Let our programme include the setting up of machinery for popular administration, and running parallel to, but independent of, the existing administration of the Government....

In the Providence of God we shall then be made rulers over many things.
This is our programme.
But Mr.Pal himself admits that even if this programme can be fulfilled, this _Swaraj_, this absolute self-rule which he asks for, is fundamentally incompatible with the maintenance of the British connexion.
Is really self-government within the Empire a practicable ideal?
What would it mean?
It would mean either no real self-government for us or no real overlordship for England.
Would we be satisfied with the shadow of self-government?
If not, would England be satisfied with the shadow of overlordship?
In either case England would not be satisfied with a shadowy overlordship, and we refuse to be satisfied with a shadowy self-government.

And therefore no compromise is possible under such conditions between self-government in India and the overlordship of England.

If self-government is conceded to us, what would be England's position not only in India, but in the British Empire itself?
Self-government means the right of self-taxation; it means the right of financial control; it means the right of the people to impose protective and prohibitive tariffs on foreign imports.

The moment we have the right of self-taxation, what shall we do?
We shall not try to be engaged in this uphill work of industrial boycott.