From the Archives (Jan. 29, 1919): The Mad Hatter Again. (From an Editorial)

That journalistic paragon, the Madras Mail, whose fairness in comment is on a par with the brilliancy of its logic, has discovered a new epithet for The Hindu. “Our Home Ruin contemporary” would strike most people as a somewhat vapid contribution to the vocabulary of vituperation, but if it pleases the Madras Mail to work it overtime we can only wish it joy of its modest ambitions in this direction... We quote this masterpiece in full so that our readers may not miss a syllogism which in its way is as perfect an one as they will find outside an asylum for the mentally indigent: “When we originally described as a “Home Ruler” the traitor Sitarama Iyer, whose appeal against the sentence of seven years’ imprisonment recently passed upon him had just been rejected, local Extremist journals howled protestingly in chorus that he had no connection with the “Home Rule’’ movement... “We note also that, Home Rulers apart, the aid of the Indian public was also relied on by Sitarama Iyer. Would that not be a sufficient reason for branding that public as at least potential traitors? Junkerdom must be hard put to it if it cannot find a more worthy exponent of its cause than the Mad Hatter.