Show THE THE TE FATE OF Those esteemed Republicans who mask their friendship tar for or the trusts be bind a stupid complacency which they call standing pat ought to stud study care carefully fully the returns re ns from the recent Eng English lish elections for tor parliament The Tho one Issue of the tho campaign was the fiscal Whether England should adopt a protective tariff policy dis disguised disguised guised In the of colonial c preference or whether it should hold holdfast holdfast holdfast fast to the free loaf Mr Balfour the retiring premier shifted and straddled and tried l to 00 bring In home rule as a diversion Mr Chamberlain was outspokenly In favor of his pet protective theory Balfour contest and was W S beaten In his own Chamberlain alone of his lead leaders lea leaders I ers erSt was elected by his tremendous per personal personal personal popularity in Birmingham The unionists as a party p were so complete completely ly defeated that there can be no ques question question quei tion as to the verdict of the he people p The liberals in spite of some defections were returned with an over overwhelming whelming majority practically large enough to make mke them Independent of ol any coalition if it they wish to go it alone The gist gt of the result resul from the American standpoint is the fate tate of the Balfour Pointing to their victorious career through a 8 long term I of parliamentary control they declared the country had fared pared well enough that the liberals were un unworthy worthy wo thY of imperial office and that there was no no occasion for a change For fully tully two years before he resigned Mr Balfour had defied popular demands for fora a definite policy on an the fiscal question and he had no reply for the taunts of the opposition who demanded some something thins thing more than a govern government government government ment In his Indifference to the peo pee peoples peoples ples pies opinions he was if anything more contemptuous than the worst o othe of the hidebound protectionists in con congress congress congress gress who resist any call for a s revision of ot the trusts tariff So far the American people have hav been like the English fairly submissive submissive sive under trust control of ot the tariff tari situation but recent events have shown a degree ol ot restiveness that bodes ill III for the When conservative conse old Massachusetts the home borne of the tariff be begins begins gins to fidget and squirm over tariff tari injustice tice it Is about time for the Re Republican Republican publican national leaders to sit up and take notice When Iowa Republicans make a respectable showing of ot revolt against the DIngley schedules some something something something thing Is wrong with their party policy and when all over the country the jim im impression gains gams strength that the tariff Is being maintained not in the inter interest interest interest est of ot the people but for the special benefit of trust Interests the policy is in a fair way to meet its doom In view of the fact tact that a congress congressional congressional ional lonal election is looming up In the near ne r future the Republicans may find food i for tor thought In the fate fue of their proto prototypes prototypes types the of the Balfour regime The time has gone by for tor In Indifference Indifference difference or contemptuous dismissal of popular demands for tariff reform if the Republicans will not act the th peo people pie will willand and that tha right i ht shortly |