A MATTER OF LOYALTY

Evening Post, Volume XCIX, Issue 121, 22 May 1920, Page 5

A MATTER OF LOYALTY

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —Mt. M'Kenzie's blug is called very promptly in your editorial note. May I, however, refer briefly to one or two of hia statements arising out of my •previous letter? Your .correspondent thinks it is too late for thu Labour Party to reform the public meeting. Surely he is too modest on its behalf. A party which aims at complete social and political revolution should not baulk at a littie thing like that. At the least it might clear its own conscience by restraining the excesses of its supporters. I hops my interest in the Labourplatform and tactics is not resented. I have voted Labour when it was publicspirited and not merely "class-con-scious" ; and I should be sorry to see the day when the great bulk of electors took a decreasing interest in public affairs. But I certainly think the present Labour Party's platform and tactics stand in need of some pruning and chastening. As to your correspondent's question, I waa doing my little best "over thc-re" when Labour supporters were, going to gaol here. There are various ways of defending liberty. Mr. Fraser's champion glides serenely . past the point as usual, in the matter of "disloyalty" and "Bolshevism."- Mr. "Eraser dees not, and cannot, in .view of his public acts and utterances, deny these charges. The point is that in Mieee vital matters he does not represent his constituents; lie misrepresents them. Let him justify his action, if he can, and if he is sincere, by utilising the nearest equivalent to the Eight of Recall.—l am, etc., W. 21st May.