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Show : nc: i v i : ics a ny whre in the United i--,;rcs. Those who feared that the re-1 re-1 rent ; r-nae art ion miyht cause resent-.ai.-nt in British government circles will be reas'-ur.Ml by j-lonar Law's statement. ;Tho-.? who may have cherished t lie hope ! ! lint eml:irrasing complications would follow the senate pronunciamcnto, also will Vie disabused of that notion. The present situation cannot continue indefinitely, of course. Tho average l.'-riiUh parliament proceeds to reforms. I with stubborn progression, but the pro-jresiou pro-jresiou is there, just the same. "When : J lie proposal is seriously put forward j in parliament for a reconstruction of j poli: ical part ies, ono may be pretty sure i that the bulk of the British people are ! forcing the issue. And there are other problems besides the Irish question to help along the process of rebuilding tho T-'-ritish system from the bottom up. BRITISH POLITICS. British circles have been stirred by the proposal of Winston Churchill for the formation of a new political party which moderates of both Old conservatives conserva-tives and liberals shall be invited to join. The' result would be to wipe out Great Britain's historic parties and leave parliament to be dominated by the new party, or tho Labor party, with tails of unreconstructed tories or radicals on either side. The sensational proposal is seriously made and the London Lon-don press in particular is energetically considering the possibilities of such a political combination. Churchill points out. that as a result of the world war the empire has reached a pinnacle of success unprecedented unprece-dented in British history, all of which now is imperiled and may be lost within with-in the next ten years unless moderates of all parties combine to secure and protect it. With the questions of Ireland Ire-land 's future, labor, social unrest, and free trade or protection pressing for solution, it is regarded as certain that some reorganization of government soon will be necessary. One difficulty ill organizing a new political party would be the question of the status of the funds of the old parties which it is planned to wipe out. In addition to such occasional campaign subscriptions as are collected in the United States, British political parties have what might be called endowments, or invested invest-ed funds, which are supposed to be very large. The income is used to keep the party machinery in order between elections, elec-tions, as well as to supplement subscriptions sub-scriptions collected for specific campaigns. cam-paigns. The Irish question is up almost daily in both houses of parliament. "Within the next six months tho home rule bill now on the statute books will either have to be enforced or repealed; and it is certain that within the next few weeks a new bill giving some form of self-government to Ireland will be introduced in-troduced by the government. English public opinion is desperately in earnest in demanding that some form of solution solu-tion of the interminable Irish problem be adopted quickly and put into force. The irritation following the utterances of Sir Edward Carson is shared alike by all but the most extreme opponents of concessions in favor of the Irish people. peo-ple. Sir Edward is being castigated by newspapers of all shades of political opinion, his recent speech in which he attacked the prp-Irish agitatiou in the United States being regarded as tactless tact-less and mischievous. Carson's threat of armed Ulster resistance is a repetition repeti-tion of former radical utterances, but the government, far from being exercised exer-cised by Sir Edward's attitude, professes pro-fesses to see neither a challenge to combat nor an infraction of law which would render the fire-eating Ulsterite amenable to prosecution. An echo of the recent action of the senate of the United States in passing a resolution supporting Irish contentions, conten-tions, is found in the statement of Andrew An-drew Bonar Law, the government leader, lead-er, that the British government does not regard passage of that, resolution as calling for protest or other action. Mr. Bonar Law1 also gave it as the British Brit-ish government's view that agitation by persons or bodies in the United States in behalf of Ireland involved no contravention of the provisions of the covenant of the league of nations. In other words, the British government declines de-clines to become excited over pro-Trish |