SEDITIONIST SENTENCED.
I FIVE YEARS' TRANSPORTATION CALCUTTA, August 18. Surendranath Arya was to-day sentenced to five years' transportation for seditious speeches at Madras. The severity of the recent sentences for sedition is undoubtedly called for. The '"Pioneer" says that short sentences for sedition do not serve the purpose in India. The truth is that the agitator who is sentenced to a year or eighteen months' or two years' imprisonment, shortened as these terms may be by good conduct in gaol, is in no way deterred from his courses. Before the prisongates have well closed upon him he is probably planning to take up his work again where he left off, and before many months are over his friends will be concerting triumphal demonstrations to celebrate his release. A sentence of seven or ten years' lends itself A o a different class of reflections. The agitator is conscious that he will be a changed man before he. returns to freedom, that his admirers will have half forgotten him and will have dispersed, and that there may no longer be any agitation in existence to find him occupation.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 198, 19 August 1908, Page 5
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