Page:Speeches And Writings MKGandhi.djvu/281

 who were great assets to this people, and who would do credit to any community.

Thab the struggle, which brought about the 'Transvaal Law of 1908, revived the rights of hundreds of Indians who had left the country during the great war.

That the Indian community now standa before the world fully acquitted of all obargaa of fraud wbioh were levelled against them before the present settlement.

That the withdrawal of the Bill introduced in the Union Parliament exempting Earopbaus from the pay- ment of the poll-tax in Natal is one of the freahesb in- stances showing the dread the authorities have of a fresh passive resistance struggle on the part of Indians.

That the struggle made Gjnar*! Smuts rescind hia own orders on three and the Imperial GDvernmeot; on two different occasions.

That before the struggle, all laws- used to be framed against us independently of us and what we thought of them, but that since the struggle the authorities are obliged to take our views and feelings into their consi- deration and they certainly show more regard to them.

That as a consequence of the struggle, the prestige of the Indian community standa on a much higher level than ever before. Better this than the riches of the whole world,

That the community has demonstrated to the world the invulnerability of " Truth."

That by keeping its full faith in God the community baa vindicated the glory of Religion. " Where there ia 'truth and where there is religion, there alone ia victory."

On bestowing more thought on the question and looking at it from its various baarings, one can fiad much in or e to say aa to bba fruit}* baKdrf, lh*a w'aiti ba?

�� �