The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-10-14
Will They Throw Out Lloyd George -Soli- darity of British La bor - Confusion of Speech in America Will Labor Run British E. m pire- Guelphs and Ghibel- lines - Les Miser- abIes.

England is not many years away from Labor government. It may come with the successful overthrow of Lloyd George, the little Welshman, who since the war has functioned as a cement between the different stratum of the Empire. English labor has solidarity of language, habit and custom. It has the advantage of wise leadership. Many of the real 1y great men of England are af- fi1iated with the labor party. It is well and soundly led. The British unions have one of the great economic obstacles. They have learned that wages are based on production, and that it does not pay to limit production.
 
 America has no Labor move n1ent of like solidarity. There are many reasons why this is so. Prosperity is high in America. Institutions are productive. Land is abundant. If the pressure be- comes unusually heavy, thous- ands of industrial workers return to the fertile soil. The economic thought of the American worker is not so well developed. He has not been educated by the pres sure of necessity. One of the forms of this pressure is a popu- latton Of several hundred to each square mile of land. In this country the average per square mile is 50 persons.
 
 American workers lack solidar- ity of language. habit and GUS toms. America Is the melting pot. Into this pot are cast all the tongues of the world. Come mill lions who in the old world have violent antagonisns of race and language tranSrnitted through long generations. The worst fea- lures of those old hatreds disap- pear on this benign soil, but enough remain to estop that com mon thought, and ability for com mon action which the English workers have.
 @ What will happen when the -D,-4& S~ A,1r Al1 ptre? Nothing violent, unless English habits change. The pro- gram will be we'll thought out. Persons will be ready to admin lister. There will be those who will be able to execute. The suc- cess of such a government will de- pend upon the number of those who know how to manage and execute. In any nation the more gifted sort of men are scarce. The trained men are more num- erous. There may be in the body Of tho people persons able as those who are known to be able. It takes years to develop them.
 
 Such transitions have been effected. There was the ancient Italian quarrel between the Guelpfs and GhfbeIlines, by which the rising mercantile community, under the shadow of the pope, at last put democracy and trade above aristocracy and the notion that labor is undignified. The French Revolution, marked a transition fin which the middle classes took over the affairs from the nobles. The movement was premature, or it would not have been attended with so much vio- lence.
 
 In Russia a revolution has talk en place. in which the working classes seek to rest control from mercantile aristocratic groups. The movement has oc- cured prenaturely. and Russia will be many years in training up new leadership. In the meantime there will doubtless be many reactions. with constant movement forward toward work ing class administration.
 
 The mercantile and nanufac- turing groups of England. the landed people and the others will probably stick to Lloyd George for a time yet, for fear that change coming fast and coming faster will suhm erge them fin a pre- mature revolution, not of violence. but of unrained mana cement, the effects of which upon a coun- try are worse than violence. The Bridgeport school boy who killed himself was puzzled about Sod. about the mystery of life, about his girl. about the misery c, Les M1serables, the noted work of Hugo. the famous FTenchman, and about many otAer things. But these were not tha ranSa The jpsti7c1 of