Every one who shall have actively betrayed the trust of the people, disowned his fathers, and debased his blood by arraying himself against the Mother--he shall be crushed to dust and ashes....

Do you doubt our grim earnestness! If so hear the name of Dhingra and be dumb.

In the name of that martyr, O Indian Princes, we ask you to think solemnly and deeply upon these words.

Choose as you will and you will reap what you sow.

Choose whether you shall be the first of the nation's fathers or the last of the nation's tyrants.
In some less rabid quarters an attempt has been made to decry the views of the native rulers as emanating from petty Oriental despots, terrified by the onward march of the new Indian democracy.