INDIA PROBLEM KEEPS BRITISH IN HOT WATER
Farson, Negley
INDIA PROBLEM KEEPS BRITISH IN HOT WATER Senator Blaine Terms Acts of British 'Atrocious'; Submits Articles to Cong. Record line Frogre«sIve herewith begins the publication of a number of articles...
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...New London (Conn...
...The La Follettes still rule the Wisconsin roost...
...Subsequent articles will appear in earlv Issues of The Progressive.—EDITOR'S NOTE...
...Since then I have been a witness tc what perhaps Ls entirely a new form of warfare—a contest between an unarmed populace and an organized force, which now has culminated in the present deadlock between the British and "Oandhi Walls" on Bombay Island...
...It seems ironic that such repressive actions should have been taken by a race which has been distinguished for its championship of Individual liberty yet...
...Then, with clashes becoming frequent, the British revised the seditious meetings act, making it unlawful— where applied —for more than four persons to meet together in a public place...
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...Then, with the growing revolt of the villagers in Gujerat, who were refusing to pay land revenues, and with the increased effect of the boycott, the Viceroy promulgated the unlawful instigation and prevention of intimidation ordinances—under both of which offenders can be arrested without warrant...
...the measures seem to be the only answer the British are able to dw-cover against the campaign of nonviolent civil disobedience...
...which provide...
...Next was the press act...
...Each ordinance invoked is but another challenge to the very thing it Is trying to crush—another law to be disobeyed...
...In offering these articles to the president of the United States, Senator Blaine said: "The facts disclosed by these articles and editorials divulge the roost atrocious conduct known to history on the part of a nation...
...In order that Its readers may be thoroughly informed on the subject, The Progressive will publish a series of articles collected by Senator John 3. Blaine and Introduced Into the Congressional Record...
...SEVERS CONNECTION NEW ORLEANS...
...That was In April...
...Passive resistance Is a long, Ions way from passivity, and against the negatory forces of nonviolence and boycott Gandhi has been forcing the British to revive or promulgate sc many retrograde ordinances that he has been making the Government walk backw-ard through history- He himself has been arrested and imprisoned without trial under ordinance 25 of the year 1827...
...service, and other things, nnri said he believed there was no reason why the government should not get additional revenue from the sale of space from griy*t* advertisers...
...I would, therefore, request that you please discontinue my subscription or membership in your organisation.— J. A. Brulard ---* »----------As to other primaries, principal interest accrues to Wisconsin, which lias turned out Governor Kohler by way of the Republican primary, and has put in another member of the La Follette dynasty...
...And as they become more harsh and oppressive, Gandhi's followers feel they are more Justifled in breaking them...
...Gandhi has been In prison for many weeks but the resistance of his followers to British force and rule Is keeping his cause alive and making conditions In British India a subject of controversy < throughout the civilized world...
...24) — The friendly attitude taken toward Huey P. Long by some of the leading Progressives and their agencies, compels me, as an honest citizen, to sever my connection with them...
...By NEGLEY FARSON In The New York World BOMBAY, India—It is less thar three months ago that I sat cross-legged before Mahatma Gandhi while th< halfnaked holy man talked about revolution and spun Khaddar yarn beneath the shBde of his shelterinf tree...
...The third was the Viceroy's action on the Lahore conspiracy case, where it legalized trial by a tribunal without a jury and no appeal against the judgment...
...Record line Frogre«sIve herewith begins the publication of a number of articles on India, which continues to stir the world with news of its "passive revolution" under the leadership of lt« holy man, Mahatma Gandhi...
...The latest was the ordinance designed to destroy the sources of secret news sheets and congress bulletins under which the entire Bombay "war council" was arrested and imprisoned...
...This is the act which has been in force at Sholapur...
...About the only comment possible is that if Wisconsin likes the La Follette brand of radicalism, why then that's the kind of Government Wisconsin likes—and deserves...
...leaving it to the discretion of the local r. '.thori-ties to demand a cash deposit, from the vernacular press for good behavior, also the right to close down those publishing seditious material...
...for the arrest of suspects without a warrant...
...Great Britain, which has so long contended for the rights of individuals, the rijrht of free speech, free press, the right of freedom of assembly, and trial by jury, now denies and damns all of its history and traditions and condemns these principles in applying the most atrocious repression and the most human conduct in its endeavor to suppress the right of India to be free...
...The English - speaking nation...
...After the British permitted Gandhi to embark on his famous salt demonstration from Ahmedabad to Dandi, believing he would make a fool of himself, the first repressive measure which they had to revive against the forces that he started in motion was tht "Bengal ordinance...
...At that time I was amazed by the effrontery of this diminutive figure-he could not weigh 100 pounds—defying the greatest empire in the world I wondered what weapons he could use how successful they would be, and how the British would retaliate...
Vol. 1 • October 1930 • No. 44
