If the nation allows itself to be dictated to in
this instance oy self-appointed rulers instead of by its constitutional repre- sentatives, it will have to bow again and again to the same authority. Sir Robert Home, who is handling the question on behalf of the Government, is an exceptionally able man. He has understanding and good business faculties, and is certainly not without due and proper sympathy with Labour. The interests of the whole country are safe in his keeping. What we dread is that Mr. Lloyd George may intervene, form Some rapid apergu of the situation, and by means of the usual brilliant dialectical improvisations, achieve a temporary pacifica- tion with the certainty of a prolonged war to follow, and the probability of shaking the constitution to its foundations. The miners can have justice, as they well know ; but if they want war for the utterly inadmissible purposes which Mr. Smillie has set, before them, they must have it. In this case the sooner the better.
