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Ministry. To Gandhiji this readiness on the part of Con-
gress friends to fasten blame on opponents without suffi-
cient ground savoured of intolerance and want of charity
which are incompatible with the attitude of non-violence.
" The Khudai Khidinatgars have proved their undoubted
capacity for organization. The presence of a picked body
of Khudai* Khidinatgars at a public meeting makes ail the
difference between order and disorder. The principle of
non-violence requires that they should make the people
do, through their power of love, all those things that the
police do" through the power of the lathi and the bullet.
When the seedling of love sprouts forth in our hearts our
petty quarrels and mutual bickerings will become a thing
of the past........Take today's incident of the calf that
was accidentally inn over by our motor bus. Love should
have prompted the chauffeur to stop the car immediately
so that adequate arrangements might be made for the care
and treatment of the injured animal. One of our party
showed what seemed to me unseemly haste in naming the
so-called opponents as the deliberate authors of the acci-
dent. In non-violence, we must not be in a hurry to
ascribe motives to the opponent or regard him with sus-
picion unless we have proof positive for it. When love
fills the hearts of the Khudai Khidinatgars we shall have
Independence. But independence will not come to us till
our love shines out in our littlest acts."
" We must send someone to the place where the acci-
dent occurred/' he remarked to Badshah Khan at the end
of the meeting, "to offer compensation to the owner of
the animal and to take the calf for treatment to a vet.'7
"Beshak" (certainly), replied Badshah Khan and
did as he was bidden.
Gandhiji reached Haripur on the evening of the 6th
November paying a visit on the way to the famous Sikh
shrine of Panja Saheb where he and Badshah Khan were
presented with sarapa (dress of honour) by the manage-
ment of the shrine. The scenes of disorder at Dera Ismail
Khan were repeated at Haripur. He was taken in a pro-
cession through the city in spite of strict instructions to