The Trades Union Congress have shown moderation and sagacity in
more than one direction. Mr. Cremer brought in it a fierce charge against some members of the Congress that they had " sold themselves" to the enemies of labour in relation to the appointment of the Royal Commission for examining into the Law of Conspiracy and the Law of Master and Servant. The colleagues of Mr. Cremer demanded a private investigation of his charge, and when it appeared that he had no evidence at all to bring, the Congress expelled him. Nothing can be wiser than this firm resistance to the spirit of vague and frantic suspicion. That spirit has always, both in the French Revolution and in other revolutionary eras, been the bane of true liberty. Men who can freely invent imaginary "traitors toliberty " are usually men who do not know what liberty means,—how much moderation, and self-control, and equity of judgment it really implies.
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