to evoke any response to anti-Muslim cry if I were foolish enough to rise it, as the magic name of the Ali Brothers would fail to inspire the Mussalmans with enthusiasm if they were madly to raise in anti-Hindu cry.  People flock in their thousands to listen to us because we to-day represent the voice of a nation groaning under iron heels.  The Ali Brothers were your friends as I was, and still am.  My religion forbids me to bear any ill-will towards you.  I would not raise my hand against you even if I had the power.  I expect to conquer you only by my suffering.  The Ali Brothers will certainly draw the sword, if they could, in defence of their religion and their country.  But they and I have made common cause with the people of India in their attempt to voice their feelings and to find a remedy for their distress.

You are in search of a remedy to suppress this rising ebullition of national feeling.  I venture to suggest to you that the only way to suppress it is to remove the causes.  You have yet the power.  You can repent of the wrongs done to Indians.  You can compel Mr. Lloyd George to redeem his promises.  I assure you he has kept many escape doors.  You can compel the Viceroy to retire in favour of a better one, you can revise your ideas about Sir Michael O’Dwyer and General Dyer.  You can compel the Government to summon a conference of the recognised lenders of the people, duly elected by them and representing all shades of opinion so as to devise means for granting Swaraj in accordance with the wishes of the people of India.  But this you cannot do unless you consider every Indian to be in reality your equal and brother.  I ask for no patronage, I merely point out to you, as a friend, as honourable solution of a grave problem.  The other solution, namely repression is open to YOU.  I prophesy that it will fail.  It has begun already.  The Government has already imprisoned two brave men of Panipat for holding and expressing their opinions freely.  Another is on his trial in Lahore for having expressed similar opinion.  One in the Oudh District is already imprisoned.  Another awaits judgment.  You should know what is going on in your midst.  Our propaganda is being carried on in anticipation of repression.  I invite you respectfully to choose the better way and make common cause with the people of India whose salt you are eating.  To seek to thwart their inspirations is disloyalty to the country.

I am,
Your faithful friend,
M. K. GANDHI

ONE STEP ENOUGH FOR ME

Mr. Stokes is a Christian, who wants to follow the light that God gives him.  He has adopted India as his home.  He is watching the non-co-operation movement from the Kotgarh hills where he is living in isolation from the India of the plains and serving the hillmen.  He has contributed three articles on non-co-operation to the columns of the Servant of Calcutta and other papers.  I had the pleasure