The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1900-11-17

TWO years ago a young st. Louis
man of Dutch and Irish extraction and
with q Botr name went to England,
thinking that he might do more to-
ward pulling the teeth and trimming
the claws of the British lion if he were
inside than he could by standing at a
distance and throwing stones at it or
calling it hard names. Hating monar-
rhy and aristocracy and all the Op-
prtssuns that follow in the wake of
such etfete institutions, he decided to
try to organize the discOntented ele-
ments in Great Britain in such way
that they would be able to co-operate
With the friends Of freedom elsewhere
'1esirous OF putting an end to the ruin
GUS policies Of the British plutocracy.
IT is easy enough for the Dutch and
the Irish and the other better sorts of
Americans to curse England and con-
tribute (; cent piece or a dime now
and then to pay the expenses of an
anti-t.nglish meeting. but there are few
men in this country who have the
nerve and the far -sightedness and the
rrriness IF brain to go into the very
heart Of Il foreign country and organ
" according to an entirely new and
original plan the people Of that ilnI
against the reigning power.
wish t" call attention t, i n,"v,-
nleilt started in Great Britain by an
American which has for it's purpose the
obstruction forever OF British nppreS
sion and the ending Of that long line 'f
nutrages that for more than Il century
has been perpetrateN UPON innocence
AMI helpiessness throughout the world
by an overriding moneyel uIgarchy.
The object and purpose of Ruskin
hall. or rather the new Oxford move
ment, inauguratei by Walter Vrooman.
of st. Louis. is the same that animat" t"d
George Washington and his followers.
IN" destruction not of the British peO-
pie. but OF the npplesserS OF the Eng
lish.
The Americans who have hastily Op-
posed the Ruskin hall movement and
the proposed convention on George
Washingtons next birthday to be held
at Oxford. England, because they think
it is English, are foolishly obstructing
the one moyement which promises to
doing in words and words only for
more than century-namely, the de-
struction of British tyranny.
It is very discouraging work trying
to destroy the British oiigarchy by
shooting young farmer lads, principal. y
from Ireland. AuStrai:, and Canada
and srrondariiy from the country dis
IrintS &C England and Scntland How
much nnbler, how much more sublime
how much Vaster. the conception TO at
tack this blood thirsty liOn~ the British
'lut"rrdry, by getting inside and pal
sI'nG the muscles and organizing it's
VI" Americans speak Of George
Washington and Paul Kruger and
other enemies of the British olisarchy
With the highest praise. and Yet We
:stlil 81 far to have failed to give, prop
rr credit to much more dangerous
enemy If the British nligar,.l!y than
any "t thc:e-nrm"ly. the British DEM
"'i'h'N. which With unparalleled hero
ism has opposed every one uf it's cruel
prlirirS in q hand to hand and uneven
conflict fnr more than q century, And
now. thanks to the farsghtednes:. tn.
c"n} determination and the unprecr-
ut'it"d auitacitN of Il citizen Of Mis-
S''llll. this democracy has been given
Il center and Il circumference, a spirit
'i'I rohHsiCn as it were. in the form of
popular college which is training the
''a!nlng tn" future leaders Of the Brit
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