The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-03-28

up Of the fatted funkIes of the
army a mutiny-was only "a school,
boys prank" and n could not see that
If it was what he said it was the
Guards were no regiment and should
have been wiped out decently and
quietly. There again the futility of a
sheltered people cropped up. You
mustn't treat a man like n machine
in this country, but o can't get any
work out of a man TIL he has learned
TO work like a machine. D has
just come taome for "A few months
from the charge of a mountain bat
terry on the frontier. He used to be-
gin work at s. and he was thankful
If he got off at 6; most OF the time on
his feet. When he went to the Black
Mountains he was extensively en-
gagged for nearly sixteen hours a day,
and that on food at which the pore
workin' man would have turned up
his state lifted nose. D on the
subject of labor as understood by the
white man in his own home is worth
hearing. Though coarse-consider-
ably coarse! But D doesn't know
all the hopeless misery of the BUSH
ness. When the small pig, oyster,
furniture, carpet, builder or general
shopman works his way out Of the
ruck he turns round and makes his
cd friends and employees sweat. He
knows how near he can go to iiaying
EN- alive before they kick, ana
in this matter he Is neither
better nor worse than a bunnia
or a havi.dar of our own blessed
country. It's the small employer of
labor that skins his servant, exactly
a. the forty-pound householder works
her n white servant to the bone
and goes to drop pennies into the
Plate to convert the heather in the
East.
Just at present. as you have read,
the person who calls himself the pore
Workln mantle man l saw kicking
fallen mtn m the mud by the docks last
winter-has discovered a real. fine. new
original notion; and he Is working IL
Tor all he is worth. He calls il the
solidarity of labor b%undobast; but it's
caste - four thousand years old, caste
or Menu with old shctts, mahajuns,
gu!ldtullS. eNCOmmuniCatiOn and all the
rest of 1t. Ala things considered, there
isn't anything much older than caste
1t began with the second generation
of man on earth-but to read the
"~advanCed' papcrS on the subj Ct you'd
imagine it was a revelation from
heaven. The real fun vii, beg n
as 1t has begun and ended many times
before-when the caste of skilled labor
that's the pore workin'mar-arc
pushed up and knocked about by the
lower and unrecognizcd castles, who
Will farm a. lStaG nf thnir ,pn ap.l ,,,t
caste on the decision of their own
punchayats. How these castles will
scuffle and fight among tn msclves,
and how astonishcd the Englishman
will be!
Tie Is naturally law,ess because he
il a fighting animal; ana his amazing
~ sheltered condition has made him
inConScquent. | don't like i%nconsc-
qucnt lawl, ssness I've seen 1t down
at Bow street, at the docks, by the
q. l.. q. and elsewhere. Its chief home,
OF course. Is in that queer place called
the House of Commons, but no one
goes there who isn't forced by bust
ness. It's shut up at present, and
the persons who belong to it are loose
all over the face of the country. ]
don't think-but | won't swear-that
any of them are splitting at police
men. one man appears to have been
poaching, Others are advocating vari-
Gus forms of murder and outrage -
and nobody seems to care. The residue
talk-just heavens, how they talk, and
what wonderful fictions they tell! And
they firmly believe. beng ignorant OF
the mechanism of Government, that
they administer the country. In add
ton, certain OF their neWspapers nave