The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-06-07
BELIEVE GERMAN
 GOLD BEHIND LABOR TROUBLES
(By the Earl of Denbigh, of British
 Ministry.)


 (By the Earl of Denbigh, of British Ministry.)
 London, June Hast Sunday I at | tended the Labor demonstration in Hyde Park, and I listened in the crowd to speeches from MT. Robert Williams and others at the various platforms. The procession that en- tered the Park from the Marble Ach was not imposing. very few people following the individual banner, but the one that came in by Hyde Park corner was more numerous. The main object of the demonstra- tion was apparently to boom the Daily Herald (the new British Labor | paper) and support the Police Union, { and, these objects having been ac- complished, the speeches seemed to | be confined to the denunciation of l Capitalsim and the advocacy of the ' Bolshevik form of Government. as practised in Russia and elsewhere. | It is as well that the entire com munity should realize better than is now the case the meaning of this at tack on Capitalism. It is virtually an | onslaught on property of every de- scripuon and the overturning of civi- ! lization and society as 1t exists at i present. Society" has many bad l spots, and there is far too much thousht1ess luxury on the one hand | and far too much misery and poverty on the other. but I do not see how ! the Bolshevik program is going to put matters right.
 ! What is called "the ruling class" , has much stupidity and neglect to i answer for. Employers generally through their ignoring the human [ element, have in too many cases play ed into the hands of those who are | -i, +o ! stroy them, and the result of it all is that the community in general is | up against a very formidable attack. The main contention of all the speeches was that the world is divided 1 into "workers" and "bosses'' and that the workers get all the kicks while the bosses get all the jam. The i ''workers'' are apparently defined as those who work with their own hands for their living, and the "bosses'' are
 those who manage or employ them.
 ''Rentier'' Rant.
 Then, aCain, MT. Williams and oth- CTS were violent in their denunciation . of all who received rent. According
 to them rent, as much, was only paid to a "rentier class of idle rich. I do not suppose that anybody lives pay ing rent, and there is nothing so pleasing as being able to live rent free, but a campaign against rent is in reality an attack on owners of property of any description, and not
 merely a campaign against the rich, ! whether idle or otherwise
 The utter absurdity of this non sense must surely be apparent to any
 body who considers the .circum- stances What about the many thou
 sands of people of the business or Iworking classes of all descriptions who put their savings into land or l house property as an investment? :? Are they to be classes of "idle rich ?''
 What about the RAiendly societies, insurance companies, trades unions, building societies, and the many or ganizations in which the business community and working class are financially interested, and who either own property or have invested many millions on the security of mort gages?
 These mortgages are based on the rental value of the properties. Threat en the security of property, and at once there would be such a calling in of mortgages as would produce most appalling panic and the worst this country.
 What Are They Driving At? l It is difficult to understand what these gentlemen are driving at. It i is to be presumed that it is not to De
 a crime to own your own house, but 1 apparently if you own a house and let it, or, if you wish to live elsewhere and let your own house, you then be- ! come an enemy of society and one of the idle rich.''
 i When I am at home I frequently pass a. nice little house that was built by a. bricklayer friend of mine, who saved up money and bought plot Of land for the purpose. l know many others who have done likewise, and there are many thousands of similar cases all over the country.
 | I recently had a letter from an
 other working man friend of mine telling me he had some three thousand pounds saved, and now he wanted to stay out upon his own. I have known | this man for the last twenty-five
 years.
 Nv father rescued him from an un-
 happy home as a child, and became
 his guardian and on my fathers death I was told this lad was in home in
 a neighboring town, and had been
 learning to be a carpenter. ] got
 home from there and brought him in to my own estate shop, and at the
 end of two years when he had learn
 ed enough to go out on his own, l
 found that he had put in a savings
 every penny of the money l mad peen
 allowing him as pocket money after paving for his board and lodging This fact alone showed me the
 character that was in the lad, so
 helped him to further situations ooth
 at home and abroad, where he got good pay, and all his savings, which
 he remitted regularly to me. l put
 into sound investments, with the re-
 suit as described above.
 Is this sort of thing to be discour-
 aged in the future? Is there to be no
 inducement to any man to avail him " self of his education and improve
 himself in life? Is no encouragement
 to be held out to the thrifty, the
 abstemious, and the competent as
 compared with the spendthrtft, the i, drunkard, or fool?
 Apparently. however. Judging from
 the praise now being given to Bol- shevik theories and the Soviet form
 of Government, mankind is to be re-
 duced to a dull, drab level of inem-