A public opinion that would revolt against the notion of an ex-workman becoming Prime Minister would not be outraged in any way by Mr.MacDonald holding that office.

Mr.Burns and Mr.Hardie have remained in their own and in the public eye representatives of the working class, all education notwithstanding.

Mr.MacDonald has long cut himself off from the labouring class of his boyhood.

He has adapted himself easily and naturally to the life and manners of the wealthier professional classes, and he moves without constraint in the social world of high politics, as one born to the business.

No recognition of the workman is possible in Mr.Ramsay MacDonald's case, and this fact is greatly in his favour with the multitudes who still hold that England should be ruled by "gentlemen." The Right Hon.