The Supreme Test of Success

SOME critics are incorrigible. They persist in thinking that in a State the people exist in order that they may be governed by their rulers and the latter's sole function is to keep the people under effective control and make Government easy and without trouble. The London correspondent of the Pioneer seems to judge Lord Hardinge's Viceroyalty from this standpoint. He does not tolerate the Times' eulogy of his policy and administration which appears to portrait a ruler "rather superior in force of character to John Lawrence, in administrative grasp to Lord Curzon, and in popularity to Lord Ripon." The people of India, indeed, declared with one voice that Lord Hardinge was the greatest viceroy of India since Lord Ripon and there is no exaggeration in the feeling.