El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-01-21

4 ONDON, England, Jan. 21.-This
great campaign has been fought
principally upon the billboards
Posters have been used to an extent
never before heard of in any country,
and the bill-posters unions have not
complained of a lack of work in Eng
land since the lords rejected the budg-
ct While the speakings and the can
Vass1ngS and the newspaper leading
articles" and all of the ordinary meth
obs of campaigning in England have
oeen employed as usual, both parties
| 10 the contest have pinned their great
est faith to posters.
Every Space Covered
Anywhere in England, town or
country, city or province, every avail
able dead wall was pressed into SER
vice huge six-sheet poster repro
duces an artistic painting showing a
starving woman with dead baby at her
breast The famished mother is gazing
with hollow eyes at her starving husband
crouched in utter detection and despair
And this is labeled in letters three feet
high, Free Trade" 1t is a horrible
thing, but it fixes the eye and COM
peis the attention. The appeal it
makes to the unemployed and penni-
less Englishmen cannot be less than
gripping. Next to 1t. to drive the les
. - cHOlAIcT DOSI0T
In letters of flame, Tariff reform
means job for every man."
The Cry of the Lords.
Across the street there is a different
story. a poster shows an empty-pat-
ed peer IN his ducal robes whining:
TAX your loaf but do not tax my
land Alongside is an argument to
prove, in boxcar letters, that a tariff
tax will increase the cost of living and
that tax on wheat Will lessen the
size OF the wOrkingman's loaf of
bread. Tariff reform means happier
dukes"
1t was a very duel Of the biII-post-
ers. liberal poster depicted sturdy
Briton in shirt-sleeves looking ear
nestly toward heaven and. with out
stretched hands, exclaiming I'VE want
land"
Two days later the conservatives re-
taliated with poster showing a starv-
ing man. in exactly the same attitude,
crying I'VE want work" 1t was an
effective stroke, but the liberals count
cred with q picture of the starving
wife Of the starving man, crying do
not tax our last loaf"
Radicals Force Fight
The tories, as the conservatives are
called by their opponents, make the
most Of the alleged sociaHstic tenden-
cies of the budget but their posters
have little to say about the land tax
question. One of them shows John
Bull fighting a desperate battle with
a blood red monster labeled Social
ism" 1t is the most popular of the
tory posters.
The radicals, as the liberals are call
led by the tories. forced the fighting
on the question Of the house OF lords.
SO far as the posters were concerned.
A notable picture, put up in every
size from small handful to a sixteen
sheet poster, shows Lloyd-George fly
ing through the air in an aeroplane
labeled the Liberal budget" In the
foreground are two dukes, clad in the
ermine OF their station and wearing
coronets. grasping in their hands bank
notes labeled land revenues The
dukes cry out: Hi there, come down.
That's our air"
Run on Peers.
Another perpetrates a pun under the
headline the peer glass" A noble lord
Is shown dressing in robes of state
before a pier-glass and the poster
bears the inscription: "a member of the
house of lords consulting his constit-
uents. Where do you come in ?''
Still another radical poster on this
subject shows a duke seated at a table
richly provided with wines and liq-
ours. He is smoking a cigar and he
wears a monocle, his cOronet. and a
shirt-stud which is a libel per
Sc upon all the house of lords. By his
side stands a workingman. dressed in
that miserabI fashion common to Eng
glish workingmen. Above is the cap
ton which shall it be-" Beneath is
the dialogue:
Duke-'1f you demand your rights,
10 more crumbs from my table,
Workingman-"Give me my rights
and keep your crumbs"
Life Sized Figures.
One may see on d huge wall two
groups of life sized figures; one COM
posed of every sort and condition of
men and women and the other made
UP of dukes in their ermine and silk.
Over one group floats a banner with
the legend "the peoples budget" Over
the other is a flag with the appeal:
PITY the poor but honest dukes" An
other has the phrase from Lloyd |
Georges speeches: More cottages. no
more dukes"
At first the tories did not respond |
In kind along this line, but OppOrtun-
ty came to them at last. \ news |
paper went into the files and reprinted |
under the headinglest We forget" an /
4 rticle published during the i5oer war !
about Lloyd George. The present chan J