Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1894 — JOHN BURNS. [ARTICLE]

JOHN BURNS.

Pen Picture of England's Great Labor Leader by Justin McCarthy. The mest conspicuous man among the newer members of the Labor party in the British House of Commons is John Burns, writes Justin McCarthy, M. P. He has about him the charm of a strong, self-reliant manhood—he is above all things a man. You can see this in hi 9 dark, soft, gleaming eyes. They are eyes which invite confidence. John Burns is a working engineer who has led a toiler's life, afloat and ashore and under various conditions. He has worked along those mysterious African rivers which are associated in the minds of most of us with the explorings of Stanley and of Emin Pasha. He has worked in London sheds and yards. He is a fine and powerful speaker, and can control a vast meeting of workingmen with irresistible force. He is a great democratic influence, and political parties and social organizations can hardly reckon without him. He seldom &peaks in the House of Commons, but when he does speak he speaks well and goes straight to the point. He never speaks but on some subject which he thoroughly understands and about which he has something important and direct to say. He has a fine and even thrilling voice, and one always feels that some day when his time comes and his own question is uppermost he will make a great speech.