Following my return to England at the conclusion of the Anglo-Boer War, Keir Hardie's reported speeches in the House of Commons seemed to impress me more than any, so I was glad to make his personal acquaintance and talk with him intimately a few years afterwards. His revolutionary expressions continued, the parliamentary machinery never tamed him. His death in 1915, his biographer said, was hastened, owing to the collapse of a lot of his work at the outbreak of war, and that, whatever the medical diagnosis, he died of a broken heart.

The Cape Times caricatured him with the poem "I remember". In the verse of the tall fir trees they drew a picture of a tall tree with "Socialism" written on the top and Keir Hardie underneath looking up, with the words: "But now 'tis little joy; To know I'm farther off from Heaven, Than when I was a boy."

We have to thank the Cape Times and their fellow Capitalist in England for retarding the progress. The hymn of hate is, of course, very effective to employ against the "enemy" in war-it has also been employed against their real enemy the Socialist movement. We have been accused of all the malpractices of the human race believers, they tell you, in "free love"-of course we are! Not forced love. If an heiress marries a duke for his title and he for her it sounds like love for sale to the highest bidder. It other women their love for a few shillings they are prosecuted. When comes there will not be any love for sale, it will be free love and neither lust for gain nor poverty on the market as bit' Socialists I know, and I have known many, live a happy married life. They are just as romantic and quite as amorous as anybody else, only we say what we think about all such questions, and most ordinary people do what they think about them.

People forget that marriage laws are according to f or the laws of a particular administration. It is within the law and also the religious faith of a Malay to have a plurality of wives, but it is a sin for a Christian. The Mormon, Brigham Young, had twenty wives and fifty-six children, and he did it all to "the glory of God." There have been many romances amongst the leading lights of the Socialists. I will relate a few to relieve these pages of so much Socialist monotony.