New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-10-09

On the economic side he urges the ma
tives to abstain from the use Of alcohol
or OF tea or sugar, since these articles
are under government monopolics. The
Indians are to boycott European goods
and to make their own homespun cloth
ing Gandhi himself long ago stopped
wearing European clothes and resumed
the simplest native garb. He always
goes barefoot. His program eventually
is to be extended to include refusal
to serve in the army or the govern
ment police or to pay taxes The first
of these is no longer beyond its present
scope, for on October s last Gandhi
joined with forty-seven other Nation
alist leaders in issuing proclamation
declaring it to be contrary to the ma
tional dignity for an Indian to serve
the British government as soldier
Gandhi himself defined his political
aims in an Open Letter to Every
Englishman in india" which he pub
lshed in 1920 and which is repro
duced in part by w. W. Pearson, in a
recent article in The Asian Review
1t says:
Dear Friend:
Let me Introduce myself to you.
In my humble opinion no Indian has
co-operated with the British gov
eminent more than | have for an
unbroken period OF twenty-nine
years in the face of circumstances
that might well have turned any
other man into q rebel. I ask YOU
to believe ME when ! tell you that
my cooperation was not based on
the fear of purishments provided BY
your laws or any other selfish mo-
tlves. 1t was free and voluntary CO.
operation, based on the belief that
the sum total of the activity of the
British government was for the ben
eft Of India | put NY life in peril
four times for the sake of the en-
pire. did all this in the full be-
lief that acts such as mine must gain
for my country an equal status in the
empire. So la-e as last December
1919 pleaded for trustful coop
Grafton. fully believed frat Mr..
Lloyd George would redeem tho
premise TO the Mussnl,nails and that
10 you. l prophesy that it will
ties in the Punjab would secure full
reparations for the Puniabis. But
the treachery of Mr. Lloyd George
and its appreciation by you and the
ccndora.on &C The Pu1jab atrocities
have completely shattered my faith
~ The Ee0a intentions ef th1 Govern
ment and the nation which is sup
porting it.
II know you would not mind if we
could fight and wrest the sceptre
from your hands. You know that
we are powerless to do that, for you
have ensured our incapacity TO tight
in open and honorable battle BRAY
cry on the battlefield is impossible
for us. Brewery of the soul still re
mains OPEN to Us. know that yon
will respond to this also. | am en-
gagged in cgol.ing that bravery Non
cooperation means nothing less than
training in self-sacrifice WIZ
should We cooperate with YOU when
We know that by your administra
tipn u this great country We are
being daily enslaved to an increas-
ing degree?
This response Of the people to
my appeal is not due to my per-
sonality. You are in search OF q
remedy t. suppress This rising
ebullition OF national feeling.
venture TO suggest 10 you that the
only way TO suppress it il to re-
move the causes You have yet the
power. You can repent of the
wrongs done to Indians. You can
compel Mr.. Lloyd George to redeem
his promises. assure YOU he has
kept many escape doors You can
compel the Ficeroy to retire in favor
Of R better one. You can revise
your ideas about Sir Michael
O'Dwyer and General Dyer You
can compel the government to SUM-