The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-05-31
HENRY GEORGE, JR.
He Reviews the Social Movements
Among the English Masses.
UNREST AND DISSATISFACTION
Politics Attracting Widespread Attention
Backset Received by the Liberals-The
Elections arc Very Uncertain.

LONDON, May 9.-[Special correspon-
dence of TIE HERALD. 1.-THE politics of
Great Britain in the near future will be
the poor mans politics" Lord Rosebery is
reported to have said in a recent interview.
That he was right is evident. There are
unmistakable signs that the social discon-
tent which for some years past has been so
rapidly spreading and swelling is tending
to political expression, and that the changes
that will bring new issues TO the front and
give new meanings TO existing parties,
even if they do not give rise to new parties,
are at hand. The same impulse which
shows itself in the United States in such
movements as the Farmers alliance, and
in the turning of political discussion to &c
onomic questions, shows itfelf on this side
OF the Atlantic. Trades unionism is sweep
ing on toward political action, and though
nothing like a new party has yet taken
form, new political demands are being
formulated and pressed, candidates for par
lament at the coming election are being in.
terrogated and pledged, and in places indie
pendent candidates are being brought for
ward.
To fully comprehend the political situa-
IN Great Britain it is necessary first to
consider the social conditions. a glance
shows an unprecedented
STATE OF UNREST AND DISSATISFACTION.
And there is good reason. Since 1.-THE Bit
ter cry of outcast London" was raised by
the Congregationaiist ministers in 1888
and the appalling state of misery in the
east end of London was made known; and
since the more recent driving of the forlorr
from their sleeping places on the benches
IN Trafalgar square and along the Thames
emhankment led to the marching of a gigan-
tic army Of unemployed through the streets
of London, social conditions have, il
anything, become worse. Despite the
growth of population in Great Britain, the
population of the agricultural districts has
diminished. Farmers and farm laborers
have fiocked to the cities, and the congestion
in the capital has gone on with accelerated
speed. Large as was the agricultural eX
odus to London in the decade ending in
llSS1, the Forthcoming census is expected tc
show the exodus from country to city tt
have doubled. The result has been 70 PACK
population closer in the slums, until Gen
eral Booth, coun ting the inmates of prisons
asylums, warehouses and hospitals, anc
s'those who, having no capital or income Of
their own. would in month be dead from
sheer starvation were they exclusively de
Dendent upon their own work, ~ and "thost
who by their utmost exertions are unabl,
to attain the regulation allowance Of foot
which the law prescribes as indispensable
even for the worst criminals in our jails,
estimate that tenth part of the populatie,
of England are in the very slough Of de
spond, and finds no serious question of hi
estimate.
AGAINST SUCH A SWELLING TIDE OF MISERY
the ordinary means of organized and indi
yidual charity are clearly impotent. The.
have no more eppreciabie effect than bail
Jug the sea with bucket Even to thos