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object and for the furtherance of those ends we 

 offer our pages to the public view.&quot; 



The preface is dated April 1880. According 

 to the statement in the &quot; Toronto Telegram,&quot; 

 which Mr. &quot; Commissioner &quot; Booth-Clibborn does 

 not dare to dispute, his Canadian fellow-&quot; Com 

 missioner &quot; bought and destroyed the whole edition 

 of &quot; The New Papacy &quot; about the end of the third 

 week in April. It is clear that the writer of 

 the paragraph quoted from the preface was well 

 out of a &quot; hot fit,&quot; if he had ever been in one, 

 while he had not entered on the stage of re 

 pentance within three weeks of that time. Mr. 

 &quot; Commissioner &quot; Booth-Clibborn s scandalous in 

 sinuations that Mr. Sumner was bribed by &quot; a few 

 sovereigns,&quot; and that he was &quot; bought off,&quot; in the 

 face of his own admission that Mr. Sumner &quot; offered 

 to order its suppression if the army would pay the 

 costs already incurred, and which he was unable 

 to bear,&quot; is a crucial example of that Jesuitry with 

 which the officials of the army have been so fre 

 quently charged. 



Mr. &quot; Commissioner &quot; Boofch-Clibborn says that 

 when &quot; London headquarters heard of the affair, 

 it disapproved of the action of the Commissioner.&quot; 

 That circumstance indicates that headquarters is 

 not wholly devoid of intelligence ; but it has 

 nothing to do with the value of Mr. Sumner s 

 evidence, which is all I am concerned about. 

 Very likely London headquarters will disapprove 



