Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-23

7ONDON,-This great campaign
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lg A yNl has been fought principally
unions have not complained
of a lack of work in England since the
lords rejected the budget While the
speakings and tho canvassings and
the newspaper leading articles and
all of the ordinary methods of cam
paigning in England have been en-
ployed as usual, both parties to the
contest have pinned their greatest
faith to posters.
Anywhere in England, town or
country, city or province every avail
able dead wall was pressed into serv-
ice. A huge siX-sheet poster repro
duces an artistic painting showing a
starving woman with a dead baby at
her breast. The famished mother is
gazing with hollow eyes at her starry
ing husband crouched in utter dejec-
tion and despair. And this is labeled,
IN letters three feet high, Free
Trade 1t is horrible thing. but it
fixes the eye and compels attention.
The appeal it makes to the unemployed
and penniless Englishman cannot be
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the lesson home, is another poster de-
claring in letters of fame, Tariff Re
form Means a Job for Every Man"
Across the street there is a different
story. A poster shows an empty-pated
peer in his duCal robes whining: Tax
your loaf but do not tax my land. ="
Alongside is an argument to prove, in
boX-car letters that a tariff tax will
increase the cost of living and that a
tax on wheat will lessen the size of
the workingman's loaf of bread: Tar
iff Reform Means Happier Dukes!"
1t was a very duel of the bill-posters
A Liberal poster depicted a sturdy
Briton in shirt sleeves looking earnest
ly toward heaven and, with out
stretched hands, exclaiming, 1--WE
want land!' Two days later the Con-
serVatives retaliated with poster
showing a starving man, in exactly
the same attitude, crying, 1--WE want
work. 1t was an effective stroke,
but the Liberals countered with a pic
ture of the starving wife of the starv-
ing man, crying, do not tax our last
loaf"
The Tories, as the Conservatives are
called by their opponents, make the
most of the alleged Socialistic tenden-
eies 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 Socialism. p"
1t is the most popular of the Tory
posters.
The Radicals, as the Liberals are
called by the Tories, forced the fight
ing on the question of the house of
lords so far as the posters were con-
eerned. notable picture, put up in
every size from small hand-bin to
siXteen-sheet poster shows Lloyd
George flying through the air in an
aeroplane labeled "The Liberal Bud
get In the foreground are two dukes
clad in the ermine of their station and
wearing coronets, grasping in their
hands bank notes labeled Land Rev
enues." The dukes cry out: Hi there!
Come down. That's OUR Air!"
Another perpetrates a pun under the
headline 1.-THE Peer Glass" A noble
lord is shown dressing in robes of state
before pier-glass, and the poster bears
the inscription: "a member of the
house of lords consulting his constitu-
ents. Where do you come in?"
Still another Radical poster on this
subject shows a duke seated at table
richly provided with wines and liuueurs.
He Is smoking a cigar, and he wears a
monocle, his coronet, and a diamond
shirt-stud which is a libel per Sc upon
all the house of lords. BY his side
stands workingman, dressed in that
miserable fashion common to English
Workingmen Above is the caption:
Which Shall 1t Be?" Beneath is the
dialogue:
Duke-If you demand your rights. no
more crumbs from my table.
Workingman--Give me my rights and
keep your crumbs.
one may see on a 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 flag with the appeal,
PITY the poor but honest dukes ;" An
other has the phrase quoted from
speeches: More cot
tages, no more dukes.''
At first the Tories did not respond in
kind along this line, but opportunity
came to them at last. A newspaper
went into the files and reprinted, under
the heading, Lest We Forget an ar
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