At the Sunday demonstration in Hyde Park of the gas-
workers of London, Mr. Weir, a compositor, is reported to have said of Mr. Livesey, who has really defeated the strike, that " he ought not to live twenty-four hours," that "he ought to be got rid of," and again : " I say a man like Livesey has no moral right to live in this country, and the man would be a hero whd went to-night and murdered him." Indeed, he added that such a man would be one " whom we ought to worship." Such language as that, especially at a time of
popular excitement, ought to be prosecuted by the State, as tending to lead to a breach of the peace, perhaps even to murder. Of course Mr. Weir may not have been entirely master of himself, and in that case the evidence that he was not in full possession of his reason would be produced in evidence. But such language should not be passed. over in a time of many strikes, whether the person against whom it was used be indifferent to the risk or not.
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