KEIR HARDIE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 40, 27 May 1910, Page 5

KEIR HARDIE.

' INDICTMENT OF MILITARISM. j DESIRES CONTINUANCE OF POLITICAL FIGHT. By Cable—Press Association—'Copyright Received May 26. 10.5 p.m. London, May 26. Mr. Keir Hardie, speaking at Pontypridd, in Wales, noped that the suggestion to indefinitely postpone the resumption of the fight wherein Parliament was engaged would find neither sympathy nor support from either side. The battle must he fought through at the earliest possible moment. He entered a protest against the glorification of militarism as displayed at the Royal funeral to the exclusion of the civil side of government. He objected to the enthronement of the fighting man. The military element was always destructive of civil liberty. Dur-i ing the last fortnight he was sick at ■he'art at the mawkish sentimentality shown. Be could sympathise with the widow and the family of the dead King, but his sympathy was equally keen with the widows and families of the victims of the Whitehaven colliery disaster. His opinion as a miner was that wait should have been built to extinguish the fire in the colliery while the victims were still alive. He was sick, therefore, at the mummery shown at the death of one man while those others were uncared for.