ABSTRACT
The agitation during the last two years for a Miners’ Eight Hours Bill has made the subject one of first-rate importance, and the fact that amongst the people opponents stand out in bold relief their fellow miners and their leaders in the north of England. The liberty of the subject has never and ought never to be a consideration when such liberty endangers the public good. In a speech delivered to members of the Miners’ National Union Mr. Burt tells the reader he does not oppose the Bill on principle, but because it would not be advantageous to trades’ unions to have a measure of that sort carried. This brings the reader to a point on which the best of men may divide an opinion, namely, on the liberty of the subject.
