This page has been validated.
LALA LAJPAT RAI
21
- (3) There should be no break in the work of the Congress. The “khaddar” propaganda should be carried on with increasing vigour and the boycott of foreign cloth should be made complete. On the occasion of the forthcoming visit of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales there ought to be no public decorations or rejoicings, and no one should participate in the processions or other functions held in his honour. And, above all, you should act in accordance with the wishes of Mahatma Gandhi.
Young men of the Punjab—I want to address a word to you. To pass a university examination is not the “summum bonum” of your life. Any man who models his course of life on a selfish basis is not a human being; and if in your young age we curb by our nobler ambitions and finer emotions and in their place plant baser passions and a desire for luxurious living in your breasts, then also your life is worse than death. I do not wish that you should act in a state of undue excitement. But you should at least do two things: wear khaddar and boycott the visit of the Prince.
Women of the Panjab—I know that you, too, are imbued with a spirit of patriotism and
