Ogden Weekly Standard | 1905-12-29 | Page 4 | John Burns Makes Courageous Speech

JOHN BURNS MAKES SPEECH london dec 27 john burns president ot uio local government aboard made his first public address since his entry into the cabinet when he opened the election campaign tonight in a characteristically courageous speech he said his accession to office was of bis constituents to power ithe honor was theirs but the work was for him he declared thai he would pander to no section ot the population but would do his duty for the benefit of aio oio whole community mr bums said he bad such strong sympathy with all the interests of the working classes tha be had no sympathy to spare for the loafer cadger or drunkard his ideal waa fewer workhouses smaller charities larger wages more plemmie and less drink in the smaller cities and in the larger villages he was already appointing committees to enable he rate to have their accounts prepared n such a way that he who ran might read he vigorously what he called imperialism of which Soma liland was the fruit and south africa the rotten ripe product he denounced labor as being especially dangerous because it would lead to absolute chattered chatte led slavery