Show WHERE SPEAKERS ARE HECKLED Over Oyer In England they believe In heckling and a speaker Is not hemmed In with dignity as I In this coun country rr Even the women speak speak- speakers er ers era are heckled A few tew nights nighta ago lAdy Astor who is a cand candidate date for tor parliament was addressing an an- an au audience at Plymouth where the fight Ight is 15 between capital and labor She had bad made the broad s statement that the Socialist program would not bring heaven to earth when she was waa Interrupted The Interruptions continued and Lady Astor remarked that in certain parts paris or of other her constituency people were pr preaching as bitter class ss warfare as she ehe had ever heard of ot When she went tent down there they turned on her with the spite of ot hate hato and saId it was her class that wa was keep keep- keepIng keepIng keeping ing them down n She contended that that sort of ot socialism I as was as good goodenough goodenough I enough enouch only for the ignorant This lew provoked an Immediate storm ot of opposition and the remark from rom one of ot those present Then there ignorant people In Ply Fly Plymouth mouth month at the last election to which Lady AI Astor Asfor or quickly Well there wont won't be bo this time Another Interrupter shouted Xou You are attacking I when you attack socialism Lady Astor came back promptly by say Ear saying jog ing I am not such euch a humbug as to tot t think I am a II Christl Christian an and dont don't OU on tool fool yourself that you are Orel I I Iam Iam Iam am trying to be one but I have not succeeded or I would heal you ot of our hate She went on to say that her pro program program program gram was what it aiwa alwa s had been I 1 I social reform and then made a II re- re remark re- re remark re remark mark which stirred up another bor- bor bornet's hor hornet's nets net's nest and for tor a moment th there re was uproar with angry and gesticulations and a II man Sn in inthe inthe the audience who used a foul ex- ex ex expression pi was at once removed An audience is rather tame when compared with an English gather gather- gathering ing log where political subjects are un under Under under der consideration The English Ens at- at attitude at attitude causes a speaker to a bombast and to carefully state facts A little heckling in Amer Amer- America ica lea would drive many a II successful campaigner who indulge in ex cx from rom the political cam cam- campaign campaign It might serve seITe a good purpose pur- pur pose 00 00 |