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 708 NON-CO-OPERATION

Memorial Swaraj Fund, This subscription the Commit- tee expects from Congressmen and sympathisers.

We must spend money like water in introducing the spinning wheel in every home, in the manufacture and the distribution of khaddar wherever required.

Surely we have long neglected the ' untouchable' brother. He has slaved for us too long. We must now serve him,

Our liquor picketing has done some good but not substantial. Not till we pierce the home of the drunkard shall we make any real advance. We must know why he drinks ; but we can substitute for it. We must have a census of all the drunkards of India.

Social Service Department has been looked at with the utmost contempt. If the non-co-operation' movement is not malicious, that department is a neces- sity. We want to render alike to friend and foe service in times of distress. We are thereby able to keep our relations sweet with all inspite of cur political aloofness.

Social service and temperance reform \vere laughed at as part of the struggle for Swaraj. It was a painful exhibition of ignorance of the essentials of Swaraj. I claim that human mind cr human society is not divided into water-tight compartments called social, political and religious, All act and react upon one another. What is more, the vast majority of Hindus and Mussulmans have joined the struggle believing it to be religious. The masses have come in because they want to save the Khilafat and the cow. Deprive the Mussaiiuan of the hope of helping the Khilafat and he will shun the Congress ; tell the Hindu he cannot save the cow if ha joins the Congress, he will to a man k leave it. To

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