Show STRUGGLE AGAINST THE LANDLORDS When Then Gladstone was to t o force torce his home rule nile bill through Parliament he the oppositIon of the House of Lords and the Grand Old Man Ian had under tiou the advisability ot of having more lords l created in ID order to outvote those O Used to home nIle Again the House of Lords Is IB In danger from sone such action ns as the members of that body b by preparing to nullity nullify any ln measure passed by the Commons for tor forthe the greater grenter taxation or of land lIld values In Great Britain has aroused much In indignation A brief of the tho present i gb Is given ion b by the Los Angeles Times The British budget which Is now under consideration by the House of Commons will contain certain clauses clauseR imposing a tax on the Increment of land values Jt It Is well known to those who have paid attention to the subject that the single tax has hils made more progress among the i people of Great Britain than else elsewhere where doubtless from the net fact that the tho ratio of landowners to the tho total population Is smaller there than thau In Inmost inmost most other advanced countries and that until within recent years they tIle have dominated both houses of Par Pai ParlIament As a result In mud d has hag ale al always ways been favored lu In taxation at the expense of other property T The IO u ii fusion or of Into the House of Commons has ha now become so 80 great and the support of oC the radi radicals cals Is ir so 50 esSential to the Ministry that the Liberal has ventured to propose the taxation of land values alucs flie present proposition Is only au an opening g wedge It proposes m merely to place pined n a sp cial Lax OU on such KliCh outs of land values alues as can he shown to have hac accrued ane and another It Is a ver very mild form or of taxation of ian values aIU s but any anyone ono one can see where It Is likely to Ond While the budget has not ot oi pas passed ed edthe the Commons these clauses have been agreed to and IL Is not doubted that the bill will go EO to the tho House of Lords with that feature In It It will probably not noL find n a single friend i In that bod body although It will have havo to tobe tobe be supported hj by such members of the lords as are arn But while the nilI i bo be al almost 1 most mORt unanimously 3 Pr p 1 to t b mk Tit T it little less than to the House ot of Lords to propose any amend ameDd amendment I ment to 1 a money moner bill The lords lord I hn have 0 the legal power to re reJect reject or amend a moD bill oven cen though p to the unwritten tho ment rb Y cnn If the choose roo ro the bill In which caso the tho Corn Com Commons mona mons could do nothing but pass some somo other othor bill for carrying on the Govern pending the l ot of Pa and aud an n appeal to tho un r ron on Issue of taxation or of lat land d values Should the verdict be against against such I taxation the would resign and the crisis would be over oe tor the time limo being If however as Is freely predicted the Ministry should be sustained a anew anew new bill wIth the tho same or oca moro more radical provisions would be sent up I Ito to the lords who would have hao eIther to accept It or face an agitation for radical chan changes es In their powers or composItion Or both LegallY the powers of the tho House HouBe of Lords cannot be changed without Its consent but It may be b assumed that In the end coil cou sent would b given to the execution ot the popular will lest lesl ct way be found to the attainment of oC that end b by extra legal lebal process |