The Aberystwith Observer

THE COMPENSATION CLAUSES. DEMONSTRATION IN HYDE-PARK. A demonstration of temperance and political asso- tiations against the compensation clauses in the Local Taxation Bill was held on Saturday afternoon In Hyde-park. The demonstrators were favoured with brilliant weather, and this unquestionably enhanced the success of the gathering from the point of view of numbers. The difficulty of moving large masses of people through the crowded thoroughfares of London on a week-day will account for the absence of seveial contingents until long after the hour agreed on for the speechmaking. At several platforms un- complimentary references were made to the police, and they were charged with unnecessarily blocking the progress of the procession at various points of the route. THE MARCH TO THE PARK. The march to the park was made in five separate divisions, viz., the East, West, North and North-East, South-East and South-West. The Western divisions marched to the park direct, entering mainly at the Marble Arch, the other sections were massed on the Embankment and went by way of Bridge-street, Birdcage-walk, Buckingham-palace-road, Grosvenor- place, and Hyde-park-corner. There was a great display of banners, in all about 400, and over 100 bands of music. Among the uniforms those of the Salvation Army, the Good Templars, and the Catholic contingent were the most prominent. The temper- ance societies and the political organisations brought their own flags, bearing their distinctive mottoes and devices, but many had been improvised, and on these the demonstrators had very forcibly expressed their sentiments towards the Government bill in such words as Compensation for Bung ? Decidedly not!" On a Scotch plaid banner, carried by the London Scots' temperance contingent, were" e words, We'll no grease the fat soo Another had the effigy of a gibbetted publican, and one scroll con- tained the lines, "Ritchie's pills will not digest. Lawson's and Caine's are the best. THE RESOLUTIONS. There were 16 platforms, and from each of these the following resolutions were moved: (1.) If That this meeting indignantly protests against the Govern- ment proposal to provide money from the public fands for the purchase of interests' in premises licensed for the sale of intoxicating liquors, Parlia- mentary enactments and the highest legal decisions having uniformly limited the privilege conferred by a license to the yearly term for which it is granted. And the meeting reprobates the attempt made by her Majesty's Ministers, unsanctioned by the electors, and in defiance of public opinion, to create a vested inte- rest in licenses, involving hundreds of millions of money, and thus to endow a class already dangerously rich and powerful at the cost of untold poverty and wretchedness of great masses of our fellow-country- men, and this meeting hereby adopts the following petition to Parliament, and requests the chairman to sign It on behalf of the meeting: To the Honourable the Commons of Great Britain and Ireland in Parlia- ment assembled,—The humble petition of inhabitants of London assembled at one of the meetings consti- tuting the aggregate demonstration in Hyde-park, Saturday, June 7, 1890, showeth: "That your petitioners view with intense disappointment the compensation clauses of the Local Taxation Bill. Your petitioners therefore pray your honourable House to exclude such clauses from the bill, and to enact a measure by which the inhabitants of localities would be enabled freely and directly to veto the issue or reissue of licenses within their respective districts, and your petitioners will ever pray. (2.) That this meeting strongly condemns the action of the Right Honourable Henry Matthews, Her Majesty's Secretary of State for the Home Department, in having in- structed the Metropolitan Police authorities to prevent the various processions to this demonstration traver- sing the ordinary thoroughfares of the metropolis, thus attempting to obstruct a peaceable demonstra- tion of public opinion, and causing needless irritation to great masses of law-abiding citizens." SIR WILFRID LAWSON'S PLATFORM. Sir Wilfrid Lawson, Bart., M.P., presided at No. 2 platform. A pood deal of speaking, he said, was not required, for if they looked around the park the sight was more eloquent than speech. He saw before him thousands and thousands of citizens of London, and he was reminded of the old saying, The voice of the people is the voice of God." That voice was never raised in a holier or better cause than to-day. (Cheers.) They were assembled not only to protect their property but their homes, and to secure, above all, that righteousness which ennobled a nation. They talked about fighting this Compensation Bill, but he honestly believed that the battle was half won already. (Cheers.) They had conquered all kinds of obstacles. They had been lectured by the Home Secretary—(hisses)—snubbed by the police authorities, boycotted by the railway companies- (" Shame! )-and cold-shouldered by the House of Commons, which they were foold enough to elect four years ago. (Hear, hear, and laughter.) Their pro- ceediags had also been ridiculed by the classes, but the masses were showing their powers. (Cheers.) They were declaring that the laws of this country should in future be for the good of the people, and not for the enrichment of the publicans. (Cheers.) The police authorities and the railway companies had done them good to-day, but not so much good as the great temperance reformer Mr. Goschen. (Cheers and laughter.) Mr. Goschen had in the last month done more for the overthrow of the liquor traffic than he and other temperance men bad accomplished all their lives, because Mr. Goschen had consolidated and hardened and strengthened the great army of those who were determined to put an end to the traffic. (Cheers.) The Government wanted to admit the principle that a man was to have some value in his license after that license had expired. It was a monstrous proposition. (Cheers.) It was the thin end of the wedge, and among poli- ticians there was no instrument so terrible and alarm- ing. (Laughter and cheers.) That morning he received a post-card which contained strong language, and concluded with the words, It is only people who are insane that consent to be governed by Law- son and Caine." (Much laughter.) That man did not know what he was writing about. They were not governed by Lawson and Caine, but by Mr. W. H. Smith, the great temperance reformer of the day. (Laughter.) As a proof ef the public feeling, 1317 petitions have been presented to the House of Commons against this bill,and one in favour. (Cheers.) Having regard to his utterances two years ago, if Mr. T. W. Russell supported the Government now he would have been an extraordinary man even for a Unionist. (Cheers and laughter.) But supposing the Government carried the clauses, the country would never be satisfied until it had destroyed what Lord Randolph Churchill called the devilish and destruc- tive liquor traffic. (Cheers.) Mr. P. McLagan, M.P., then moved, and Mr. J. Bryn Roberts, M.P., seconded the first resolution, It was supported by Mr. J. H. Raper and Mr. T. P. O'Connor, M P. The speakers complained of police obstruction. Mr O'Connor believed the people assembled to bury the compensation clauses. His blood boiled to find that demonstration obstructed and embarrassed — not openly, not with the courageous savagery of the baton-men of Ireland, but by dirty little tricks and devices. He asked himself whether the men of London were so dead to their traditions as not to be determined to change such a state of affairs. (Cheers.) For these clauses the Government had no mandate; but the people had the mandate of two years ago. The resolution having been carried, the second reselution was proposed by Mr. Harry Saunders, seconded by the Hon. Dadabhai Naraoji, and similarly adopted. THE MOST TEMPERATE SECTION. One of the last platforms to be occupied by speakers was o. 4, which was allotted more particularly to the temperance party. The chairman did not arrive till nearly half-past six, whilst the various teetot&l lodges, with their bands and banners, failed to put in an appearance till seven o'clock, although they left the Embankment at half-past four. Owing to the late arrival of the organised temperance contingent at No. 4 station, they were not present at the first part of the proceedings. Mr. Caine, M.P., presided, and amongst those present were Mr. Conybeare, M.P.. Dr. P. R. Lees, Mr. Joseph Malins, Mr. John Sutherland^ &c. The chairman, in opening the proceedings) observed in explanation of the great delay, that the police had been trying to conduct two traffics-the ordinary traffic and that of the procession-at the same time. Passing on, he observed that the proposals against which they had met to protest, did not defi- nitely profess to compensate publicans they were much more wily and insidious than that. They Propose to admit tha principle, and that having once been done, it would not be long before legislation followed. The Government said that they were justified in buying up these public-houses with the money of the taxpayers, because this particular tax Was raised from the liquor trade. But they, as total abstainers, did not admit for one moment that money raised from liquor was not wholly the property of the nation. We had to expend about 85 millions a year on the business of the country, which money was raised from various sources; all this money once raised went into a common purse and was the common property of the nation. The Government stated that the houses which they proposed to extinguish were those little bad public-houses, which did so much harm; but these were exactly the sort of houses which ought to be closed by the existing authorities without any com- pensation whatever. Therefore this proposal, on the avowed declaration of the Government itself, was to take money from the pockets of the taxpayer, and use that to remove from the liquor trade a number of pernicious blackguards, who never ought to have been in it. The money was not going to be used to extinguish the great gin palaces of London. The amount allowed to London would be sufficient only to close six of the large public-houses there out of the 8000 existing. They, the temperance reformers, were not going to be content with the closing of six public- houses out of 8000. (Cheers.) The whole bill was a sham and a fraud. If it were passed the general principle of compensation would be established, and every publican in the country would have a freehold interest in his public-house. When people talked about compensation they should make out their claim. The publican said he wanted compensation for his business, but he had only got permission to sell liquors for 12 months. He had a monopoly duriug that time, and if he made money out of such monopoly that was his compensation; and if he did not make money, how could he justify a claim for compensation. (Cheers.) Mr. Edward Short, bar- rister-at-law, moved the first resolution, as given above, and Mr. Conybeare, M.P., seconded it. He said that the publican was the last man in the world who would get anything out of the bill, it being the great brewers and distillers who would reap the benefit. Rather than put money into the pockets of these people he would compensate the widows and orphans who had been ruined by the drink traffic. The publican was merely a yearly tenant, and he was not entitled to anything more than a year's notice to quit. Licenses were now being withdrawn from objectionable public-houses by the magistrates, and he asked whether the taxpayers should be content to be robbed by a Government of jobbery in order that they might do work which was now being carried out with very little expense. (Cheers.) The resolu- tion was put to the meeting, and carried unanimously and with enthusiasm. MUNICIPAL REFORMERS. A very large and enthusiastic audience gathered at Platform No. 7, that of the London Municipal Reform League. Here Professor Stuart, M.P., presided, and in his opening speech said they were present to oppose the endowment of public-houses. (Cheers.) The Government were determined, he said. to carry the Compensation Bill through the House of Commons in spite of those demonstrations and all other expressions of public opinion, because they knew that in London and many parts of the country every public-house meant five votes to them. A public-house had no right to perpetuity of its license, and it would be a shameful thing to make it incumbent upon the licensing authority to compensate a public-house when that same authority said the public-house was unnecessary. The bill bad been introduced into the House of Commons in the most surreptitious manner, and it should be opposed by every possible means. Mr. A. Picton, M.P., then moved the first resolution, which was received with loud cheers. He said if Mr. Ritchie and Mr. Goschen wanted arguments against the bill for the endowment of put lie-houses he wished they had been present to-day. He believed that de- monstration would go far to kill the bill, which could not be carried against the overwhelming manifesta- tion of popular opinion expressed in the park that day. Never did he think he should live to see a British Government proposing to endow the Church of the Devil. (Hear, hear.) Mr. Atherley Jones, M.P., said if the bill were passed it would be a social disgrace and a national calamity. Mr. John Burns, L.C.C., who was loudly cheered on rising to support the motion, said the question was not one for the temperance party alone, nor was it a question of politics. AN INDICTMENT OF THE POLICE. Mr. Costelloe, L.C.C., presided at platform No. 13, where Sir Thomas Farrer and Mr. Causton had been announced to speak. The former, however, sent a letter apologising for his absence on the ground of indisposition, whilst the chairman explained that Mr. Causton, whom he had seen on the way, had evidently been prevented from reaching the platform on account of the density of the crowd. The ehairman in open- ing the proceedings complained that, owing to the action of the police, many of those who would have been in the park had been delayed in a most un- reasonable manner. The police had attempted to minimise the demonstration by breaking it up into sections, and sometimes the procession had been delayed for several minutes to allow a hamsom cab, and an empty lorry to pass. THE WOMEN'S DEMONSTRATION. Miss Jane Cobden presided at the Women's Liberal Association platform, at which the chief speakers were Dr. Kate Mitchell, Miss F. Balgarnie, the Countess Shack, Mrs. Costelloe, and Mrs. Jacob Bright. AMONG THE CROWD. An eye-witness of the opening of the demonstra- tion writes: At five o'clock Hyde-park-corner is thronged with a dense mass of vehicles and pedes- trians. The stone work at the corner of the park and the avenue beyond are packed with onlookers, worthy of the proletariat type. A few carriages are leaving the park, filled with elegantly dressed women, with gorgeous menials clad in all the colours of the rainbow seated on their boxes. A storm of chaff, provoked by the polychromatic glories of their costumes, rolls along the line, and is accepted by Jeames and Charles with a severity as im- pressive as that which marks the demeanour of the straddling, preposterous Achilles near at hand, or of the effigy of the Great Duke in the street out- side. Progress here is very slow, the carriages pro- ceeding at a foot pace, and the pedestrians dodging in and out among them with the quick action of so many dogs at a fair. The uniform of the metropolitan police is common, the civic soldiers seeming to make a good half of the crowd. Here and there a mounted constable, serene amid the riot, which is of a suffi- ciently good-natured kind. Presently the strains of a band dominates the charivari, and a part of the procession, doing its round through the park, heaves in sight, and slowly forces its way amid the packed mass of humanity at the end of Rotten-row, where a group of horsemen, with an occasional riding habit visible among them, are looking on at the scene. The procession is ragged as to its marching order, and dusty and perspiring. An occa- sional baldrick or uniform cap gives a touch of colour to the scene, and the banners were gaily overhead in the sunshine, amidst the fresh green of the park trees, deepening now in their summer tint. The band stick to their work like men,-though they are so closely jammed they can scarcely use their instruments, and the drummer, keeping a clear space about him by the free use of his sticks, is nobly conscientious. From the clearer space beyond, with the Serpentine glittering on the right, is visible a long strag- gling dark line on the opposite side of the park. thickening here and there to a dense knot about the stands of the speakers. More bunt- ing flames, varicoloured overhead, the Sons of Phoenix, the Sir Wilfrid Lawson Lodge, the Staunch and True, and their detestors of compensation, are here in force. Some of the banners are covered with com- bative announcements. "Burn the Compensation Bill" is the motto displayed on one, and below the inscription is a spirited representation of the bill hanging from a gallows, and being consumed by fire, a malignant plurality of punishment truly Inquisi- torial in its severity. Death to the Pot!" is the pro- clamation of another. We give no compensation to those who rob the working man of his money and his brains," says a third. Looking back over the open spaces of the park, one sees it thick with long, slanting lines of people, unanimously pressing on towards the central point of meeting. Here the ubiquitous Salva. tionists, male and female, conspicuous in red-ribboned caps and bonnets, are selling the War Cry. Itinerant merchants at the outskirts of the growing throng vaunt the quality of their nuts, oranges, whelks, cherries, sherbet, and hokey-pokey, creating a clamour like that of the parrot-house at the Zoo when the man with the seed and water is behind his time. Drum, trumpet, and fife resound from the four corners of the park as other bands arrive upon the scene, and still the long wavering lines of processionists and sight- seers stream as in banks and rivers of humanity. An hour later they are still passing steadily past the Achilles statue, and Grosvenor-gardens and the western end of Piccadilly for 50 yards past Park-lane are black with people.

DISORDERLY BCENE-GENERAL HAVBLOCK ALLAN MOBBED, One of the most exciting incidents of the day— an ex-officer of her Majesty's army, and a wearer of the Victoria Cross chased by an infuriated mob, the police using their batons on his pursuers-happened at the close of the proceedings, when the demonstrationists were leaving the park. Lieut-General Sir Henry Havelock-Allan, V.C., and member of Parliament for S. E. Durham, who had been watching the proceedings on horseback, by some means incurred the ill-will of a number of the people who were leaving by the Stanhope-gate, which opens into Park-lane. The gallant General, who was riding towards the gate, was loudly hooted and jeered at, but instead of allowing these surly manifestations to pass unheeded he laughed at the crowd and jeered at them in return. This was too much for the ordinary teetotaler. To jeer at a gentleman on horseback was one thing, but to be jeered at in return was more than the mildest mannered Good Templar or the meekest total prohibitionist that ever signed the pledge could stand. With one wild yell which would have struck Buffalo Bill's Indians green with envy, Good Templars, Sons of the Phoenix, "Band of Hopers," and non-compensationists" of every degree rushed at the General with the evident intention of pulling him off his horse and mal- treating him. The police managed to drive the people back, but not before General Havelock-Allan had had a most narrow escape, one man catching hold Gf his leg, and making a determined effort to un- seat him. Escorted by the police, the General reached Stanbope-gate, a sort of moving target all the while for small stones and clods of earth. On arriving at the gate two reserve sergeants of the T Division, No. 1 and No. 3, suggested to the General that they should close the gates and so secure his safe depar- ture, but it was hardly likely that the man who had won his V.C. in the face of scores of rebel Sepoys would beat an ignominious retreat because of the howls and pelting of a body of ill-tempered teetotalers. As events turned out, however, it would have been better if the police had closed the gate. Just before it was reached Sergeant T No. 3 saw a man in the act of throwing a clod of earth at the General, and promptly knocked him down. Once outside the gate and in Park-lane General Havelock-Allan pointed out a man to the police who he believed to be one of the individuals who had thrown at him. The individual bolted down the thoroughfare, followed by a number of constables with the yelling crowd at their heels. The man was at last caught, but there beicg some doubt as to whether he was really the offender, he was released after a short but angry altercation. This seemed to embolden the crowd, who renewed their threatening cries against General Havelock-Allan as the latter slowly walked his horse down the remaining portion of Park-lane as far as the fountain at the junction of Park-lane and Hamilton-place. There was a mounted constable riding alongside the General, but the other officers were on foot forming a sort of moving cordon across the road. Just before reaching the fountain the General, incensed no doubt at the taunts and jeers which had been levelled at him during the whole of tha journey down Park-laii6, made a contemptuous gesture to the crowd, who simply went for him. A rush was made to break through the ranks of the police, who were about 30 in number, for the most part belonging to the C division another moment and the General would have been lynched, but the police here draw their batons. A score of hard knocks were quickly and the crowd broke and fled, oniy to return the moment the constables put bad; their starse. They now hooted at the police as much as at the Centra!, arid the tumultuous gathering surged down Hamilton-place, Here a. man who, it was said, had been hooting was arrested. Immediately he saw th", police were after him be ran up the front-door steps of a house, but was promptly secured by two con- stables, and marched down into Piccadilly amidst loud cries of Rescue." The mob, however, contented themselves with shouting, the short but sharp taste of the batons which had been dealt out at the top of Hamilton-place keeping them at a respectful distance. A lady was rather seriously injured in the rush down Hamilton-place. She saw the crowd coming, and turned round to run away, but struck her head with great force against some ornamental stonework projecting from one of the houses and fell senseless to the ground. Luckily she fell close to the door of the house, and was picked up and taken inside just before being caught in the rush of the mob, when she must inevitably have been trampled to death. On getting into Piccadilly the police took their prisoner as far as Hyde-park-corner, where he was put into a cab and driven to Vine- street police-station, charged with disorderly conduct. The mob, now that the reason for shouting To the rescue!" but discreetly remaining in the rear, had vanished, redoubled their attentions to the General, who still quietly walked his horse along. Their demeanour was so threatening that Major Gilbert, who was in command of the police at this point, urged him to ride off, which he finally consented to do, and started off at a canter down St. George's-place, escorted by half a dozen mounted men. The crowd, or at least a large portion of them, however, were not to be shaken off by this manoeuvre, but followed the cavalcade, hooting and yelling as well as their scanty breath would permit. On reaching Albert-gate General Havelock-Allan re entered the park, and the police shut the gates on the mob. The General made a safe exit by leaving in the rear of the London Scottish Rifle Volunteers as the latter returned home to headquarters after their annual inspection in the park.

A PLAIN-SPEAKING PROFESSOR. GOETHE AND SHAKESPEARE. An address on Goethe, by the evergreen and eccentric Professor Blackie, brought together a good many members of the English Goethe Society at the rooms of the Royal Society of British Artists in London. The pi of essor first of all entered a humorous protest against the ase of the word address." He could preach a sermon, sing a song, or deliver a lecture, but give an address he could not; however, he would donis best, and if he bungled it would be their fault not his. Goethe had the advantage over Robbie Burns in being born of parents in a good position of life, neither too high nor low. LIKE MOST YOUNG MEN who did nut quite know what to do, he determined to devote his talents to the law. Again, like most young men, he soon fell in love. The learned pro- fessor would not give a rap for a young man who was not head over ears in love at 21. How much more a poet then. While in the household of the Duke of Weimar, Goethe became quite a courtier, in addition to his other accomplishments — a trial of good temper which was deserving of sincere admira- tion, for it was very difficult for an honest man—and Goethe was honest—to submit to the PETTY TRIVIALITY and laborious etiquette of Court life. In lyrical poetry, at any rate, there was no one to touch him, with the exception perhaps of Robbie Burns, and bis verses would be better reading for young ladies than the last sensational novel over which they yawned away so many valuable hours. At this point the pro- fessor began to recite a good deal of poetry in the Scotch dialect, which, he said, was music compared with the English tongue, and almost as sweet as Italian. Every Englishman who did not know Scotch was a fool, and a Scotchman ignorant of his own language was worse than a fool; he was a traitor and deserter of his country. Goethe's dramatic work bor 3 more resemblance in its beauty and chaeteness to the best plays of the Greeks than to the English drama, which the professor considered altogether too full of movement and change efscene to be called perfection, and Shakespeare was LIKE A LARGE FOREST, but Goethe was like a beautiful garden, and each was unsurpassable in his own department. Goethe resembled Shakespeare in equipoise of soul. They were both so great that they did not lose their balance as lesser giants were apt to do. Goethe had been before Darwin in discovering the principle of de- velopment," and he was greater than Darwin in that in his search after science he did not lose his humanity, and become a sort of worm in spectacles. He was a great critic also, which was more than could be said for the generality of poets. The poet bad been held up to reprobation for his supposed sensual habits. But he was not sensual. There were always people who made it their business to slander the great; whether it was a Goethe in Germany or Mr. Gladstone in England, it was just the same.

A DISGUSTED LAWYER. — What makes you look so disgusted, Sharp ? allied one young lawyer of another, the other day. Why, you know that old skinflint, Blunt, don't you?" The millionaire ? Yes." Well, he died yesterday, without making a will, and here are half the lawyers in town starving. His heirs will probably get eveiy farthing, the confounded old hunks!

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