It was really a case of one man's personality against
the policy of obstruction and violence which has been gather- ing more and more adherents. Mr. Das and his Swarajist followers are enthusiastically for pursuing politics for the mere purpose of making British administration, impossible, and it .cannot be denied that from the point of view of revolutionaries this is a much more thrilling- policy. than the Gandhi principles of passive resistance, of self-discipline and of domestic spinning with hand looms. Add to all this the fact that Mr. Gandhi has wobbled so much lately that .he has seemed to have no mind left of his own. One day he would give consent to the Das methods, and another day -he would withdraw it. In the event the general expectation turned out to be right. The interesting doubt proved to be a shadow. Mr. Gandhi's personality and all his emanations of saintliness were • of no effect.• *
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