My story . Paul, but he was cheerful andenthusiastic over the evidence he witnessed on every handhere of the progress of the ideas and the policy he himselfhad done so much to promote in the United States. On April twenty-seventh, the night the vote on theBudget was taken, a dinner was given to Mr. Johnson atthe House of Parliament. He tells about this dinner in aspeech in New York a month later, but fails to mentionwhat an English correspondent tells us that on this oc-casion all factions and conflicting opinions were harmon-ized, Mr. Johnson being the reconciling spirit. JosiahWedgewood, M.
My story . Paul, but he was cheerful andenthusiastic over the evidence he witnessed on every handhere of the progress of the ideas and the policy he himselfhad done so much to promote in the United States. On April twenty-seventh, the night the vote on theBudget was taken, a dinner was given to Mr. Johnson atthe House of Parliament. He tells about this dinner in aspeech in New York a month later, but fails to mentionwhat an English correspondent tells us that on this oc-casion all factions and conflicting opinions were harmon-ized, Mr. Johnson being the reconciling spirit. JosiahWedgewood, M. P., presided, and speeches were madeby Redmond, the hero of the Budget fight, Keir Hardie,T. P. OConnor, Charles Trevelyan and Joseph Johnsons own speech was of the things nearest hisheart. He talked but little of his work m Cleveland,dwelling rather on the outlook for the final triumph oftruth and justice, and expressing his own profound faithin democracy. On the thirtieth of April he departed for. * BLESSED THE LAND 299 America, leaving behind him many new friends and abroadening of spirit to the single tax movement in Eng-land. Mr. Johnson returned to New York on the Mauretania,arriving May 5. That he had benefited by his six weeksholiday was with him a hope rather than a belief, but hewas full of enthusiasm for the peoples cause. A po-litical revolution is going on all over the world, he said, and the next fifteen years are going to show greatprogress. Td like to live to see it and I almost think Ihave an even chance. For months a self-constituted committee composed ofAugust Lewis, Bolton Hall, Joseph Pels, Lincoln Stef-fens, Frederic C. Howe and Daniel Kiefer, representingthousands of Mr. Johnsons friends, had been importuninghim to permit a demonstration in his honor. They nowrefused to be put off longer and Mr. Johnson gave a re-luctant consent to the public reception and dinner whichtook place at the Hotel Astor in New York City, the even-ing of May 31, 1910. T
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