But the fact which interests us specially at the moment
is the converging movement of several Labour leaders, of whom Mr. G. H. Roberts and Mr. Havelock Wilson are only two, towards a " patriotic " working men's reconstruction. This school of thinkers will have nothing to say to internationalism or cosmopolitanism. They have had enough of it, for they know what it means. Also they are sick of the idea of having their lives raled by gangs of Government officials. They want liberty in industrial life as well as in international life. We venture to say that on these lines the vast majority of their countrymen and the majority of employers are not only willing but anxious to help this Labour movement. Let us have after the war " unrestricted output and unrestricted pay," as the National Employers' Federation very wisely urges, and we shall soon pay our gigantic National Debt. No one has yet conceived what the British Empire could produce if it tried. The labourer is worthy of his hire, but he is certainly worthy also of better leaders than some of the Fabians and internationalists who at present peesume to rule the whole of his existence.
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