The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-10-05 00:00:00

WORKING MEN IN PARLIAMENT.

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It is stated that Mr. George Howell Is to come for-
ward for a constituency not yet named, and that a
committee has been formed to secure his return. In
connection with this movement a circular haa been
issued by '' representative working men," of which the
principal portions are given below. After stating that
a general election ought to have followed the passing
of the Ballot Act, the paper proceeds :

, . .
The state of the borough franchise, with all its defects,
Induces party political tacticians to seek the aid of working
men. But upon what ,ground are our working men to give
this? An aristocratic House of Commons has been tried, a
House chiefly compoeed of those who hold the land, as well
aa a lionse oomposed largely of commercial and trading
men ; in both cues they have failed to do justice to the
great Industrial classes of the community. It Is still the
lick mans House; It still manufactures class laws, and
exhibits scant sympathy with, anti defective knowle Ige
of the "other nation" living by its side. This ,
!louse, as those which have preceded it, has been
weighed in the balances and . found wanting The
next electoral campaign must be prepared for with other
and higher objects in view. The principle of labour repre-
sentation in the British Noose of Commons should be the
chief end aimed at by all working men's associations. Other
classes either fail to onderstand, or, understanding fall to
Levity represent, working men or labour question. Such •
representation as that proposed would not unduly displace
the representation of any other party or section in the Nate;
Oct it would make the House of Commons national and com-
plete as a reflex of the whole nation, and therefore of all
parties In the commonwealth. Their party trios will not avail
us ; this game has been played again and again, and still the
workers of the country ate an excluded class in the law-making
clunell of the nation. We have been deluded with promised
reforms; but those we most desire are neglected and unduly
deferred, while measures affecting the welfare of the wealthy
chases are constantly studied and actively promoted. Work.
ins men must Insist that industry shall be placed on a footing
of equality with other interests and no fear need then be en-
tertained of the result and until this be done the worker.
of England must neither "rest nor be thankfuL" To accom-
plish this we must be united; to be united we have common
principles—common grounds upon which all can unite— deff
nit° objects, few but pressing arid important. Upon the
question of the direct representation of the industrial
classes in Parliament all are agreed. On this one point we
Invite all sections of working men to combine, irrespective
of minor differences in principle or policy, and thus prepare
the ground for that grand work of labour emancipation
which at the present moment is everywhere malting its advent
felt, and which in Parliament ne.ds friendly aid to secure a
sale birth and healthy useful existence.

A Brussels correspondent writes to lay that ths
was *go bao biotin out in Vat aelsitheurb9o4 01 Mu&

iGS FROM AMERICA.N PAPERS.
A popular doctor in Oswego gives prescriptions with
directions to 'take one teaspoonful every three years."
One of the western railroads has a female k'
tine-engineer of the beautiful blonde order. She S"
sidered by her admirers most "tender."
When a lady fainted at a Wisconsin party a gentle-
man thought he could resuscitate her by biting her ear. lie
is going about with a poultice on his eye.
The Taper is the name of the leading lourasi of Hum-
boldt, lisnaas. Its editor has reached the mature age of ten,
and being a light weight himself, he devotes his paper to

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light-fintr.ature:
A New Ewe land paper mays the flies there are now
SO good natured that a well-organised one will allow himself
to be brushed off one's nose eighty IeVIPI times and wet show
any temper.
A very genteel and amiable young man is now
nisane. Ifs tpltts his hair in the middle. The other day in
combing it he chanced to get two m re hairs on ones:tit:than
on the other. This destroyed the balance if the head and
over-turned his brain. lie makes a Yen gentle lunatic,

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ON A WOMAN WITH RED HAIR WHO WROTE POETRY.
—Unfortunate woman ! how sad is your lot ! Your tingle's
are red, but your poems are not.
GEOGRAPHY OF THE FUTURE.—The 4/40, one of the
most influential of the SAT) FrAIieIBCATI journals, predicts that
America, "before the end of the century, sill be the most
populous and wealthy of any lotion in Europe." If she
gets A labarna. like business plentiful she will.
FILLINGS AND Co,—"Yu will alwus notis one
thing," says Josh Billings : "the devil never offers to go into ,
partnership with • %tizzy men ; bat you will often see Min
offer tow fine the lssy and furnish all the capital." Billing's
critic says, "At last you have a chance col leaving off your
usual signature of ' Josh Billings,' and signing henceforth
Billings and Co.' "
A MARROVVLESS JOEL—A funny mistake, says the
Ballarat Courier, occurred lately in printing bra meat pre-
serving company, whose operations are carried on in the
Lake country. The printer had been in the habit of labelling
tins of beef or mutton, as the case might be, with the words
" without bone," prominently displayed. The company hav-
ing added kidney soup to its already ample cithiine, the new
condiment was duly notitied as "kidney aoup—Withont
bone." Those labels did not go to London.