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 584 NON-CO-OPERATION

greatest danger of violence. Bat so long as this Gov- ernment persists in keeping the drink shops open, so long must we persist in sleeplessly warning our erring couutrymen against polluting their lips with drink.

The third place is assigned to the spining wheel though for me it is equally important with the first two, If we produce an effective boycott of foreign cloth during this year we shall have shown cohesion, effort, con- centration, earnestness, a spirit of nationality that must enable us to establish Swaraj.

Membership of the Congress is essential for the immense organisation required for dotting the country with the spinning wheels and for the manufacture and distribution of Khaddfir and for dispelling the fear that membership of the Congress may be regarded as a crime by the Government.

The fifth item, the Tilak Swaraj Fund perpetuates the memory of the soul of Swaraj, and supplies us with the sinews of war.

We ate under promise to ourselves' to collect one crore rupees, register one crore members and introduce twenty lacs of spinning wheels in our homes by the 30th June. We shall postpone the attainment of our goal, if we fail to carry out the programme evolved at a largely attended meeting of the All-India Congress Committee, and arrived at after full consideration and debate.

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