The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-01-16

where these people congregated were to
 lodge q complaint with the police au- thorities that they had suffered annoy anee, in going to or coming from theli homes, from women plying their trade
 in that particuar part, he did not doupt
 that the police would act.
 What the magistrates woud do he
 could not say with certainty, but II
 they failed to bring the law to pear III
 such a case as that which he had Just
 outlined, he should be greatly surpris-
 ed. He felt, therefore, that such a
 remedy as the law could afford was al-
 ready provided in the laws they had'
 the only thing necessary to make these
 effectual being steady cooperation ol
 the public with the police. Laekihs
 public cooperation, he did not see now
 a great deal could be done. As to iur- ther legislation, there was no hope or
 getting any new law until there had
 been a fair effort to enforce existing
 statutes. In dismissing this distlns-
 uished deputation MT. Ritchie distinct
 ly stated that the reform which they
 so eagerly desired cauld not be eftect-
 ed by legislation alone, nor py lesisia-
 tion and the police combined, It was
 now, he said, up against" the peo-
 pie of London, and as they willed and
 acted so the issue would be.
 Scarcely less important morally than
 this effort of the Earl Marshall of Eng
 land to cleanse the London streetts IS
 the recent effort of John Burns, M. F.,
 to wake up out of his lithargy and
 many shortcomings that very compla-
 cent individual whom, in days gone by,
 when the social code was not so strict
 and trade competition not so strong,
 everybody used to refer to with prloe
 as "the Britich Workman" Hr. Burns
 is altogether the ablest representative
 the working classes of England have ever sent to Parliament. He still, af-
 ter many years of public service, lives the same simple, homely life that he did when he was a day laborer, yet his brains and principles are amongst the forces which, in the London County Council and in the Hall of Westmins- ter. give shape and tone to what is best in English public life. Speaking recently at a meeting for the promo tion of working class thrift, MT. Burns said that what the workingmen Of Eng land needed were more societies to in- culcate sobriety to combat drink, to fight frivolty to banish lust, to guar antee leisure without idleness, and pleasure without sin, and to put an end to self indulgence which, he said, had shown of late a marked tendency to revive.
 This said MT. Burns, lis not the of a Puritanical Killjoy, for am fond of enjoyment. I am healthy man, and want others to be healthy. Good health, he said, is the wisest hoard man can make. But that, he added, could only come from d rational and dignified satisfaction of their ap- petites and the putting under foot of that which degrades manhood to the level of the brute beast. Upon this point MT. Burns drew q lesson from the enormity of the national drink bill. There were in England, he said, 12,0oo,- poo members of friendly societies, and it had taken them over 50 years to save s2o0, ,0O0, ,000, yet the English nation spent ,our times as much as that every year n drink. British workman had been accused lately of restricting their out put; the fault which he had to find with It had been said they were too much in ,lined to strike, but last year the total amount of time dost in England from strikes by working men and women averaged half a day per worker per an- 1um, whereas the amount spent in drink, betting and sport represented from 30 to 30 days per worker per an- 1um. If they would stop the restric- ion of output, the diminution of skill he loss fo time, the degradation of moral faculties and the mental in- ,apacity resulting from this waste, hey must sweep away, said MT. Burns, both the book maker and the publican.
 While so much remains to be done n England to restrain the sameless of vice, to rescue the vic-
 inns of those social conditions which make it easy for girls in this country o go wrong. and to enancipate the British workman from the degrading yranny of the public house, how grati- ying it is to find that the Salvation Army is still at work, stopping as ever o the lowest hell into which poverty F crime can ever drag it's victims, lever satisfied with what it has &C., always holding out the hat or more money and never failing to how, for money already entrusted to |, harvest of results which would urely make the churches green with nvy where they not gospel-hardened pon the subject
 This army is the worst enemy that the evil, in his unwashed and ungilded tate, has ever met in the British Is- lnds. Long past is the time when any ody over here, whose judgment is of he slightest consequence, had anything ut good to say of the elum work of this larvelous organization. Amongst all 1e countries needing such work Eng md stands pre- eminent, and it is appy circumstance--the crownng gIo- y of General Booth in his old age and ,ebleness-that the country which saw le origin of the movement, and which as been most in need of it, is the one l which, after forty years of ups and owns, it's great Christly aims and orks are the most warmly appreciated But the cry still is for more money. , his annual appeal, just issued, the d general says pathetically-"I've had heavy financial struggle the last two aars Years of storm and stress have ley been in this country, and the de- ands arising from the South African ar and the Indian famine have espec- fly made my burden heavier" But he V that h ie faI