He says: "Because I am satisfied that in this country the struggle
will be very hard, possibly fruitless"--oh, the pathos!--it breaks my
heart--"and that our real course of action lies in bringing the cant
home to the people of England and impostures with which they have been
stuffed." Cant and imposture with which the British people have been
stuffed--that is the general proposition I quote from Mr. Jones:
"The next imposture, the next abuse of political terms is connected
with these words Legislative Councils. There are Legislative Councils
in the Colonies which are really and truly Legislative Assemblies
corresponding to our Parliament."
Nobody has any doubt about that!
"Now, a Legislative Council in India is a very different thing."
Exactly so! That is our grievance, we complain that our Legislative
Councils are shams. They are without power, without responsibility. But
let us see how he makes that out to be an imposture;
"But the trick played is to confuse the two and to make out to the
British people that a Legislative Council in India is just such a
representative body as one of these Colonial Parliaments."