UNREPENTANT GRAYSON.

Evening Star, Issue 14001, 6 March 1909, Page 10

UNREPENTANT GRAYSON.

Mr Victor Grayson, M.P., on a recent Sunday addressed two meetings at Glasgow. At the afternoon meeting, referring to his action which caused the scene m the House of Commons, ho said he had been told that he had done wicked things. Not a morning had passed but he received hundreds of letters, some condemning and others approving his conduct. One said; “ Suspended! Let us hope it is six feet in the air.” —{Laughter.) The wicked thing he had been doing was interpreting his SocaaKst philosophy in actual fact in his ordinary relations towards Parliament, Parliament he described as a congregation of demi-semi-educated persons drawn from all sorts of families. It included brewers, brewers’ agents, manufacturers, financiers, lawyers, and gentlemen.—{Laughter.) A gentleman was a person who lived on independent means. He had gone to Parliament not to make friends, not to win praise from parliamentary backs, but with a sense of tie mandate'behind him, and he would go on February 16 with the same sense. If they would give him five other men who were Socialists, and who had some of the tire of the Socialistic spirit in their blood, to stand with him, he would undertake to say that they would give Parliament such a time as it never had since the days of Cromwell. In answer to a question as to why he did not consult his colleagues before acting aa be did, the speaker replied that he had no colleagues in Parliament, and never had any. At the meeting _in the evening he said that Socialist divisions would com© right in time. They were all working to pull down the shambles of commercialism, and erect a city of the people in-its stead.