Note 18 — Mrs. Besant's latest Assertions and claims examined.

As to the methods employed to suppress criticism, Dr. Hiestand-Moore says in the same issue:—"Slander, falsehood, deceit, treachery, all have been summoned to the support of Mr. Leadbeater's cause. Anonymous communications have been written to confound the prosecution, letters have been stolen and threats made. The Editor of The Voice has been compelled to call upon the Secret Service to protect her mails." [An entire issue in proof with copy and unset matter disappeared, and had to be rewritten!] Again, the Editor of the O. E. Critic writes:—"It is understood, and I have the direct testimony of the publisher to the fact, that the entire edition of the Brooks' books [Esoteric Bogeydom and Neo-Theosophy Exposed] was corralled by Mrs. Besant in order to suppress their circulation. They tell too much about her."