NOTES AND NOTIONS.

1 SOCIALISM IN LONDON ITS LEADERS : MORKIS, CHAMPION, MRS BESANT, H. M. HYNDMAN. THE SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC FEDERATION. ! ITS PROGRAMME-GROWTH OF ;v SOCIALISM 13S[ ISNGLAND—ITS ! LITERATURE. [By a New Zealander Abroad.]

I waxt to learn something of Socialism in London and Britain generally when I am here, and perhaps some of your readers may be interested in what I saw and heard. It is not easy to discover the thing called {Socialism in London. I could fancy one living in the metropolis and knowing nothing of its existence, except when it sometimes takes to killing policemen or looting shops. Then it gets into loader type in the leading dailies, and'even the "Times" will then descend from its throne of scorn to "solemnly curse that rascally thief," as the cardinal cursed the thief in "The Jack daw of Rheims." With this exception,' the Socialists of London are for the most part severely let alone by the great London dailies. This is not much to be wondered at either, for with one or two exceptions they all ,bow the knee to the Rimmon of Toryism. The only representatives of Liberalism among the London Press seem to be the " Pall Mall Gazette " and the •' Daily News," but even these two papers pay small heed to the doings of the Social ists. Sometimes a paragraph appears de tailing a meeting somewhere of the " ism " in question, or on Saturdays you find adver tisements relating to lectures or addresses bearing on the subject of Socialism. With these exceptions, the doings and sayings of the body hardly ever find their way into the columns of the leading dailies of Lon don. I see that somebody has been stating in your columns that he saw no poor in London during his visit there. I should not be surprised at that. There is always a sunny side of the street, and if you keep that you will not meet the shadows, and indeed perhaps believe that there are none. >So I should not be sur prised at tho assertion that there are no Socialists in London, for you may read your papers at the club and hear nothing about them. When Charlotte Bronte was writing her greatest work, some body asked her what she was doing now. " Nothing," said she, "to speak of." But, as a matter of fact, it turned out that she was laying the foundation of an enduring fame. So it would seem that to the London newspapers the Socialists are doing nothing to speak of. Perhaps it may turn out that like the quiet worker of the Yorkshire moors they may be engaged^ in a work that will bye-and-bye startle the world of politics as Charlotte Bronte's did the world of literature.

i got on the track of what I was in search by noticing in an evening paper an adver tisement stating that a lecture in connection vith the Clerkenwell Branch of the Social Democratic League would be given by William Morris. I made my way to the place, and at 8 p.m. found myself seated in aimpper room capable of holding- 80 to 100. TJiere were not many present when I arrived, bub the number increased till they totted up some fifty or so. They consisted chiefly of the working classes, artisans, labourers, and a small sprinkling of clerks. The gentler sex was present in fairly good force. The room was hung round with banners' and mottoes. These were all—or mostly all—of the approved revolutionary colour, with texts to suit. On the platform behind the speaker was a large red-and- Wack banner with the text: "No master, high or low." The company had not a very revolutionary aspect. They were, for the most part, quiet, peaceable-looking folks, and a very large number oi the faces " were sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought." At 8 p.m. the lecturer appeared. He was introduced to the audience by a very youthful-looking chairman. This latter had a face not easily forgotten. It bore a striking resemblance to that of the poet Shelley. Ib was, perhaps, not quite so feminine; but in other respects it was us like him as could be. In a few words he introduced the lecturer. I had been familiar with ft'orris in my earlier days " through his books. I had read with pleasure " The Earthly Paradise," " The Life and Death of Jason," " Love is Enough," etc. ; and the poet's connection with the aesthetic movement —and especially with Swinburne and Dante G. Kos£etti, and that school— gave me a special interest in him. I was expecting a romantic-looking, dapper dressed aesthetic lecturer. What is my surprise to see just the very opposite. He is clad in an ordinary grey-tweed suit. He is a plain, ordinary-looking man, without a trace of those belongings which one would be likely to associate with the author of v. The Earthly Paradise." 1 begin to wonder if I am not mistaken—if this is not some other William Morris. My doubts are con firmed when he begins . his lecture. He seems nervous, has a short, jerky method of speaking — hesitates, goes back over his sentence, repeats himself —and altogether is not by any means impressive. He has not his teeture written fully out, but holds some notes in his hands, which seem as useful for occupying his fingers as for reference. I ask one who is sitting beside me, if this is Morris the poet, and I am assured' it is. The subject of the lecture is "Education," and the burden of it is to show that the con ditions of the masses are such as to forbid them any education in the true.sense of the word. He begins by giving some account of his own, from which I gather that he has -«- never know what grinding poverty is. His parents were well-to-do, and could afford to Bend him to Oxford. The substance of his lecture may be summed up in a few sen tences. This was its claim : "It is right and necessary that all men should have work to do which shall be worth doing, and be of itself pleasant to dp; and which ehould be done under such conditions as would make it neither over-wearisome nor over-anxious." That was his main pro position, and he proceeded to show that the .present state of things shut out the working man from work under such conditions, and so made education an .impossibility. The work that he was compelled to do was not in itself pleasant, nor could he do it without •weariness and anxiety; and consequently education, as a drawing out and lifting up of his manhood, was out of the question. He certainly succeeded. It* making out a good case under this head: r He next pro ceeded to discuss the method by which this condition of things could be altered. That ; method could be no other than the one pro posed by the: Social Democratic League— *' The price to be paid for making the world happy is revolution." , At the close of the lecture discussion was invited. The discussion was, perhaps, the besfc part of the entertainment. Theacute ntyas Of thought and the power of expression which nearly every speaker exhibited were something that I had not been expecting. Everyone who spoke seemed to be perfectly familiar with his subject, and.jpoke wibh a freedom and a range of knowledge ia regard to' polifciclL and-social pro blems that was.- certainly surprising to a stranger like myself. What, struck ■ use most?, perhaps, was .the .moderation i of lone and demand which eaph axbiwted, ,

There was just one exception. There was one individual who, in discussing how the reforms were to be effected, went in for force pure and simple. He proclaimed himself an Anarchist. TO Ms mind there was no way out of the present intolerable oppression save the Guy Fawkos one of dynamite or powder. This youth -. for he was probably not much above five-ancl-twenty—had a look of desperate bitterness,and he spoke with a vehemence both of word and action that be tokened thorough earnestness and belief in what he said. However, he got very few to agree with him. In fact, he was regularly " sat" upon ; so much so, indeed, that Mr Morris, in his reply, rather took sides with him. And I confess I was a little surprised to hear the lecturer express sympathy with the force method, stating his belief that

until the people took the question up in a very definite and practical manner—and there could be no doubt he meant physical force manner—reforms tvould be slow in coming, and probably would never come at all.

After the lecture I had a short conver sation with Mr Morris. 1 asked him re garding the growth of Socialism in London. He assured 'me that the principles are spreading rapidly, and that the numbers of meetings are largely on the increase. He has thrown himself into the movement con amort. He, as well as Mr Hyndman, has surrendered his ease and given up his leisure hours and his money to propagate the principles of Socialism, believing that in these lies the hope for the toiling masses of the world. I remember that in L'Envoi, at the cud of " The Earthly Paradise," he had long ago described himself as the "idle singer of an empty day." 1 could not but think that now a change had come over the spirit of his dream. He was no longer the idk singer of an cinpty day. He was tho active worker in an organisa tion that realised the earnestness of life, its needs, and its miseries ; and just as Byron made his art heroic by not only singing the song of liberty, but by .dying for it, amid the swamps of Missolonghi, so I thought that Mr Morris was more to be admired in this self-forgetfulnesa than perhaps

Dying so far cfFfroru tlio hedge or baj% Tho idle singor of an onipty day. Ho invited me to be present aba meeting he was to address in another part of London on Sunday evening, and promising to do so, I parted from him. In a room on the next floor thore were a large number of pam , phlets, newspapers, and tracts of all kinds exposed for sale. Here at length I found . tho literature of Socialism, and henceforth I had no difficulty in discovering when and where its meetings were held. i Address toy Mrs Best&ut. 1 I learned that Mrs Besant was to address a meeting another evening in a certain hotel 1 in Fleet-street. Thither 1 made my way. ' Tho room was crowded, over a hundred 1 people, 1 .should suppose, being present. If dress bfi an indication of intelligence, this meeting was decidedly superior to 1 the other. As usual, the ladies were well ' to the fore. They belonged for the most part to the educated class, being more remarkable for their studious looks ; than their fnshionablo atty-e. .Mrs Besant is one of the most tolling speakers I have ever heard. Unlike Morris, she has complete self-possession, ' and never is at loss for a word. Tho sharp, keen grey eyes search her hearers through ' and through. She is nob strikingly hand some, but lias a good-looking face, though at times, when replying to an opponent, ib takes on a look of firmness—almost of repul sive hardness —which, if it were habitual, would make her, I fancy, as Mrs Carlyle said about her illustrious son, "gao ill to live wi'." Her address was sternly logical, hardly ever blossoming into any flowers of s-fctimoht, such ttriweexpoebfrom tho softer sex. She is a master of sarcasm —her faco sometimes looked as if it) were steeped in it. She can use irony too with great deftness, and altogether she has many of tho qualities that go to the making up of thp finished orator. On the question of Socialism sho has broken with her well-known confederate worker, Bradlaugh. The latter is a strong opponent of Socialistic ideas, and as I write I have before me a lecture of his just de livered to his constituents in refutation of Mrs Besant's views. This difference of opinion, however, docs not in any way interfere with thefriendship that has existed between them for so long. A proof, of this was given at tho meeting at which I heard Mrs Besant speak. John Burns happened to be present. Burns is one of the sinning lights in the Socialist camp. Ho made some derogatory reference bo Mr Bradlaugh. Mrs Besant was on her feet in a moment; and the withering scorn with which she repelled Burns's insinuation was something to be remembered. She has a clear, reson ant voice; knows exactly what she wants to drive home; and speaka with the in cisiveness of a lancet. Advocates of Force. Quite a different stamp of person is John Williams, whom 1 once heard addressing a meeting "elsewhere. Williams is a sort of bull-terrier, who gets hold of two or three ideas and worries them effectually. He is not a man—to judge from his appearance— of much intellectual acumen. He has not much to say, but he puts his heart and soul into what he does. A decidedly more effective speaker is Champion. Champion, if I mistake not, is like Hyndmanand Morris —a xiniversiby man. A thin, rather hand some face, of slender build, and not without some of the graces of culture. I heard him address a crowded meeting on Sunday night in a room a little way beyond Black friars Bridge. The rights of. the working men and the wrongs of Governments and the governing classes was his theme. He talked very plainly. He was the most ex treme of the Socialist speakers that I heard. He openly advocated physical force, and told them that they should prepare themselves for such an issue. He pointed ' to Ireland as an illustration of how a few disaffected people required an army to keep them in order. There were nob a third of the troops about London that there were in Ireland, and a few charges of dynamite underneath the bridge of the Thames, and London would practically be at the mercy of Lazarus. These were only hints?. It was wild sort of talk, however, and it .was nob wholly surprising how it was received. Ib was received with rapburous applause. ' The audience here was very different to that which I heard Morris and Mrs,Besant address. It was the genuine thing frpm the city slums. The unwashed face and un kempt hair, and bhe torn and greasy coats, the black hands and short cutty pipes—all this indicated that I was among the dan gerous forces which London civilisation has evolved—forces which may indeed, i£ not well looked after, be the New Age, what bhe Hun and Vandal were to the Old. There was a look of sombre seriousness in the face of this audience that; 3? saw in no obher. They did nob impress you, these men, as curious, or speculative, or apathe tic. They looked like people: who had made up their minds, and meant action. They listened with the utmost attention to Champion and the others who addressed them, and" they neither contradicted nor questioned anything that; was said. This ■might have been because they were too ignorant,,'or because they had. weighed and measured the arguments by such 'light as they possessed, and had their minds made up. 1 suspect it was the latter, and I left the meeting with a strange kind of sympathy. There was a certain indescribable pathos about tho look of theee people. Their lob seemed so hard, and the release from it (such as was pro posed) so hopeless^ Hyndman, the Coryphams of London Socialism. In fhe afternoon of bhab day I had heard Hyndman in Hyde Park. Somehow a crowd outside, if it is podr, does not look so bad. Perhaps ib is. that Naburo relieves jthe colours by variation. Anyhow the orpwd

in Hyde Park was not so pathetic-looking, because it did not seem so much m earnest. There were a few hearty propagandists, but the bulk of it consisted of chance strollers, who were attracted by the sound of a man's voice. Hyndman is admirably cut out for this sort of work. He is a fluent speaker, and his powers of repartee are very great. Every now and again somebody in the crowd would interject an observation. Hyndman seemed rather to like this, and he was down upon the speaker like a thousand of bricks. His wit is pungent, and. if he has not the pen, he has tho tongue of a ready speaker. I suppose no other man has done so much as ho to bring Socialism into notice. He is a man of culture and education, a graduate of Cambridge, and has travelled much. In a recent number of one of the reviews lie says that he was first brought into contact with the working classes some twenty years ago. " Slumming " happened to be fashionable then, as it has been since, and ho "slummed" partly out of curiosity and partly in hope of doing some good. He saw the places, tried charity, emigration, etc.; but little came of them all, and after a few months' fitful work he gave up the business. But he never lost the impression he then received. "The endless patience in terrible misery, the calm bearing up under almost unendurable suffering—this he regarded as the noblo resignation of people who bore an unavoidable calamity with firmness and stoicism." It was, no doubt, admiration for these noblo qualities, as well as sympathy for their miseries, that drove Mr Hyndman to con secrate his life and work to their ameliora tion ; and though he is no more than the interpreter to them of the ideas of Laasallo a.nd Karl Marx, yet he is regarded, and rightly so, as the Coryphaws of London Socialism. Hyndman is one of tho most prominent members of the Social Democratic Federation ; and as this has been playing a prominent part in London of lato, and is likely to be heard of even more before long, I will give you its programme :— OBJECT. Tho establishment of c, condition of society based on the principles of political equality, with equal social rights for all, and the com plete emancipation of labour. PROGRAMME. 1. All officers or administrators to be elected by equal adult suffrage, and to be paid by tho community. , ~ 2. Legislation by tho people in such wise that no law shall b»como legally binding till accepted by tbo majority of tho people. 3. The abolition of a standing: army, and the establishment of a national cMzen force; tue people to decido on peace or war. 4. AH education, hiehor no less than olomen tary, to be free, compulsory, secular, and indus trial for all alike. 5. The administration of justice to be free and gratuitous for all members of society. 6. Tho land, with all railways and other moans of trnniit, to bo declared and treated as collective common property. 7 Ireland and other pai t% of the Empire to have legislative independence. 8 The production of wealth to be regulated by society in tho common interest of all its mom hers. 9. Tho means of productive distribution and exchange to bo declared and treated as collective or common property. 10. Measures called for to palliate the evils of our oxisting society, the Social Democratic Federation uvrc for immediate adoption :— The comnulso) I}/'1 }/' construction of healthy artisans' and agricultural labourers' dwcUinna m proportion to tho population, such dwellings to do let a', rents to coror tho cost or construc tion and maintenance alone Free compulsory education for nil classes, together with the provision of at least one wholesome uioal a-day in each school. Eight hours or less to bo the normal working day in all trades. ■' Cumulative taxation on all incomes above a minimum not exceeding £300 a year. State appropriation of railways with or with out compensation. Tho establishment of national banks, which shall absorb all private institutions that derive a profit from operations in money or credit. Rapid extinction of I ho national debt. Nationalisation of tho land and organisa tion of agricultural and industrial armies under State control on co-operative principles. Membership qf firancheit of tbe Federation; is open to all who agree, with its objects, pw, subscribe, one penny perw&ek. , -j . > As means for the peaceable attainment « these objects, the Social Dooiocratio League advocate — Adult suffrage. Annual parliaments. Proportional representation. ~. Payment of members and official expenses of elections out of tho rates. , Abolition of tho House of Lords and all hereditary authorities. Disestablishment and disenaowment of all State churches.

Such is the platform of the famous Social Democratic League. It is in effect but the formulation of the principles of Lassalle and Karl Marx, and is, with some trifling alter ations, substantially the deliverance-of the German Labour Party, and of the European working men's associations generally. Such, too, are some of the London leaders of this federation. Its ramifications through the metropolis are wonderfully extensive, and it has branches in all the larger towns of England and Scotland. Its literature is surprising. The extont and the ability with which it is written must strike everyone who makes inquiries upon the subject. 1 have before me as I write nearly half a score of 'papers—all different names, but all devoted to the propagation of the principles of this federation. Ido not know how many more there may be, for I picked the greater part of these up casually at the meet ings here and there which I happened to attand. In addition to these, hundreds of leaflets, tracts, pamphlets, etc., are liberally distributed at every meeting and on every suitable occasion. At the great demonstration in Trafalgar Square last year this literature was sown broadcast among the crowds. All over London these meetings go on every night in the week. The masses are being educated and drilled with unerring certainty. England may be nearer the fulfilment of the prophecy of the great German economist Thunen than many people fancy possibte; "If once the people, roused out of their slumber, shall ask the question, and seek practically to solve it, ' What is the natural reward of labour ?' a conflict will be pro voked, which, it is to be feared, may spread destruction and barbarism" throughout the land. It is this question that the Social Democratic Confederationis steadily putting to the people oil every possible opportunity ; and there can be no doubt that a practical answer to it is nearer hand than many of us suppose.

Exercise for Girls.

The effects of exercise uppn growing girls are well shown by a comparison recently made in America. The height and weight of 350 female pupils of a Brooklyn school, where gymnastic exercises are regularly practised, were compared with those of 10,000 Boston school girls taken at random, with the following result:

From these figures it appears that the girls who had gymnastic exercise regularly were from one and one-half to six inches taller, and from thirteen to eighteen pounds heavier, than those of similar ages who had not. There may be some natural difference between Brooklyn and Boston girls in these respects, and the comparison would be somewhat more satisfactory if it had refer ence to pupils in the same city. However, it may be taken as indicating the benefits resulting from systematic physical culture, and as emphasizing the importance of atten tion to muscle as well as mind in the educa tion of the young".

Food for Consumptives. Scott's Emulsion ov PITRH Con LIVBR OIL WITH HYFOPHOSPH!TBS Of Limb and Soda, is a most wonderful food for (ha Consumptive. ■ It not only gives strength and incrosoen the flesh, but heals the irritation of the throat and lungs. It is very palatable : children take it like milk, and in all wasting diseases both for adults and children it is a. marvellous food and medicine. Largo «nd small bottles of all Chemists. 4s 6d and ss fid,

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Height, inchbs.: Ages. ——-——-— Brooklyn. Boston. 10'years.. 50.57 51.34 11 years.. 58.28 5342 .2 years.. 59.82 52,88 .3 years.. 60.86 . 58.16 .4 years.. 6150 59.94 .5 years.. 62.80 61.10

Weight, lbs. Brooklyn. Boston 62.21~~ 62.35* 87.12 68.84 9210 78.31 101.55 85.65 115 46 98.43 122.70 1Q6 00



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