Arizona republican., 1910-02-02
WHY THEY LOVE 4 LORD.
One Explanation of the Peers inroads Into the Liberals Majority.

A man put this question to a recent
 arrival from London in a hotel cafe at luncheon yesterday.
 I've been reading in a London pa per about an election in England" he continued. "One of the candidates Is Lord Anstrutter, who has county seat in the constituency. and the other is a 'commoner.' the son of wealthy manufacturer. The paper admits
 that the plain man is more intellectu- al than the patrician. but gives the opinion that because he is a lord An strutter will win Tell me why that is. It seems all wrong to me that title : and aristocracy should be preferred to
 birth. Why do you Englishmen so dearly love a lord?'"
 Because. as a matter of fact, we don't" replied the Londoner. That is. just because he is a lord. But you must remember. to understand clearly, that an Englishman at bottom is just
 the same kind of man as an Ameri-
 can The principles of your own gov
 ernment recognize that. or democracy would be impossible. A man holding recent title is thought of less and tdlhtu Oi less lllsin It NOlid IT he visited America. But the ancestors Of that lord you named have resided fin that country seat for many gen. erations. and served the state as. prac- tically. unpaid soldiers and statesmen for hundreds of years. The common CTS grandfather made a fortune out of factories and mines seventy years ago at the beginning of the era of ma chine industry. He oVerworked and underpaid little children and girls in mines and workshop until another aristocrat. Shaftesbury. fought like a tireless tiger in the house of lords and on public platform for a factories act that would make life for the poor working people possible.
 And the greatest foe he had was John Bright the commoner' politician who objected to any interference. even humane, with private enterprise. and made the immortal. and immoral statement that adulteration was only a form of competition. That about equals the view of your own Missouri attorneys that bribery is a conven- tional crime It is the aristocrats and conservatives of England who have been responsible for every important humane and social reform on the stat ute books And what Carlyle has called the 'nexus,' the binding cOnnec- ton. between the lord and the people that has been human. They were men. his people, socially inferior. perhaps. hut men. The connection be- tween that commoner of the factory and his employees was purely and only one of money. They were just hands He paid them as little. as he could. and that was all about it.
 Tn one of Carlyle's books his feudal lord says to the adventureres who had helped him to conquer Britain for the Norman: My followers. We have talk en this land together. have led you. We will dwell together. in my castle. you in this hamlet. will teach you the arts of war and husbandry. My castle will protect you will lead you in other battles, care for your sick and old people And he makes his money bags. Plugson of Under shot, say to his hands: Worthy workers. the week Is ended. Here are your wages. Goodnight In other words, those lords have not been all ways, like English cotton kings and American magnates. on the make They are. many of them. not at all wealthy. And they have always stood in with their people.
 The most Illuminating example I can give you is from a very beautiful and little known serious story by Je- rome K. Jerome, the humorous writer. who is now in American. called The Story of John Ingerfeld.' The Inger fields came over with the Conquerer. which is like saying here. came over in the MayflOwer. One of them was an adventurous sea captain. who went to the Spanish main and fought the Dons. once when he was nearing home he was hove to by a kings ship.
 - am sorry to trouble you halls the captain of the kings ship. but you have a deserter on board and want him.
 What for?' calls back Captain In gerfeld
 TO hang him to my yarn arm says the kings captain
 ''Yau can't have him. says Inger- field.
 Then l must fire and sink you replied the kings captain.
 John Ingerfeld stood up valiant figure then.
 We have sailed the seas together. my men and l. he says. we have fought together plundered Spain to- gether. shared our wealth together and, by God. you get no man of mine from my deck, king or no king. Fire and be damned
 So the kings man sank him and they lie at the bottom of the And the people over there know that the titled descendant of any John Ingerfeld would do the same thing. That's why an Englishman loves lord"