లిపి প্রভাব কিছু আছে কি না জানি ; কিন্তু বেসরকারী বিস্তর লোকের উপর আছে । এই প্রভাব মাল্লসকে অহিংসাপ্রবণ করে। স্বদেশবাসীদের সহিত স্বেচ্ছার SSASAS SSAS SSAS SSAS AAAAA SAAAAA S AAAAA AAAA AAAASASASS স্বচ্ছন্দে মিলিয়া মিশিয়! কাজ করিবার এবং তাহাদিগকে উৎসাহ উপদেশ দিবীর, অতুপ্রাণিত করিবার ও অকুযোগ তিরস্কার করিবার সুসোগ এখন তাহার না থাকায় যদি ঐ প্রভাব মন্দীভূত হয় এলপাশবিক বলে বিশ্বাসী দলের পুষ্টি ও কশ্মিষ্ঠত বাড়ে, তাহ। নিতান্ত দুঃগের বিময় হইলে । তাহার ফলে বড়লাটকে লিখিত গান্ধীজীর দ্বিতীয় পত্ৰ মহাত্মা গান্ধী গ্রেপ্তার হইবার পর বড়লাটকে লিপিত তাহার দ্বিতীয় পত্রের হস্তলিপি তিনি তাঙ্গার সহচর স্বেচ্ছাসেবকদিগকে দেন । তাহ! এসোসিয়েটেড গ্রেসের মারফৎ ইংরেজদের ও ভারতীয়দের অনেক কাগজ পাষ্টয় আদ্যোপাস্তু মুদ্রিত করিয়াছেন । এই চিঠির কোন কোম কথার উল্লেখ আমরা আগে করিয়াছি । মহাত্মা গান্ধীর সম্বন্ধে বোম্বাই গবন্মেণ্টের সমুদয় অভিযোগ আমরা ছাপিয়াছি । তিনি বড়লাটকে কি জানাইতে চাহিয়াছেন, তাহারও অন্ততঃ কিয়দংশ লোকের জানা উচিত । এই জন্য এসোসিয়েটের প্রেস কত্ত্বক প্রচারিত চিঠিখানির কোন কোন অংশ অতুবাদ ন৷ করিয়া মূল ইংরেজীতে উদ্ধৃত করিতেছি । - I had hoped that the Government would sight the civil resisters in a civilized manner. I would have had, nothing to say if in dealing with the givil. resisters the. Goyernmont had satisfiel itself with , applying the ordinary procosses of law. Instead, whilst well-known leaders have been dealt with , more , or less ... according to legal formality, thë rank and filo have `hpen ofton savagely, and, in, somo casęs, , even indecently assaulted. Had these been isolated cases. they Inight have been overlooked... But accounts have come to Ine from Bengal, . Bihar, Utkal, . United Provinces, Delhi and Bombay confirming the experiences of Gujarat, of which I have anple evidence at Iny disposal. In Karachi, Peshawar and Madras the firing would appear to have been unprovoked and unnecessary. Bones have been broken and private parts have been squeezed for the purpose of, making volunteers give up, to Government valueless, to volunteers precious, salt. At Mathura, the Assistant Magistrate is said to have snatched প্রবাসী—জ্যৈষ্ঠ, ১৩৩৭ AAAAAA AAAA AAAAMMA AMAMMAAM eS MMMMM MMAeAAS SAAAAAA AAAA AAAAMMA MMAM MMAAAA [ ৩০শ ভাগ, ১ম খণ্ড x * the national flag from a ten-year-old boy. The growd...that, demanded the restoration of the flag thus illegally seized, is reported, to have been mercilessly beaten back. That the flag was subsequently restored, betrayed a guilty conscience. In Bengal, there seems to have been only a few, prosecutions ... and assaults , about salt.*, , but unthinkable ... cruelties , are said to have been practised in the act of snatching flags from the volunteers. Paddy fields are reported to have been burnt, eatables forcibly taken and a vegetable market, in siujarat to have been raided, because the dealers would not sell vegetables to officials. These acts have taken placo in front of crowds who, for the sake of the , (ongress mandate, lave submitted without retaliating. I ask you to believe, the accounts given by men, pledged to truth. Repudiation, even by high officials, has, as in the lardoli case, often proved false. Officials, I regret, to have to say, have not hesitated to publish falselloods even during thc last five woeks. মদের দোকামে পিকেটিং সঙ্গন্ধে এই চিঠিতে লিখিত হইয়াছে :– figuor dealers have assaulted pickets, admitted by an official to have been peaceful, and sold liquor, in contravention of regulations. (Ifficials have taken no notice, either of assaults or of illegal sales of liquor. As to assaults, they are known to overybody, under the plea that they complaints, চিঠিটিতে সত্যtঞ্জত এবং অবিমিশ্র অহিংস সঙ্গন্ধে লিথিত হইয়াছে – I know the dangers attendant upon the method adopted by nue. Ibut the country is not likely to inistake ony, meaning. I say what I mean and think and I have been saying for the last fifteen years in India and outside for twenty years more and repeat now that the only way to conquer violence is through . . non-violence, pure and undefiled. I have said also that every violent act, word and even, thought. interferes with the progress of non-violent action. If in spite of such repeated warnings, people will resort to violence, I must disown responsibility, save such as inevitably attaches to a human being for the acts of every other. human - being. But the question 9f responsibility apart, I daré not postpone aetjom on any cause whatsgever, if nonviolence is a force the seers of the world have claimed it. to be, and if H ash not to belie my own, extensive , experionce of its working. Rut I would fain avoid a further step. I would, therefore, ask you to remove the tax whigh so many of your illustrious countrymen have condemned in unmeasured terms; and which. as you could not have failed to observe, has evoked universal protest and resentment expressed in civil disobedience. You may condemn civil disobedience as much as you like. Will you prefer violent though they take refuge have received no
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