The Irish have " heckled " Dr. Pankhurst with advantage
to themselves. Could not some of the more sensible English Radicals try the same process ? Could they not ask him, late as it is, how he proposes to garrison India without an Army ; how much he supposes the Church property he intends to con- fiscate to be ; whether he intends to pay for any " waste" land in private hands taken by the State, and if so, where his millions of profit are to come from ; and finally, what he exactly means about the National Debt P Supposing the re- sources he mentions to prove insufficient, will he levy £28,000,000 by a land-tax, or will he lot the national creditor go unpaid P We do not suppose he intends to encourage repudiation, but what does be mean by his language ? As all British credit, all British trade, and all British wages would be affected by any questioning of the obligation to pay the Debt, the matter is of importance. Does Dr. Pankhurst think, as he seems to do, that a mortgage is less obligatory because the money raised under it was spent for a bad purpose ?
