n, education, and cooperation. He used newspapers to call attention to the Indian movement and to defend against accusations. He wanted England and India to keep up on the current situations in South Africa. He also helped indentured officers by defending their rights and fought to lower the tax they had to pay in order to stay on as free workers. Gandhi returned to India to bring back his wife and two sons. He held public meeting and even wrote a pamphlet about the current condition in South Africa. The white community in South Africa was angry with him and his actions in India. They also heard that he was coming back with a boat full of Indian immigrants. They refused to let the two boats dock for three weeks. When Gandhi stepped out of the boat, he was attacked by an angry mob that snatched away his turban and hit him with eggs, stones and bricks. He was rescued by the wife of the police chief who covered him with an umbrella. He escaped with a disguise on. Gandhi refused to press charges against his attackers. Instead he gave an interview defending himself. The newspapers declared him unjustly accused and the rest of the white community had to agree. Gandhi encouraged his family to be modernized and wear comfortable clothes. Gandhi visited India one more time for two years. He had to return to South Africa because the minority factor was not settled. He set up a law office in Johannesburg, the capital of the Transvaal where the Indian situation was the most tense. In 1903, he founded his own paper, Indian Opinion. At this time he was inspired by a book written by John Ruskin. Ruskin stressed equal value of all work and the dignity of manual work. With this in mind, he set up a self-supporting community in the country called Phoenix Farm and moved the newspaper there. Gandhi started to devote himself to others. A true life of service, he believed, required that he give up all his possessions. His body should ...
