Arizona republican., 1915-09-19
POWERS AIMING TO
 MASK REAL ISSUE
Which is Labor's Almost Too Successful Try for Square Deal Against Ev- ills of Long Established LandlOrdism.

British labor, emerging from tEe present world war, however it may end, will assert itself to right the evils of lanlordism. that have op- pressed England since the establish ment Of the present feudal landed in- terests of the tight little isle
 Dr. John w. Slaughter of the Univer- sity of London in his single tax speech at the Y. NJ. C. A stadium last night. departed from the more or less dry subject to throw a per fectly new light on internal affairs in Great Britain; he brought to his audience much that has been clipped by the censors from the publications of the present day, and concentrated in short Aggression from his sub ject, a wonderfully interesting de- scription of a state of affairs that he claims will dwarf even the stu pendous struggle against militarism when the two are viewed in the perspective of history.
 Britain-meaning the laboring classes so predominant in numbers, yet so weak heretofore in political and economic strivings in England. is waging a war, whereof it knows no cause. The present interest of the British nation in the continental struggle is not shared by the great mass of British people, merely be- cause they are realizing the fact es tablished landed and built up com
 mercial interests are exploiting them.
 Just as issues like home rule in Ireland and the disestablishment of the church have been built up by fha rich in, ordar ba ba 0rao+.t. ;s sue of personal rights for me work ing people may be deferred, so has the empire been sent into this war. SO that in a great fear of a possible conqueror, or 3. great enthusiasm over military action, the problem of prop CT distribution of wealth may be lost. But the fire of lahor's enthusiasm, which it was hoped would consume
 labor's unrest, has not burned as hotly as the eXplOiters expected. Yet Britain is not apathetic toward ma | tional defense.
 Here, Dr. Slaughter made a very strong point. In establishlishing a | basis of argument for the common
 mans interest and desire to enter into the war, he described corrupt
 press, more ready to be paid for not ! proper recompense for calling things
 by the right names. He told of a government that is using the pettiest
 subterfuges to discredit labor. and
 the object of this all. he claims, is
 CONSCRIPTION.
 "In England today are three mil | lion men, armed and ready to go to ! the front. When the first call was
 sent out for enlistmcnts, the re-
 sponse swamped the war department. 1 Millions offered themselves, ant mil lions were turned away on some pre- tense or other. The applicant might 1 have been an eighth of an inch too short for instance. But in this way | a condition was brought about that i the government might describe as | deplorable. The press howled at the l "skulkers" The impression was eager | ly fostered. that the mass Of men in 1 England were apathetic toward the war Strikes were regarded as un- patriotic demonstrations, and though i the government and its press knew better, the striking workmen were < called traitors. In every case, our i investigator found that such strikes were on private works, and not in anv, way connected with munitions production"
 | Correlated with the power of the ] peerage-the landlords-is that of the | commercial interests, which have
 grown up and prospered at the ex- | pense of labor. Instantly after the war was declared, financial rings '
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