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October 16th, 1908.

Yesterday, Mr. Gandhi was was sentenced, for the second time this year, to imprisonment for two months. "Hard labour" was also imposed. His crime was that, in returning from Natal, he was unable to show his certificate, which everyone knew had been to him, but which he had burned with the rest, when the terms of the compromise were repudiated by the Government; and refused to give his thumb impressions, as means of identification—a needless formality—and which would have meant acquiescence in the present Act.

His consistent line of conduct, through all this trouble, has been to stand beside the humblest of his countrymen and suffer with them. In fact, all the Asiatic leaders have done this. A few weeks ago when the hawkers were arrested for having no licence, the best educated and wealthiest man in the community suddenly became "hawkers." The Imam of the Mosque, the Chairman of the British Indian Association, the Chairman of the Chinese Association, and others like them, appeared in the