ITO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:' J
Sin,—As your correspondent writing over the signature of N. Maw:awl in last week's Spectator points out, there is no physical crisis in India, and, it may be added, there never can be within any time even to be guessed at. Nor is there even any apprehension that the masses will ever be talked into the smallest feeling of illwill against us by the educated classes. Why, then, should we disturb ourselves about the sedition that may be preached in India ? Simply because if India is made to appear to the world as a country full of the elements of disturbance, the capitalist will avoid it. That is the really dangerous crisis of the present day, and that is why, in the interests of the masses and the country generally, we should sternly suppress sedition and deal sharply with riots. And we should do the same in Ireland, partly for the same reason, and partly because the evil example set there must tend to stimulate seditious activity in India. "He who fears me respects me, and be who respects me loves me." That
• Eastern saying shows the real road to lasting favourable appreciation. Weakness is the road to cpntempt, and there- fore to dislike. What can be more despicable than a weak
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