Harijan Poona - Saturday October 15 1938

It is up to those who do not believe in the fundamental policy of the Congress seriously to consider whether they would not serve the Congress and the country better by remaining ouside the Congress and converting the people to their view of conducting the campaign rather than by remaining within and obstructing those who do not see eye to eye with them and yet are in the unfortunate position o [...] My opinion based on experience is that if after a friendly discussion with the obstructionists if the use of that word is permissible to describe them it is found that they believe it to be their duty to continue obstruction it would conduce to the good of the country to hand over the reins to the minority and themselves follow the existing Congress programme without using the Congress name. [...] " The Trillium and jacks in the pulpit rejuvenate themselves and may actually be older than the monarch of the forest towering overhead." Still lower are the mosses and lichens close to the ground or on the rocks. [...] What account would the Congress give of itself in this hour ? Would it have the strength and the courage to live up to its creed of unqualified non-violence in the face of the European maelstrom ? " If the Cogress could put the whole of its creed of noviolence into practice on this occasion " he remarked to a friend " India's name would become imrhortal. [...] Gandhiji you may permit me to say we are not idolatrous and we do not recognize you as Mahatma or our religious and political leader." Whatever the nature of the complaints if the correspondent and his followers pursue the path of truth and non-violence all will be well and it will be found at the end of the conteMplated action that both the parties have come closer together and that the cobw