John Burns At Washington

Washington, Dec. 81. - John Burns, tho Knglish labor leader, lost no tiiuo in getting to work after kis arrival at Washington. Hu was taken in charge by James A. Power, organizer of the international Typographicul uuion, and with hls companion, .1. Williams Benn, M. P., begau an inspectian of the government printing office. Afterwartl he called upon Coramissioner of Labor Carroll D. Wright, aud before he had been in the city three hours had collected a box f uil of statistlcal works to be shipped to England. Concerning his observation6 Burns said: "I ara enamored of the principie of the goyernment doing its own work." When the attack ot Colonel Rend at Pittsburg was spoken of Burns said: "I came to America on the whole a sympathetlc and, 1 think, an unprejudiced observer of lts municipal and industrial Ufe. No American, 1 think, will say that a conunent so near the Old World that it can ensily absorb lts bad as woll as lts good influences will not shjw black spots. Fortunately I have on ray side the best critics of your municipal conditions - all of the newspapers, and every municipal reformer. ' 'My only critic in Pittsburg was ono man who carne to curse John Burns and went away to bless him. He euded his participation in that meeting by objecting to sessions in the city. and all on account of the deplorable influences in its procincts, a most striking conflrmation of my criticism. One swallow does not asummer; one howling voioe ia the wilderness does not discourage me." Ar the Burns meeting at uight, after the Britisher h;ul spoken, Jerry Simpson, 'm t short speech, told how Burns had made the "capitalistic press squirm" when he touched tho sore spots of our body jjoiitic, and oxpressed regret that the ïisitor eould "go back to Kngland and teil wlmt a Calíate American government had been" in securing their rights to the people.