Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-26
IMR. GOSCHEN'S BUDGET.
he ATTEMPTED TO PLEASE EVERYBODY
AND PLEASED NONE.
What Liberals and Tories Complain Of
Effect of the Liquor Movement-The OPP
position to Free Education-The Middle
Glass Wanted Lighter Burdens.

What Liberals and Tories Complain Of
Effect of the Liquor Movement-The OPP
position to Free Education-The Middle
Glass Wanted Lighter Burdens.
tBr CABLE TO THE D1sPATcHL
LONDON, April 25-Mr. Goschen's bud
get has disappointed his political friends,
without giving much satisfaction to his op-
ponents. He reasoned that if he gratifed
no class by remitting taxation he offended
nobody by increasing the existing imposts
or importing fresh ones. But, as the usual
attempt to sit upon two stools has proved
to be neither safe nor dignifed, the
extreme Tories are raging against the social
istic scheme for making education free, in
which they can plainly see the handiwork
of Joseph Chamberlain, and threaten to
vote against it even if their action involve
the fall of the Government The
Liberals are preparing to fight the
Government on the same subject because
they know that the bill, when introduced.
will be found to favor the established
Church OF England at the expense of the
non-conformists. The great middle classes,
who expected reduction of the income
tax, are loudly complaining that the Gov
ernment cares nothing for them and the
liquor sellers are vehemently denouncing
the Chancellor of ExcheQuer for breaking a
promise to reduce their burdens.
The words and actions of the latter are
indicative of open mutiny, and may have
interesting political results. In the eI-
pectation that Mr.. Goschen would betrsy
them, the tens of thousands of voters con-
nected more or less directly with the liquor
traffic had resolved to dlsassociate them
selves from the Tory party, with
which they have been closely identi-
fed for half a century, and to form an
Independent party. Their formal organizl-
tion is now in course of completion, and as
there is plenty of money behind it. candi-
dates will find themselves confronted in
every constituency by compact body of
electors whose votes will be cast irrespective
OF party considerations for the man who
will accept the most planks in their plat
form. The movement Is very in
teresting, but it has come too late.
Twenty-Five years ago when the ma
jority of the Liberals were of the
moderate type it might have achieved
large measure of success, but now four-ffths
of the Liberal party are Ra ideals, most of
them pledged to extreme temperance re-
form, and not few to the eItirpation of the
liquor trade, root and branch. In nine
tenths of the constituencies, therefore, new
party will simply have TO choose between an
avowed and often Incorporating Liberal
opponent or a Tory friend of varying de-
gree of zeal, and it is not difficult to see
what the choice must be.
A remarkable feature of the present
political situation is the opposition of the
STANDARD. the most influential OF the Con-
servative newspapers, to free education. 1t
has editorially denounced the Government
scheme in unmeasured terms, and is daily
printing hostile letters from indignant
Tories. 81 am calling a meeting of our
local Conservative Association, "ssays one of
these gentlemen in letter published to-day,
ito send in my resignation as Chairman.
Why should I pay to educate other peoples
children2"