Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-10-09
1t Discusses the Various Living
Issues of England and Con-
tinental Europe.
The Campaign in England will
be Fierce and most Thor
Oughly Contested.
The Part England Takes in the
ROumelian Affair.
Cable News.

THE POLITICAL PROBLEM IN ENGLAND.
LONDON, Oct. 6.-The tories are not
yet ready to begin the campaign for
the supremacy in the next parlia-
ment. Their govers nent have there
fore decided to postpone dissolution
until the 7th of Dec The reason CIV
en- to the public for this action is that
the difficulties growing out of the en-
ormous registration under the enlarge
ment the franchise requires extended
time for adjudication and adjustment.
The campaign, when it does open,
| will be the fierceSt and most thorough
| ly contested ever fought in Great
! Britain. Every voter IN the country
will probably be reached and inter-
ested.
In this connection the fact is
pointed out that when the United
States enfranchised the blacks free
men hardly SOC, 600 voters were added
to the list, but England has as sud
denly added nearly three times as
many voters to her suffrage list, and
the addition certainly contains
A LARGE MASS OF IGNORANCE.
Practically, the whole number have
no decided political bearings, They
will be liberal or tory according to
tie influence brought to bear on them.
The result will be stupendous upon
the destiny of England. 1t is fair to
assume that before the close of the
campaign the parties will have ar
rayed the old voters pretty well on
the old lines, and that the issue will
be decided by the new voters.
The election may decide whether
the English trade policy shall be free
or protective; whether the church and
state shall be divorced or remain
united; whether unifcation or d:sin,
tegration of the empire shall ensue;
| whether Great Britain shall continue
to interfere In foreign affairs and re
main among the first powers, or shall
hold herself aloof and fall back into
THE SECOND RANK
1t may decide even whether the
aristocracy in England shall continue
and whether the throne shall remain.
The extraordinary situation now pre-
seated is that the parliament, which
may be called on to settle some if not
all of thes" numerous issues and
will take its temper from the chance
way in which majority of the two
millions OF new and uneducated ma
tions may cast their first ballot.
1t transpires that the eastern policy
Of Premier Salisbury is conducted
in perfect concert with that ot Prince
Bismarck
THE SERvIAN MINISTER TO ENGLAND
has had an official interview with
Lord Salisbury and obtained from
him an assurance of the British gov
ernment's sympathy with the Servi-
ans aspirations King Milan's gov.
ernment has been urged by England
to refrain from aggressive action and
rely upon the decision of the powers.
The king has telegraphed ia reply
that he trusts in the assurances given
him by England, and that the Servians
are willing to wait for the decision of
the powers, unless events precipitate
a necessity for active measures.
THE SOCIAL PURITY MOVEMENT,
founded on the revelations made by
the Pail Mall Gazette, is steadily gain>
ing strength in England. The prose
cution of Mr.. Stead has greatly
strengthened the movement, and it is
now headed by the Methodist church
as an organization. The cause IS now
warmly advocated by all the organs
and preachers of the denomination.
Meetings are being organized to make
the public acquainted with the new
developments of scandal in high
places, and to inaagurate general
system of boycotting tradesmen and
commercial houses managed by men
of reputed sexual immortality.
Several of the great west end shops,
where. in swarms, young girls are
hired at the most meagre wages, have
been denounced by the name in these
public meetings, as places for the ruin
of young men and women, and ladies
have been warned to avoid them.
Letters have been read accusing
London journalists of general i'm
morality.
The Times even goes so far as TO ex-
plain the conspiracy of silence maln>
tanned by the majority of the London
newspapers against the Pail Mail
Gazette, and their attack upon Mr..
Stead for making his revelations by
alleging that an appalling state of
vice, explained by Mr.. Stead, exists in
the press articles of London. This
paper says that God may raise up
some mighty journalistic Hercules to
cleanse the Augean stables of:journal-
ism.