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bomb has been associated with the work of the Samitas in Eastern Bengal. There was indeed a great dacoity in Eastern Bengal and the theory was started that it was done by one of the Samitis, but even our able detective police were unble to prove any association in that case. They did catch hold of some young men apparently principle. There in a confidential rule, it is cofidential but she public have come to know of itit-that omebody must be punished for the day's work." That was the circular of u Lieutenant-Governor of this province and the police no doubt thought it ought to be observed faithfully. So they caught hold of some likely man and the people charged were about to be "punished for the day's work;" but fortunately for them a judge sat upon the High Court Bench who remembered that there was
such a thing as law and another thing called evidence, things whose existence was in danger of being forgotten in this ountry. He applied the law, he ins sted on, having the ovidence, and you all
know the result.
These associations, then, which were the expression of our growing national life and the growing feeling of brotherd among us, did such work as I have
the ways,
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claribed, and these were guiltless of any offence in the eyes In which they did. their Still they have boon suppressed not because they were criminal, but buause their existence was inconveniut. It has always been the case that when established institutions of govern
ment were unwilling to move with the times, they have looked with suspicion upon the right of association and the right of tree speech, they have discouraged
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the right of a free press and the right of public meeting. By destroying these Instruments they have thought to arrest the progress which they did hot love. This policy has never permanently succeeded, yet it ceeded, yet faithfully repeated with that singular stupidity which seems natural to the human race. The sword of Damocles hangs over our press. It is nominally free, but we never know when even that simulacrum of freedom may not be taken from it. There is a law of sedition so beautifully vague and comprehensive that no one knows when he is committing sedition and when he anot. There is a law against the preachtof violence which enables a Magistrate whenever he chooses to imagine that your article advocates violence, to seize your machine. The Press is taken away and of course the case goes up to the High Court, but by that time the pa per suffers so much that it becomes diffcult or impossible for it to rear its head again. There is a notification by which as I pointed out in Beadon Square the other day, a meeting becomea peaceful or crimi nal not according to the objects or to the behaviour of the people assembled but according as the sun is up or the sun is down. There is a law of proclamation by taken for right of association can be us whenever they please by stroke of the stroke of the pen. The British people have certain traditions, ,they ways of thinking and fixed ideas of which thy can not entirely get rid. It is for that reason they have not yet passed a law entirely and expressly suppressing the freedom of the Pruss or the right of public meeting. But even that may come. What should we do under these circumstances? We HOO the sword of Damocles ACCOUT DICHO cara a cala dig
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hanging lower and lower ove our heads. Our association may be declared criminal and illegal at any moment. The executive can any moment it pleases confiscate our Preas. We ourselves are liable to be arrested and harrassed at any moment without evidence, "on suspicion", by an irresponsible and appa rently unpunishable Under what difficultios and whatever restrictions may be put upon us, we must of course go on. But the restrictions may be greater in future. The sword is hanging lower and lower over our heads. Still we cannot stop in our work. The force within us cannot be baulked, the call cannot be denied. Whatever penalty be inflicted on us for the crime of patriot. iam, whatever peril we may have to face in the in the fulfilment of our duty y to our nation, we 1 we must go on, we must carry on the country's work.
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After all what is an association; An association is not a thing which cannot exist unless we have a Chairman and a Vice-Chairman and a Secretary. An CIACION IN ciation not a thing which cannot meet unless it has its fixed moeting place. As ciation is a thing which depends upon the feeling and the force within us. Assoc tion means unity, association means bre therhood association means binding toge ther in one common work. Where there
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life, where there is self-sacrifica where there is disinterested and unselfish toil, where there are these things within us the work cannot stop. It cannot stoj even if there be one man who is at all risks prepared to carry it on. It is only after all the question of working, it not a question of the means for work It is simply a question of working together in common in one way of in
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