THOUGHTS OF LEADERS

Press, Volume L, Issue 15047, 15 August 1914, Page 14

THOUGHTS OF LEADERS

VIEWS OF BISHOPS. -

"OUT OF TOUCH."

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2.OVDON, July %•; Tho Bishop cf -,'.:iord (Dr. Gie} mado some cam-"- re larks onv'ttj Labour moveme : \ t.io house of S!i Waldorf Astor, •> ;. meeting. »v held to protest ;'.gai:y ;ho proseol tern of combining education nj employment before \'--i age of toon. - ! a.

'"Labour leaders arid official rwnt« sentativos of tlio workers aro out rf touch, with tho mind of tho averia \vorker. Whou one talks to them h a like talking to a Dou and kssuauia that one is getting to know the J&frjg of tho uivdorgi aduato. Noverihelw, the hopo of the country is mainly 'with the Labour movement.* But the Laboßr movcineut will undoubtedly fail ffnJea it gets better education for the wider* introduced. Still, 1 know of adSlie in our country* in which bettor e3w*i tion is welcome. Class by class, tf. Englishmen arc tenacious of $&> views of the utter worthiosshess ofj&> cation. Tho wealthier classes. f<&;&; ample, aro interested on behalf of sous and daughters in a groat v&nstf of subjects, but not in thoir real liijj. lectual education This is a istic of tho English r.atioa. and issa« from elements that aro good as we; si bad in our diameter. During thopwt five years a considerable feeling j« grown up among tho workers agtinjt being legislated for by nooplo who thini they know what is good for them. -Th* modern i'oeling is to-consolidate efem consciousness nnd legislate for taVcUse by the class, and I sympathise witk that feolins.!' . ' 1 FOIICIBLE FEEDING—A. The Bishop of London, in & Jotter to "TJio Times':— .; : "It is impossible, to imagine * stronger 'anti-iniiitant' than I am w* eelf. I find that I called nuTitaaw •tho devil's work , in St. Paul's rCfethedral. And it is just because lem w strong. an acti-militant that I am anxious our own weapons shall "tiot ~W tainted, and I feel bound Xα renew fa protest, which I made privatoly $o the Home Secretary on tho subject ooon£bio feeding. I am convinced carried out as humanely as itiji&oeitble to carry it out by tbe;J^t|^^. 4 nurses, but I believe the thaiHHirrong in itself. All analogies drawn frteia the peaceful feeding-: of invalid|*|f thii insane aro false ivhen applieiw'ltwri' ing and straggling cess, if continued for to leave thorn physical and ■ wrecks whichit is incompatible-.witlji Christian civilisation to. alloVlifltaai making no complaint about;fdroggißft as I have it on the authorityVcf a pter» sici an whose word I a«eptj. tlmi ri* thing is given except midfcioeiieiset tial to thoir health; but I J&j llnouM not_ te honest if I did vM ; : protert against this particular metjwd of put* tinpr down rr.ilitnncy, ac ttou'•"« against militancy itself." ,■ , 1