The Detroit times., 1912-09-03
ENGLISH LABOR LEADER
FEARS NE ARE RUSHIAG
TOWARDS A MONARCHY
Look Out for a King in Three
Generations, Says Keir
Hardie
COMES HERE ON VISIT
Thinks State and Municipal Own
ership of Public Utilities Would
Aid in Solution

NEW fOhh, Sept e. IN lh0e eeu
erations America will be the greatest
monarchy the world has ever seen.
She Is, right now, rushing toward such
n deyelopment with the unchecked
growth OF her mighty plutocracy and
the. continuous upbuilding OF her
mighty army and her mighty navy
the two chiefest bulwarks OF predat-
orr wealth and q landed artstocracy.
The time IL fast arriving, these things
MAINLY seem 70 point, when king
win finally be demanded 10 rule this
land"
Kier Hardie, membor OF the English
parliament and British Sociaist,
kpaints this a. q possible picture OF
future. near-future. American politics.
Keir Hardie, not wild-eyed and burn
ing with unchastened are OF youth.
but white haired and luminous With .
fne-blown Intelligence. made the state
menf calmly and forcefuliy. This 10
,Hardie.s fourth visit TO the United
States.
sWorshipplAg royalty L. q phase
which every mentally unamancipated
people Amust go through" declares
IHArdie.
Right now. with all Engiands free
trade and other socalled progressive
lmsasureA royalty II more hrmly en-.
krenched there than ever before. The
loommercll class n now completely
loollafed by it. attentions and the
working class. Isfear, IL East yielding
10. f. too.
~And why7'
.Himply because II In nattered.
Royalty, something above the com
mon. can always natter people who
have not yet learned to know and
standsupon their own royal rights.
-And the iiattary being bestowed
NY Ungiish upyaity. right now, though
painfully obvious, Is nevertheless,
.puuying quite seductive. The other day
the king went down.into the mines to
y1Ht my miners. and the subtle little
\ attention made q great hit with these
rhen, despite the fact that every day
OF their lives. royalty and al that II
gtands for is cheating them out OF
their rightfui hire.
Now American people are no DIFF
ferent than English people and al
though they haven't q king now and
vaunt much their republic. stu II
things keep on moving as they are
carrying more and more power into
The hands OF the favored few and
backing up their power with militia,
navymen, guns, powder and armored
cruisers--it Will not be a great while
away before king arrives, and when
he does the people will be fiattered By
him then just az the English people
are fiattered by him today.
'sWill the American nation allow
things to go on here as they are so
ipgg
win Americans arrest the tide be-
fore II Is too later
These are the questions am eager
to see answered. | want 10 see the
working people OF America have too
much intelligence TO neglect their
rights and pass them over to an aris-
tocracy.
There Is only one way they can
conserve their rights. And that one
way Il to redistribute the centers Of
wealth so that they cannot 60 on In
creasing automatically and delegating.
IN proportion, more and more power to
the owners Of these pools and de-
crease in proportion. the power OF the
people who are creating these pools.
The way to redistribute this wealth
n TO establish municipal and state
ownership OF public utilities and the
means OF production. And to do this,
the working class must put itself In
control Of municipal councils. legis.
latures and national congresses.
"Royaity--hero worship--is dis
'usse. form Of insanity. and Ameri-
cams, the workers OF America, should
net succumb to II. even to the final
lrymptoms that announce its coming.
Instead, they must rouse themselves.
form their own party and never again
allow themselves to be governed and
Iexploited by an oligarchy--a rule by
= few self-chosen egotista."