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HISTORY'S MOST SUCCESSFUL FAILURE

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EMOCRACY on the Continent, was growing among ment was almost wholly leader- barricaded; civil servants armed. the British industrial workers, less, broken and disorgnised. The Chartists had arranged to- defensive, as we see and in many districts men were O'Connor directed the remn- assemble on the Common and to it to-day, seems a far reported to be arming and ants of the movement from march thence to Westminster. cry from the time when men drilling. The Government be gaol and he was able to gain The Government proposed to claiming equal rights in gan to organise forces to resist complete control on his release. stop them by holding the

.bridges. citizenship were attacking Insurrection. the strongholds of privilege. there was launched in Britain amont of the Charter petition.

Moderates ruled the Conven-

Yet one hundred years ago tion until the rejection by Parli

British democracy,

But the demonstration proved O'Connor's a flasco, not more than 50,000- leadership Chartism turned up, no attempt was made

UNDER

was.

a movement which in a few Then the "physical force" men reached the crest of its strength, to force the bridges, and the years gripped the nation, struck gained control. Orders for a and in 1842 three and a half great national ̈ ̈ ̈petition terror in the heart of reaction, general strike were issued amid million signatures the popula igonminiously delivered by cabl and laid the foundations of great excitement and then were tion was then 18,000,000 were It was found to bear only two

cancelled when it was realised obained to a now petition. But million names. that no proper preparations had this suffered the same fate an O'Connor lost his hold and his On that day William Lovett, been made,

the first. A new wave of strikes mind. (He became insane in founder of the London Working The Convention went on talk- swept the country in answer to 1862 and died three years later.) Men's Association, published ing of means of coercing the wage cuts during a period of Desperate efforts were made to the "People's Charter," which Government, including a run on trade depression, but O'Connor keep Chartism alive, but it was became the basis of Chartism, the banks, until the militants, failed to develop it into a gon- dead by 1858. the revolutionary democratic despairing of any real action eral strike, and so the second Why did it fall? It repre- agitation which swept all and still toying with the idea of phase of Chartism ended in de Bented the challenge of a work- almost as. suddenly as it arose. Newport (Mon.) rising.

ing-class, politically immature, Britain before it faded away insurrection, decided upon the feat.

Chartlam flared up once more uneducated and ill-equipped, to The capture of the town and in 1847 with the election of a dominant economic power, the release of Henry Vincent, O'Connor as M.P. for Notting strongly entrenched and well leading Chartist orator, who ham. Again the movement cen- on its way to unparalleled Im- was in Monmouth Castle, was to tred on a petition, and this time perial expansion.

Six demands comprised Charter:

Equal electoral areas; Universal suffrage;

Payment of M.P.8;

Vote by ballot;

the

Abolition of property quali-

fications; and

Annual Parliaments.

All but the last are now ac-

be the signal for general insur- O'Connor claimed to have six rection.

million signatures.

A mighty demonstration was planned on Kennington Common

IT was, too, one of the

The

carliest manifesta- THE attack was to have for April 10, 1848, and it was tions of class struggle which, been made by three intended that half a million men contrary to what some politi- cepted facts, but in those times columns on November 4, 1839, should march to Parliament to cians would have us believe, was of extreme misery and degra- but owing to mismanagement present the petition.

a native British product. dation of the workers, particu- these failed to unite and the The Government, by this time Its lessona live on. larly among the factory opera- assault was carried out by only thoroughly alarmed for the Chartists, hampered themselves tives, colliera and handloom 3,000 men armed with rifles tide of revolution was running by the lack of political theory, workers of the Midlands and the and colliers' picks. Warned of high on the Continent-placed produced the seeds which the North, these few demands cap- their approach a small party of the Duke of Wellington in genius of Marx and Engels was tured the imagination of the soldiers were lying in wait and charge of military measures to to develop into the theoretical people.

easily dispersed them with rifle prevent insurrection. Two hun- basis of modern revolutionary fire and within a few minutes dred thousand special constables Socialism. the insurrectionists were flying were enrolled. to the hills.

Troops and artillery were CHARTISM arose after Savage prosections followed, placed at strategic points all the defeat of the scores were transported, and by over central London; Govern- early Trade Union movement the middle of 1840 the move- ment offices and banks were in the 1830's, when a small group of London men formed, the Working Men's Association, all the forces in that age of which set to building unity of

revolt upon the programme of the Charter.

H

Lawrence H.

Kirwan

The Moan of the Pessimist

4

The mood is as old as mon.

more

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FEW days ago I was chatting to expect Noah told his sons with a heaven, we were all going directio These workers sent out "mis-A an old-timer who could see no sigh that they were living in de other way-in short, the period jas sionaries" all over Britain, and thing good in the present. Every generate days. The Romans must so far le present period." armed insurrection was freely thing that was beautiful belonged to have sorrowed for the age when the

the "dear dead days." Football was mightly Caesar led his victorious A Wonderful World advocated, 80 keen was the

no longer what it used to be. What legions to the ends of the known demand-for-democratic repre- have wow has-beens? The modern tury Oliver Goldsmith is lamenting things were never so bad they There is every reason to leve have we to-day to compare with the world. Even in the eighteenth cen- sentation,

a wash-out. But there are other influences

music-holi

Not a the sad decline of all things human. are now. Just as surely thin were the Rapidly becoming the most decent artist since Paul Langtry and "I fares the land, to hastening is never so good. It dependa besides that of Hebraism that popular leader was one Feargus Little Tich were on the boards. As

a prey;

point of view. Europe was er so for modern politicians, the less said future of the O'Connor, former Irish M.P., about them the better. Modern life

Where wealth accumulates and distracted, the crisis that eatens endanger the

- men deeny."

our civilisation was never

sinis- totalitarian self-sufficient State. demagogue who rarely made a was as stupid and insipid as post-

Edmund Burke, at the close of this ter, and taxation was neveso in- speech without calling for war whisky.

same century and

tolerable. But as certainican we when Madame assert that Chief among these is the Chris-revolution.

We are liv in a I am not given. much to flat con- Guillotine was being sated with the

was wonderful age. Possibly he most tian Faith, partly because of its

tradiction. I prefer to be a good blood of French aristocrats, First step in the Chartist listener. Obviously to my mind the boring the House of Commons to interesting this world h known. The conditions of life tothe mass claim on its members for a campaign was the setting up by poor fellow had grown sentimental tears with a dismal dirge, "The of the loyalty to another God than the disfranchised of a people's with the advance of years. He was age of chivalry is gone, and the of the population are infrly brigh Caesar, and partly because ite parliament called the Nationalving in the past. He had come to Dower Europe is perished forever." ter, more decent, more sible than

that stage when one can think It is the swan song of the choleric they used to be. There a

kindly and tolerant apiramong us, Convention, which sat as a rival nothing but the glory that is gone, and the despairing.

and the minds of men for from moral doctrines encourage to the House of Commons and Those happy times that shimmered "We have been going to the dogs bent on helping and insing and

light of sense of the dignity of man and presented

romantic golden a petition, bearing in the million

haze were full of peace and quiet ever since the race began. In the lifting up the souls bodies of signatures, of a universal human brother-one

opening paragraph of 'A Tale of Two those who have falleny the way. de- and wholesome labour, its miseries Cities Dickens sums up the position side. manding of that august 15- and cruelties were forgatten, and hood quite incompatible with sembly all six points of the the ills of the present and become admirably. It was the best of times, Compare the mordstandard of

it was the worst of times...... the Nazi

It was our day with that of century ago, dogma of race Charter.

a source of griet, as though they the age of foolishness, it was the and you will find it hazingly high superiority. Quite

were newly arisen and freshly en epoch of belief... It was the spring and uncommonly so. How many logically therefore the Leader, to whom by delegates elected at vast

The Convention was attended gendered.

of hope, it was the winter of de- hospitals and infirmies are caring I'spair... we are all going direct to for the sick? How any homes are Democracy and the League of torchlight meetings held all

making more comtable the aged? Think of the che the modern Nations and other kindred con- over the country, and first ant

child is receiving Think of the captions born and bred in Chris on February 4, 1839, at the GRIN AND BEAR IT

constant outflow of oney for charit- tian ideology arc anathema. British Hotel, Cockapur Street,

able purposes week's good cause never fail elicit a vast must attack them at their Charing Cross. The spirit of

amount of symp fountain head. The surprises revolt, already in action on the are (a) that the Nazi rulers have sufficient superfluous working out, the entire elimina- vitality to launch and continue tion of Roman Catholic teaching the assault, and (b) that even and influence from the school a people so disciplined and syatem throughout Austria. idealistic as the Germans do not.

The struggle will be long and revolt.

bitter, for Roman Catholicism is! The campaign opened at the in its aphere as determinedly very beginning of the Nazi totalitarian as Naziism itself, regime, and in Germany proper, and, under the recent Dollfuss- the pre-Anschluss Germany, has | Schuschnigg regime it wielded a

considerable developed very specially perhaps fairly

political against the

and power in Austria. The Baue Evangelical Churches. Now it seems to depend on the extent has been extended to Austria. to which the Roman Catholic There the enemy is Roman population (nominally at least a Catholicism, and its stronghold vast, majority) are prepared to in the School. First steps have fight, or compromise, or në- already been taken. The nuns quiesce. Thrce possibilities are have been banished from the mentioned. Some doubtless will| Kindergartens in Vienna, in-support the Pope and Cardinal cidentally also from the Hoa- Innitzer through thick and thin

Protestant

pitals and their places an] and, judging from recent utter- supervisors —or nurses—have, ances, both are likely to assort been taken by Nazi Iny ap- the authority of the Vatican. pointees. This is, however, only | Some scom anxioug to find a via preliminary. Plans have been media. Many-how many it is published, which contemplate in impossible to say arg Nati their gradual but complete first, and Catholle only secondly.

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