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battle-field of capital and labour. Our expectations, however, are disappointed. Mr. Leonard Horner passes altogether over the “ strike ’’ question, as too well understood to need farther explanation, moralising at the same time on the uneducated state of the people, the want of intercourse between masters and men, and the necessity (?) of a compulsory educa-cation bill, which should make it a penal offence in the parents not to send a child to school. Is there anything in bureaucratic employ which fosters a ten-tency towards despotism ? We should almost think so, and the above is not the least significant illustration of the fact. It is noteworthy that in the case ofchildren employed in mills such a law as here suggested actually exists, and is enforced. Mr. Horner has therefore a right to argue that Parliament has acknowledged the principle for which he contends. His plea is simply the following—that only educated persons appreciate education; ergo, ignorant parents will not send their children to school; whereby the eyil perpetuates itself, and cannot be remedied except by governmental interposition. But his assumption, though plausible, is unfoun4ed. Parents, them-
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