trade country in the
world.... At the same time we regret the absence
of fiscal autonomy for India and th