The silver state news. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1907-1909, 1908-11-24
SAYS LONDON CORRESPONDENT
OF THE SILVER STATE NEWS
ton upon Reception rendered Amer
ican Fleet by Australians


ican Fleet by Australians
(By William True Hawthorne)
LONDON, Nov. l3.-Engand views
with longing, not to say envy, the evi-
denees OF returning prosperity to the
United States. No such silver lining
has appeared to the cloud hanging over
the British industrial world. The army
of the unemployed increases each week
and SO serious has the situation become
that the government is confronted with
the necessity of atfording relief. Pri-
vate charity, liberal as it has been, Is
proving wholly inadequate to the
needs.
The political doctors are wholly
unable TO agree as to what is the mat
ter with British industry. All they
know is that the patient is sick an1
that he does not improve under their
remedies. Things have been going
from bad to worse for several years,
and now they are chiefly worse. IL
looks as If Edwards empire needed d
competent business manager, one equal
at least to the task OF reducing the
government outgo to the size of it's
income. Mr.. Asquith Is government
seems spiendidly equipped Tor increas-
ing expenses, but SO tar it has failed
utterly to increase revenues.
One of the results of the hard times
and the government financial embar-
easements is that the protectionists are
making headway. 1t is the belief Of
many public men that a general elec-
tion is not far distant, for on several
recent votes in the house OF commons
the government has barely maintained
its majority. With another general
election the opinion is general tnat the
present parliamentary majority will
be overthrow and a majority returned
pledged to the policy OF protective
tariff. Golden . theory of free trade,
which has been Britain s policy Tor
more than generation, has proved
Iamentabie failure, because the freeness
of trade has come to be wholly one
sided. While the goods OF all the
world pass British ports without the
payment of duties, about every other
important nation imposes dues, protect
ing their own markets against Britisl
goods. Even some of the British col
onies have tariff taxes, and in a mum
Der OF cases they are levied against the
mother country.
In situation like this, with indus
tries languishing, revenues falling of
and the expenses of the government in
creasing, the British public mind is
about ripe for an overthrow of the
traditional British policy.
1t would be reasonable to expect in
a time like this that the Socialist and
labor vote would greatly increase, but
such was not the case in the recent
municipal elections. All the substantial
gains were made by the Unionists, the
party which advocates protective
tariff and which went down to defeat
at the last general election because OF
the Chamberlain propaganda, which
was then too new to be acceptable to
British voters, taught for generation
to believe that free corn and a cheap
breakfast table were the only things
needed to make the British workma
happy. The years since then have
rudely jolited the theories of Golden
and the British workman has often
found himself hungry, though all his
edibles were untaxed.
1t is the Judgment today of poiti.
clans that a general election could
be forced any time the Unionists lead
ers saw fit, but as things are now the
longer a parliamentary election is de-
layed the better they are satisfied.
1t is case of giving calf all the
rope it wants. The Liberal govern
ment is daily getting in worse disfavor,
and when the Unionists return to power
they want a sufficient majority in the
house of commons so they will not have
to enter into any embarrassing alli-
ances with the minor parties, something
that daily causes trouble for Mr..
Asquith s ministry.
"Americanomania' is q new word
which has been coined by a correspond
ent of the Pail Mall Gazette. He says
1T is what is the matter with Australia,
and he is grieved beyond measure that
1t 10 SO. The enthusiasm with which
the American battleships were greeted
by Australians has been bitter pill
for Englishmen, but this writer is the
most melancholy of them all. "Even
New South Wales, the mother state, y