Mr. Keir Hardie is in a great hurry to denounce
the House of Commons. It had not been a week in existence when he told the Democratic Club in Essex Street on Wednesday that "no more dangerous menace to the well-being of the country existed than the influences which were brought to bear on those who came within its artificial atmosphere." No wonder he thinks so when his own Gospel is that the workers should be taught that "whoever lives upon their exertions is their natural enemy." Mr. Keir Hardie is evidently of a rash temperament, and speaks before he thinks ; but we should like to know how he escapes the inference that the labourers, who, all of them, certainly live on the exertions of other labourers, are each others' enemies. If he will listen a little in the House of Commons, as well as speak, he will perhaps learn, even from that despised Assembly, that there is nobody who lives on the exertions of labourers without helping to remunerate them, except those who are the objects:of their voluntary charity.
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