Gentlemen, our agitation is described as the agitation of lawless
people. I read through these speeches very carefully and I challenge
any one of the speakers to find out a single utterance in Mrs.
Beasant's speeches on the question of Home Rule, in her many pamphlets
on this subject which may be characterised as violent. I challenge
them to find out a single sentiment in any one of these utterances of
Mrs. Besant which stands for lawlessness. I have read them carefully;
these Anglo-Indian agitators have not. I have read them carefully and
I say that Mrs. Besant has laid down clearly and emphatically that the
agitation for Home Rule must be carried on lawfully and by the use of
argument not by the use of methods which are against law. She has laid
that down so often in her speeches that anybody who refers to that
agitation as lawless has no excuse for such ignorance.