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Show Nnd that between those two cousin f Ue" the fate of l ho two greatest nn- tlons of Europe. I 6e BRITISH CRISIS XXX HIS MAJESTY, KING GEORGE. I By FREDERIO J. HASKIN. Even the Irish, as long as they remain re-main In Ireland, forget the sufferings or 750 years of cruel oppression and s nd messages of devotion and loyalty to the new sovereign. The Hindu revolutionists, too often maligned as ns aunrchlsts. wnen King FSdwsrd diet!, gathered in state to express In cereuioulal solemnity the sorrow of the 300.urifi.onrt subjects of the Kaiser-l-Hlnd. There may be bitter politics, and even bloody loleuco In protest against the constituted British government, gov-ernment, but there Is nothing but love and loyalty for the English king. And the man who has come to occupy oc-cupy this, the greatest throne In all the history of monarchy; the man who has come to rule over this, the greatest empire ever acknowledged by man; the man who now receives the . homage of this world-wide and magnificent mag-nificent loyalty, Is a man about whom onlv three things nro certainly known be is one of the Fix best shots In England, he Is one of the greatest postage stamp collectors In the world, and he suffers with dyspepsia. There Is a general custom among kings which decrees that toe crown prince opposes always the political views of his father. Queen Victoria was popularly believed to be a Tory, Edward was a Liberal. George, by the same token, is presumed to he a LONDON. Aug. 3 His most excellent excel-lent luaJeBty, George the Fifth, by the grace of God of I he United Klng-' Klng-' dom of Great Britain and Ireland. and of the British dominions beyond ; the seas, king, defender of the faith. !, emperor of India, will receive the ' British crown from the archbishop of j Canterbury In Westminster abbey one ' dav next June. This man. of whom the world knows nothing, actually became be-came king that, night last May when his father died. For eighteen years England and the English knew that this young man some day would be j I ailed uppn to reign over the vast ( I dominions of the British empire, com- ; 1 prising one-fifth of the world's terrl- j J lory and one-fifth of the world's in-i in-i habitants. But ihej British people ! never inquired what manner of man i he might be; tht-y never asked him for his opinions as to matters of gov-I gov-I ernmental policy; they never ques-. ! tloned his fitness for the high office I he was destined to fill, they knew only that he was of the royal race and that he would be king. The klne business Is one of the old-, old-, est trades" in the world. Like other buslneases, It has Its ups and downs; jit has been popular and Its tradesmen have ruled or ruined at their august I pleasure; It has been unpopular and Its tradesmen have paid with their I lives the penalty of their kingship J Kings have lie'n the inspired and consecrated agents of the D'ity In 1 ruling the mortals of this Inferior i world; kings huve been the pawns in ! games played by great soldiers, dlp- lomatlsts and priests; kings have I been mere figureheads to represent In mortal flesh the immortal and intangible intan-gible spirit f a national existence, f But always kings have been kings, i and never has there been a king who ! would of his own accord abate one Tory. Certain it Is that most of his friends have beon staunch Tories, and George has never exhibited any of those democratic traits which made his father popular outside or his own realm as well ns within Its larders. King George, so far as anything Is known of him at all. Is an intense Englishman, having the average Englishman's Eng-lishman's supreme contempt and hearty dislike for all foreigners. Ills queen, too, is English the first English Eng-lish princess to sit on the English throne for many years She, too. c!is- I jot or tittle of his royal power. Neer 1 has there been'a king who did not believe be-lieve in his soul that he was made of better clay than other men. Something more than a century ugo there was a great social convulsion in the western world which caused thrones to totter, and which occasioned occa-sioned a terrific slump in the stock of the king business bv striking down the notion that klnps ruled by virtue I of divine right. This great panic was i - followed bv a long series of ups and . downs In 'which no knlg ever knew- quite what his business was worth f About forty years ago things quieted down, and ever since thf-n king flock - has been gradually rising Today iho ,j king business Is more nourishing than at any time within the past hundred j I years. i " Absurd as it may seem to thosp ' in whoso veins runs the blood of men who signed the Declaration of Independence, Inde-pendence, subjects of kings are quite ps proud of their estate as are citl-rens citl-rens or republics. An American will not fail to wince when some careless speaking Englishman refers to him as au "American subject," And yet I the EngMshman is as pridcful of his sublect of Kinc Georr.e III. i.-lH- 1 Iii Ills career as Prince of Wales, ! George made one speech, which was. something more than a mere conventional conven-tional utterance. It was entitled. "Wake Up. England!" It was an exposition ex-position of the doctrines of the imperialistic im-perialistic party, which Is to say, the Tory party. It Is Inevitable that George, having been a sailor from his childhood until the death of his elder brother, should be a hearty supporter o:' the navy and a hellever In the doctrines doc-trines of the blue water school. With respect to the navy and to ini-v?ilolism. ini-v?ilolism. It is possible to guess that George Is an ardent Tory. There Is no ine thing upon which one may bae a belief that the . new king In, any way sympathizes with the Liberal Lib-eral party As far as the domestic politicn' crisis Is concerned. King C:on:?'s attitude Is not known It mnv not be guessed at intelligently, Groping in the dark, one feels, rather 1han sees, that the king will oppose, whether actlvelv or passively, the efforts ef-forts of the British democracy to de-ilioy de-ilioy the peculiar privileges of the aristocracy. The divinity that doth hedge a king Is as nothing compared to the ob- as anv American, be he Jefferson himself, him-self, could be of his citizenship in the i American republic. Any person In j England who agliotcd the overthrow ' of the monarchy and the establish ' meut of a republic would be even more of a traitor than an American ; who would advocate making a certain citizen into King Theodore I There I are no Republicans in Britain, just as i there are no monarchists In America. Kvery man likes his own system. ! True. It may be objected that there I are Republicans in Spain: but then there are alo monarchists in France, j The trouble in thosn countries Is that j the system has changed so many tln.es that the people are not settled In thcir preferences The one thine about which every ! Iirlton is agreed is that it is his firsl duty, under any and all circumstances j whatsoever, to bo loyal and true t" 1 I. is king. Loyalty to the crown Is the I only effective bond of British unity. scanty which envelopes an neir apparent ap-parent Witness the prince Imperial of Japan, the crown prince f Austria oy the vice president of the I'nlted States. Secure In that obscurity, George formed his political notions. He wrs an interested auditor In the go Merits of the house of commons during th" long debates .on the constitutional consti-tutional crisis last winter. He heard at first hand the beat arguments on l.otli sides. But ou his face he wore a royal mask which effectually concealed con-cealed his emotions. If ?ie ever communicated com-municated his comments on that debate de-bate to any living soul, the English people do nt know It Here l? the ancient kingdom of England in the throes of a great constitutional con-stitutional crisis, the Issue of which prcbably will change forever the course of British affairs The opposing oppos-ing sides are lined up in battle array, all ready for the fight, waiting only until then new king may gel his ment of political war. And yet both i sldefi, each believing tli3t the future of Kngland depends upon the success of it s doctrines, will be willing to defer de-fer to the judgment, or perhaps to the prejudices, of this unknown and unknowable un-knowable man. The leaders of both parties know that the king's will may not be opposed, op-posed, unless the king should violate his pledges to the people. If he shall let Ii be known, without personally meddling in the political situation, that he favors Ihe continuation of the present lelations between the lords and the commons, his will probably will prevail. And yet the British people peo-ple would not permit him to take an active part In party politics, for to do so would be to violate the best traditions tradi-tions of English kings and would forfeit for-feit him the respect of his people Perhaps, if George Is the Tory that many believe him to be, he will save the aristocracy Its privileges. axl(j block the attack of a militant drmoe- racy, by appealing to all the people not fo do anything that will embarrass embar-rass him. It is an apparent certainly lhat Iho Liberal cannot win in their light against the house of lords unless the king will give Mr. Awqulth the power to name a sufficient number of new peers to go into the house of Inids and to vote that ancient institution institu-tion to suicide. It Is equally apparent that the king will desire to escape the embarrassment of receiving such a j demand. For the flist time In more than a century. It is possible lhat the king might refuse to take the advio-of advio-of his ministers and lhat that refusal might receive the approval of the people. peo-ple. King George occupies a position 'of tremendous responsibility, and the world will look upon the gradual re-vealment re-vealment of his. pqlitlcal faith with breathless Interest. ..rptn his beliefs may depeDd the future course of I he T'.rltish government and, therefore. Ithe future peace of the world For It nn:M nor be forgotlen that (ieorge has a ctuisia also in the king business, |