11 SEPTEMBER 1909, Page 3

We regret exceedingly to see that the Congress passed a

resolution on Wednesday condemning the Territorial movement as "a sinister attempt to introduce compulsory military service." One delegate, Mr. Millerchip, the Mayor of Walsall, correctly described much of the talk about militarism and "the psychology of the gun" as cant and humbug, affirming that the Territorial training improved the physique of the young men of the nation, and was in no way antagonistic to the policy of Trade-Unionism. But even he, with strange inconsistency, acquiesced in the resolu- tion, which was adopted without a division,—a curious comment on the psychology of Congresses and the value of resolutions.