Show TARIFF CUTS A FIGURE The election returns Britain are not so surprising when all the facts are taken Into consideration While Parliament was dissolved be because because cause the peers declined to pass the budget presented for their approval by I Chancellor and the Lib Liberals Liberals appealed to the country with the emasculation of the tho house of at lords as asa asa a war cry the protection Issue has not been lost to sight The British people have Noted the wonderful strides taken by tie United States under the protective pro system They have also ob observed observed served the Increased commercial Im Importance importance of Germany with similar laws lawsIn In effect Year by year they have seen supremacy sUpping slipping away from them It ls is a condition and not a theory which confronts them How are they the to re regain regain gain lost prestige The result resul of the elections so far as they have pro progressed gressed show that many ot of them have adopted the conclusions of Joseph Chamberlain and voted for a pro protective protective tariff EvIdently the days of the Cobden club are n numbered A coa coalition coalition ot of Liberals Laborites and Irish Nationalists will doubtless control the next Parliament which may be short lived In consequence With the tho question of at curtailment of the veto power of the lords out of the way the next cam campaIgn campaign over there Is almost sure sure to be fought upon the tariff Issue The pro protection protection sentiment has been growing In England for tor a score of years The peo people people have had free trade ever since the repeal of the corn laws and they can cannot cannot not be blamed it If they have grown tired of It British politics will be exceed exceedIngly exceedIngly interesting to Americans In the coming months |