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secured the approbation of the audience. Organised
opposition from the Conservatives had been feared1
and admission was by ticket only, -a correspondent to
the Pall Mall Gntttet asserted that their distribution
ýrýr"rr it
had been confined to Liberal and Radical clubs! Congregational
and Unitarian chapels, so that the . audience
. consisted
largely of "young men and women freie Sunday Schools
"..
the balance was supplied by the radical clubs. "
Morley wrote, "The war party had publically advertised
and encouraged attempts to smash it, and young man
wore earnestly.. advocated in partisan prints at least for
one night to sacrifice their billiords and tobacco for
the honour of their native land*"
(3)
Even the
beat organised meeting was in dXseer of being di; rupted.
Further activities of the Transvaal Committee
comprised collecting signatures for the National
Memorial and in, %tt ng some pamphlets in October,
(I)
(2)
- one
a reprint of Canon hicks' sermon in Manchester Cathedral.
(1) B± rninghnn Dai 1o t, 15th September 1899.
(2) Frail Hall Gazette.
_ 19th September 1899.
(3) Job a Morley, Pecolloctinna, Vol 2, pp"85. G.
(4) Starry 5th October 1899.
(4)