New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-11-26
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same thing
About five Sunday afternoon I met part Of Ira
falgar square in Park Lane The meeting WAS
over, and the various sections of which II was
composed were vending homeward The one |
encountered was a detachment Of the Social Demo
cratic Federation; if II were not the main body
blood-red, bcgt and bclettcred banner was
borne at the head Of it. No social reform can
get itself accomplished, or even talked about, in
this country, without banners There was brass
band. there were other banners, perhaps dozen
IN all, and there were some five hundred people in
procession. What was most remarkable about
them was their eNticmc youthfuness. Not many
over eighteen years Of age many certainly
younger. Some of the officers who We're con-
Quoting this band were older but OF the rank
and file the majority have yet TO acquire by lapse
OF time the right TO vote There was the usual
police escort, bat much reduced in numbers. It
was Sunday. and the closed shutters and doors
in Piccadilly offered difficulties in the way OF
looting the shops. There was no idea Of attempt
ing 1t. These men were not Of the stamp Of those
few hundred who terrorized the West End on
that February afternoon Of 1856. They were con-
tent to display red flags, and vent their dis
pleasure with existing arrangements for the dis
trbutlon Of property, in mere words; violent
words but without breaking Of bones or windows.
Tremble yc tyrants, your day is passing away, "
was the legend borne on one of the red flags.
Another was the property Of the London Patriotic
Club, and gave its own history in the words
Z" Taken by Warren's Bullies on Bloody Sunday;
RetalSen the Same Day. The police, you per
ceive, are unpopular among these youthful en-
thusiasts. 1t was think, the tyrant-quelling
at fha
law and those other minons the troops. as dressed
up in blue and red and paid TO protect the stolen
wealth of society Mr.. Burns himself denounced
their conduct five years ago, when Mr. cunning
hame Graham lay in the corner of the square
battered almost to pieces by policemcn's trunch-
cons"
This is the spirit in which the Trafaleas
Square agitators understand the right of public
meeting and of free speech 1t is by these silly
attacks on law and order that they seek 10 enlist
public sympathy in behalf of the unemployed.
They do OF course a certain amount of injury
to the cause they espouse. They do not attract
sympathy. they ALLEVIATE II. London is, in truth,
one OF the most charitable cities in the world.
Mr. Burns may despisc charity, but the dcputation
Of his comrades who visited the Rev Joseph
Parker and Dean Bradley were not above accept
ing half crowns and shillincs. There are, 10
doubt. social problems which lie deeper than
clarity. but neither is the solution of these, or
Of any one of these, advanced by such expert
ments as these of Sunday. No man, no class, no
party can be found in this country in who"
breasts slumbers any feeling either of amnesty
or Indifference u tie distresses of workingmeh.
Both political parties are pledged to do what
they can to improve the condition of the artisan.
Such exhibitions as these such language as that
Of Mr. Burns, and Mr.. Hyndnan and Mr.. Quelch
provoke dersion. The more serious part OF the
community will none the less continue their efforts
for a rational social reform-a reform which does
not begin by destroying social order.
q. w. S.