ABSTRACT
Beadon is quite irascible in defence of his actions. He includes the famous thinker and economist John Stuart Mill, who, it will be seen, in a parliamentary debate about the Orissa Famine, disagreed with Beadon’s premises. In a paper by Mr. J. Strachey on the famine in the North-Western Provinces, which was specially brought to the author notice about this time, any attempt by the Government to import grain on its own account in time of scarcity is deprecated as almost certain to be mischievous, and a passage is quoted from Mr. [John Stuart] Mill’s writings to the effect that direct measures at the cost of the State, to procure food from a distance, are expedient only when, from peculiar reasons, the thing is not likely to be done by private speculators.
