The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-05-21
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AN ENGLISH SATIRE

The labor movement in England has
made such marked progress In the past
few years that it threatens to over
throw the political control Of the
empire which has for ages been In the
keeping of ducal persons endowed with
an inalienable right to rule. assisted
by a few bright lawyers and lately by
a sprinkling of eminent publicists.
The present house of commons con-
tains for the first time in the history
of the Oldest and best known parlia-
mentary body in the world a separate
labor, or, we should say in Difference
to English spelling. ''labour'' party. 1t
contains but fifty members. but has an
effervescent quality quite out Of pro-
portion to numbers. The labor men
are I'D and doing all the time. They
have already taught the ministry of the
quaint hyphenated Campbell-Banner-
man to jump through rings, over hur-
dies and eat out of the hand. When
the attorney general brought in bill
to give the trades unions nearly all
the earth the labor members raised
such a row in the commons that the
attorney general withdrew his bill and
went back to his bench detected The
prime minister apologized for the doc
ument, saying that he did not see any
reason why the government should
haggle over the matter. He promised
a new bill which would make trades
union funds inviolable at law.
The landed interest stands aghast at
the temerity Of labor. 1t sees no pres
ent hope Of staying the hand of change
since the working people have the gov
eminent we'll in hand and are jauntily
conscious that the recent elections have
demonstrated that standing together
they have the majority of votes. The
leading newspapers, like the Times and
sistant backbone into either the min
istry or tory opposition. The liberals
know how they came into power and
the tories know how they expect to
get back.
Ridicule is the only weapon left, and
this is being used unsparingly to I'M
mask the highhanded demands of some
of the trades unions. A recent satire
in the London Times is "A Middle
Class Diary of A. D. 1915" 1t depicts
graphically and with laughable exag-
geration the plight CT a family on
which the unions have quartered two
house painters and paperhanger. The
head of the house has not asked for
any improvements but he is obliged to
maintain and pay these men because
the unions have sent them. The
wOrkingmen complain Of the food, whis-
tie 1dnnnduSer ana SLOWLY out surely
ruin the interior aspect of the house
at Is I'D an hour. The owner is driven
almost to insanity The family is saw
ed by the paperhanger falling in love
with Lucy. the daughter They are
married and the father is, through the
influence of the groom, admitted to the
walters union. His wife remodels his
clothing into a dress suit and he begins
to practice whistling, which he believes
to be the principal business Of a good
union man.
The satire is biting and has enough
of basis of truth to give it spice.
The labor movement in England has
not lost anything by excessive modes
ty. Nor did the aristocracy while it
held power make itself common by
concessions