open door not only to England, but to every part of the
British Empire. And do you think it is possible for a small
country like England with a handful of population, although
she might be enormously wealthy, to compete on fair and
equitable terms with a mighty continent like India, with
immense natural resources, with her teeming populations,
the soberest and most abstemious populations known to any
part of the world?

If we have really self-government within the Empire, if
we have the rights of freedom of the Empire as Australia
has, as Canada has, as England has to-day, if we, 300 millions
of people, have that freedom of the Empire, the Empire
would cease to be British. It would be the Indian Empire,
and the alliance between England and India would be absolutely
an unequal alliance. That would be, if we had really
self-government within the Empire, exactly the relation as
co-partners in a co-British or anti-British Empire of the
future; and if the day comes when England will be reduced
to the alternative of having us as an absolutely independent
people or a co-partner with her in the Empire, she would
prefer to have us, like the Japanese, as an ally and no longer
a co-partner, because we are bound to be the predominant
partner in this Imperial firm. Therefore no sane Englishman,
politician or publicist can ever contemplate seriously the
possibility of a self-governing India, like the self-governing
colonies, forming a vital and organic part of the British
Empire. Therefore it is that Lord Morley says that so
long as India remains under the control of Great Britain
the government of India must continue to be a personal