Los Angeles herald., 1906-10-14
KIER HARDIE ON
RUSSA'S PLIGHT
EMINENT SC0TCHMAN HAS RE-
TURNED FROM GLASGOW
Gar Wanted a Dumb Duna, in Hope
of Controlling lt-Warsaw Marked
for Next Massacre - Peace
When Gar Is Overthrow
BY ALEXANDER GILMoUR
lble to Tho Herald.

BY ALEXANDER GILMOUR
Special Cable to Tho Herald.
GLASGOW, oct. 1S--J. Kier Hardie,
during a recent visit to Glasgow was
interviewed upon Russia Among other
things he said that the czar wanted a
dumb duma in the hope that it would
be more amenable to his will than
the last one. Referring to the contin-
uous assassinations and bomb-throw-
ing, Mr. Hardie argued that these OUT
breaks were bound to continue until
the time came when parliament free
ly elected by and responsible to the
people was established. 1t was stat
ed that the city of Warsaw was
marked off for the next massacre, and
probably they would read a few days
hence that a fresh program of masa-
ere had taken place. that hundreds of
men, women and children had been
shot or beaten or semitic prison. What
ever other people, therefore, might
think. they of the labor party were
bound to extend the hand of friend
ship and of comradeship and to bid
godspeed to the Russian people in
the struggle they were making for
political freedom. He hoped ere long
that they would welcome the people of
Russia into the gre brotherhood of
the earth a better and pleasanter
place to live in. Only when czardom
had been overthrown, nevermore to
raise it's deaths head in the midst of
the people, would there be a guaran-
tee of peace. They knew that Europe
was groaning under the burden Of
armament. and one of the chief justi
fications for the growth of armies and
navies was the menace which the Rus
k1I
the rest of Europe. The Russian people,
however, were essentially a peace-lov-
ing people, and when they had their
own parliament, governing the Russian
empire, they would seek for a peace
full alliance with other countries, not
to promote aggrandisement and war,
but to make war impossible for all
time coming.
New College Done
AS now completed Marischal college,
at Aberdeen, is one of the finest and
most striking granite buildings in the
world. The largest granite edifice is the
palace of the Escurial in SPAIN but for
architectural grace and beauty of
artistic conception the buildings just
opened by the king and queen are prob
ably unsurpassed in any country. The
Mitchell tower, which dominates the
whole of the college, is striking fea-
ture rising to height of 23O feet from
the level of the upper quadrangle and
260 feet from the lower. 1t resembles
the Angel tower at Canterbury or the
Victoria tower at Westminster but diff
fers from both of these in having a
central Spire. The door at the foot of
the Mitchell tower leads, by means of a
stone staircase, to the picture gallery,
and thence to the Mitchell hall, which
is the graduation or ceremonial cham
ber. The Mitchell hall is spacious
apartment 116 feet long by AZ feet wide.
The interior walls are of rose colored
granite dull polished and jointed in
gold. The ceiling, floor and gallery pan
cling are all constructed of oak and
the windows are filed with heraldic
glass commemorating the history Of the
university.
The lord provost of Edinburgh has in
duced the town council of Edinburgh
to protest to the war office against the
removal of the cavalry from Piershill.
He is up in arms like a Highland chief
tain when the feather bonnet or the
tartan is menaced. Against the army
councils plea of utility he places the
old tradition-the right of Edinburgh
as a capital to have cavalry, the de-
lightfulness of having cavalry at call
for Edinburgh functions. To lis argu-
ment Sir Robert innuendoed that, lack
ing a mounted regiment, Edinburgh
would be in a worse case than the lead
ing provincial cities of England. Refer
ence to the army list shows that the
English communities dignihed by the
presence OF cavalry are Aldershot, Lon
don. Windsor, Canterbury, York. Nor
wich, Shorncliffe, Colchester, Houns-
low and Brighton; but not Manchester
IiverDOOl or birmingham, or indeed
any city that would presume to even
itself municipality to Edinburgh.
The corporation has decided to remit
to a committee the question Of the re-
cent apparent alarming increase of
drunkenness. The proportion per 1000
which has for the previous decade va
ried from 25 to 27, dropped in 1902 to
22.6. as a result of local administrative
changes. The falling off persisted in
1903 and gain in 1904, but was checked
In 1905. The ne-Y licensing act came
into force at the beginning of 1904. and
early closing was adopted in the middle
of the same year.