Daggers can be manufactured in India out of sharp nails to stab all vile agents of the British Government, English or Indian.
Increased vigilance in this country as well as in the Indian Customs and Post Offices is, however, beginning to check these importations, and only two months later the _Bande Mataram_ was already compelled to strike a less exuberant note.

It declares, of course, that "our movement cannot be repressed so long as there are patriotic Indians living under other flags than the Union Jack," but it recognizes that the situation "gives rise to anxious thought," and it winds up in a somewhat depressed tone:-- 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.