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Show If it be true that Edward VII of England is showing a disposition to name his own cabinet ministers and press his prerogative to make his a more personal rule, he is turning into a dangerous danger-ous path. The men of England are most loyal, but they are descendants of those old barons who gathered around the sullen John and wrung from him the great charter, and there is" one thing that Englishmen love better than their sovereign. That one thing is constitutional freedom. Of that they are most jealous and the King of Great Britain Brit-ain should never risk awakening even a suspicion that he has a disposition to trench upon that liberty. lib-erty. His throne would be in danger in a moment. mo-ment. He cannot successfully imitate his German Ger-man nephew. The constitution of Great Britain is unwritten, but it is all the same inviolable, and that fixes the Government in the hands of the people, and it would require a greater man than Albert Edward to Inpinge upon it. |