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that when you ask a man to your house you must
make him happy. Instead of that they found that
they were called together to be scolded. I knew,
as I heard of it, the bitterness that was in the hearts
of these Indian boys. I cannot tell you what the
effect of that on the Indian boys was. I happened
to be intimate with some of them, and one of them
spoke out the bitterness that had come up in the
young hearts of the lads, when they were asked
to a friendly party and then told that they were
" troublesome," " useless," " giving a great deal of un-
necessary and tiresome annoyance " to the authorities.
These things do more harm than you can realise
by talking of it here. " Oh!" it is said, " some of
these young men talk very wildly." That is true;
they do. But why ? because when they first breathe
the air of England, the new wine of liberty there gets
into their young heads, and drives them" half wild for
a while. But they do not talk a bit more wildly than
English undergraduates do sometimes; only the one
is treated as boyish extravagance and the other is
talked about as seditious wickedness and a desire to
rebel. What is the remedy ? The remedy is not to
restrict free speech in England, but to give them
more liberty in their own country, and they will not be
intoxicated with the freedom of England. " But," it
is said, " there was one assassination." True. There
have been many more over here. Sad, terrible, that so it
should be; and yet we know that when in other
make him happy. Instead of that they found that
they were called together to be scolded. I knew,
as I heard of it, the bitterness that was in the hearts
of these Indian boys. I cannot tell you what the
effect of that on the Indian boys was. I happened
to be intimate with some of them, and one of them
spoke out the bitterness that had come up in the
young hearts of the lads, when they were asked
to a friendly party and then told that they were
" troublesome," " useless," " giving a great deal of un-
necessary and tiresome annoyance " to the authorities.
These things do more harm than you can realise
by talking of it here. " Oh!" it is said, " some of
these young men talk very wildly." That is true;
they do. But why ? because when they first breathe
the air of England, the new wine of liberty there gets
into their young heads, and drives them" half wild for
a while. But they do not talk a bit more wildly than
English undergraduates do sometimes; only the one
is treated as boyish extravagance and the other is
talked about as seditious wickedness and a desire to
rebel. What is the remedy ? The remedy is not to
restrict free speech in England, but to give them
more liberty in their own country, and they will not be
intoxicated with the freedom of England. " But," it
is said, " there was one assassination." True. There
have been many more over here. Sad, terrible, that so it
should be; and yet we know that when in other