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Show ANOTHER ERITI3H ELECTION SOON. Perhaps the English envy Americans the excitement of our frequent fre-quent elections. They elected a new parliament only a few months ago, but for some reason they don't seem to be satisfied with their j choice, and they want to try again. Neither the Liberals, who are j in, nor the Unionists, who are out. are contented with their cards, and each side evidently think3 it may gain by another deal. The j question of what to do with the house of lord3 has never been set- j tied, and as the lords themselves object to being abolished or even , reformed, Premier Asquith seems to think he will have to have a ! stronger house of commons before he can tackle them. A "constitu- ! tional conference" was recently held by the leaders on both sides, i with a view to reaching a truce, but nothing came of it except an agreement to disagree. Hence there is nothing left but a parlia-mentary parlia-mentary election, which will be held in a month or two. Both parties are resenting the strong hand which the Irish are playing. They always like to have the support of the Irish at election, but they don't like to yield anything in return for this support. Redmond and Dillon, the Irish leaders, have just returned from America with a nice pot of money to carry on the agitation for home rule, and this does not please the true English heart. A leading London paper condemns con-demns very strongly "the work of tearing down the British constitution constitu-tion with American money." To put the matter the other way round, how would Americans like to have campaign funds collected in England Eng-land used, for instance, to stir up sentiment for Philippine independence? |
