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the " tone towards Indians " will do more to 

 allay anti-English feeling than anything else. 

 Would that some of the English in India could 

 be brought to realise how much they lose by 

 not gaining the love of their fellow-Indian sub- 

 jects, who are so well worthy of our respect and 

 affection. 



There are budmashes in every community and 

 every country is cursed with some disloyal men, 

 but in India both are mere fractions of the 

 whole. 



Indians, Mahomedans and Hindoos alike, are 

 generous - minded, trustworthy, and intensely 

 loyal. 



If ever England is in a tight place the loyalty of 

 India will not only show, it will blaze forth. 



I may be allowed to give my own experience in 

 two instances. When I added somewhat heavily 

 to the import duties it was suggested to me that 

 my Budget secrets should be entrusted to only 

 my highest staff that is, to Englishmen alone. 

 I declined to adopt the suggestion, and a goodly 

 number of lowly as well as more highly paid 

 Indian officials of the Finance Department 

 acquired full knowledge of my Budget provisions. 



Obviously the information was worth much 

 money. Silver came in for its full share of addi- 

 tional duty, but so loyally was my secret kept 

 that the importers of a large quantity of silver on 

 board a ship anchored for some days in Bombay 

 Harbour omitted to clear and were caught by the 

 increased duty. 



A Finance Minister from England should arrive 

 in India several months before the presentation of 



