h h LABOR ABOR MEMBERS NEED SALARIES New Government Committed to Paying Members of Commons IS S A DEMOCRATIC BODY BODY lohn Ward lias lints Li to o Live Thc on mi 10 11 11 n in Week I Plo by ht I Ills I Ils I ir I I Union I Ii i Ton London on March farch 10 Great 11 Groat Britain Britain's new ew parliament parlament Is the time most remark renmark- able ible over O IW u assembled I Its whole tons ton ton- Is s thoroughly il democratic The Tue The tb I met let Is to Ine lel likely encounter s- s only when thien It I tries to Lo the tw nu-m- nu ers ben bels' bels fond expectations of reform The governments government's failure to tn end m- m J stant th the Chinese labor contracts in South Africa Afric has hns caused dl mit- mit nent ment which Is on only I partly allayed by byth bythe th he the that such a step would ripple cripple cripplE th the Transvaal's on only Indus- Indus IndusI I I tr y But the government has imas already ohead j I soothed this disappointment IJ by reforms re- re rC- rC forms In many mam minor directions It I has Jias las admitted the ri right bt of oC postal clerks to o form a trade trad union and to present plent pre pre- sent r-nt nt their Grievances anc s to the tel er cc general general Time The late conservative at repeatedly r refused tills this rIght Ight an and penalized the postal em- em m- m I who sought It I. I The he new nt has call ally caily committed Itself to 10 paying the members of parliament for their 1 legis- legis services a practice that lint already In mm British self govern e cl every Ing ig column colony The Time four foum lCy CoUI I ern labor members lumbers In inn this house hous of commons are c entirely dependent enl for COI support on th the subscriptions of their trade unions unions One member John Ward Yard president of the lie Nn union says Is I.'s the ex- ex m nse of attending parliament leaves him mini the time choice of going hungry In the tho house houe ouse of or commons or of or punchIng pinching th the lie food supply of or his lila funnily family Ills his Ils union union allows him him 1 10 Ii a w week ek i In th the la last t parliament where cIa class j i and capitalization rel reigned nd supreme John Wards Ward's ar s 's dilemma would 1 mae mave I c IC C it t I provoked PIo only sneers meers Hut But this house of ot commons i is sympathetic an and the thela la labor abom ol m members hers have ai ready already shown themselves to be I able ahle thou thoughtful earn earnest cst len men The rime house intends to chan change o the arrangement of nf if its Is t sessions c so o as to tn suit mutt ul the thu convenience of oC Its iK poorer and democratic members The Tho British Brith parliament u usually suits stilLs through the summer so in u that Its wealthy members ma may enjoy a undisturbed ii 1 tim the e shooting in the time autumn and the time hunting In me winter I ml t en Tin new government o has promised to Improve time the the condition of the workIngmen work work- Ingmen in time the government JO dockyards In Ireland Dublin castle castlo casto Is Ix to 10 be Iw uprooted n figuratively I from Is ls ancient fou foundations n d at I 0 na The Time system under which the government gay gov nt of Ireland was wa run by hy the unionists hn has been n severely 1 shaken al ll- ll llred red ready land lond act which being In lii th Interest of or tine the tenants was restricted In Its Is operation b by j castle regula regulations lons has hns been given ghen full ful j scope scone i Orders Onion ha have e gone out to stop slop fLop jury packing In Ireland Irelan and the government govern govern- I I I merit ment In mm Ireland can no longer longel bring nil all ni Its Us power powel anti and influence against the overwhelming o nationalist majority tIm ore In South Africa the of or orthe the Rand Hand gold mining autocracy set setup setup setup up by hy Chamberlain and arm Lord will be o overturned and a n responsible government Jo wi will wi be he given I en to the Transvaal and aul the time Orn Orange o River r nl calA col- col A S I I to confess olce that h he himself had hat Illegally Illegal Illegal- ly Iy sanctioned time the 11 Hogging of oC China China- on ony while to the hi linen boers will wil he be accorded accorded ac ac- corded cordel equal rights right with the time British Tim The e orgy of j jingoism I extravagance anti and Incompetence in iii II which the lie re recent te cent government 0 Indulged has hos turned tunic I back ack a veritable tidal wave of ot i tion ton M I ii liner delivered de de- The flie TIl moment when Lord 1011 ncr livered livened his maudlin speech IJ ech In iii tho I house of lords lortis this week will wi become historic lie He was wn Haltered flatten I by an I CI oven whelming Including all time the peeresses who wino could squeeze unto Into tho the I galleries Amba Ambassador dor Held Ht Secretary of Embassy CUts Curtis and lan many I other diplomats diplomat Lord Lor Is a line fine speaker clear forcible an on orator of parts harts Intensely cb convinced of his imis own omniscience tint nut the I lords o rt s of Ir t whom an Immense majority majolly were favorable fa to him were WIe chilled almost repelled b by his lila narrow liar hard hart unrelenting bitterness toward the Boers Loers loers The fatal policy im he 11 followed In Iii Ji South Africa Afric became entirely explicable explicable able oble long before he finished his speech Ire Ife Inveighed against all al concessions con con- cessions to the Boers Boers lie le declared declare Chinese la labor labom O In the Rand Ranni not merely justifiable but ut providential pl He foretold the time total loss los of South Africa to time the empire unless British supremacy were maintained there Having Jn passionately lonale appealed for fan a n supremacy law Milner Miner was I men and amid had concealed tho tine fact from Mr rr lately latel the tIme colonial secretary sec see 1 tar who had imai indignantly denied 1 In iii parliament parlament that such things N hint had hll been Il done ll by Milner This Tinis n ton lion tion It I is believed will vili wi hereafter preclude pre cT clude tle time the appointment of t tany tu other othel 01 arty any governorship Arth Arthur II Balfour Is seriously Ill 1 It ItIs itIs I Is understood I Ills Its defeats and aim allt hl Ida imis hum humiliations ia lons have broken him down anu ana it Is 11 probable that he ime will wi not be lc seen often In the time of commons com com- mons this thiN session ion Joseph Chamberlain Is also niso In la feeble health Time The strain of oC leading the opposition ilon for ten days was vas to too ton much for him Besides e the me Ie gl changed cham conditions In the house were were were-exas XU- XU perating to him When hen he resigned an aim autocrat in a sense he Is IR now no nore re regarded re- re with Ith rather contemptuous omu amusement The remnant of the time conservative party ant in 11 parliament contains hard hardly I one man of oC the time slightest weight or distinction Tho party's utter uter wreck wieck Is attributed to Chamberlain and 01 It ItIs ItIs itis Is still hopelessly torn b by dissensions on oil time tho th tariff question The Time liberals and limbed Indeed many conservatives con con- s. s firmly believe e beJ that the unionist party art will wi never nc regain poCI power pow pow- po er em until It I abandons protection Anti And that will wi not Hot be lIe until Jo Joseph Chamberlain Cham Chain disappears front from the political scene cene I