The meeting of workmen arranged for Thursday at the Agri-
cultural Hall was given up, ostensibly because neutrality was in no danger, really because such a meeting in a hall with twenty or more entrances would have ended in a series of free-fights, amid which no opinion could have been manifested. The meeting in Hyde Park on Sunday ia, however, to go on, and threats are uttered everywhere that it will be interrupted. The promoters have promised a fair hearing to amendments, and if after that they are attacked the blame of all consequences will rest with the assailants. The latter are perfectly free to hold any meetings they please, and it is simply impossible for Liberals to surrender the right of public meeting under threats which, if they came from the other side, would be quoted everywhere as evidences of mob- dictation.
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