Englishmen in India.

The Reform Report has something to say as regards the future attitude of Englishmen engaged in commercial and industrial activities in India. It refers to the various complaints made by Indians against commercial men and says that the charges of selfishness and draining the wealth of India are unjustifiable when it is remembered how much India has benefited by their capital and enterprise. At the same time the Report says that it is clearly the duty of British commerce in India in future “to identify itself with the interests of India, which are higher than the interests of any community; to take part in political life; to use its considerable wealth and opportunities to commend itself to India; and having demonstrated both its value and its good intentions, to be content to rest, like other industries, on the new foundation of government in the wishes of the people.”