National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1873-09-04
ENGLISH POLITICS.

TIE kcllpse Of the knallsh LIBERAL Party.
Iron London Oorrsspondence Boston Adssrtissr.l
Tho Liberal party seem 10 be losing heart.
The defeat Of their candidates, the hostility
Of the press, and the general dissatisfaction
with the recent shuttle Of ministerial persons
aud Offices, encourage the gloomiest feelings.
You hear people say that reaction, such as
the one which followed 1893, has begun, and
that the Tories will shortly commence long
and mlschlevous reign. Carlism In Spain,
Legitimacy In France and Toryism in Eng.
land arc TO advance together. Not many
days ago heard the shrewdest perhaps Of
experienced English politicians express him
self In such wise; and he proceeded with the
remark that he did not believe the different
sections Of Liberals could be united until o
lapse Of seven or eight years, and that then
they would enter upon campaign for the
disestabllshmcpt Of the English Church.
When that day comes Mr.. Gladstone Ia rs
likely TO be leading q church party as not.
The next election, which cannot be many
forebodings are true. Certainly the aspect
Of the Liberal camp Is discomfortlng. Here
you have detachment vowing that the crusade
against the publlcans must be carried on fur
ther. There o section loudly exclaiming II
has gone too far already. Secular education
anu tccthfihn euuchtlOn uhNe tnch respective
advocates, and the only thing In which adj ap-
pear to aeree Is In doubling their commanders.
Whether with such state Of things the pub
lie service will lose by the accession OF new
mon for O time to Office the reader Ia rs able
Is any one here to decide. AT all events,
the "reaction' In England will not be very
serious. Neither Mr.. Disraell nor Lord Derby
are '.prejudiccd' statesmen, and the Scotch,
Welsh and English Liberals (for some Of the
latter will be Lefty will be able, fancy, to
squeeze, as before, q fair amount Of radical.
Ism out Of them. A letter TO the Times OF
this morning treats sepdbly Of one of the
causes OF the alienation from the Liberal
party Of the lower middle classes.
: These people" tho writer says, "care lit
tie about many disputed questions, but they
do care much about the question which
presses at present above all others upon mer
Of respectable habits and small incomes-thai
question being.'how to make both ends meet.
they believe that this problem has been rem
dered to them oil but impossible, OF solution
BY he working closes; They believe. ei.n ns.
through their trade unions, have brough
about The great advance. In house rent whicl
they have Of late had to pay In all the large
toWus, and that they have added needlessl,
fr6q % 80 per cent. to the cost Of nearl!
every commodity which Is necessary 70 tn
health Or comfort 81 . respectable family
of cases what the 'workingman' thus wiring
from their limited incomes he spends In drinl
or otherwise wastes, and then In time Of neeI
becomes Q burden, with his family, upon tn
poor rates which they have to pay, or to tn,
medical charities which they help to support
In tho face Of all this they see the working
man the fondled pet Of both great politica
parties, while the next items In the pro
Kramme Of the Liberals are the increase OF hi
political power by giving him the CONT
franchise, and his release from the SINAI
share Of the public taxes which he now pays
BY his being presented with o free breskfsi
table The result Of all this Is that men VIII
have throughout life been the staunchest Lii
erals have ceased to be politicians at all, IN
der the pressure Of daily and crushing, butt
they believe, needless burdens, except II
either not to vote at all, or 10 vote for Coz
sentative candidates."