Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-09-11
Old Custom of Free Service All Right
for Gentry.
I'LL NOT DO FOR PRESENT AGE
Too Many Members Dependent on
Their Own Time.
IRISH AND LABOR1TEs, NOTABLY
Undoubtedly Old Guard Will Make "a
Ftsht 10 Preserve the old Trh-
ditiOnaI Custom of
NO Pay.
~ pAuL LAMRETH.

BY PAUL LAMBETH.
LONDON. Sept. IO.--(Special TO The Bee.)
The payment of members Of Parliament
will be one OF the live questions Of British
politics after the lords veto has been dis
posed of. The British Parliament is one
OF tho very few national legislative bodies
which serves without pay. In fact L can
not at the moment recall any other.
This may have been all right ia the days
OF restricted suffrage and pocket boroughs
when only the gentry were supposed to be
sent to the commons.
But there is a steadily increasing number
OF the members OF Parliament who must
be secured at an income at least sufficient
TO live This is particularly true of
the Irish and labor parties most OF whose
members are without means Thanks to
the Irish-Amtricans, the Irish party is
able to take care Of its members. and up
TO a short time ago the labor party,
through an assessment levied on trades
union members met the expenses of its
members OF Parliament. The courts have,
however, declared this assessment illegal,
and the labor party is facing a crisis.
why Pay IL Demanded.
1t will result in determined effort to
adopt the payment of salaries to members
OF Parliament and there is little doubt that
Il will be successful The conservation Of
the British public will delay the meritable
for a time perhaps and in the meantime
the labor men are devsing means to meet
the crisis.
The proposal of the railway servants is
that central legal defense fund should be
formed for the purpose of carrying to the
highest legal court any test case affecting
the fundamental principles of organized
labor" Such q fund is so obviously necea-
sary that II IL surprising that it has not
yet been instituted. For example. practI-
cally the whole CT the cost OF recent liti-
cation on the political application OF the
trades union funds has been borne by the
railway servants in the Osborne case. But
the decision is one which affects every
trade union and the railway servants were
fighting the battle of them all. A small
union could not have faced the cost but
the establishment of central defense fund
would make the motto of the trade unions
In really fundamental questions, Touch
one, touch ALL"
One Of the Arguments.
Reynolds Weekly, organ Of the trades
union, says: 1.-THE old system Of financing
labor members was a necessary stage Of
development, but II had its defects and its
weaknesses. In the future we must pro-
coed on new lines. II is not labor members
alone who must be paid. In every party It
ought to be possible for the people to put
forward any candidate they please The
, true solution Is to be found in the proposal
OF the Furnishing Trades federation.
namely. universal payment of members by
the state"
Festival of Empire.
r,t..
postponed owing to the death of King Ed
ward until the summer OF 1911, promises
TO be OF an even more elaborate character
than had been originally contemplated. for
Il is now felt that the festival will be OF
increased use and value as an at home
70 the visitors from the over seas domin-
ion" who will be in England for the coro-
nation OF King George,
In it's main details the festival will be as
originally contemplated. but it's scope will
be enlarged, especially as regards its visual
instruction in the various aspects and in
dustries of the overseas donations" The
courts OF these dominions will be made an
important and more prominent part OF the
festival. With the assistance of Lord
strathcona scheme has been drawn up
wiftsh has received the hearty support OF
the high commissioners OF the self-govern.
ing dominions and has been forwarded &c
them by their respective governments.
Remnant of the six Hundred,
The death OF Miss Florence Nightingal,
calls TO mind the fact that OF the rank ant
file OF those who took part in the Char &,
OF the Light Brigade at Balaclava. onl,
thirty-two are left OF these. twenty tive
are In necessitous circumstances. The old
est is Sc. and but for phllanthropic effor
he and his companions would have haS
their last days overshadowed by want.
II is thirteen years since Mr. T. IL. Rob
erts established the Balaclava Light Bri
gade Charge Survivors, Relief fund At tn,
banquet then held seventy-two men at
tended. and IL was discovered that severa
OK them were spending their last days II
Workhouses, forgotten and neglected.
In the intervening years more than hal
these heroes have gone to their rest Tn,
work OF aiding these veterans, It nee,
hardly be added. has lost a sympathlze
and supporter In Miss nightingale. Tn,
money which goes TO these old heroes 4
well spent They are sent weekly pension,
by post and when at length the last post
sounds each OF the old men receives a de
cent funeral.
Fewer BabiesI More Bachelors.
Commenting ON the declining birth rat
Dr. Harris. medical officer for Islingto,
health board, remarks In a report iust Is
sued, that young men in the middle an,
upper middle" classes OF society 'sel
fishly" postpone marriage 80 that they ma,
live IN more luxurious manner have NOR
amusements. and have more money L
spend on holidays. They like the pleasur
OF ladies' society, but they foreso its ma,
ural ooroiaIy- marriage