The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-08-10

well-knit, stalwart man, then the Earl of
Galloway probably remembers the thrash
ing he got for kissing pretty Miss Burns,
although the experience does not seem to
have mended his manners. One reason
for John Burns popularity with the toll
ers is that he is q genuine workingman
himself. He despises the bread of idieness
and his time for agitation is borrowed from
the hours of repose. With his far-reacning
notoriety a. popular leader he could
make money in the lecture field, but he
prefers to serve the cause he loves without
fee or reward other than the necessary ex-
penses when called away to distance.
What do you think of this police agita-
ton Z" asked him.
1.-THE police are simply awakening to the
fact" he replied, THAT they are in the
same boat as the rest of us British work
ingmen, and that they are very poorly
paid tools of the aristocracy in keeping the
will eventually get it. because the govern
ment is afraid to refuse it. Monro was
driven to resign as head of the meiropoli-
tan police. and Sir Edward Bradford was
put in his place, because the Tory cabinet
wanted thoroughgoing military man at the
London constabulary, one who will not
hest tate on occasion to use military meth
DDS of dealing with popular manifestations
of discomfort. or as the authorities choose
to call it, of disorder. l tell you," added
Burns, rs his eyes glowed with eager
earnestness, this London is smoldering
volcano and it is not by repression that its
fires are to be kept innocuous. There is
more misery here than that which pro-
voked the French revolution, and good
many more people of the kind that accom-
plished that mighty change in kingdom
older than that of Britain. / do not believe
in bloodshed," he added, heaven forbid |
But look upon the condition of affairs in
London as very dangerous, and l am all
the more anxious when / see the cheap
pills and boluses of reform that titled re-
formers like to apply, forgetting that the
evil is too deep to be uprooted by such
means"
.What do you and your associates aim
att" asked.
$50 far as concerns parliamentary repre-
sentation. we want to make this . govern
ment of the people, The first and indis-
pensable step in this direction is to provide
that members of parliament shall be paid
salaries. At present poor man cannot sit
in parliament unless as the paid agent Of
some faction or individual. The English
parliament today is the most aristocratic
body in the world. don't care whether
Liberals or Tories are at the helm. That
would soon end If workingmen could take
q seat in Parliament without fear OF their
families coming to want
How about the House of Lords ?n
That answered Barns, should. be
abolished. This will not be q difficult mat
ter. when the TIME comes. as not one peer
ia ten who has the privilege of sitting
seems to care any thing ABOUT the privilege;
and the chamber, as rule, is deserted"
In reply 10 further queries Nr. Burns
said that so lar as ne knew there was no
purpose TO assail the stability OF the throne;
but that the expense of yalty ought to
be reduced and national aid confined to
those members of the royal house who are
in direct line of succession. As for the
nobility, they should be stripped OF all
estates which had not been acquired in
some manner just as well as !awfal. For
instance" he exclaimed. 1.-The iilegItlmate
descendants OF Charles III. and other kings
3 ould no longer be permitted to enjoy in
comes and estates besto ed as rewards for
the depraviiy OF their female ancestors"
Another weli-known London agitator Is
Thomas Mann, commonly known by both
his friends and his enemies as Tom Mann.
Tom Manu. like John Burns. has no rea-
son 10 love lord. The humble cottage IN
Yorkshire in which his ancestors had dwess
for generations, cuifivating q modest
patch OF ground, was pullsd down
and ieveIed with the soil in order 10
make an addition TO nobieman's
park. and Tom and his people were
turned out ON the read. Tom Mann
was youngsser at the time, bur be drank
in all that went On. and when few years
later be found his way 70 London ne car
ried in his heart no liking Tor the aristoc-
rncy that had broken up his home. He