The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1902-01-09

than representation based upon the
arithmetic The counties have always
been accorded more members in proper
tion to their population than the dense
ly inhabited boroughs. The question
now Is, viii England abandon this
ideal? for unless she does, and goes III
for au evening up all round, she viii
hardly have the stomach, one would
think. to bring a cast-irOn rule OF pro-
portion to bear upon poor Ireland. The
Irish themselves complacently maintain
that such REIMBURSEMENT as is threat
ened by Balfour and Chamberlain, be-
sides contravening every principle of
equity would be contrary to the act OF
union, and they may be expected to
fight such a measure almost to the
point of civil war. ....
But this extreme protest against
Irish obstructionism is not at all likely
to be brought into play during the SEES
sion which begins on the 18th instant
1t will still for some time be q threat
and nothing more. The present gov
eminent would hardly want to seal its
own death-warrant for even so rare a
pleasure as getting even with the
Irish" ct it might easily do that,
should it pass through parliament a re-
distribution bill, for according to UNI
written but imperative law, such a
measure would be followed at once by
dissolution and an appeal to the coun-
try, which, for the Salisbury Chamber
4 lain combination might be fatal. 1T Is
notorious that on the last occasion
when the present government sought
Endorsement from the electorate it's bid
| for support was one which time has
shown to have been fraudulent With
the watch cry THE war is over, they
swept everything before them. But the
war isn't over even yet, and so great
/ has been the laundering, 50 colossal the
incapacity displayed, that an appeal to
| the country within the next year or SO
would be about the most foolhardy
thing the present ministry could under
| take.
| The coming session will barely be
opened before the chancellor Of the eX-
chequer will turn up smiling with a big
war budget. Then the fur will fly
Mercilessly will the government be
scored on the awful scandal of the
Concentration Camps" now grimly
nicknamed the Concentration Cemete-
ries,' as well they may be when four
teen thousand have died in them, six
thousand in the last two months Not
much more deadly than these, If any
more SO, We're the camps set up by the
infamous Weyler in Cuba-one of the
last straws which broke the back of
American forbearance and sent our ar
1,1io nd hat loci IN Gontinon IF
any other nation were at war with the
Beers and were permitting women and
children to suffer and die by wholesale,
England would be fighting mad. 1t
makes all the difference in the world
whose OK is gored, for now, in the most
Christian nation on earth, men are
afraid to speak their minds upon this
subject, knowing that if they did they
would be branded as enemies to the
flag and vile traducers of their own
soldiery. But the Irish will not be
afraid to speak their minds, and per-
haps few other members Of parlia-
ment may not be, and there will be live
ly times.
Regarding the OUTPUT of the coming
session, it will chiefly, of course, bring
forth wind. Much talk and little ac-
ton is the rule in most legislative bod
les and the British House of Commons
is perhaps transgressor in this direc-
ton beyond all others. But for the
closure" debates would be intermed-
ate and progress hopeless. ct the "clo-
sure" is not at all thing to be proud
of, OF to permanently rely upon. In his
great speech at Chesterfield Lord Rose
berry held it up as a reproach that in
the last session the closure was brought
into effect so often in securing money. |
The House of Commons ought surely, |
he said, to be allowed freedom in vot- |
ing supplies. Yet of all the money APP
propriated last session rs per cent. |
could be gotten only when the Closure"
was used.
The trouble is in the rules of proce-
dure and the government has promised |
an overhauling of these rules. THE first |
part of each session is wasted in "Ques-
tons" These it is proposed to defer
until the dinner hour, when almost ev-
rybody will be otherwise engaged 1t
is also suggested that the answers to
questions instead Of being vocal shall
be printed. This would be great saw
ing of time, and so would another
measure that has been suggester
which is, that every man, when he has
made up his mind how he intends vot-
ing on the pending moi ion, shall depos-
ii ballot and pass out. This, strictly
to, would leave the speakers
before long with only empty benches to
harangue and would, therefore, surely
conduce to oratorical brevity if in time
1t did not do away with speech-making
It's an ill-wind that doesn't bring good
to somebody, and the farmers of this
are hoping that some tgood
may come to them out of the fact of so
much money being needed to carry on
the war. Agricultural interests are in
a dreadful way in England. This is
partly owing to a lack of agricultural
English farmers like Eng
ish merchants, need to wake up. They
,ould easily do more than they are at
present to help themselves in this
pinch. But they undoubtedly, also,
need help from the government. Mr.
1anbury, secretary of the board Of ag-
'iculture, does not hesitate to say that
he English farmers have been mar
yred on the altar of free trade. What
hey need, to put them on their feet
tgain, is, he decsares, a little of the
meriCan article of protection Ar ,