Abstract

Issues and Men

The article focuses on the "London Times," the most famous and most distinguished journal in the world. Regarding its one-hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary, the journal has published a volume called "The Thunderer in the Making, 1785-1841," which has recently been brilliantly reviewed in the London New Statesman and Nation. The "Thunderer" has been a class organ of the Conservatives, but few realize what the reviewer brings out, that there have been times when it has worked hard for democratic reforms, for its own purposes of course. For years the Times fought with radicals and workingmen for parliamentary reform, not because it was desirous of lodging the balance of power in the hands of the working classes, but because the men who controlled it knew "what interests they represented and who the real masters of England were to be," namely, the elements whose welfare was bound up with the commercial system.