The Indianapolis times., 1926-05-08
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Mass Movement
A Modern Wat TyIer2
Mob Complex
Red Danger
BY M. e. Tracy.

George as mediator.
Today It ls limited that King
George and the Tories may make
Ramsay Mcdonald prime minister
on the ground that he is one man
able to clean up the mess Stanley
Baldwin has made Of things.
Such a move seems incredible. but
e. small English manufacturer re-.
veals the logic Of it by asking why
has labor all the brains?"
This is not a rough-neck strike,
even If hoodlumism does take ad-
vantage of 1t to wave red flags.
This is a movement of the masses,
a manifestation of national discon-
tent.
The slow.witted stand pat as the
slow witted always do, but the
brainy pursue a more constructive
course by trying to discover the
cause and so obtain a practical
remedy.
Five hundred and forty-five years
ago Wat Tyler led the first great
popular revolt in England.
With 100000 serfs and villains at
his back he swept on the London,
where Richard II, then a boy Of
16, consented to a parley, though
against the advice Of his older coun-
sellors.
When the parley appeared to have
broken down and civil war seemed
inevitable the young king saved the
situation by placing himself in the
front rank Of Wat Tyler's men and
proclaiming himself their friend.
If King George were to make
Ramsay Mcdonald premier he would
merely be translating this maneuver
into modern terms.
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have Just read the observations
Of H. Gordon Selfridge, American
head Of London's largest department
store.
They are summed up in this
sentence with which he begins:
THE spirit OF the English people
will crush the strike before the sit.
uation becomes critical"
BY inference and a pretty strong
inference at that, Mr.. Selfridse
CLASHES ]. H. Thomas, a former
cabinet minister, Arthur Henderson,
also a former minister, Ramsay Mac
Donald, q former premier and mil
lions who speak the language and
many of whom put on Khaki during
the war as no longer English people.
According to his view, English
people include only those who be.
heYe In roast beef, the empire ana
the coronation ceremony and his
view Is typical Of the mob complex
that has come to US with prosperity.
Having become preposterously
solvent, having learned to wear tux
sdos without feeling uncomfortable
and having married some Of the
girls to titled. If broken noblemen,
wa are pleased TO be considerate Of
kings, dictators and class distinc-
tions.
We were more considerate Of the
car than we ever were Of Lenin
and we are more considerate of
Mussolini than Of France.
We frown on revolution, on any
thing that looks like revolution, no
matter what the cause, or whom
1t is against, though it was through
revolution that our own forefathers
won the right to be free to form a
republic and establish a new type
OF soldier.
A strange type indeed for us to
assume on this one hundred and
f1ftieth anniversary Of the signing
Of Declaration Of Independence.
T.
The Prince of Wales comes flying
home as though his presence were
needed or would do any good.
Then he sits in the House OF
Lords-an impotent expensive list
ener to the talk Of an impotent, ex-
pensive assembly.
The king and queen forego the
usual festivities of Accession day as
Though that meant anything to the
militant crowds Of London or would
help solve a problem that is per-
picking the best minds of England.
In such details you get glance at
the antiquated social structure
which stands in the way of sane
readjustment.
cannot help believing that there
Is more danger in England going
red II her masses are held down by
blind conservatism, than If the able
leaders Of those masses are permitted
to share in the shaping of public