The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-01-26
ENGLISH PUBLIC OPINION.
Feeling in London as to the Threats
Made by GDOnnell's Friends.
Henry George and His Impracticable Theories
Mary AndersOn's Alleged Admirer-
Unfortunate Shareholders

Correspondence of the Indanapo is Journal.
LONDON, Jan. 12.-Micawber-like though with
]oss composure than that gentleman was able to
command, still waiting here in London
for something to turn up. l refer, of course, to
the fear we have Of beingblown into smithereens,
consequent upon threats that are pouring in
upon us from the other side of the Atlantic.
The authorities do their best to affect indifer-
Snce, but the truth is that they are alarmed.
The safeguards thrown around prominent
representatives of the government were never
So strict as they are now, and poor Judge
Denman, who seems to have incurred special
displeasure, never leaves his house without po-
lice escort. Equal vigilance is shown in the
.guarding of public buildings supposed to be in
danger. The watch over these however is less
ostentatious than it was owing to the substitu-
ton of men in uniforms by detectives in plain
clothes. What greatly intensiies public anxiety
is the painful reflection that the perpetrators of
the outSages of last year still UNPUBLISHED
and undetected. There is a bare possibility
that the gangs captured at Liverpool and Glas-
gov may have been concerned in the Westmin-
ster explosion but there was no evidence to this
effect and that affair is consequently, still en-
veloped in mystery. AS for the later horrors on
the underground railway that nothing has yet
been brought to light regarding these
is matter of great surprise and of
no little Encouragement. 1t was quite
expected that the large reward and the offer of
pardon would long ere this have brought an in
former to the front; but since England has
shown herself incapable of affording adequate
protection to this class of persons, the supply
seems to have run short. Altogether the pros
pect looks gloomy. To institute such system
of oversight as would render outrages impossi-
Bile in vast city like this, is simply out of the
question: and if we can neither prevent such
currences nor discover the agents afterward we
are in sorry plight indeed. This, however,
seems to be Just the situation. Meanwhile, in
what way is this reign of terror helping the
cause of Ireland9 If your readers will let me
tell them the truth, must candidly say that the
prevailing alarm, instead of softening English
feeling, is only making it harder, and is gradual
'ly preparing the way for policy of retaliation.
The upshot of it all is likely to be that the
Tories will come into power placed there by an
exasperated people, with the understanding that
they will reverse the present coneliatory tactics
of the Liberals, and rule the Irish nation with
rod Of iron
THE COMING OF HENRY GEORGE.
Just when we are all trembling in our boots,
not knowing what awful thing may happen next,
Henry George comes over and naugurates
leeturing tour in the interests Of land reform.
An immense audience greets him at st. James's
Hall, and cheers to the echo as he clasps hands
with Michael Davitt few years ago one adj
vocating such doctrines as Mr. George breaches
would have found few in England willing to
listen to him. But times have changed, and
now multitudes will await him wherever he
goes. The best proof of his popularity, and of
III shirt of iO0uirV that is abroad on tha land
question, is in the fact that already there have
= been sold in Great Britain and Ireland no less
than LOO, 600 copies OF his book on Progress
and Poverty" His audience Wednesday
night did not indorse the speaker in all he said.
Even the chairman, Henry Labouchere, did not.
He could agree, he said in the proposition that
the land belonged to the people, but to the plan
OF taking it from the present owners without
compensation, he could not subscribe. The di-
vision of sentiment in the audience was forcibly
indicated when the names of the Queen
and the Prince of Wales were
mentioned. The illusions of the lecturer were
quite respectful, but leveling tendency. In
the distribution of the general property he
would give the Queen, he said like every other
widow in the country hundred pounds year,
and the Prince, he would put upon a common
footing, as regards income with all male adults
throughout the kingdom. These references
were greeted with cheers and counter cheers
several times repeated-the former being in
= tended as an endorsement of Mr.. George, and
the later, obviously as an intimation to him
that the mass of the audience were still loyal,
and could not allowing the mention of their
rulers to pass without proper recognition even
in a meeting where social revolution was being
advocated. The critics want to know what is to
be done with the proceeds of Mr.. Georges
lecturing tour That it will be very
renumerative is quite certain for at st.
Jamess Hall on Wednesday many of
the seats sold readily at 70 cents each, and in
the desire to hear this distinguished American
agltator, London will prove no exception to the
other populous centers. VIII Mr.. George put the
money into his own pockets, will he dlstri-
butte it among the destitute and
down -trodden masses, whose misfortmes
4, he bewails and of whose cause he
has made himself the special champion9 This
is the question the newspapers are asking. For
my own partI should be delighted to see my tai
ented feow-countryman make a snug fortune
out-of the enterprise. Turn and turn about is
only fair play and whilst many Englshmen
make fortunes by appearing in various capacities
before the American public, it would be.a pity if
once IN while some smart American couldn't
pick up few coins from the lecture platforms
over here
Seriously speaking though, it does seem
shame that few people should own all the land
in this great country, and that while millions
can, with the greatest difficulty, exc out scarcely
enough to keep them from starving, privileged
number who never earned a pennyin their lives,
and many of whose ancestors never did. should
be rolling in afluence! No wonder the workn 2
classes arc beginning to feel dissatisfied. The
more The facts scrutinized the greater will
the injustice appear Twenty eight dukes in the
United Kingdom possess l5S separate estates,
members Of the peerage 497 in number, hold
ABS separate estates, embracing about
100000 acres. Of 80, 600 900 acres in England
and Wales, more than 1900, 900 are owned by
: body of men which probably does not exceed
1900 According to Hon. George Brodrick,
warden of Merton College Oxford, nearly half
the enclosed land of England and Wales is
owned by about $3.50 persons. The largest
landed DPODrlptOr amongst hf,a is the DIXIE
OF Sutherland, who owns more than million
acres. His rent roll, however, is not so large as
that of some peers with much less property. his
income from land amounting to only $656875,
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