Evening star., 1922-03-20

| Graphic detailing Of the creed OF
Mahatma Gandhi, leader of the mill
I lion non on-co-operatorS In India. Is
| contained in an article by Srinivasa
Sastri. who represented India at the
| conference on limitation of arma-
ments recently held in this city, the
article appearing in the February
number of the Survey Graphic. Gand-
hi. according to the news dispatches.
has been arrested. Sastri, who is
writing about him, is his political
opponent, but in the following article
he refrains from dealing with his
| political activities and confines him
self to Gandhi, the man, and his mes
sage.
| The article is as follows:
Politics is not easily separable from
life. Mr.. Gandhi would not counte-
nance the separation, for his great
| aim is to strip life of it's SophiStica-
| tion and reduce it TO its own nature
simple. rounded. pure. 1t merely
! activity is in the field of politics. 1t
| merely happens that for the moment
! he is confronting government and
daring its wrath. 1t merely happens
that for the moment his cry of
I
of the world and the world is anxious
to know what his Swar al is.
His real and final objective is
radical reform Of humankind. His
gospel is Back to nature" He avows
himself an implacable enemy of west
| ern civilization. In his mighty war
against western civilization Swar al
| Tor India Is. but campaign. The
| rules of the campaign are the rules
of the mighty war: the weapons to
~ hn lItFVl he
| weapons to be used in the mighty
| war; the virtues to be evoked by the
campaign are the virtues which will
| win the mighty war in the end.
The cardinal rule of both, the war
! and the campaign, is nonviolence.
Non-violence is of the heart as well
as of the body. BY thought, word or
act you may not injure your adj
! versary. Enemy in a personal sense
is too strong word for his diction-
follow the rule, you will be sub
jected to great suffering and loss.
| Rejoice in the suffering and loss and
court them; il you cannot rejoice in
them. do not avoid or complain
! against them.
Love your enemies: if you cannot
love them. pardon them and never
| retalfate against them. Force is
| wrong and must go under. The soul
! is fnvincible: learn to exercise its
| lult power. ftOld 10 tDe truth at all
| costs: Satya triumphs in the end. Out
| of this cardinal rule. almost logically
| proceed a number of principles which
! Will keep us straight in the war and
thfs campaign for Swar al
! Since western civilization and the
| existing system of British govern
ment have to be got rid of. We must
have nothing to do with either Off
| spring Of Satan; we must first cut
off our connection with those large
and powerful institutions by which
they enslave us. These are schools,
dren from schools, sue not for justice
in courts. and avoid the polling
booths. Machinery being another
invention of Satan and mills being
the mainstay of British domination in
, India. boycott both. cease to import
foreign cloth. and erect a spindle in
| each home. The motion of the Charka
| has mystic properties, its music
chastans the soul. and its products
most adorn the human form, cspe-
cially the female form.
| Non-VtoIencc to Rule.
These principles and courses of ac-
| tion have more or less permanent
! validity because the war against
| modern civilization must be expected
| to be OF indefinite duration. 1t is A
| picked body however-namely, the
| members of the Salyagrahasrama in
| Ahmeda bad-who are engaged in this
| exalted enterprise and owe lifelong
| allegiance to these principles and
courses of action. The numerous
leviss now fighting in India under
| the flag Of non-co-operation arc en-
rolled only for a single campaign and
| may lapse into the common grooves
| of life as soon as the British gov
ernment has been brought to it's
knees and has consented to change
it's basis. In the intensive opera