We admit that for the present all active propaganda among the young men of India with a view to the acquisition of new workers is exceedingly difficult.  But there are hundreds of patriotic Indian students in America and Japan who can be inspired with apostolic fervour if only some capable workers are sent among them.  The harvest is plenteous, but the labourers are few.  We should now realize that, even if the Government succeeds in checkmating us in India at every step, there is ample scope for work for several years among Indians living abroad.  We should reflect that steady work is its own reward.  We must not imagine that the Idea is not making progress because our particular journal cannot be circulated, or because those workers whom we know personally have been lost.  Again, we must not fancy that if heroic exploits of political assassination do not occur every week the movement will die out.

It is not only in regard to the introduction of poisonous literature or of weapons into India that the activity of these organizations deserves to be closely and continuously watched.  One of their main objects, as the Bande Mataram points out, is to gain over young Indians who go abroad, especially those who go abroad for purposes of study.  The India Office has recognized the necessity of establishing some organization in London to keep in touch with them and to rescue them from unwholesome influences, political and other.  This is a step in the right direction, but much more will require to be done, and not only in London.  Committees should be formed in other centres, and public-spirited Englishmen abroad could not do more useful work than by social service of this kind.  If we want to do any real and permanent good we must spread our nets as wide as the revolutionists have spread theirs.  In Paris, for instance, Krishnavarma has set up, since he migrated to the other side of the Channel, an organization for waylaying and indoctrinating young Indians on their way to England, so as to induce them to hold aloof from those who would wish to be their friends when they arrive in London.  The number of Indian students abroad is bound to go on increasing, especially with the growing demand for scientific and technical education for which the provision hitherto made in India is regarded as inadequate.  Indian parents and Indian associations that ought to know better are apt to think that, if they can only provide for a youth’s travelling expenses, he will somehow be able afterwards to shift for himself.  It is not infrequently the misery and distress to which he thus finds himself reduced abroad that drive the young Indian into political recklessness, or, at least, render him peculiarly liable to temptation.  British manufacturers might also render valuable assistance.  Indian parents complain that, owing to the resentment which crimes like the murder of Sir W. Curzon Wyllie have provoked there is great reluctance now on the