El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-01-24

OF not the voice Oh the people
is the voice of God is ques-
pute with the classic prOverb, but no
English politician will dispute the fact
that 1.-The voice in the audience is a
voice to be respected.
The British people have no sense of
decorom in politics. -auch as the Eng
hshman may deplore the average
Americans lack of manners in handling
knives, forks and spoons at a dinner
table, the American can put it all
over mis- British cousin when it comes
TO behaving a a public speaking. The
Briton does not want to behave, ard
his unwritten constitution protects him
in certain inaiienable rights of mis-
behavior to which the speakers must
tamely submit
BritOns May Groan.
When the sovereign American voter
goes into politics as an auditor al
political speaking he is permitted
by that stern code of etiquet obtaining
IN nearly all parts of the United States
to do but three things. He may keep
silent, he may cheer, or he may hiss.
The Kissing is considered i'll bred, it is
true but 1t is sometimes permitted to
pass without causing a riot among the
supporters Of the code of political po-
likeness.
-NO SOCIl pONlup OTlca cr1OS, CABINS
or confines the British elector. although
he is not Sovereign in theory. When
he goes to a political meeting he has,
under the constitution "a perfect right to
do any or all of the seven following
things, towtt: Cheer, hiss, groan, sing,
yell, boo and heckle.
May Throw Eggs
Now the greatest of these is repre-
scented in the verb, TO heckie,'' for un-
der that head the British elector at
political speaking may, can and does do
anything he jolly well pleases, from
making speech to the speaker TO
using peers mOnOcle as the bulls eye
in target practice with rotten eggs as
ammunition.
The egg, business is regarded as i'll
bred, and none but a very rude heckler
will descend to such methods. It is
about on the plane with Kissing in the
United States. But it is not a crime,
and the heckler is protected by the
constitution and by British etiquet
COmbats With HeckIer.
Sir William Bull, Tory member of
parliament is a shining example OF the
few politicians who have dared to take
unconstitutional steps with respect to
the hecklers in this capaign. a British
elector "a perfectly polite one. without
any undated eggs about his person,
stood near the motor van platform from
which Sir William was explaining why
the people should support the peers,
and not tax the land. This elector
punctuated the address by rema rking in
boiler factory voice at the end of
every one of Sir Williams chaste Pc
RODS: You are a lying lawyer and you
make your living by taking money to
tell lies, and you know it, and you
know we know it, repeat, ad lib, with
variations.
After about the seventh heckIe Sir
Williams choler got the best OF his po-
likeness and of the constitution, and he
intimated that he was able, physically,
to punch the head of a certain heckler.
The heckler invited Sir William TO a
jOust, and they went to it. a brace of
faultless hobbies" broke up the fight,
but no arrests were made as the police
could not determine whether TO arrest
the heckler for starting a row. or TO
take Sir William into custody for breach
of the constitution.
Interrupt Speakers.
favorite form of heckling is the
interruption Of the speaker by remarks
more or less personal and uncompli-
mentary, or by asking questions which
are pertinent or impertinent, as one is q
Radical or Tory, or by making audi
Bile comments on the past political rec
ord of the speaker. when it is in contrast
with his present political professions
The authors Of such remarks, the in
dividuality of hecklers being lost in
the crowd. are collectively known as
1.-THE voice" And in every speech made
during the campaign the voice" had
something to say. The voice" is not
always in opposition. Indeed. a friendly
heckler, with a good pair of lungs, d
often of great value in helping a halt
ing speaker to make his opinions known
to the voters
Boo the Speaker.
Sometimes the British electors do not
consider speaker sent TO address them
to be worthy of heckling. In such
cases the electors exercise another in
alienable right of the freeborn and per-
fectly polite Englishman. They boo
the speaker. That is, they boo the man
who would be speaker.
They attend the meeting and very
quietly hear the address of the chair
man. The speaker is introduced and
makes his bow. And then the electors
boo him. That is TO say about 'steen
hundred of them, with one accord nro-
nounce the words boo" loudly and lin
geringly. And when they are through
pronouncing 1T, they do it all over again.
And so on until the man who would be
speaker gets tired and leaves Some
times the short boo is introduced in the
middle of a speech, but then il is only
a part of the heckling.
Break Up Meetings.
The earl of Denbigh. a Tory lord
went down to Hopewell where he owns q