MR. KEIR HARDIE.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2073, 27 December 1907, Page 4

MR. KEIR HARDIE.

. [Correspondence on public matters is welcomed at all times, but it must bo distinctly understood that this journal is in no way associated with the opinions of its correspondents.]

[To the Editor.] Sir, —It is perliaps unwise to call more attention to .Mr. Iveir Hardie than lias already been done by your correspondent “Jaul,” but I cannot refrain from drawing your attention to the remarks of a .Liberal politician, who perhaps in a less noisy and demonstrative wa.y than IMr. Hardie is as truly a friend of the worker. Mr. Morley, when speaking at Arbroath on India in October last, referring to Mr. Iveir Hardie’s utterances “that whatever is good in the way of self-government for Canada must be good for India,” said: “In my view that is the most concise statement that I can imagine, and the 'grossest fallacy in all politics. I think it is the most dangerous, I think it is the holilowest, and I am sorry to say the commonest of all fallacies.” It would take too much of your space to follow Mr. Morley’s reasoning in support of his contention, but ‘his plea for moderation would, I feel assured, do your correspondent much good, if lie would obtain and read that speech. In spito of somewhat irrelevant explanations there is left unexplained 'in Mi\ Iveir Hardie’s speeches in India a leaven of disloyalty and sedition sufficient to cause a disturbance of the peace. This class of .reckless demagogues do incalculable harm to the cause of the workers, and it is deplorable that many sober, ■ lawabiding people can be found to support them. The measured language and statesmanlike attitude of Mr. Morley should incline such people to pause before they encourage wild idealists whose theories may be we 1 ') intentioned but which lead to disr ter. AH right minded men desim , L s ~ see, not the irich richer and the poorer, but the working clay p* dowed with a larger share of- t h e nro fits of industry. To sn;or JO rt such or Mr e «ln Th ff U T' Hardie 01 Mi. Ben Tillett, wn o find virtues W T tFy bDt «>rfr own, must Are J happy consummation defl + i ‘I 5° th and myself, i.e., that there shall he no deserving or oppressed poor throughout tlio British Empire.— I am, etc., r ,. , . • PRO PATRIA. - Lisborne. Dee. 23.