In dealing with the question of violence and intimidation we
should not be acting justly if we failed to express our admiration for the way in which the miners as a whole have refrained from disorder. The country has undoubtedly taken full note of this fact, and it has done a great deal to mitigate the bitterness which might have been expected to show itself among those who have been not only greatly inconvenienced by the strike, but have had their whole welfare placed in jeopardy and on whom want and misery have fallen through no fault of their own. It is greatly to be hoped that the temper thus shown by the men will now be maintained to the end. If at the eleventh hour any serious rioting or intimida- tion were to take place, there might be a very rapid turn in publics feeling against the strikers.
