That is the exact attitude of Mr. Keir Hardie and
of plenty of his colleagues and followers on the platform and in the Press. Labour is to be above the reach of criticism, and those who dare to think otherwise must be bludgeoned into silence. We respect the working claases of this country as much as the strongest Socialist does, but we are not going to perform the kowtow to the Labour sovereign any more than to any other king. We claim the sacred right of free public comment even on hand-workers, and we hold that in doing so we are better democrat& than Mr. Heir Hardie and all his crew of cringing courtiers. If King Labour is wise, be will remember the fate of the monarch who demanded that his prophets should pro- phesy to him not true things but smooth things. He should "smell the parasite through the prophet."
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