The copper era., 1906-04-19
AN ANGLO.SAxON REVOLUTION.
What the Election of Fifty-fiVe Labor
Members of the British ParIia-
ment Means.
By W. D. p. BLISS.

From Golfers Weekly.
There have just been elected to
Great Britain's Parliament nine
miners, seven railroad men (engin-
GERS, brakemen, navies), five factory
hands, four printers, three shop
clerks, two carpenters, two gas work.
ers and general laborers, two steel
smelters, two shipwrights, one barge
builder, one sailor, one cooper, one
furniture maker, one watchcase-
maker, one laster, one blacksmith
and one agricultural laborer. These
men enter to-day the Great Hall of
William Rufus, and sit, many of
them in workman's dress, as success
ors to Hampden, Pitt Fox and Glad
stone. No more important or signii-
cant event has been flashed across
the wires from England in fifty, per-
haps in one hundred years. 1t is
doubtful if any more significant
event has occurred in the world dur
ing the same period. By the Franco
German War, the American-Spanish
War, the Russo-Japanese War, it has
been determined that the Anglo
Saxon race shall rule the world; by
these English elections it has been
determined who shall rule the Anglo
Saxon race.
These English labor men have
come to stay and to bring others with
them. They are not the result of
any ministerial crisis or passing
wave of political excitement. The
dissolution of Parliament and the
downfall of Mr.. Balfour's Ministry
may indeed have pierced the hole in
the bikes of English conservatism,
but those events are not responsible
for, nor the creators of, the ocean of
England's labor that is pouring
through the opening. These Eng
lish labor men are not French Com
munards, Russian Nihilists-not even
German Socialists. They are Anglo
Saxons; they belong to the race that
does things, that does more than it
says, that achieves, that moves
slowly, but when it does move, moves
forward, and that, once having &C.
cupied position, has never been
known to move backward. These are
the men who will be each year more
in evidence in Parliament than they
are to-day. Read their names; it is
worth while. They are not Latin,
nor Gallo, nor Slavic, nor Germanic,
nor even Norman. They belong to
he fhaf Tho NnrT11
conquerors of Hastings. There are
among them, it is true, representa-
tives of Wales, of canny Scotland, of
the Emerald Isle, but the overwhelm-
ing majority are Saxon-English, even
more than they are Anglo-Saxons.
Here is the list-we add a few who
are practically identified with them,
though not themselves actually labor
men: Abraham Ia Welshman), Alden,
Barnes, Bell, Bowerman, Brace,
Broadhurst, Burns, Burt, Byles (no-
tice the monosyllables), Clynes, Gre
mer, Crooks, Duncan, Edwards,
George, Gill, Glover, Hall, Hardie,
Henderson, Hodge, Hudson, Jenkins,
johnson, Johnston, Jowett, Kelly,
Macdonald, MACPHERSON, Madison,
Nichols, O'Donnell, O'Grady, Parker,
Richards Richards, Richardson. Rob
erts, Rowlands, Shableton, Scott,
Sedden, Snowden, Steadman, Sum-
merbell, Vivian, Walsh, Ward, War
die, Wilkie, Williams, Wilson, Will
son, Wilson-ffty-five names. There
is no doubt about the racial instincts
and the English heredity of these
men. The list makes one think of
John Balls rebellion and Jack Cade's
revolt. 1t is English to the very
core.
And be it remembered that these
not have been, but are-English
workingmen. They have been elected
exactly because they are working
men. In congress, in House and SEN
ate, you will find men-attorneys,
railroad men, millionaires-whob be-
gan life as workingmen. You will
find such instances in the legislatures
of every country. But, in the
United States especially, such men
have ceased to be workingmen.
They are ex-workingmen. They
have, as we say, "risen above their
class" Many of them are now the
worst foes of labor that can be
found. Not so with these English
labor representatives. They are not
ex-workingmen, for workingmen.
They have not 'risen above their
class" They have risen with their
class. This is the significance of the
election. They are taking and,
above all, they are going to take
their class along with them. They
are going to take other working
men with them into Parliament, on
the front benches, into cabinets, into
ministries, into prime ministries.
They can not be stopped, John Burns
in the Liberal Cabinet is more of
symbol of what shall be than d sign
of what is. He is more indicative
than Campbell-Bannerman. The
English bikes have been pierced and
the ocean is flowing in. There is an
ocean of votes behind these labor