CARSONITE ANARCHISTS.

New Zealand Tablet, 5 June 1919, Page 29

CARSONITE ANARCHISTS.

In reply ' to a question put by.' Mr. McVeagh in the House of Commons, /Mr. t Samuels, the AttorneyGeneral for Ireland, has made a remarkably honest' ad- | mission (says the London , Catholic Times of March; !). :. Two volumes, entitled The Handbook for Rebels and -i The Grammar, of Anarchy were published spine:]time ago. They ■ consist entirely of extracts from '’speeches delivered by Unionist politiciansthe Right Hon. BonariLaw, Leader of the House of Commons; Sir Edward Carson, ex-First Lord of the Admiralty; the . Right Hon. Lord Birkenhead, Lord Chancellor of England ; the Right Hon. Sir James IT. Campbell,' Lord Chancellor of Ireland; the Right Hon. Walter Long, First Lord of the Admiralty; the : Right Hon. Lord Milner, Secretary of State for the Colonies ; the Right Hon. Lord Curzon, Leader of the House of Lords and others. Copies of the two works, restricted to quotations from the .speeches of these eminent public men, have been seized and confiscated by the police in all parts of Ireland, and Mr. McVeagh wished to know the reason why. The Attorney-General for Ireland frankly answered that “the volumes, as their titles proclaim, are intended to instigate rebellion and create anarchy. They are seditious publications under the Defence of the Realm Regulations.’’ That is just what we have been urging ever since the speeches weje delivered. Are the preachers of rebellion and anarchy to go unpunished, nay, to enjoy high rewards for their teaching, whilst other men are kept in prison month after month without trial on suspicion of being parties to a German plot long exploded ? •