Gentlemen, our agitation is described as the agitation of lawless people. I read through these speeches very carefully and I challenge any one of the speakers to find out a single utterance in Mrs. Beasant's speeches on the question of Home Rule, in her many pamphlets on this subject which may be characterised as violent. I challenge them to find out a single sentiment in any one of these utterances of Mrs. Besant which stands for lawlessness. I have read them carefully; these Anglo-Indian agitators have not. I have read them carefully and I say that Mrs. Besant has laid down clearly and emphatically that the agitation for Home Rule must be carried on lawfully and by the use of argument not by the use of methods which are against law. She has laid that down so often in her speeches that anybody who refers to that agitation as lawless has no excuse for such ignorance. WHO ARE VIOLENT--WE OR YOU? I will now give you another bit from the same speaker:-- "Most of you are aware of the quality or the language used by the Indian agitator when he wishes to libel British rule." The quality of language used by the Indian agitator indeed! Well, gentlemen, you have read the speeches of these Anglo-Indian agitators and you have read the speeches of Indians who have addressed the country from time to time on the question of Home Rule. I ask you to compare the tone of these speeches and I ask you to say who are violent--they or we? I will give you one choice bit from Mr. Wigett. He says:-- "Can any one here say that in releasing Mrs. Besant the Government of India has exercised that power in a matter that we have a right to expect.... It is a direct invitation to further noisy and blatant upheavals of violent passion." Well, that is the language of moderation. I shall pass by that without a comment. "SPLENETIC BITTERNESS OF A POLITICAL SECT" I will give you another from this gentleman's speech. Referring to the writings of Indians on the question of Home Rule and in support of our claim for Home Rule, this gentleman says:-- "Such writings do not represent the feelings of the people of Calcutta, or anything indeed but the splenetic bitterness of a political sect." That is very choice language, gentlemen, "splenetic bitterness of a political sect." That is very moderate language indeed! I shall pass by this also without any comment. I come now to Mr. F. W. Carter. OUR "UNSCRUPULOUS" METHODS Referring to our activity, he says:-- "Unscrupulous methods and audacious claims of a few noisy agitators."