Although Although we are hard put to it to find
space to record all the important events of the week, we must make room to pay a Well- deserved tribute to the frank, honest, and valuable speech made in London on Friday week by Mr. J. 11. Thomas, the secretary of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants. lie said that in his belief in July, 1914, the country was on the verge of revo- lution, owing to the peril in Ireland and to the women's agitation. Then war came and united a dames against the common danger. Class feeling absolutely disappeared. Democracy was prepared for any sufferings and any losses in order to remove a great iniquity from the world. He was sorry to say, however, that the feeling which " carried us through the winter of 1914" no longer prevailed. The people never knew all the facts of the situation, and ignorance
bred suspicion. "A stage has been reached," he declared, "where the people do not believe Government statements." One day a Minister would speak^of the terrible scarcity of food, andon another day another Minister would deny that any great danger existed.
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