The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-08-01

AoAbuNl th'I ~ AHS SN''N"NNN-'F ~
political pRrtlsS in England will have to
be revised,
American CouSIn-How many parties
are there ia your British house q com
monI2
English Couain-sevon.
American Cousln-YOu don't say So
Aud what are theyH
English Cousin Why, there are the
Liberal, Tory. Unlonist, Irish aud ASH
mead. BartlcIt-thats flvsi then there's
the tea party on tue Terrace and the
speakers party,
But thers ate more than these, With
ont including such social functions as
the two last named, one could easily tell
oil a round dozen Of political groups,
with conditions pointing to still
further increase. Tho English house Of
commons bids fair 70 rival before long
the French chamber OF depusiat. And
the question naturally occurs, how this
multiplication OF parties will Affect
working class interests. What renders
this question specially pertinent Is that
the peculiar situation to which 1t refers
IL one for which working mon them
selves are chiefly responsible,
II fierce political antaRonisms are 70.
voFGble 10 domestic prosperity, and II
more frequent elections, conducted with
eyor.increasing bitterness. arc likely to
bridge chaSma OF separation between
the classes, and to speed the coming OF
that era Of good feeling when capital
and labor will lie down together in
green pastures OF justice and equality,
then, the more parties tho better But
it has always seemed TO mo that soCla!
evolution could DO best achieved by
more ConclliRtory methods. Political
rancor Is not the soil In which lasting
reforms grow. Hence the unwisdom,
in my judgment OF these now labor par
tics. Their chief effect 10 to divide, to
unsettle, TO embitter. Really every
party in England 10 labor party. They
arc all out fishing, and they arc all fish
ing for the working men. Nor do they
fish with promises alone. Both Tories
and Liberals can point to many things
done. Its quite true that neither has
produced q working mans millennium.
With 40 many other factors entering
into the problem, no party can do this
merely by legislation. But with two
parties balancing each other, ono acting
as q spur to the other, aud both we'll
knowing that the working man will sit
in Judgment upon them at the polls,
with full power in his hands TO set up
one and put down the other, there eau
not fail TO be some progress, and that
which is gained 10 sure, In those condl'
tions, to become q point oil vantage IN
the purauit Of still better things.
AN APPALLING PICTURE.
Most crodtable is it to English com.
nonsense that the great mass OF British
workmen see this point and govern
themselves accordingly. 1t would bo
we'll il all had this gift Of insight. As
tits, heWeyor, there arc some who think
that strength lies In division rather
than unity, in Hocking by themselves
rather than in leaYeuing tho mass, in
independence rather than corporation,
Ia forming new parties rather than In
holding tho lash over those already or
eanized. What tho Independent Labor
party has accomplished in this election
the reader has learned elsewhere. l
give here. rs n curiosity, couple oil
paragraphs from the appeal made bv
that party to working class voters. 1t
is u wild shrek, which Is perhaps ju'-
liRable and perfectly true in some OF
the statements Il makes, but which, Ia
the policy Of redress It suggests, Is de-
cidedly cratic and ill.Iimed.
"Vice, crime aud poverty" says this
startling manifesto, ARE rampant in the
land, wages are falling in every trade,
and tho unemployed question is break.
ing down the TRADE unions. Women's
labor iS displacing that OF men, and
children are thEuSting the women out
OF employment. Our asylums, jails and
Workhouies are filed to OVERLOOKING
with lunatics. criminals aud paupGrs,
most OF whom have been made 10 be-
cause they have been denied from their
births tho opportunity Of leading do.
cent lives. Hall q million OF the chill.
dten who attend our schools arc in
thlNNbluus OlO W oNbI9 luul VI
the working classes dies paupGr, and
OnO.halt Of those who reach tho age Of
sixty.ive are buried in q pAuper's grave"
This Is an appalling picture OF con.
ditions, and equally lurid aud startling
are tho suggestions which follow: I'VE
have all tho effect OF famine In onr
midst" says this thrilling appeal, 'and
yet there IL no lack Of wealth in tho
land. The land in capable Of support.
ing twice our population, yet because OF
the monopoly OF land thirty millions Of
acres aro lying uucnltivatod, whilst tho
agricultural laborGrs arc clAmoring to DO
allowed to till tho soil. . Tho lndepon.
dant Labor party would substitute pro.
duCLlon for use for production for profit,
aud would carry out tho maxim, II d
man would not labor, neither shall he
cat Tho Tory party answer tbs cry OF
our hunger workers by coercion acts
and iingolsm. Tho Liberals try to solve
tho labor problem by disoSlablshing tho
Welsh church, or passing revolutions
on tho House Of Lords WO ak you to
lcnYo tbs ranks OF tho enOmiOs Of your
class, and unto together OH common
platform oil labor"
THE INDEPENDENT LABOR PARTY.
It will interest tho reader to know
that tho object Of this Independent
Labor Party Ia, as lite constitution do.
claros; IAN Industrial Commonwealth
founded upon tho Soclalisation OF Land
aud Capital" and that ono yOry drastic
feature Of iM policy In elections IA lis
earnest advice to workingmun LOvoto
only for their own candidates, which