Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-10-07
THINKER, NO BANTER
u.,a uARDle, THE ENGLISH LABOR LEADER, IS SOMEWHAT SURPRISED.

surprised Him-Meets Some Rich and
 .dle New Workers.
 Mir Keir aardie, who represents the .,ortingmen of England, is now in a,norica to see our country and make few speeches.
 Since his arrival he has been de- ,,ounced by patriotic reporters because ,,a does not think the elevated railroads =, - ornament to great city and because aa s hos said that he thought there were as ao,ne men in America who were not very rich.
 Mr. Hardie spoke the other night at tto Social Reform club in New York. uo s made a short speech. After his sr,aecb was done I asked him to see some n of the other sides of New York. and he was good enough to go about with me and see what I wanted to show him.
 We went to Delmonico's, where plu- tocrats and workingmen have spent their beautiful gold for many years, and we went to the Stewart palace, now the Manhattan club, where old A. T Stewart lived and felt uneomforta- ble. and where his widow slowly died.
 Now about Mir. Hardie himself. As . representative of 8 great class he is individually more interesting than any thing he may say. He is a strong man. Ais face is strong,s and his jaw is square, His head is big and we'll shaped. He is intensely earnest. He has m nonsense about him and no cant. He nses words to express what he thinks, not to sound we'll He dresses simply, perhaps too simply, for there is as much atfectation in simplicity as in show.
 His nose is straight and long. He has q good eye, which looks squarely at and into you. His chest is big. He is tem- nerate. He has read more than the or dinary 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 can never hope to learn much or to do much. He realizes that he is like a small insect working at the foundation of coral island. He does not expect to raise society 90 feet into the air in his lifetime. He says:
 ssThis is mechanical age, and until society emerges from the era of mechan- ical progress not much can be hoped for in the way of social improvement. All that can be done now is to keep a live interest and belief in principles of jus- tiee and equality, as the monks in the middle 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.''
 That is enough for first look at MT. Keir Hardie when time presses. With me there listened to him a judge of the circuit court in Kansas City, 0. L. Dob son. His opinion may be taken as sound.
 T had thought, he said, from what have read, that this man was ranter, but he is thinker. :"
 The home of the late A. T. Stewart. now the Manhattan club, interested Mr. Hardie There he met various men of wisdom and learning He drank ginger ale, while the men of wisdom drank Scotch whisky and soda.
 One man, who is young and thought ful, asked MT. Hardie what he could suggest as a social improvement that would be practical He quoted famous American, comfortably rich, who once said that no socialist had a feasible plan to suggest Mr. Hardie said that he would, If he had autocratic power, organize system by which the unem- ployed would be able to make living by cooperative labor. He believed that It would be possible for the unemployed to have lands set apart for them to work on cooperative basis. With such an arrangement no man need want for lood, and the labor market would not DO overstocked. He would apply this soclalistic cooperative system only to the superfluous and unemployed mem bers of society.
 AS regards the progress of the social 'stic ideas which he entertains, he said ney could be furthered only in one way by the sending of socialists to legis- iatlve bodies to make laws. That is 0one now in France aud Germany. It VIII soon be done on bigger scale in lngland, MT. Hardie believes. He said me defeat of labor candidates by the aaoor vote was simply intended to pun sn the Liberal party for its failure to make good it's promises.
 nose who argue with MT. Hardie "iu always find enc difficulty about ulm. He knows pretty well what h 0 is talking about.
 Alter MT. Hardie had admired the marple staircase which is so beautiful, 'nu which must have been so hard for p0or old Mrs. Stewart to climb, we 9saS to Delmonico's. MT. Hardie had ,0ne glnger ale in the Delmonico cafe. 'ola him what a queer and excep. a0nai institution it has been for years A'a U ne listened with interest.
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