" BRUTES OF THE JUNGLE.”

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3383, 25 November 1911, Page 4

" BRUTES OF THE JUNGLE.”

VIEW OF BRITISH LABOR MEN.

RECLAIMING SCHEME OF “ARISTOCRATIC PAPER.”

England’s tropical summer was rightly or wrongly -credited with having assisted to bring about the general labor unrest. It also, did other things; it produced a sort of mental volcanic eruption in Mr Andrew Jackson, of Park House, East Molesey, Surrey. One hundred degrees in the shade heated his imagination, and sent bubbling from his brain such a hot spring of invective ns would almost rival the “National Review.” Mr Jackson has sent round to leading city merchants a quaint letter, setting out a remedy for the present labor unrest :

We are face to face with commencement of a Red Terror likely to be pushed to the greatest extremes if not scotched at its source. My plans are already being discussed by certain noblemen and gentlemen, whose names will commend themselves to you. Celerity and discretion are what are now wanted. Let me have an appointment at your earliest convenience.

Accompanying the letter is a long “memorandum of a proposal to renew the organisation of the Conservative party and bring the principles and authority of the Conservatives and Constitutional policy before the workingclass electors of the kingdom, more particularly of Greater London.”

After an elaborate description of tho working classes as a “mob,” and “ignorant mass of people,” “human brutes, whose action are influenced not by consideration of law, order, reason, morality. and other of the higher civilising tendencies, but only by brute force and the satisfaction of brutal appetites and the material bodily needs of the moment,” Air. Jackson goes on to bludgeon the “agitators,” and puts this proposition:— “An aristocratic cheap press is the only possible means of supplying a corrective to this poison. No other means can reach the ears and homes of the mob.

“An aristocratic cheap press must supply news and information within the comprehension of the class it has to cater for; a class whose intellect is that of an undeveloped child, although its appetites and passions and power for mischief are not to he equalled by any full-grown brute in any part of the world.

“An aristocratic cheap press will find its only chance of acquiring a controlling influence to consist in being lucky enough to open up novel channels of news and information to arrest the attention and satisfy the curiosity of its brute readers, and also interest the female element of their livesfi which female influence is the* chief and often only distinction from brutes of the jungle that most of our working-classes can offer.”

Mr. Jackson is anxious to start his first aristocratic organ in London, and if he could manage to find time to be its editor there would be a great addition to the gaiety of the nations.