Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-12-14
ENGLISH COURT BRYAN
London Newspapers Accord
Him Columns.
CHAMBERLAIN'S VIEWS
PROTECTION CAMPAIGN GAINS
MANY RECRUITS.
slums Disappearing for Modern Ledg-
ing Houses for Poor-Art Draw
ings Bring High Prices.
ptcial Correspondence Of Tho Evening Star.


LONDON. December Z, 1908.
Not for as long as can remember have
the London newspapers given as much OF
their space to a visiting American as they
have been devoting to Mr.. William Jen-
nings Bryan.
Papers that practically never Interview
anybody have sent out some member of
their office staff to have a talk with the
free slverite. and have given the resulting
interviews the best position in their col
umns.
Differences of political opinions apart.
Americans in London agree that Mr.. Bryan
is doing credit to his country. He has
adopted an attitude Of dignity in talking to
the newspaper men on this side. and has
shown the sound sense of refusing to be
led into discussing the internal questions
concerning the tariff that are now turning
England upside down.
Mr.. Bryan is 50 accessible to the London
reporters that they have difficulty In real
izing that he was twice candidate for the
presidency Of the greatest republic of the
world: They personally are charmed with
his affability, and Mr.. Bryan certainly loses
nothing by the manner in which he Is
written up"
Unless one practically camps in the en-
trance hall of the Hotel Cecil, where Mr..
Bryan is stopping. 1t IL next to impossible
to get hold of him. He Is as busy as II he
were running again for the presidency. He
says he has. come over here to study social
and political questions. and certainly he
has lost no time.
Invited to Be Guest Of Chamberlain.
Mr.. Chamberlain invited him to pay a
a visit to Birmingham and he received
other invitations from prominent English
men to stay with them. Ambassador Choate
gave luncheon in his honor. and secre-
tary White of our embassy entertained him
at dinner later in the week.
Mr.. Bryan will continue his rambles
through France and Germany. By the time
he returns to New York he will have many
things to tell America about the methods
of running things used In Europe, and they
ought to be interesting. for Mr.. Bryan is
certainly having every opportunity to see
the old worlds social and political ma
chtnery at iwork. ,
Chamberlain's Great Fiscal Campaign.
Mr.. Chamberlain's departure from South
Wales may be said to have closed the
first part of his great fiscal campaign.
1t Is true that he has already accepted en-
gagements elsewhere. and that he has no
intention Of resting from his labors while
health and strength are given him to carry
on his self-appointed task
There can be no doubt that when he
It.
Chamberlain found vast number Of his
fellow-countrymen eager to join him In
the movement. -
On the other hand. it must be said that
of food, and no one will doubt that Mr..
Chamberlain put forward his views on
that subject crudely, ana mixed them with
suggestions struck OF on the spur Of a
moment. which were incapable of any per-
manent place in q scheme of policy. %e>'-
These initial errors have been corrected
In the plans disclosed during the medium
Of speeches at Glasgow, Greenock, Tyne
side Birmingham and In South Wales
there are no traces of these earlier crudi-i
ties. The policy put before the. country
does not include further taxation OF food :
1t has been limited to reimbursement OF
the burdens already borne by articles Of
food which are used daily in every house
hold Of the country. That Is the first and
most important change between the rough
draft and the fina! text OF the new policy
But from wavering suggestion OF retalia-
ton in exceptional cases Mr.. Chamberlain
has advanced to the definite advocacy of
measures for the protection of the home
market. The speeches at Greenock, at New
castle, at Cardiff, and at Newport were can
didly protectionist. England will do to
others as they do to her.
Protection a Common Sense Principle.
If they give her free admission to their
markets they shall have free admission to
hers. If they block their markets against
her. she will block her markets against
them. 1t Is not policy of merely spiteful
retaliation, for the broad. common-sense
principle which underlies 1t is that she must
have work for the millions Of her people,
and If she cannot sell work abroad. she
must see that no part Of the possible de-
mand for it at home is sacrificed to blind
doctrines of mere cheapness.
The policy before the country. then, Is
strengthen the empire. safeguard It's indus
tries and see that the nations food supplies
are plentiful and cheap.
This Is what the finished program of Mr..
Chamberlain amounts to. and certain 1t Is
that it IL gaining for him hundreds Of re-
cruits weekly.
London's New Lodging Houses for Poor
One by one the famous. or rather notori-
GUS. London slums are disappearing. One
of the worst and most nefarious was that
of the Mill lane area in Deptford. At one
time 1t was the appropriate site of whip
ping post, the stocks and cage" More
than twenty-five years ago It was con-
demned as noxious a1d insanitary. and as
late as 1892 the seven hundred people who
II Eatited its fifty tenements were swept by
a destructive fever bred out of its own
pestilential vapors.
Recently Lady Darlington opened a
splendid new building on what was once
this slum. 1t Is one of those model lodging
houses for poor men, which the late Lord
Rowton has given to US already in several
excellent establishments.
AS one of the speakers said at the OPEN
ing. Its SU2 dodgers may have all the re-
sources of civilization at sixpence a night.
They will be allowed the use of separate
cubicle, and can retain it for a week at
time. besides having the use Of the library.
smoking room. dining room. kitchen and
wesh houses, and for the modest charge of
a penny can have a private bath with hot
and cold water, including soap and use of
towels.
Many advantages are given dodgers In adj
dition to cheapness of food They can re-
tain the use of a locker by paying sixpence
for key. and can store a small parcel at
the charge of penny q month. luggage
exceeding six cubic feet being charged at
twopence per month.
The new building. which has a frontage
OF three hundred feet, and covers an area
o. some forty thousand superficial feet, Is
six stories high. and takes the place of
some ancient lodging houses in the heart of
the condemned insanftary area. Ten years
ago a serious outbreak of enteric was traced
to this site to the itinerant ice cream
vendors. who made their ices amid APP
pslling surroundings
The cost Of the building has exceeded
10000. and Darlington House is a great
improvement on the Parker street house
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