So far everything tends to confirm the official police statement that the Sidney Street gang wers not saarchiets.
The Times" will not have it so.
In a leading article the other day it classified anarchiste order three beads the theoretical anarchist who is not a criminal, the anarchist who preaches that} murder is justifiable for a political end and who practices what he preachee, and the anarchist who believes he has a right' to commit marderin order to possees him telt of another man's goods. But surely raining of Iangaage to call this last man an anarchist, On that theory every barglur who carries firearms] and ie prepared to uso them is an anarchist. In some other cases the outery about anarchists is being used for political ends, as © weapon against the Government, as is the part which Mr. Winston Charchill played in the Sidney Street drama. In reply to the attacks upon him, the Secretary has addressed a letter to " The Times," io which states that he never took charge of the operations, that he did not interfere with the police disposi-that be never over-raled or over-rode' the police authorities, shat the Scots Guards were ordered on to the scene, before be bad even heard of th disorders, that he did not send for the! Artillery or the Engineers and was not consulted s to whether they should be sent for, and that he did not even forbid the firemen to pat out the blaze, though when appealed to as to whether the order had his approval he said that it had. The expected attack on Mr. Churchill in the House of Commons over these proceedings has thas been considerably discounted, sim, bauroon's PLEDGE.
Yesterday an interesting letter from Mr. Balfour on the subject of the position of Tariff Reform appeared in all the newspapers. He declares that the fiscal controversy retains its old place in the Unionist programme, and that he is more that ever convinced that Imperial Preference is " necessity. In proof of his position he quotes the references
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