Elsewhere we have dwelt at some length on the question
ot murder and self-murder. If our readers feel that we have almost turned this issue of the Spectator into a murder number, our strong feelings on the subject must be our excuse. We sincerely agree with Mr. Lloyd George that one of the most important things at the moment is to restore throughout the United Kingdom "the sense of indignation against the perpe- tration of murder." We do not in the least wish to detract from the general opinion which has been formed about the courage displayed by the late Lord Mayor of Cork in his terribly misguided act when we Bay that the reception by the public of the Irish Volunteers in their Republican uniforms when they accompanied the body of Mr. MacSwinoy through the streets of London, as though it was quite natural for them to ho there, was in itself a proof of the apathetic habit which has come upon the British people in thinking about murder. For these volunteers represented a system which soaks to gain its ends by making assassination its principal weapon.
