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celled. The suggestion in the President's speech about a Commission of Enquiry is an earnest of the reasonableness of the Jain community. The acceptance of this suggestion by the British Government and the Palitana Durbar will ensure an amicable and just settlement. But if this reasonable attitude did not evoke the right response, the President asked his co-religionists not to sit down in abject despair, not to abandon the fight for their rights supported as they are by history and justice but to resolve to do every thing in their power including, if need be, and as a last resort, the practice of Satyagraha. Are the Jains equipped with sufficient enthusiasm and firniness to carry out the suggestion of the President, and to make a trial of strength with the Palitana State by going on pilgrimage and refusing to pay the unjust levies, first taking care that no payments are made on their behalf and in the name of the community by anybody else? The weapon of Satyagraha, as the recent example of the Sikhs has shown, has never yet failed. If the Jains gird up their loins and bestir themselves, such a trial of strength, however, may not at all be necessary.
The other problem facing the Jain community is much more delicate. The question
