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CHILDREN AND BEGINNERS > Chapter 07 Gandhi got to work that very
evening. He drafted a petition to the Legislature and submitted
it with the signature of 500 Indians. The Bill was passed in
spite of the petition. But the Indian cause and the Indian
action in support of it, drew public attention. Gandhi was not
overwhelmed by the failure of the petition to secure redress. He
drafted another petition, this time to the Secretary of State
for Colonies in Britain. He secured 10,000 signatures within a
fortnight. Copies were distributed in England as well. Sections
of the British press took sympathetic note of the case that
Gandhi presented in the petition. Gandhi left no stone unturned.
He tried to create public opinion in South Africa, in England,
in the Parliament, in the press, among public personages. He
wrote to Dadabhai Naoroji, who was a member of the British
Parliament. He had met Dadabhai once when he was in London. Now
he wrote to Dadabhai asking