KEIR HARDIE.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 14210, 27 May 1910, Page 5

KEIR HARDIE.

O t GLORIFICATION OF MILITARISM. SICK OF MUMMERY. Press Asaociation-By Telegraph-Copyright Received 10.0 p.m.. May 26th. LONDON, May 2G. Mr Keir Hardie, speaking at Pontypridd, hoped that the suggestion to indefinitely postpone the resumption of the fight wherein Parliament was engaged would find neither sympathy nor support on either side. The battle must be fought through at the earliest possible moment. Mr Hardie- entered a protest against the glorification of militarism as displayed at the Kpyal funeral to the exclusion of the civil side of government. He objected to the entlironement of the fighting man. The military element had always been destructive of civil liberty. During the last fortnight lie had been sick at heart at the mawkish sentimentality that had been shown. He could sympathise with the widow and family of the dead King, but Ids sympathy was equally keen for the widows and families of the victims of the Whitehaven colliery disaster. Flis opinion as a miner was that walls should have been built to extinguish the fire in the colliery, wlule the victime were still alive. He was sick, therefore, at the mummery shown at the death of one man, while those of the miners were tmcared for.