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as to refuse a hearing to the representatives of the majority of the population in one of its own colonies.

As in the press, so on the platform, full licence of expression for one side, contumelious repression for the other! In breaking liberty of speech the press worked closely with the mob, and encouraged or excused mob-violence. One example of the coarse brutality employed will suffice – the paper is an unimportant one, but may well serve as a type.

Mr. Cronwright Schriener, the pro-Boer agitator, appears to have paid Tunbridge Wells a visit, but of a somewhat clandestine nature. His coming was not heralded as one would have expected for such a notability of the hour; probably his sympathisers in the borough feared that the reception would be a little too patriotic and sincere, and in cordiality eclipse previous demonstrations. His mission was, however, not of a public nature – a drawing-room was sufficiently large for his audience – and the town did not learn of his arrival until he had taken his departure. A man or a cause that relies upon such stealth and secrecy for progression will not get far, and will only bring to advocates, heartache, and may be something more. Mr. Schriener will do well to give Tunbridge Wells a wide berth.

The organization of the platform has been conducted by the same body of men as manipulated the press. Paid agents of the South