CHASED CHURCHILL.

NZ Truth, Issue 151, 9 May 1908, Page 1

CHASED CHURCHILL.

A Brittimiagem Bounder Biffed.

The defat of that impudent young cock-sparrow of politics, Winston Churchill, is deplored by some of the "Liberal" journalists of this country as if it were a calamity. Particularly does it appear to be gall and wormwood to the alleged Freetraders m Australasia, for Winstan Churchill is declared to be one of the most "brilliant" of plutocratic Freetraders; and the cablegrams have made it perfectly clear that all the known Freetraders of Manchester voted for Winston Churchill. All sorts of reasons are trotted out why the man was defeated^ except the real ones, chief of which are that Churchill is now realised by his former constituents to be merely a sort of political Cheap Jack, inferior even to his allegedly "brilliant father, and that, moreover, England is, more cfuicki than usual, finding out the hypocrisy of its "great Liberal Party." * * . *, There are various reasons why Winston Churchill has been defeated, besides those that we have already mentioned. One of the chief of these is that the . English people will not submit; to* Puritanism; The Puritans had their opportunity m England. With the help of. better men than themselves, they established a Republic, which, however, as soon as they had increased their power, they transformed into a tyranny called a Protectorate, under the odious Cromwell, and so disgusted did Englishmen become with the despotism of Cromwell and his Puritan backers, that, as soon as possible after the death of Oliver Cromwell, they permitted tho son of the King \yfoom they had put to death to return to England, and to reign as King, m spite of the fact that his life was most dissolute, and his example opposed to everything that the Puritans held dear. » • * It is that latter-day form of Puritanism that we i» Australasia call Wowserism. , that is ' now ,the chief catise of the weakness of the British Government. The defeat of Winston Churchill vis but one indication of the revulsion of public feeling against the British Government, now that it is clear that a eang has got into power that does nothing for the improvement' of the social position of the people, but that is perfectly willing to do all m its Dower to please the noisy, clamorous Wowser element, wlfc.se strength and importance the Government of Great Britain has, like some of the Governments of Australasia, greatly overestimated. The British Government has among its own rri em hers a prominent Wowser, Lloyd George, <• who pratingly proclaims at. select, Wowser meetings that employer's of labor m the manufacturing districts have convinced him that theii:- workmen are a dissolute lot of fellows, who are too drunk, m . the . great majority of cases, to. put m an appearance at th*ir workshops on Monday morning. Australasia is not the ofoily country m which Tommy Taylors are to he found. ... . • * - For the purpose of pleasing the Wowser element m the community, the 'British Government has done a numibcr 'of things of late, that . have properly resulted m. its losing support aiid making dangerous and determined enemies. Furthermore, It was soon shown by Asquith that he was more inclined to. Puritanism than the dying man, Campbell-Bannerman, whoti) lie was superceding. It was under the Asquith regime that a Liquor Bill was introduced that was a transparent, piece of : ' petty tyranny, which could do no good, but would do much harm. The" beat-ties of this Bill were . thus commented upon by London "Justice" :■— The Bill is ■■■ confiscatory, hut the confiscation is ridiculous. Confiscation is only of benefit as long as it has an end m view, but when it is a purposeless and aimless niece ol bigotry, >it is productive of no "nod results. The present . P.lll oi> a par with the senseless 'K<v s> r ■<■ of the Strand li«fr/isi*s b - t iate L.C.C. for .vtfie. purpose of tt vi? them lapse. The consequences tlut . the Progressive -temperance oartv made inevitable will be re- . peaied hi. the present case. There- . jnaining publicans will have a greater ' jroonopolv than ever, and the confisca- ' Hon, instead of benefiting the public, will siiholv m the long run benefit that lection; of the 'trade which survives. r . . the decrease of public houses, w now nroposed, will mean that a large number of licensed victuallers, barmen, and barmaids will be sent to •wcli the ranks of the unemployed. The

object of those who suppqrt the Bill appears to be to degrade public-houses so that respectable men and women cannot- enter them without shame. All the restrictions they impose tend towards this conclusion. All : facilities lor wholesome amusement and comfort «* prohibited by theMicensing benches. Any attempt to provide music, and recreation is discouragedi and as a consequence great .drinkipaJaces are erected, where 'the 7sole •inducement Is to stand round; the' bar' and swill.> * ''»■.;..'*■ It is such jnarrow?mihded, Puritanical legislation*' as r that • described above that has ;l)een.- largely responsible for the defeat/ oi Winston Church-; ill. Not only was' there this outrageous and stupid Liquor Bill, /of the sort, as we can see, that is loved by Wowsers everywhere, but there was an Education Bill that . was bitterly resented by English Catholics, whether ol thb "Roman" or Anglican communion. Originally, the Govern-, ment introduceo the Bill _n a purely Wowseristdc form , there was, however, such an outcry from Anglicans that the Government backed down, but left Catholics of the "Roman" communion still determinedly hostile to the measure. There ;an be no doubt that Catholic hostility to the Government's Education Bill has had very perceptible effects on the voting at the recent, Manchester election. Redmond k s interference, and his" attempt to obtain the Irish vote for Winston Churchill, had no effect. Irishmen have no confidence m the Liberal Party, by which they have been so often deceived or dragooned and they could, not being asleep, see that, notwithstanding the perfervid protestations of Churchill that he was m favor of Home Rule, not a word of encouragement was received by him from the Prime Minister, and this was interpreted to mean that his Home Rule promises would not be honored by the Government. * 4 * Another thing that had much tc^do with the defeat of Churchill was the brutal treatment, of the suffragettes. This wretched Liberal Party allowed itself to be regarded by advocate? of the extension of the suffrage to, women as m favor of womanhood suffrage. Yet, when it got into power, it refused to do anything towaEus extending the suffrage to women, and, when the advocates of womanhood suffrage showed their keen disappointment at the fact that the proposal had been contemptuously jettisoned, when they went to political meetings and heckled' the Liberal speakers, they were violently and villainously handled by stalwart ruffians m the pay of the Liberal Party* who appeared to find a degraded, degenerate, morbid satisfaction m the body-to-body struggles m which they took part with women, who resisted as well as they were able the violence of the paid bullies -of Liberalism. * * .'■*.■ Not merely were the "suffragettes," as the women advocating, womanhood suffrage are called, violently ejected from meetings where they had asked questions, or interjected the words, "Votes for women." but they were set upon by the hired ruffians of the Liberal Party, and, m some, cases, rolled m the mud, or m other ways covered with filth. Even this was. not enough to satisfy the beastly, brutal bourgeois who are the leaders of the Liberal Party, for delicate, cultured women were seized and sent to prison, where they were, shut m a cell 23 hours out of every OM, and during the remaining hour, only permitted to march m a circle with prostitutes and pick-pockets. Such brutal treatment of women has properly made enemies for the Liberal Govertfment. The English are not the most -gallant people m the world (m sense of being polite to women), but thov do not relish women—especially such women as those leading the "suffragettes"— being beaten, battered, and befouled as if they were worse than dirty, dissolute, drunken/ drabs, harridan harlots mauled by yahoo-like male consorts. The effect of all this sort of . thing is that the "suffragettes" .succeeded m arousing the indignation of many electors, and that hundreds of votes of those whose blood boiled when they heard of the "Liberal" outrages on the "suffragettes" voted for the opponent of such "Liberalism." * * * The fact is, too, that Winston Churchill is only a "Brummagem bounder, quite worthy of kis associ-

ates, "Assassin" Asquith, "Butcher: Birrell, "Jack Brag" Burns, and the rest. A very .'few years ago, Winston Churchill— not even up to the standard of his parents, one of whom was a dissolute lord and the other the daughter of Yankee plutocrat— was posing as a sort of Tory-Democrat, like his father. When it became clear however, that because of "Judas Joe" Chamberlain's political villianies, the Liberals were going to win at the polls, Churchill 'declared himself a Liberal. Standing m the limelight as a member of the British Government, this fellow, who had x run away from the Boers, showed himself to be but a pinch-beck politician, with neither' principles nor policy. His defeat was richly deserved. It will do good. -The- Liberal Party m the House of Commons is too strong. A reduction of its strength, and an increase of the Tory Party, may result m the Laborites holding 'tne balance of power. If this should happen, there is reason to believe, that the Laborites would find the Tories even more "open to conviction" than, is that middle-class organised hypocrisy, called the Liberal Party.