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roads and irrigation schemes and other public utilities 

 where the British lent their credit so that India could 

 borrow money cheaply for all its public utilities. In 

 each case it can be shown that whatever interest-money 

 India pays outside of India, is paid for value received. 

 Whether one nation is justified in ruling another is 

 still an open question, and one can fully sympathize with 

 the desire of the educated Indian to keep his own house. 

 The British government has itself on record as delib- 

 erately planning for responsible government in India in 

 the very immediate future, when every legislative coun- 

 cil will have a majority of elected Indian members. To 

 bring this about in the shortest possible time needs the 

 very heartiest cooperation and good will between the 

 educated Indian and the British government. It is not 

 by constantly remembering the mistakes of the past of 

 either side and brooding over them in a spirit of ven- 

 geance, but it is in looking to the future with a mutual 

 trust and good will that promises the speediest ful- 

 fillment of India's desire for the fullest realization of 

 her own genius in complete responsible government. 

 Each has much to learn from the other, each has much 

 to give to the other. Some may ask, if the Government 

 of India is so good why is there any need for missionary 

 effort? The same question may well be asked in the 

 United States and the answer is the same. The govern- 

 ment does not claim to cover the whole needs of the 

 individual or social life. There is a limit to the causes 

 for which public money may be spent. There is a cer- 

 tain ' * soullessness " to government which handicaps it 

 and prevents its laying stress on certain needs of the 

 people. It stands for the status quo. A government 



