Note 294 — Chapter XVII

In Mr. Plimsoll’s protest, which, as the rules of the House of Commons would not allow him to present, he either threw upon the table, or had dropped into the House from one of the galleries,[295] he says, “I charge the Government that they are wittingly and unwittingly, for they are both, playing into the hands of the maritime murderers inside the House and outside the House to secure a further continuance of the present murderous system.”... “I desire to unmask the villains who sit in the House, fit representatives of the more numerous, but not greater, villains who are outside the House.” I offer no comment on this language. It tells its own tale of the state of mind of its author.