extremist or any other form of leader to enter the councils as your representative.  This step involves no sacrifice of money, no sacrifice of honour but the gaining of prestige for the whole nation.  And I venture to suggest to you that this one step alone if it is taken with any degree of unanimity even by the extremists can bring about the desired relief, but if all do not respond the individual need not be afraid.  He at least will have laid the foundation for true self progress, let him have the comfort that he at least has washed his hands clean of the guilt of the Government.

Then I come to the members of the profession which one time I used to carry on.  I have ventured to ask the lawyers of India to suspend their practice and withdraw their support from a Government which no longer stands for justice, pure and unadulterated, for the nation.  And the step is good for the individual lawyer who takes it and is good for the nation if all the lawyers take it.

And so for the Government and the Government aided schools, I must confess that I cannot reconcile my conscience to my children going to Government schools and to the programme of non-co-operation is intended to withdraw all support from Government, and to decline all help from it.

I will not tax your patience by taking you through the other items of non-co-operation important as they are.  But I have ventured to place before you four very important and forcible steps any one of which if fully taken up contains in it possibilities of success.  Swadeshi is preached as an item of non-co-operation, as a demonstration of the spirit of sacrifice, and it is an item which every man, woman and child can take up.

August 1920.

SPEECH AT BEZWADA

As I said this morning one essential condition for the progress of India is Hindu-Muslim Unity.  I understand that there was a little bit of bickering between Hindus and Mussalmans to-day in Bezwada.  My brother Maulana Shaukat Ali adjusted the dispute between the two communities and he illustrated in his own person the entire efficacy of one item in the first stage of Non-co-operation.  He sat without any vakils appearing before him for either parties to arbitrate on the dispute between them.  He required no postponement for the consideration of the question from time to time.  His fees consisted in a broken lead pencil.  That is what we should do, if all the lawyers suspended practice and set up arbitration for the settlement of private disputes.  But why was there any quarrel at all?  It is laughable in the extreme when you come to think of it.  Because the Hindus seem to have played music whilst passing the mosque.  I think it was improper for them to do so.  Hindu Moslem Unity does not mean that Hindus should cease to respect the prejudices and sentiments cherished by Mussalmans.  And as this question of music has given rise to many a quarrel