We read in .the.Daily Herald of Wednesday that Mr. JackJones,
who is going to Canada to attend the American Trade Union Con- gress, is to be invited to lay the question of Jim. Larkin's imprison- ment in America before the Congress. Jim Larkin. was sentenced to five years' imprisonment for seditious anarchy. We also read in some American newspapers protests against the "imprison- ment without trial" in America of several American revolution- aries. Almost simultaneously with the appearance of these protests the British Government received a protest from a large number of American Congressmen against the "imprisonment without trial" of Shin Feiners. In these piquant circumstances we cannot be far wrong in attributing the protests of the Congress- men to electoral motives. The Presidential Election is almost on them, and. with it will come an anti-British outburst which we have long foreseen. This. outburst will be engineered by all the dissident.and subversive factions—the Irish, the Germans, the Independent Workers of the World, and such-like. It will not be for want of warning if Englishmen stupidly mistake this tempest for the genuine voice of America.
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