Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-03-17
WOULD CONQUER By LOVE
Indian Patriot Relies on Teachings
Of Christ.
GHANDi PRACTICES RESIST NOT EVIL

\ WOSt neunaFNA0te WoScsVSHh 4*tttNtSNl
Along Remarkable Lines, GraSdngiI,
Power and Effectiveness Until u Has
Affected a Mighty Empire, and the
End not Vet. s"t1 ~
Greenwood Index Journal s:
4 Mahatma Ghandi is In Jail. India
will soon regard the leader of the non.
cooperationists as martyr and the in
fiuence Of jailed Ghandi will be greater
than the Ghandi who has attempted to
conquer his enemy by love. passive
resistance. For Ghandi as the leader
of the Nationalist movement In India
has exerted powerful influence by his
passive patience. And who Is this man
Ghandi? q.
| \ Mohandas K. Ghandis, leader OF the
Nationalist movement In India, Is the
central figure of the remarkable 'paei-
fist revolution which has stirred the
313 million people of the Indian empire
as, perhaps. never before since the
days of the Sepoy mutiny. -
He has been called a philosophic an
archist, a new Tolstoy. He became
more dominant than ever in the CAM
paign against British rule In India
when, In December last, the Indian ma
tional congress in its annual session at
Ahmedabad invested him, with sole
executive powers OF that congress with
authority to appoint his successor .in
any emergency" 90
The congress voted to suspend all
other activities in order to concentrate
upon civil disobedfence. Soon after the
congress adjourned Ghandi sent a
manifesto to Lord Reading, the vice.
roy, offering to abandon aggressive
plans provided the government set free
his followers, many hundreds Of whom
were in prison, and provided the press
was released from administrative con-
troll and fines and forfeitures were ires
stored
The British India office announced
promptly that 1t would Tot discuss
such demands and that It intended ito
adopt stern measures to suppress the
campaign of civil disobediepce. ~;
Thousands of persons were reported
to have been arrested in India under
this policy and Ghandi's arrest was exS
pected dsily. There was an outbreak
of violence and seventeen native police.6
men were killed IN a ri9t at Glfsugjr
Chaura, on the BengeIV North western
railway. ss{ls ~ , - Y.
The working COMMITTEES Of the Indian
national congress voted soon after
ward to suspend the civil disobedience
campaign until the wave of violeht
feeling had passed. sS.,.s
Ghandf announced at Bombay he had
begun a 5-days' fast ass q penance fors
the rioting at Chauri- -Chaura and ras
punishment for those who committed
the brutal murders" there. Thereupon
the British secretary Of state for India,
Edwin S. Montagu, annoupced the goy-
ernment proceedings against Ghandi
had been suspended because Of cessa-
tion of civil disobedierce
Nonviolence and non co-operation
with the Indian government hare been
the fundamental principles OF HAsIdHa
campaign. His ideas have dominated
the Indian congress and his appoInt-
ment as executive Of that body vtr-
tually made him dictator Of the reyo-
lutionary movement. He sought to at
tain swaraj (seIf-dstefmination or
freedom for every. onel by nonresist-
ance, by conquerins the enemy by love.
Ghandi has beer, described as dark,
little wisp Of a man, who has tasted so
long and often he Is physically mere
shadow of a man. He was born fifty
two years ago in the Bombay presi-
dency, the son of a Hindu merchant.
He studied law, and finished his legal
training in London. where he donned
the European dress. He has said he
drew the inspiration fer his movement
from the New Testament, Christ.s
Sermon on the Mount and from Tolls
toys "The Kingdom Of God Is Within
You" ~
As lawyer he defended the Indians
who had been arrested IN South Afri-
ca and was himself imprisoned there.
! DuEluR u lOHS CdIHpdi6h III bOtioh ~
the Indians In South Africa, he was
imprisoned three times and once arn-
bushed and left for dead but eventually
obtained legislation to protect the
rights Of the Indians He organized
an ambulance corps to serve in the
Boer War and rendered similar service
in London in the World War. He went
back to India In 1915.
The idea Of self determination had
taken deep root in that empire. It
! burst into flame when five hundred
wounded in the Amritsar uprising and
Indians Of the Punjab were made to
crawl through certain streets In hu-
initiating punishment for rioting. 81
Gradually Ghandi assumed direction
of the campaign Of protest against
what has been called 'the Punjab at-
rocities," and his sway over the mill
lions Of Hindus has steadily gained
force until he is called in India Ma
hatma," or the wonder worker. -,
- Gaffney, March is: Cherokee coun-