The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-07-27
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erty Of the wage / necessarl-
1y o ny repeat the summary Of the
views of this native of New Zealand OF
English stock for what it may be worth
as a sort Of sign board to the reser-
voirs Of further inforInation; but 1t
comedies with the results Of the recent
observations Of the thinker and doors
in the Industrial field of the United
States.
On Sunday I went to Hyde Park not
to view the famous church parade
in which the unworthy worshippers
walk about on their way home from
service to look at one another's fine
prayer books; but to hear something
Of what the open air orators were say
ing in this land of free-speech. From
the snatches of the .rostrum" talk that
I heard whilst standing on the outer
fringe Of several groups, [ took it that
the standing topics Of social reform
were being reSifted for the listeners
by most Of the speakers. While it may
be that in the eyes OF the great Eng
Iish public men these gatherings are
hardly to be regarded as Of much i'm
portance, the English spirit must be
admired which tOlerates. even pro
notes them, as weel as the spirit in
which the participants Join in them.
The speaking proceeds in seriousness
and a reasonableness Of tone. Any
one may put questions to the orators.
MANY a thing that a writer might as
sert withou contradiction cannot be
uttered by q speaker Without being
instantly caught up. Besides, a large
number Of persons who have not
ready access to libraries may get in
the academies Of the Park educa-
ton in current subjects; and also
there are the vivifying open-air and
ones sense of certainty or of suspi-
cion confirmed by the manifestations
of the crowd. The custom of Sunday
and every day street and Park meet
ings is common in England. | am
informed that sometimes most excel
lent speeches are made. Those that l
heard, however, were rather Of a
drowsy order. h police on duty al
ways exert their authority to maintain
the right of the speaker to be heard
without molestation.
The Suffragettes furnished one Of
the topics for the speeches. Whatever
the merits of their case, [ heard men
who were usually friendly to them say
that the methods they are pursuing are
Injurious TO them. Weakness pretend
ing to assault strength violently, they
say, becomes absurd; and it is further
pointed out that certain forms Of ad-
Vertising react upon those who seek
publicity because they show that
which should be shown.
The policemen no dispersed the
woynen were not choice in the iangu-
age they used as they drove the fright
encd people before t1e;n-Ihe London
police apparently DO not love Or re-
spect the S~uffragettas Who have borne
themselves as they have toward the
executives Of the law Of any grade
Yet. DESPITE the adverse criticism Of
,earI. all the people towards the man
ac- in which the SuffraEettes conduct
themselves, it cannot be EainS:alG hat
the cause of Woma1t's Suffrage CO
equal with that of UasI is gaining
ground with Great Britain
On Friday morning visited the
house IN which I was Ec.rs. 80. : Fort
street. Spitafields> iohGcf. / passed
through neighborhccis almost crcry
house Of which I knew more than ;laif
a century 20, when q Ian Of cis;ht. ]
was in my twelfth Year NAcu n2y-
father took his FANNY - the IL.
States. Cneapside, C~ofnatl,s Gt.
mercial street. HcHnts.!itch, Disut
gate strect-tlese al locke. much II
same as they did in tho long ago.
1 made my way TO cur own oil
street, and stood before tie house III
which ! was bOrr. he9 ~e-Iisited
the spot fourteen years asp. for the
first time since ms bothGcs.; AID / was
then subject to those ,,c~Itiar sent;-
n2ents, both pleasing anG depressing
with which one Is seized when be-
holding with mature vision what was
familiar to the unllucwing eyes of
childhood and to the transforming
memory of later years
Some how. the blunt aid hard facts,
in the light CT comparisons. seemed
5~iei,lu=inncG- The grcat things to the