The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-07-30

and at Lime Street station. Liverpool.
that the late Chancellor Of the Ex-
chequer had been thrown out. I wit
messed something like a demonstration
on the part OF the railway guards and
porters then on duty. IAN we want
now" said one OF them who had car
r.ed the news from the telegraph Of
fice. "is that Asquith should be thrown
out, too" Mr.. Asquith. the late home
secretary. was the author OF the bill,
and is regarded as being responsible for
the withdrawal Of the measure when
the house OF lords inserted the clauses
for the continuance of the various In
dustrial Insurance funds. One seldom
sees any indication of political feeling
among English railway servans when
on duty. Like policemen, English rail-
way servants are usually expected to
keep their political feelings TO them
selves But at this election all ranks
of the service, from directors down to
porters and carriage cleaners. seem to
have made common cause against the
author and upholders Of the clauses
in the abandoned employers liability
bill which would have prevented
workman who had the misfortune to
be injured from seeking or obtaining
any compensation other than the one
to be held by an appeal to the law
courts.
English workmen greatly value secur-
ity of tenure. In the English railway
service a man is usually sure of such
tenure II he IL loyal to work: and he
is also equally sure of fair and gem
orally adequate compensation from the
insurance funds in case of Injury. Had
the labor group in the house OF COM
mons had their way with the employers
liability law. both these securities might
have vanished in the case Of man
who met with an accident for no man
could hope for reinstatement In his
position after he had recovered from
his accident II he had been compelled to
sue the company which employed him.
The members of the late government in
their speeches and election addresses
have made much of the act CARRIED
through parliament In 1893 by Mr.. Mum
della when he was president of the
board of trade. regulating and restrict.
ing overtime bn the railway service.
With many of the railway men Mr..
Mundella's act Is regarded as use
full measure, but any credit which may
have accrued to the Liberal government
from 1t has been more than counter
balanced by the extreme irritation the
government caused throughout the rail-
way service by the gratuitOus attack
they made on the insurance funds.
In Lancashire, where the 1Iberuls
have suffered some Of their most signal
defeats. the cotton manufacturing in
terest was against them in consequence
of the imposition of import duties on
Lancashire goods shipped to India.
India Is perhaps the largest market in
| the east for Lancashire cotton cloths.
Six months ago there was a revolt
| among a section of the Lancashire
members when. owing to the depleted
state of the Indian treasury, Mr.. Fow-
Ter, the secretary Of state for India,
| was forced to sanction the remposi-
| tiOn of import duties. At that time
these Lancashire Liberal members
made common cause with Sir Henry
James, also a Lancashire member and
| one of the Unionist leaders, and organ
| lied demonstration In the house
| against the Rosebery administration.
| The house of commons. however, in a
division on nOn-party lines, fully sus-
tanned the action Of the secretary for
| India, and at once the ca ampaign against
| the duties was transferred from West
| minister to, the Lancashire cotton
| towns.
Practically the India department had
no course open to 1t but to impose the
duties. They were intended entirely for
/ revenue purposes. There was no idea
OF affording protection to the native-
made cotton cloths, but the Lancashire
cotton people, workingmen as we'll as
| employers, refused to see the matter in
this light. They insisted that the du-
ties were an attack upon Lancashire
industrywhfch is already suffering from
| keen competition with the United States
| and with China and Japan; and when
| the Liberal members of the house Of
commons from Lancashire, who had
had the courage and straightforward :
ness to support the government in the
hostile division taken at the instance
OF Sir Henry James, sought reelection
this week, they found hundreds of their
constituents in fierce opposition to
them and determined to wreak their
vengeance upon the Rosebery admins
| tration. Both Tories and Liberals SUD-
ported the government in the division
on Sir Henry James vote OF censure on
the India department, and In the house
! OF commons the government escaped
unI1urt. At the elections, however, the
| Tories did not hesitate to reap all the
| advantage possible from the irritation
the Lancashire people were feeling
towards the members of the Rosebery
| administration.
In the same way and with no better
| ground to stand upon, the Tories and
the Unionlsts attributed the extreme
commercial depression Of 1S93-'94 to the
iiadstone and ROsebery administra-
tions. NO really responsible speaker
declared that the late administrations
We're In any way responsible for the de-
preston. but the responsibility for II
was by insinuation thrown upon the
late Liberal government by hundreds
OF thousands of placards and pictorial |
posters published with the imprint NJ
''he campaign literature department of
the Tory and Unionist headuuarter Or
ganizations In London.
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