Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1908-11-05
SOCIALISM AND
STARVING MASSES
LONDON IN FEAR OF MODS AND
VIOLENCE FROM FRENZiED
UNEMPLOYED.
HOUSE OF LORDS QUAKES
The lncendiary Speeches Of orayson
Is Cause OF Alarm, as is the Work
of the Suffragettes.

Whas between the suffragettes' VIC
ience in the house of commons and
the demonstrations of the unemployed
ana the inccndiary speeches of their
leaders, Lohdon has passed through
another tumultuous week. Victor
Grayson, the Socialist who was ex-
PEELED from the house of commons
Tor refusing to apologize for the as.
sertion that parliament was wasting
It's time In discussing the new excise
Dill when millions of people were on
the verge OF starvation, continues to
gather hordes of unemployed and is
making incendiary speeches to them.
Grayson, whom the authorities fear
TO arrest, is melting the unemployed
to adopt the policy of the suffragettes
and compel parliament by violence to
consider their grievances.
The suffragettes," Grayson declar-
ed TO vast crowd on Tower Hill,
viii get the right TO vote from parlia-
ment before the end of the session
only because they have put the fear
of God into the hearts of the members
OF the cabinet. and you must do the
same. / want you to get out of your
novels and bring your fostering prob
lens under the nose of your legisla-
tors"
London's comfortable classes are
becoming very unhappy because of the
open violence of the suffragettes and
the potential possibilities of violence
intent in the daily increasing hordes
of unemployed. The most conserva-
tive Londoners fear that, unless men
like Grayson and Stewart Gray, the
leader OF the hunger marchers, are
banished, the streets OF London will
be filled with riotous mobs long before
Christmas. The authorities are appre-
hensive, for with firebrands like Gray
son and Gray and others using the un-
employed masses to adopt measures
IF violence like the woman suffragists,
the police expect TO have their hands
full soon.
The house Of lords has begun to
share the alarm manifested by the
house of commons. The speaker OF
the commons has been compelled to
close all the public galleries through
fear OF further violent demonstrations
by the suffragettes.
While the newspapers are filled
with news OF the difficulties of par
lament in dealing with the problems
Of the unemployed, the income tax
commissioners rather inopportunely
publish statistics disclosing the enor-
nous wealth of England's land-own.
ing millionaires, most of whom are
peers. The statistics issued today
show the number OF landlords whose
estates are worth more than $1,000
900. There are two noble lords whose
estates are valued at more than 500.
000, 900.
The statistics do not disclose the
names, but everybody in London
knows they are the Duke of Westmin.
ster and Duke of Portland. There are
seven noble millionaires owning es
tates valued at more than 100000, 900
Probably Bernard Shaw. Victor Gray.
son, Stewart Gray and other incen.
diaries, will demand to know whether
these noblemen pay their full share
of the burden of taxation.
AS only the labor leaders and So
cialists are seeking TO reform the mi.
quitious land laws, the house Of lords
need not fear attacks from the suf.
fragettes because of the statistics OF
the wealth inopportunely disclosed by
the government bureau.