Alleged Inflammatory Speeches

IT will be remembered that Lord Ronaldshay recently explained that his order for prohibiting the Calcutta Town Hall meeting was due to his anticipation, right or wrong, that inflammatory speeches would be made. This explanation casts an undeserved aspersion on public leaders who have never once been proved to have made or even accused of making inflammatory speeches. The Governor of Bengal was, therefore, not justified in imagining that responsible public men, who convened the meeting in question, would do anything unlawful. It at any time the speakers at a meeting made objectionable speeches, it is open to the authorities to prosecute the men and prove their offence in a law court, instead of judging the same upon one-sided representation.