HOLLAND'S CASE

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2130, 23 April 1914, Page 4

HOLLAND'S CASE

j The appeal for leniettcy.ijiadD bite pfisorau- JiotyNß, iounct guilty I <ii seanioa, sfwuW serve to muicaice I the uop.eios-snuss ot expecting tins class oi agitator te view jus obl-igsi* turns toww'cls tioejety in n> saoc ami. reasonable m α-n tier. Almost from beginnißg to end of what was in certain respects an frbty-prepared address, to- iJkinly laboured under tiio obsession that because he conceived that the cause, for which he was tightitig had right on its side; he wu* justified in breaking the Jaw, and by so cloiag assisting to encountge » stato of aftai'Chy. All disagree with him are, in bis eyes, the enemies of the people; the Press reporters aro liars and perjurers; tiis police mere tods of fcho capitalistic class, an-d'SD of} right through the list, until he conies to his own. particular class* which alone- is worthy to rank in the brotherlisod of man. It is hopeless to argue or reason ■ with this extravagant type of -Socialist fahatie. The- 'Ciuß? Jcstioe, who dealt with, him very le-uicntly, attempted to impress on Homasd tju? unsoundness of tho attittidc he' h-a-d : tafen wp. In i;] ; ain end simple and logical terms, His Horv&uf dearly intJkatGd the evil results to Society which must follow on defiance of tho_ law aiitJ the preaching of tie vicious <Joctrjlpcs advo£fitfid : by the i prisoner. It is doabtftil if one woril of H?s Honour's rcmiU'-ks broke i through the burHor o.f false and or- ] fowcoiiß ideas with whith tho p.Tijs-i met hm\ surrounded himself. 'Butj tho public generally, we nxc confix) dont, eajinct fail to appreeiteto tho truth and feasonivbleOesH of "the positwfi as bo lucidly presented by tho Oihe-f Justice and realigo more : than over the obiigatioh imposed <« Society to ftdcqtratelv pirotce* iteeli agaiflst iftcipieiit of few ■ lessness and sedition, lest they are pi-rmited to spread and develop into a state of anarchy an-c! civil war.