THE LATE KING.
SPEECH BY MR KEIR HARDIE. FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS CRITICISED. United Press Association—By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright. (Received May 26th, 10.5 p.m.) LONDON, May 26. Speaking nt Pontypridd, Mr Keir Hardio entered a protest against the glorification of militarism displayed at the Royal funeral to the exclusion of the civil side of government. lie said he objected to the enthronement of the fighting man. The military element was always destructive of civil liberty. During the last fortnight he had been mado sick at heart by the mawkish sentimentality shown. He could sympathise with the widow and family r.i the late King, bu_ his sympathy was equally keen for the widows and lun-ilies of tho victims of the Whitehaven colliery disaster. His opinion, as a miner, was that walls should have been built to extinguish the fire at the colliery while the victims were still alive. He uas sick, therefore, of the mummery shown at the death of on? man while those of others were unheeded.
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Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 13744, 27 May 1910, Page 7
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