Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-04-07

navy fashion. He will arrive too late to
take an interest in the "torpids," where,
in the heavy eight-oared with fixed seats,
he might be useful. but there remain the
have been broken in to the lighter boats
and movable seats. At any rate, he goes
to Oxford at time when the river sea-
son begins to be full of charm. There is
nothing more delightful than long day
spent going down to Abingdon.
Points Of Interest.
A journey down the river must, be
crammed with interest for a future King
OF England. There is Sanford Ferry.
where Essex crossed in 1914 with 10000
men when making an attempt to trap
Charles 1 in Oxford. His earthworks are
still In Church Close. The old mill Is the
descendant of mills which have occupied
the same site since Saxon times. After
the long course is a house most probably
the prince will visit just as he may call
at Blenheim. It is Nuneham House, oc-
cupied by Mr.. Harcourt the present colo
NAL secretary. and in the park is the
Carfax conduit, which used to stand at
the top Of the High, and took its name
from the corner.
But one cannot go into all the delights
that make the memory of Oxford SO dear
to her sons-the healthful life, the charm
Ing surroundings, the sense of antiquity
and of obedience to the behest.
Tom Mann's Experience.
Tom Mann. who has Just been ar
rested has had a stormy life for
the past twenty-five years. He and
John Burns were associated in the
great dock strike of twenty years ago,
and were the head and front of that
famous struggle. Mann afterward shook
the dust of England off his shoes and
went to Australia, while Burns became a
cabinet minister
Since his return from Australia less
than two years ago Mann has been the
most-talked-Of person in the labor move
ment, and there are many who ascribe to
his influence the series of sudden disputes
that within the last eighteen months
have convulSed the country.
His life is described in the word ag1ta-
ton. Born at Foleshill, near Birming-
ham. In 1856. he worked on a farm until
he was eleven, then down the mine, and
at fourteen he became apprenticed to q
Birmingham firm Of engineers. In 1881
he Joined the Associated Society of En-
gfneers. and four years later the social
ists-then militant and very small mi
nority of the community. which. never
theless, was at the back of the great
lockers strike of the late eighties.
He Won great reputation as an agita-
tor and platform speaker, but, although
before going to Australia he tried three
times, he never got into parliament. In
the anttpodes he continued to agitate and
organize, and there he came to the con-
clusion that politics were played out"
and that "the weapon for the worker"
as he would phrase it, was the general
strike, or. at least, the strike Of all grades
and branches of men employed in a
given industry.
Issues Fiery Pamphlets.
This message he has carried. since his
return. through Great Britain. both by
the spoken and the written word, for
he had not been here many weeks before
he was issuing q series of fiery PAM
phlets to the lockers, railway men and
other transport workers. At first he was
received lukewarmly. The socialist move
ment had had a setback. The "com-
rades" were downhearted and apparently
hopeless. The labor party had not come
up to expectations. But while this fact
at first caused the workers to fight shy
of mere words. it soon drove them in
their thousands to hear the apostle Of the
thrown down your tools movement.
on the Northeastern railway were re-
sponsible for a great deal.
Whether one agrees with his extreme
views or not, one must credit Tom Mann
win a "OAucI1Oi POWcE W iuSpiTo SlQ
lead men. He glows and radiates en-
thusiasm and faith. He can tell an as
sembiy of workmen, whom he calls
brothers., that they are individually
and spiritual grace, and they will take it
standing up and cheering.
Last summers strikes, first Of seamen.
then Of carriers, then of lockers and
finally Of the railway workers, were. 1t
is true to say. as much the work of
Tom Mann as Of the rise Of the cost of
living. Every one who saw him was
impressed with the way in which he
conducted the strike at Liverpool.
How much of the present coal strike is
to estimate. But one thing is certain,
that the younger Golfers, like the younger
workers of all sorts, have been attracted
to the idea of syndicalism. or direct ac-
get all that they hoped for from the
labor party. And what they want, these
syndicalists. is nothing less than to
drive capitalists to such desperate
frame Of mind that, in Mann's own.
words, they will get tired Of running
industries. and then the workers will
cheerfully invite them to abdicate, and
through their industrial organizations
will run the industries themselves in the
interests of the whole community" So
cialism by sudden shocks.
That theory is what the South Wales
mine owners are opposing, and 1t is that
theory which Mann, by his organizing
energy and, SO far as the labor move
ment is. concerned, unsurpassed elo-
quence. has done more than any one else
to popularize.
Duchess of Buccleuch.
The late Duchess Of Buccleuch was pro-
verbally the great lady Of London. Her
position was only challenged by one
the late Duchess of Devonshire, who
reigned over a more cosmopolitan set
and belonged to less English tradition.
To see this stately lady driving in her
carriage through the great arch Of the
Horse Guards, through which she, as
mistress OF the robes. had the privilege
to go. was one Of the most distinctive
OF ones London sensations. Her younger
sister. Lady Lansdowne. of course. takes
a unique place in London society, but
1t is somewhat different Her several
absences from England have taken her
slightly out Of the main course Of Lon
don life, and her position has been more
as a political hostess.
The Duchess of Buccleuch always
stood for the exclusive and old fashioned
element in society. She never asked any
one to her parties whom she did not
personally know. and 1t was one of the
noticeable survivals of former aristo-
cratic period in manners that the Buc-
cleuch house parties never figured among
those astonishing photograph groups in
the illustrated Weekliea The story Is