Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1888-03-10
NO com R0 NJ ISE.
THE SPIRIT OF THE ENGLISH
SOCIALISTS.
II. N. Hyndman Warns Against the
Fatal Vice OF Political COmprO.
mise-Michael Davitt's Mis-.
take-NO Half Meas.
ures Wanted.

IHe pooltlou VI Vic EuSliSu oOclal-
lists, at least those of the Social
Democratic Federation, towards the
politicians and parliamentarians is
voiced in the London Justice of Feb
ruary 25th in an article by H. M.
Hyndman. 1t is interesting fram its
connection with the Irish question,
and as many American citizens have
given their financial support to the
Irish parliamentary party, they might
as well know what is thought of the
Qualitative pottering' of the Parnell-
ties, by "a vigorous labor party on
the other side of the water.
Mr.. Hyndman's article is headed
"No Compromise" and what follows
justifies it:
"Clearly we Social Democrats and So
cialists generally are gaining ground
more rapidly than even the most san
guine Of us thought possible little while
ago. The recent period of apparent qui-
escence has been time during which
our ideas have been sinking into the
minds of the workers, and have been
making greater impression than ever be-
fore on public opinion at large. The
Tories, having decided to condemn the
demands Of the people and to "bulldoze"
them out of their liberties on both sides
of the Irish Channel. are anxious to hold
up their political opponents as mere
Communists in disguise, hoping in this
way to obtain greater hold on the shop
keeper class. On the other hand the
Liberals and Radicals, seeing that we
alone can arouse genuine enthusiasm
among the workers and that the Social
ist vote, as at Southwark and Deptford,
is beginning to count, are eager to take
advantage OF our propaganda, without
accepting in earnest any of our propos-
ais or asserting seriously to any of our
principles.
Both factions will prove to be out in
their reckoning Profitmongers are at
best poor lot TO rely upon, as Louis
Philippe and Napoleon III found in their
day of trial. They are bold and brutal
and cruel enough until they are face to
face with real danger, and then they be-
tray those who have trusted them to
save their own skins. We can wish
nothing better, therefore, than that the
Tories should continue their present
policy of timid repression and entire re-
lance upon counter-jumper support.
But the Liberals are deceiving themselves
too. If the Liberals think they
are going to use the Socialists to get into
office, and then carry on the same old
game of middleclass chicanery, they are
very much mistaken. We know trick
worth two of that. But that is what
they are after, and Davitt's for HIM
rather tame speech on Monday night
the oc aston of reception of Cunning
hame Graham, John Burns and Culwick,
just released from prison leads us to
fear that even he, too, has been indoc-
trinated with the fatal vice of political
compromise. This has wrecked the
cause of the people many time and oft,
but if it wrecks it again that shall be no
fault of ours-in England at least.
"The programme laid down by Davitt
on Monday for the acceptance of Lon
doners is practically the old palliative
programme of the S. d. F., less the free
feeding of children in all Board Schools
"a most important and not-to-be-sur-
rendered item. The programme Profes-
sor Stuart-who sleeps in the Grand Old
Mans BOSOM endorsed by his presence
on the platform and by moving the first
resolution. Does this mean that the
Liberals and Radicals are ready to take
up the Eeight Hour Bill, Free Education,
Compulsory Construction of Wholesome
Dwellings for the People, Organization
of Unemployed Labor and Taxation of
Ground Rents for the purpose of defray-
ing the cost of these measures? Not a
bit of it. There's not a Liberal member,
except Cunninghame Graham, who
would bring forward or vote for one of
them. At any rate, not single proposal
TO benefit the people is down on the no
tce paper of the House of Commons to-
day from any part of that Assembly.
Yet if every one of the above measures
were adopted and carried by the faction
which thinks it can gull us by preten ding
to approve of what Davitt now, we are
glad to say, fully accepts-if these meas
ures were all carried and adopted to-
morrow we should be only at the begin
ming of our work. They are palliatives
Of existing misery, not reconstruction of
society for the benefit of all. There is a
great deal of talk nowadays about reform
and persistent dedication of the ballot