Pandit Motilalji's death means to me more even than to the brave widow whose sorrow it is my privilege during these days to share. I take the blow as an additional test of my faith in God's greatness and goodness. Panditji has died a true warrior's death. It is therefore well with him. He lives more amply and more truly by dying. I pray to God that he may endow me with greater consecration to the service of the cause for which alone life is worth living in these days of purification through sacrifice and suffering.
MEMORIAL
Friends have asked me to advise a memorial subscription such as was raised to the memory of the late Hakim Saheb Ajmal Khan, Deshbandhu Chittaranjan Das and Lala Lajpat Rai. I have resisted the temptation because (1) I personally cannot shoulder the burden; (2) I may any day be summoned to Yeravda or some such place of recreation; and (3) the only true memorial that can just now be raised to the memory of the deceased patriot is by intenser dedication to hasten the advent of swaraj.
MAULANA MAHOMED ALI
I was privileged to offer my tribute to the memory of Maulana Mahomed Ali by sending from Yeravda a cable message to Maulana Shaukat Ali. But I cannot resume the Editorship of Young India without publicly declaring that in him I have lost one whom I rejoiced to call brother and friend and the nation has lost a fearless patriot. We had differences of opinion between us, but love that cannot stand the strain of differences is like "a sounding brass and tinkling cymbal".
PEACE NEGOTIATIONS
It is not for the soldier to worry about peace. For him both struggle and peace are alike. He has to do with the utmost joy the task that comes to him without counting the costs or the consequence. The consequence he knows. The cost is never too high for him.
PICKETING
Picketing is a dharma only when it is absolutely non-violent. Those who have no faith in non-violence had better give it up altogether. I can find out ways and means of combating the inroads of foreign cloth even though there be no picketing, but I know for certain that boycott brought about by violent picketing is bound to fail in the end. It was this knowledge that induced me last March to entrust picketing of foreign-cloth shops and drink and drug shops to women who are instinctively non-violent.
Violence in picketing can be both active and passive. The passive type can be more dangerous than the active. Both must be shunned.
KHADI
Without khadi there is no boycott. Therefore we must concentrate on khadi.
