THE MAN.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 939, 5 October 1910, Page 7

THE MAN.

"^":0. ; -; • thing about ilim;:,was There- was that in,:the .'vehemence;;.of,,his .gesture,' and the ring of sincerity;in his voice, .thaticommandedt'.res^ect,:.ifvit did .not -carry,.iihiversal.conviction; : for,the ;big. crowd in,, front - had. its. ; quoti ■'. of -cynics : BometMe/mineiv -. : now':: missidnef. .and .•so;cial .worker,; not; like ;the: typical miner," small.;': /nervous-: ) looking,v spectacled:-and, as; he stood :on ■the: s^s.at;fthe^Queeh'sVStatue;.; ; and. faced .the.drpwd'bne. wondered: whether ie!codd;.hoU';,thoni;:: told ...them .-that'le;:bid :been v l3 - ; years; a 'miner;'' thatv:he'.' : .was.va;;member;.bf;,the. . Independent'..Labour'-party,. the, Chris-:. .tkh..Social ;Union','.andi-thev.Laliour- re-', preseniatiye on .the.; Lowestoft Board' of Gnardiahs,: and;.so,., having -as it • were .'produced. the necessary . credentials; to. ';place;him.,at", one he froceeded' to deliver his message.. They vedKhe said;:,in; a- self-exciising v: age;; ah,age., wherein -it,had - become the:,'custom';;, to; refrain;, from .calling : sin; by., hard names.':.-The'idrmikard .was.-a; poor.'.'chap, .'whb'.had "taken! =a" drop tob ! -much"; ;.the: wasAme'rely a ; Eked«to'have ;"a; Uttle bit ,on; a' horse'.'.; 1 was}; just 5;: <'a : little;, bit 'g a y,l'.- and'- could,: parade iunashamed '■■' in :.the;;eye3 * of. ; the .'community, - whilev the .faUeh.:.woman? wasi execrated..,,;-People; ; ieseused:..themselyes 'by; such \ flimsyvpie-,;tests:as-':hereditary,- environment, .etc.A cynic 'had* : once asked_,,: : himr whether ■he' had read "Plato's 'Republic;" .: '■ He ; bad.v- : ;;Plato.-ha'd''.;said' :many./beautiful .:;thihgs—^but' he .did not live.themy, and. itherein'he' was":vastly.'different:; .from' 'Christ:'-.. ; '<M.i% j f > • ■,' ! ' : V;-v.' '1 ;;..,:."AB:'very.'':fihe,;;"'Joe,'.' ■'.■observed.- : a, , rnemberiof :the; ; ; proletariatj ; \. removing 'Mb- cigarette:' from expect ;us",to-aot'up.to^.it::with i :all' these"-'ere capitalists ;spongin',-:-on. our : : labbur ?."■:.£ ko'fyiy-::/fy ■ /-.. ■■)■: ;'7"v

MK;:>'-iJdevViHßnis' , .liitn; tbut. : iiot conyinc6d;;vaiid- : for; :-tne''next, ; Jten: mini: ; utes-'brvao.> tfie* wwat:e t : engaged in; ;setUmg),the : {doubts\fbf .those v ;who : no. miUeniinm,: apiritilal or material, -was-possible;under^a system :6f'capitalismJ;^"^> r ;"V'':!.;:.'' v .;;■>:,.■