The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-09-20
5taunCh for the Cooperative
Commonwealth.
SAY THEIR IDEAS SPREAD
Their ActiytylsN Not Confined to Poll.
teal Movement Have Strong lnflu.-
entiaI Club Which Is EminertIy
Practical In It's Work.
tspecisl Correspondence Of The Times.
Dispatch Copyright, 1903. by the

VI t5Jif lIiflt FIX AutnOr) t4.35ajs t5sl, MILF
81 LONDON, Sept, 12.--Although there
arc many radicals anu LABOR leaders ~
England who have their doubts as TO tho
best course to take In the present crisis
u OF trades unionism, there Is one pafly
that has no inisgivings Of any sort. This
II Ia the socialist party.
In good rnpute and III, In victory ana
& defeat, whatever the crisis Or the ISSUE l.I
this party stands steAdfast and pro-
claims that IT points the only way TO
the salvation Of tho world
Tho court decisions cannot claim its
attention. MI. Chamberlain may Try
to bring England book 10 protection Z
no Will. The British soldiers may dfenen
South Africa with blood, there 10 but
ono rcdrcss--thc cooperative common.
!. wealth will cure all Ills, and nothing else l''
can bring the smallest good I.
Tho English socialist has no rain ~
The labor party" It pcrs!Stcntly itslsts
tiat 10 elect mon labelled Labor" out
who stand for no definite programme y :, o.
regeneration Or reform, VII ~ ~ - IN.
avail. In fact. any movement to~asu ,, 49,,
dependent action but diVerts the m mo
from the real question aad SETS PACK me
cause OF tho TorEingmen.
For many years tho British pubic
has heard this stu small voice CRYING
In the wilderness they nave he az ~ ~
cali and passed It by, almost ~lthou
caring what IT said. For many weary
wears tho stlll small voice has raised
itg cry seemingly regardless OF "netnel
the great mass OF men ever hears ~
wall. ao,.,
One thing can be said Of the he. social e., Il
7 ist..' Through all the years they nave
! hsar cnnaistont hcy have been faithful,
they have been op limistic.
3sT Over and over again Its leaders nave
gathered tho little flock together anu
pointed 10 the promised land only a
few leagues away: over and over again
thev have set the time when tho dc
nntnd hand should enter In; and over
ma over again The day has come ana
tfo strong bars OF the gate seem JUST
az high and secure as they nave ever
been. 80
pften prepared their ascension robes anu
then painfully laid them ~ . tos , som.s
future day, that many OF the y oe e W ,
begin 10 doubt the time settlers VINO
Il AZ the dates: But in spite OF. this they
4 work away doggedly, regardless OF whetn-
or anything shall come IN this generator a,:''i
or this stage OF existence or not W IN q
these socialism has grown TO DC l Ieli-
glon. a part OF their very being, and 'hcy
cling TO It with the deyotion ana .,, iess W
81 come ancient grandmother VINO ca
,fcsses tho leaves, Of the old Bible, ~
whose light she has lived so long. and "
whose promises she feels that shc soon
must die.
4 ftyou ask the English socialist how the
movement Is progressing In Great 6rltaln
he will not admit that he Is diso ppointeo
J. IIe will apologize and explain as 10 why
i. he cannot point to more votes that the
q rty has east, but he stoutly insists that
the future Is surely his
As. a matter OF fact, In the ordinary
x meaning OF the word. there Is no socialist
rarty in Great Britain They put up
no candidates. they cast no votes. they
are not counted: they live by the force OF
their ideas. by their work. which, IN
sense Is lost, or rather assimilated with
the great mass OF English life.
still. in spite of this. tho socialists In
u sist that their ideas are rapidly spread
Ing In England. and this claim Is doubt
less true. A brave and persistent band OF
men and women have for years ham
u.ered at tho strong citadel OF fixed opln-
3 ions, and in many ways 1t Is easily seen
that this work has borne much fruit
Trades unionism Is honeycombed with
socialism,. At the last general convention
the vote by delegates as to whether the
trudes unions should take up socialism
was barely lost. and Mr.. Mcdonald. the
secretary OF the London Trade Council,
assured me to-day that there was prob
ably not a trade union IN England at this
time that would refuse to pass any So
tcinlist resolution presented to Its body
Tho severe handling that trade unions
4 have received in the courts has done
much to bring the English workmen to
believe that after all the labor question
\ Is purely a class struggle, and that either
modern 1ndustralism must control tho
world. or the men who work must control
I They are fast coming to believe that II
they should elect their members OF Par
Lament and their judges tho law would
4 be made and construed to give the earth
to the present generation OF mon, and to
give the products Of labor to the work
man, and for this reason thoy see that
while the other class make the laws and
construe them. they must expect that
(, they too, will remain true to their class.
All through tho great trades unions are