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Show BY ALBERT HEDGES. . I Special CabUwnm to The Tribune. LONDON. July SO.Thc practical triumph tri-umph of ft Socialist in the hotly con-- con-- tested election in the division ol .Jar-row, .Jar-row, where the Irish Nationalists presented pre-sented a candidate for the avowed purpose pur-pose of worrying the English Liberals, l,:.s only accentuated the break which has occurred between the Cninplu'll-Bannormnu Cninplu'll-Bannormnu government and his Irish supporters. Everybody nPI,c'" ,l0T ' wondering what will, happen next. I t Irish are, of course, indignant ocr t he failure of their dreams in nUion With homo rule, tho Irish f"'1 utterly repudiating the ha f hoa rtc 1, I half-way measures proposed by uic present Liberal government. Though in reality opposing e.uuli-dales e.uuli-dales were nominated by the Irish ss.i-tionnlists ss.i-tionnlists and tho Labontes in the i)e-election i)e-election of .1 arrow, the Socialist La bo r-itc r-itc triuni"hsng over tho Liberal, Hie Unionist and Nationalist nominees, it is now being suggested that the lnsli Nationalists really placed their candidate candi-date in the licld for tho purpose not only of defeating the Liberal, but also for tho purpose of aiding in the election elec-tion of the Soriulisl-Labonto candidate. candi-date. Uv many this is regarded as lore-shadowing lore-shadowing a practical union between tho Irish Nationalists, the Labontes, the Socialists and the disaffected elements ele-ments in tho United Kingdom. In a singlo general election it is figured Uic combination, by ignoring not only the Conservatives and Unionists, but the Liberals as well, could iiialce as much headway as the Socialists have made in Germany during the past ten years, aiid it is argued that tho radicals of tho radicals and the home rulers could in this wav eventually win control of the cmpiro.' For many years there has cx- Iisted a strong svmpntny between me Irish Nationalists and the workingmen of England. Scotland and Wales, and onco in control of Parliament, with a mandate from tho people, it is argued that such a combination which would utterly ignore the two great historic parties of the empire the logical successors suc-cessors of the Whia and Tones and tho new party would make short work not only of tho Irish question, by passing pass-ing a satisfactory home rule measure, but would also make short work of the House of Lords which today is supposed sup-posed to stand us the embodiment of everything that pertains to privilege and vcslod intorosts. With all of theso conditions confront-in" confront-in" the present Liberal trovernmcnt. the London Times, "Tho Thunderer," which is supposed to be a part of the real government of Kngland, not the party government, but tho real government, govern-ment, just as tho Bank of England is also supposed to bo a part of "tho powers that be." comes out with a loader practically laughing at Camp-boll-Bnnncnnan and his supportors. Says the Times: The Government carried their resolution resolu-tion for the House of Lords to the position posi-tion of a ilcbatliu; society by a majority of 285. They have won this s'reat victory, " I as we are toM It Is, for tho people, ami - 1 now the people will look with curiosity to sec what they will do with It. That is manifestly the touchstone of their sincerity. sin-cerity. If they believe that the House of Lords is tho upas tree they proclaim it to be. listing Its dendly blight over all tho wholesome aspirations of the democracy de-mocracy and the bonofiecnt activities of the Commons, their duty and their interests inter-ests arc clear. Uoth dictate to them the necessity offending it or mending it without with-out delay. They can no longer sufrer tho obstacle to the public good which Mr. Churchill and Mr. Lloyd-Gcorge have denounced de-nounced with such robustiious rhetoric to cumber the ground at least its existing unpruncd luxuriance. They have no mind for Mr. Henderson's proposal. It savored too much of "thorough," and led Mr. Madden to declare that ho approves or a second chamber. But haying discarded the abolition of tho House of Lords for ihe present, they are '"wich"'' froin the military operations u Churchill hns doner bed wl 1 1 huc Thoy have opened, be fynl, bc thought of a great siege " mi whi trcnc,cs of them if they sll down JV,1 throwing a and content therriHOlveB jvl m JJ duatV few empty shellu to ra sc s i HhroWa-Tho HhroWa-Tho people who , have . T' cniy ,e nes and plenty of "Yimii of this kind-"low kind-"low to Interpret we rnlloi l,mt Slv They will in.V a id W oat Henri" Campbell !n,mcr" tn advance are cither unwilling or ao J" Vor their ami really will have oo.i e excuse for opinion. TI',"'XV.v'omc of tho and very lo'ul'vM lis liavo not fallen, performoishut the wl,f1"" 0lhcy would Nobody ever cxpcclcd tlm vc aftCr rail If the army remains imi. t, Sverlng this J&iA Vcl7 effects upon Us If"uhnt S(:ern that elusion to wblcl J he G m ' WJlc SVV"io,s victory London has an educational "ovy. M'l.o Tiv school sub-committee of the cd-'atit,Som cd-'atit,Som nitteo of Ihe on year on a argor scale. I' or tho prcst thov h' vc decided to accept the oficr ot ? committee of the Royal Arsenal Co-operative society (limited) o J use of the society's woods and rrcl ion grounds at Bostall, Plums ca.l fo the purpose of aa experiment with such MoT. The day schools u'com,n. t-tce t-tce further reported that Mr. Lnicsc Gray aid the assistant educational au-viscV au-viscV had visited the woods ami grounds, which wore about twenty, icrcs in extent, beautifully wooded, and sit ualed on a slope, and that one hundred children could easily be accommodate the spot, being mi idea! one for the out ofdoor education of children. During a discussion in the Westminster Westmin-ster city council the other day, on the proposal of the London county council to widen the Strand at the corner of Agar street and King William stnvl. Mr. Abadv said that the cost worked out to $6,'l 00,000 per acre. The council decided not to contribute anything to the improvement unless tho corner was rounded off. This -.ras not shown on tho county council plan, and unless such o course is adopted, the Westminster council considor that very little rebel will be afforded lo the trafhc at that spot. But it was commented upon at the time, that the real estate at the price quoted was as expensive as any in tho whole world. Lady TTenrv Somerset, whose campaigns cam-paigns against intemperance made her famous on two continents, hns a "a in aroused considerable discussion throughout through-out England by her declaration that most of tho cottages which one bcos nloiiT the countryside arc merely "wlntcd scpulchcrs" and that thoir insanitary conditions often drivo their inhabitants to drink. This time, however, how-ever, Lady Henry Somerset ha3 tho advantage ad-vantage of being ablo to quote from the investigations of Miss Constance Cochrano, and her report to the National Na-tional Housing Reform association, after af-ter making a special study of tho homes of the agricultural poor. I have seen, says Miss Cochrano. men. women and children living in houses without a water supply anywhere near or with only polluted supplies quite unfit to drink. I have scon leaking roofs, floors and walls saturated with damp pupers and carpoLs peeling and mildewed, storm water (lowing through living rooms, bedrooms bed-rooms small, close, crowded and with tiny windows nearly on the floor level: larders lar-ders merely dark cupboards opening Into living rooms; rotten floors incapable of supporting beds; windows that do not open; wide crevices round badly-fitting outer doors; broken and unoven brick floors, and many other discomforts such as no coppers or cupboards, and thick mud up to and around tho houses. |
