The great bulk of the members of the Railway Unions,
as indeed of all the Unions in the country, are not revolutionaries, and would regard any such policy with hatred, ridicule, and con- tempt. Therefore an opportunity had to be waited for, or manufactured, for making the revolutionary act appear like a trade dispute, upon which Mr. Cramp in an unguarded moment had poured such contempt. The British people while the strike was in being saw the rights of the matter instinctively and dealt with it as is their wont. To camouflage the strike as a victory for both sides, or a partial triumph for the men, and so on, is nonsense, and often criminal nonsense. The conspiracy for industrial revolution was defeated, and handsomely defeated, as it was bound to be, and as such conspiracies always will be as long as Englishmen remain Englishmen, and have not the unspeakable misfortune to choose a Government too weak to remember that it is their duty to obey the will of the people and not that of an organized minority.
