Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-22

cheduet was not supporter Of the war
and he was billed 70 speak at pro-Boer
meeting in Birmingham. He got to the
hail. but was not permitted to speak by
the crowd. The article alleges that he es-
capped bodily injury only by leaving the
hall disguised as a policeman.
The tory poster is divided into two parts
and, bears the command: Look on this
picture and then on thatr' One half shows
Lloyd-George in policeman's uniform
sneaking away from the Birmingham hall,
and the other half shows a South African
kopje with the graves OF the tltled SOL
diers, who gave up their lives for England
in the struggle with the Beers. No poster
delighted the tories as this one. A little
later the conservatives issued poster
showing a peer, at the telephone, connected
with the British voter. and saying; "Hellol
Are you there9 We will put the budget up
to the people for their verdict7'
Each party Issued about 500 different
posters. each one being sent out In diff
ferent sizes There was much rivalry to
obtain positions on the hoardings, and the
English landscape has been marred by
flaming posters in many places heretofore
sacred from the intrusion of the man with
by giving up their walls.
The poster campaign was very expensive.
Series after > .es was issued and new
posters were put up almost daily. 1t is i'm
possible to estimate the total cost Of the
work in advance Of the publication Of the
election expenses, but it will amount to
several hundred thousand dollars
II an American politician who has been
actively connected with the national head
quarters Of either the republican or demo-
cratic party should walk into the national
headquarters of either the liberals or the
conservatives and should inquire into the
poster business he probably would fall dead
at the first reply. For the national head
quarters do not send out these posters.
They are prepared and printed for the ma
tional association, which corresponds to the
American national committee, and then
they are sold to the public at a profit.
What would Mr.. Frank II. Hitchcock or
Mr. Norman e. Mack think Of that? And
not only Is this true OF the posters, but of
the thousands Of different pamphlets, leaf
lets, speeches and other campaign htera-
ture.
Each candidate for Parliament buys the
literature for his own constituency and
pays for It. In the United States each can
didate for congress demands the literature
from the committee and asks for money
besides. Not only the candidates, but the
people generally buy the posters. The
newspapers publish pricelists and the peo-
pie are invited to purchase and post the
pictorial arguments for their side. Thou
sands of voters buy one. two or three
posters at a cost Of from to 10 cents and
post them at their respective homes.
One liberal newspaper solicited subscrip-
tions TO Gladstone centenary fund. The
subscription was begun on December 20,
the hundredth anniversary Of the birth of
the Grand Old Man, for the purpose of
buying and putting up posters. Over $4,000
was contributed to this one poster fund in
less than two weeks time. The national
headquarters permit the individual candl-
dates and the party at large to do all the
worrying about >the campaign funds. How
would Mr.. Hitchcock and Mr.. Mack like
that7
The English people are proud of their
conservatism and they are equally proud
OF their up-to-dateness. The chief director
of campaign publications of the liberal
party sat at his desk in an underground
room opposite the Parliament houses, and
explained the psychology OF the poster in
politics. No man could be more progress
sive, more modern, more abreast Of the
times. He descanted on the powerful ap-
peal OF the picture to the human mind,
carefully pointing out the introduction OF
the aeroplane and the newest type Of
Dreadnought as backgrounds for party
preachments. But he did not note the
anarchronlsm when he recorded an order
for 1900 flying machine posters with a
quill pen. This progressive radicals desk
boasted no less than three dozen old
fashionesd goose quill pens.
The conservative first lord Of the post
ers'' depiored the modern tendency 70 the
bizarre in billboard art, but he wrote with
a fountain pen made in the United States.
Old England win be Old England still in
spite Of every modern contrivance and In
spite Of dozen such battles OF the bill
boards as she has just Witnessed.
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