Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-30
|GANDH|S SPOKESMAN
i'm u. S. TELLS AIMS
Muzumdar Reveals Four De-
.f-s-
mandS as India Leaders
Price for Peace.
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DR.. Muzumdar states, for the express
purpose of interpreting midas position
in the so-calied rebellion and he car
ries with him a letter which guaran-
tees his status as an unofIicial agent of
the All-India National Congress at
whose request he has made this trip
ito interpret the Gandhi movement to
the peoples of the Western world.
He also carries this message, written
In 0andhi's handwriting: 81 want world
sympathy for this movement"
Although native Indian, MuzuITl-
dar gained much of his education in the
United States. receiving his degree of
master OF arts from Northwestern Uni
versity in 1925. He was later awarded
degree of doctor of philosophy at the
University of Wisconsin, where's for some
time he was q member Of the faculty.
He returned to India last Christmas
to lend his efforts in support of the
Gandhi cause.
Expectation of self-rule for India
within three years, DIR. Muzumdar said,
lies in the further conviction that the
continued refusal of Gandhi supporters
to pay British taxes and their boycott
of foreign-made fabrics will SO have en-
barrassed Englc nd that the viceroy VIII
be forced t. guarantee accession TO
Gandhfs freedom demands. According
to DR.. Muzumdar, Gandhi's campaign
already has embarrassed Great Britain,
bringing about a deficit of more than
$1,000 900 to the Bombay government
in terms Of estimated revenue and re-
ducing governmental machinery in the
villages Of Gujerat to a diSorganiZed
state.
Results Not Yet Apparent.
"The results of this war of non-re-
sistance are by no means apparent at
the present time" DR.. Muzumdar said.
THE rebellion may really be consid-
cred an infant Last March when
Gandhi made his march TO the sea- for
instance, the land tax already had been
paid UP. The real crisis has not yet
arrived. Next January, when the next
taxes are due, will give some indication
of the power of the movement. Hun
dreds of villages have bound themselves
not to pay taxes.
"The results of the boycott on Brit
ish goods also will be more noticeable
by that time. What this will mean may
be estimated when tell you that each
year $500, 900, 900 is sent outside India
for the purchase of cotton fabrics, much
of it coming from England, which relies
almost wholly on India for her fab
RIGS market. This year only a fraction
of that will be spent. for our people
are spinning and weaving their own
cloth.
81 can predict-and believe it is a
sound prediction--that as a result the
number Of unemployed III England three
months from now will have increased
by from so to 100 per cent"
The rebellion, he said, also has served
to unite Moslems and Hindus. There
is no Moslem- Hindu problem in India
today" he said.
Speaking of Gandhi's minimum de-
mands." DR.. Muzumda said, II am In
position to state positively that Gandhi
will not consent to a suspension OF the
movement, nor will the Congress par
ticipate in any round-table discussion of
peace without a guaranty OF those prin-
ciples as a basis. BY substance OF In
dependence for india" he explained,
"Gandhi means full freedom for India
to enter into any scheme of trade rela-
lions with the other countries OF the
world-have control Of her own
finances"
World Sympathy Sought.
DR.. Muzumdar FASTENED to state that
in coming to the United States there
was not even the slightest wish TO
foment any ill-feeling here against
Great Britain.
Relations between the United States
and Great Britain are friendly" he
said. land Gandhi and all his fol-
lowers would not wish it otherwise.
My one purpose in coming to your
country is to present a true nterpre-
tation of midas position. Gandhi told
me, before I started, I want world
sympathy for this movement and that
is what ! am trying to bring about.
Nothing more, India has the friendli-
est of feeling toward America. and we
want her to be understood here.
"All that India wants is independ-
ence. Her. people believe she should
have the right to conduct her own re-
lations with the rest Of the world. II
beginning this campaign for independ-
ence, the salt tax was selected as a
symbol, because the salt tax affected
every one, however slightly. The
amount is not comparatively large
about $40, 100000 year. Yet the cost
Of salt production is not large either.
1t costs about cents in American
money to produce 80 pounds of salt.
Yet there is a tax of 40 cents on every
consideration that the income of the
average Indian is less than cents
q day"
Thinking Of the Gandhi supporters
as an army, DR.. Muzumdar said that
1t would be impossible to estimate their
numbers with any degree Of accuracy.
He asserted:
"Gandhi has exhorted them to con-
centrate on three principal methods of
non -resistance-pay no taxes, buy no
British goods, and buy no liquor, thus
establishing a voluntary state of pro-
hibition. Taxes to the British govern
ment from India on liquor and opium
amounts to $85, 100000 a year. The
salt tax is another 10000, 900. If these
amounts could be saved the country,
and to these be added another saving
OF 100000. 900 which yearly goes OUT
side for the purchase Of cotton fabrics,
by reviving the weaving industry for
which India was once famous, there
would result a total saving in those
three alone Of more than $500, 900 900
Quite saving for a country whose
average citizens earning is but 4 cents
q day"
tcopyriEht, 1900