After all, no one need be greatly alarmed at such
follies. The Parliamentary Committee of the Trade Union Congress after a moment of hesitation acted like sensible men. So we believe it will always be. The British public are very slow, but they are also very sure. They are rather like cattle, which when some novel object or unfamiliar person appears in a field crowd round it or him to have a good look. The converging move- ment of the beasts might well be alarming to any one who did not know that they were only curious and wanted to meditate on the portent. The British people are also profoundly in- quisitive. If they were not so once, they have at all events become so with the morning and evening habit of newspaper reading. A converging popular movement upon some object of curiosity certainly looks alarming at first ; but when curiosity has been satisfied our countrymen turn away like the cattle and continue their quiet grazing.
