INDIAN FAMINES - Institute for Social and Economic Change

.A FEW GENERAL ORITIOISMS. lIS
man with undivided control; he is supposed
to be able to judge for himself on the expediency
of any course of action under an evervarying
state of affairs. It is no part of his
duty to hold a council of war with every aidede-camp,
or with any omniscient outsider who
may perchance be willing to advise. Nor
would the public be apt to place much reliance
on the ideas expressed by an ordinary correspondent
on the tactics and strategy of the
expedition. Why so 1-the answer I leave to
the reader. The Governor-General of India is
in a still more responsible position. He is a
man generally selected for his ability and judgment,
and therefore some degree of trust may
or should be placed in his actions. He has,
moreover, his Council to aid him. A correspondent
of a newspaper criticising the actions
of the Governor-General mayor may not be an
equally able man, but if his criticisms are at
variance with the means adopted, he is more or
less likely to be in the wrong. Again, in the
case under consideration, the Anglo-Indian press
is a body of considerable ability, wielding the
power attached thereto. It represents official