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 184 PASSIVE RESISTANCE

wheat). We have jusb prepared some marmalade from the oranges grown on the farm. I have also learnt how to prepare ooromel ooffee. In can be given aa a beverage even bo babies. The passive resistors on the farm have given up the cue of tea and coffee, and taken to ooromel ooffee prepared on the farm. It ia made from wheat which is first baked in a oarbain way and bhen ground. We intend to sell our surplus production of fcha above three articles to the public laber on. Just aft present, we are working as labourers on bha construction work that is going on, on the farm, and have not tima to produce more of bhe arbioles above-manbioned than we nead for ourselves.

��A LESSON TO INDIA

Mr. Gandhi wrote these lines in reply to the Eev. Joseph Dolce, his weU-knoivn biographer, who had invited him to send a message to his countrymen in India with reference to the unrest in 1909 :

The struggle in the Transvaal is not without its in- barest for India. We are engaged in raising men who will give a good account of themselves in any part of the world. We have undertaken the struggle on the follow- ing assumptions :

(1) Passive Resistance is always infinitely superior to physical force

(2) There is no inherent harrier between European and Indian anywhere.

(3) Whatever may have been the motives of the British rulers in India> there is a desire on the part of th e Nation aft large to see that justice is done. It would be a

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