Another reason why the Government must alone accept the responsibility
is that, after all, Labour here no more represents the whole people than the Soviet represents Russia. " The peal " in the fullest sense mutt rule. Labour, and specially organized Labour, must not be allowed to usurp the name of the people. That usurpation is so familiar that many persons accept It as though it stood for some reality. But no demand is really " popu- lar " unless all the constituent parts of the people are behind it. Wo all belong to the people. It is ridiculous to pretend that a man s-ho earns his living with his bands has a higher right to rule than a man who earns his living with his brains. " Democracy " to some persons means only what they happen to agree with. " Who are the lower orders t " cries the exasperated driver in The Wrong Box to the lecturing Uncle Joseph, " you're the lower orders your- self I " We claim the rebuke for ourselves. We are all the people. The Government represent us all. The Government must sot with a proper sense, then, of representing the crucial interests of the whole kingdom, and not only of those who direct the affairs of Labour.
