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object and for the furtherance of those ends we 

 offer our pages to the public view." 



The preface is dated April 1889. According 

 to the statement in the " Toronto Telegram," 

 which Mr. " Commissioner " Booth-Clibborn does 

 not dare to dispute, his Canadian fellow-" Com- 

 missioner " bought and destroyed the whole edition 

 of " The New Papacy " 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 " hot fit," 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. 

 " Commissioner " Booth-Clibborn's scandalous in- 

 sinuations that Mr. Sumner was bribed by " a few 

 sovereigns," and that he was " bought off," in the 

 face of his own admission that Mr. Sumner " offered 

 to order its suppression if the army would pay the 

 costs already incurred, and which he was unable 

 to bear," is a crucial example of that Jesuitry with 

 which the officials of the army have been so fre- 

 quently charged. 



Mr. "Commissioner" Boobh-Clibborn says that 

 when " London headquarters heard of the affair, 

 it disapproved of the action of the Commissioner." 

 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 



