The Democrat—the organ of sane Labour and of what we
may call legitimate Trade Unionism—expresses views to which we are often in strong opposition. On one point, however, we and the Democrat are in entire agreement--the madness and folly of revolutionary methods, and the need for insisting that, if we are to alter the Constitution, political and economic, it must be by counting heads, not by breaking thorn or cutting them off, In the Notes of the Week in the number of April 22nd the Democrat has some very able and amusing comments. Take, for example, the following :-
" GOD Says ENGLAND 1 '—One of our readers who has been inquiring into the nationality of the principal persons associated with the present industrial trouble gave utterance to the above exclamation when he discovered that Mr. Frank Hodges was Welsh, Mr. J. H. Thomas was Welsh, Mr. Robert Williams was Welsh, Mr. Evans Williams was Welsh, and Mr. David Lloyd George was Welsh 1 We have had the greatest difficulty in persuading him not to write to the Archbishop of Canterbury soliciting the prayers of the Church on behalf of the poor English- men whose lives and interests were in the hands of such volatile and exuberant Welshmen. We consoled and restrained him by admitting that England might possibly enjoy, more peaceful and prosperous times if her sons were permitted a little greater part in the management of national affairs."
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