The Washington times., 1930-05-22
GANDHI, 40 YEARS LATER,
HEADING PASSIVE AND
PEACEFUL" REBELLION.
GANDHI, INDIAN LEADER,
AS A LAW STUDENT IN
LONDON YEARS AGO.

The two photographs this column, both taken from Ma.
hatma Gandhs Ideas interesting study written by G. r.
Andrews and published by the Macmillan Company
story
The first shows Gandhi ambitious young Hindu,
studying law in London, forty years ago.
The second picture shows what devotion study
tration on an idea will do to human being.
In the young there is aggressive power
In the older there is resignation There is
courageous living than Gandh and that fact
will stand whatever may be the failure of his plan
for restoring India the Hndus and driving the ruling
power of the British Empire.
The world has read great deal about this strange
Mahatma Gandh leader of than 2oo0O0OO
Asiac in passive and peaceful rebellion against Great
Britain by means of peaceful disobedence."
At this moment Gandh is in JAIL having deliberately vlo
lated that give Great Britain monopoly of the salt
industry.
British first content to put his and Of
his followers prison. But Gandh felt that it necessary
for him go Jail in order to establish the program Of
peaceful, resisting effort
The British obliged him and locked him up
The British had gigantic industry manufacturing
cotton 100000 of their subjects in India Millions
British capital and millions of British profits that build fine
British and big British automobiles the result Of
this business
Gandh take it away from the British by per-
uadng his Hindu followers to make their cloth by hand
Henry Mr. soa of General Motors by refusing to
buy readymade automobiles and making little wagons by hand
The people might make the little wagons but they couldn't
make six millions of them year. and they couldn't go fast
If the Hindus try make their cotton goods, enough
for their needs they be able
that they could buy from England for six cents yard less
will with their cheap labor cost them five times much
homemade.
The great problem is India itself difficult
absolutely sincere we'll meaning Hindu leader rked
his life in the service of England demands that
Britain give India the right to rule herself.
The British say that children in the nursery might we'll
demand the right to rule themselves.
India if set free British control British PROTEC-
TIoN would Immediately become the Of ero
cious internal warfare and savagery.
There are India roughly, 22oo0oo0o Hindu and about
10 0O0 900 Mohammedans. They hate each other
The Mohammedan in that have ragged through the
have conquered the Hndus with and could do
it again, in spite of the difference in numbers.
Only British rule keeps the 220,OO0O0O Hndus and the
10 900 from flying each others
India divided by intense haeds racial and religious and
by bitter hatreds based upon caste.
The high Hindus look upon millions of their fellow
Hndus 'untouchable" To breathe their BREATH brush
against them in the streets eat from plates that they have
used means defilement.
The miserable unouchables step aside into the of
ditch when a Brahmin approaches.
For Britain from control of India would mean to
let loose all these hareds restore despotsm ruthessy
used by the Rajahs in time of old
It would mean of ALL restoration of child marriage
to an unlimited extent little girls young five years
being married full grown And to the qualification Of
barbarou millions would restore suttee the dreadful
tom of burning young widows alive with the corpses
old dead husbands
How long the British with their 100000 Europeans among
800 900 Asac continue to rule giant India nobody
can say.
One thing apparently certain Namely, that India could
not yet rule herself
If Britain withdrew tomorrow the result would be millions
slain more millions killed by famine and plague conditions
infinitely more dreadful than warning China has
AaHan