| Show BURNSS TALK AND IDEAS john burati is ie recognized as a labor representative in the british parliament As ae such he be has baa been received with open arma arm a by we the workingmen of thi country and when attending the labor convention in progress pr ogren this week sit at do oever ver has bae been enow bbown n every oon con sidera tiou and courtesy lo in return for the be hospitality exhibited toward him b he has baa been talking to the laboring daien he be considers thin thie hit big duty duly under the cirou meta races and no one would wish to his bis enoy enjoy la in bat floe for mr burns burne ean an talk plenty in fast to to be plain bout it a very large pereen taze of workingmen in country have hare the idea that he can talk much better than work the gentleman has baa a remarkable penchant yen chant for catching up a laboring mans man 99 complaint and making the most moat of it it was this faculty that thai obtained for him the title of an M P he has ha been following the same tactic t in this country he early recognized that it was quite a fad among workingmen working meo in the united states to grumble at and ana abuse almost everything in it they dont mean a tithe of what they say but to in a good many cases just grumble for grumbl inua s sake this latter feature mr burns evidently did not realize so BO be caught up the faultfinding retrain refrain and here bore Is part of his song since my arrival in Amerl america qa in the he short time I 1 spent in chicago and now new york I 1 saw more poverty dirt wretchedness and misery than I 1 have seen all my life in england mark my words within i he nex next t twenty fi five ve years yeam A americans mer will be emigrating to england because in thal thai country by that time lime we will ba model government of the worl dand the people who are able to live under it will be the only happy and contented people on earth within the last six years there has been a peace ul til revolution wrought in england and the conditions that existed six years ago are rapidly disappearing under intelligent management of municipal affairs the municipal governments not only of london but bui of the other large cities citie iare are solving the problem of providing labor for ithe he unemployed and tV teaching aching the people to provide for themselves veat it la is hardly possible that mr burns dad such an enlarged idea of bis bin hear bear arg n credulity as to fancy they believed every bit of that speech perhaps he never thought that some of them might have read or even heard beard his po poaches pooches oches in london less than four years ago when thousands were being fled fed at the of the metro when tens of thousands in a single bounty yorkshire were dependent on bublic charity when the official report bied that hundreds bun dreda had died from lack jack of food and when the government records point out that one in ten of the population la in great britain had received 0 ived assistance from the benevolently inclined there will bo be no question that there is ie destitution in now new york fork chicago and all the large cities per baas equal to any other place on the globe lobe there is also much of comfort C nd d contentment among the laboring people in I 1 britain those of this class who are ju iu steady employment fare reasonably well but mr buruss assertion bo of his two weeks experience in this country is a plain misstatement it is directly at variance with his own owe declarations frequently repeated related is in england as an to what he be had bad seen been there them no matter what poverty dirt wretchedness and misery he hat bar looked at on oa this side of the water he can behold its to equal any week in the great britain let him return to stepney oreen and to in Lood Jb ondo ipa go to the Balt Salt market in glat glai now gow the oldtown of cardiff or to to ward in liverpool and he be can watne reenea of the character described that even the worst haunts oot f now new york and chicago cannot sur aar to ia pal aai allol aliel evidently the tee M ri RIs Is getting a bit home homesick 0 o remembers naught of his big native land but what la Is pleasant and even that toe be na boo magnified to a wonderful extent it trouble never comes to mr burns till americans emigrate to england because that nation has baa the model government of we the world his bis path through life will be smooth lodeen lode eJI the claims he makes of solution of the labor problem are chimerical so 80 also are his ideas of the remedy for industrial ills ilia hu hie panacea is ia absorption of the anem played by the reduction of hours thus keeping the measure of idleness ud DO to its full standard when the application Is ie carried beyond the eight hour cyster roe solution of industrial and kindred problems to the extent that they hey will re alt in the of a mode government on this earth to is fixed oy by destiny to be worked out ou American Amer ioan boil for centuries the star of em empire droll has wended bended its way westward until its power has been demonstrated in the govero govern wept ot or a I 1 free roe people 0 on it this conal continent non t tier adlere it will be worked out to its ita perfect consummation and when the EOK eng lou M P makes the suggestion ot of me model madel government being established in lie he country be hails bails from he be is merely gratifying an inordinate Dat rational ional vanity and his bis utterances have about i as much weight as do bia overdrawn and inaccurate comparisons |
