Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-09-19
TINKER, NO BANTER
AR HARDlE, THE ENGLISH LABOR EApER, IS SOMEWHAT SURPRISED.

idle New Workers.
 MT. Keir Hardie, who represents the 5 zrar kingmen of England, is now in < America to see our country and make a. few speeches.
 Since his arrival he has been de- ,,fpuced by patriotic reporters because he does not think the elevated railroads sn ornament to great city and because hebas said that he thought there were so,,,e men in America who were not very rich.
 Mr. Hardie spoke the other night at the Social Reform club in New York. Ha made short speech. After his .saaech was done I asked him to see sa3pe of the other sides of New York, a,,d he was good enough to go about -s{tb mo and see what wanted to show We went to Delmonico's, where plu- |onrats and workingmen have spent :f6air beautiful gold for many years, and we went to the Stewart palace, n<.xv the Manhattan club, where old A. 2 IT Stewart lived and felt uncomforta- bla and where his widow slowly died Now about Mr Hardie himself. As 4enresentative of a great class he is Iindiyidually more interesting than any thing he may say. He is a strong man. 5 Hls face is strong, and his jaw is s53,are His head is big and well aHaped, He is intensely earnest. He has nal nonsense about him and no cant. He uaas words to express what he thinks, net to sound well. He dresses simply, #narbaps too simply, for there is as much Raffectation in simplicity as in show.
 His nose is straight and long. He has < Food eye, which looks squarely at and sinfp you. His chest is big. He is tenn D4rate. He has read more than the or dirary ignoramus who will try to teach him about American institutions. He knows what few men who try original Thought ever learn-he knows that he oau never hope to learn much or to do az1ch. He realizes that he is like S6nIp Il insect working at the foundation 0f d coral island. He does not expect to lrSIse society 90 feet into the air in his Ehletime He says:
 This is a mechanical age, and until ssooiety emerges from the era of mechan- Ical progress not much can be hoped for 3dfhe way of social Improvement All kat can be done now is to keep live 1hferest and belief i'll principles of jus tice and equality, as the monks in the ulitdle ages kept alive literature. They could not hope to persuade the powerful to learn even to write their names, but they preserved for an age that would ap- preciate it the priceless knowledge in- trusted to them. y
 That is enough for first look at MT. K6ir Hardie when time presses. With me there listened to him judge of the eilcuit court ill Kansas City, c. l.. Dob Soa His opinion may be taken as sound.
 had thought, he said, from What have read, that this man was a fanter, but he is thinker. {"
 The home of the late A. T. Stewart, MQB the Manhattan club, interested MT Mafdie. There he met various men of Miadom and learning. He drank ginger 8l8 while the men of wisdom drank 9tch whisky and soda.
 One man, who is young and thought 41E asked Mir Hardie what he could M&gest as social improvement that
 Qld be practical. He quoted famous AUerican, comfortably rich, who once 5a that no socialist had feasible mn to suggest. MT. Hardie said that MEould, if he had autocratic power, Ganize system by which the unem- WH3ed would be able to make living
 FO- operative labor. He believed that Xould be possible for the unemployed 84A cooperative basis. With such an
 ngement no man need want for
 and the labor market would not
 Verstocked. He would apply this
 Rhstic cooperative system only to
 superfuous and unemployed mem-
 of society.
 regards the progress of the social
 Ideas which he entertains, he said
 could be furthered only in one way
 the sending of socialists to legis
 Pe bodies to make laws That is
 now in France and Germany. It
 soon be done on bigger scale in
 land, MT. Hardie believes. He said
 defeat of labor candidates by the 9zpr vote was simply intended to pun
 the Liberal party for it's failure to
 ke good its promises.
 hose who argue with Mir. Hardie
 H always find one difficulty about
 He knows pretty well what h is
 klng about.
 fter MT. Hardie had admired the
 Die staircase which is so beautiful,
 which must have been so hard for
 f old Mrs. Stewart to climb, we
 at to Delmonico's. Mir. Hardie had
 e glnger ale in the Delmonico cafe.
 pid him what queer and excep
 'ai institution it has been for years
 ne listened with interest.
 IT. keir Hardie smokes pipe-a
 wise thing to do if man must