Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-11-22
RENTS AND REFORMS
English Socialists Strongly
Advise ALI Tenants to
Resist Eviction.
A PREFERENTIAL TARIFF
Proposed for Grain Coming From the
British Colonies.
THE PROGRESS OF THE CAMPAIGN
Watched With Lively Interest by the Pope
at Rome.
A PREFERENTIAL TARIFF
THE PROGRESS OF THE CAMPAIGN
Watched With Lively Interest by the Pope
at Rome.
SPAIN THREATENED WITH BANKRUPTCY

LONDON, Nov. 2l The Socialist Demo-
cratic Federation, through its committee on
unemployed workingmen, begins to-day
new rent campaign. Waite, the Socialist
who organizes the demonstrations of the
unemployed, addressed meeting yester-
day. In the course of his speech he said
that if after to-day any man paid farthing
of rent while his family did not have suf-
6eient food he would be q cur. Waite de-
clared that he did not believe in paying
rent He had not paid any in seven years
and meant never to pay any. This state
ment was greeted with cheers He called
upon his hearers to initiate the Irish and
pay their landlords with blackthorns,
Emergency committees, he added, have
been formed. in every district to assist
tenants who resist their landlords. If the
property owners succeeded in distraining
their tenants it would cost broken heads.
Then the distrained, together with their
wives and children will go to st. Stephens
and camp out before the Houses of Parlia-
ment This plan of campaign, the speaker
shouted, would pain thousands of dirty
landlords
Eviction to Be Resisted.
Throughout his speech Waite was greeted
with hearty cheers and applause, which
showed that the sympsthies of his audience
were with him. That Waite's band will re-
sist eviction is not an empty menace. A
vast number of cases are already occurring
in the slum districts where landlords dare
not execute writs of eviction.
Mr. James Lowther, who will be Chair
man of the coming Agricultural Confer
euce, has written letter to the farmers in.
Kent in regard to the advocacy by the fair
traders of a duty upon grain. He suggests
the adoption of a sliding scale tariff that
shall cease to be levied upon the necessa-
ries of life directly the home production
yields profit, and the giving of prefer
ential tariff to grain from the British colo
MES
The Daily Necs says: "We are not going
to make Mr. Lowther our Mckinley, but
he is very useful in stripping the disguise
from Lord Salisbury's insidious sug-
gestions" The Telegraph says the proposals
are moonshine. The Morning (Conserva-
tive) saws that Mr. Lowther's suggestions
are utterly impossible.
To Remove Administrative Powers
1t is stated that the Government will
favorably consider a bill prepared by the
London County Council, abolishing the
CRY eoi poiations auu Piacins euiiu iunus
under the control of the Council The
representative of the Associated Press to-
day interviewed prominent member of
the County Council in regard TO the matter.
The Councillor stated that it was true
such bill had been prepared. He added
that the posts of Lord Mayor, Aldermen
and Sheriffs would be continued as honorary
dignities, but their administration powers
would be destroyed. The Lord Mayors
show, instead of being wiped out, would
become great metropolitan pageant