For, equally with Dickens, Mr. Chesterton is the champion of the English poor. In equal degree he is a hater of class and of privilege, of cant and bureaucracy. But he is a great demagogue who has been shouted down by Publicity, that "voice loud enough to drown any remarks made by the public." He is the mouthpiece of the poor who cannot hear him. He is their memory and their poet, the cherisher of their traditions stamped out by misery, and the singer of virtues they have almost forgotten.