The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-05
GOVERNMENT
MAY CHANGE
An Election to Be Held
Soon.
HE LIBERALS MAY LOSE
b Prospect Campaign Grows
Hot.
Geeaing To The Register of The Eng
sssA voters-Tories Are bitterly
Attaearaas The Financial Bad
get Of The Government.
BY W. HAMILTON RHODES.

deed. 1t IL delayed until then--aIl
petitfcal parties in this country are
devoting their special attention to
this years register. Enormous sums
are being spent on the work. and when
the revision courts open next month
the fight will be exceptionally keen.
Assuming that the Lords do not pre-
c1pitate dissolution over the budget
which seems more than ever unlikely,
the general expectation IL that 1t will
come next autumn. There are many
however. who believe It would be good
tactics for the government to dissolve
on the new register in January. They
would stiii. 1t Is pointed out. have the
advantage. which the popularity of the
budget has given them, and hereto
fore at any rate. o new register has
niways been supposed to favor the
Liberals, though now that the Labor
Party have become so important fac
tor In the Parliamentary situation, 1t
IL doubtful IL they would again so
largely In this respect On the other
hand. they are pledged to bring in a
new electoral reform bill next year,
and may prefer to wait until they can
fortify themselves by It's provisions.
Speaking at q Conservative demon
etratfon at Eivaston, near Derby. the
Duke OF Devonshire, said he belonged
to very iaw-abiding section OF the
community which had apparently
most disastrous effect upon the tenn
per of the members of the govern
ment. He did not wish to say any
thing that would throw the Chancei-
Tor of the Excheguer into Mysteries.
The mere thought of q duke was APP
parentfy enough to send him 10 the
outskirts OF the metropolis to make
speeches OF a somewhat violent de-
eiamatory character. His grace could
pnly think when one found a speech
N hi
exnount of suppression Of truth and
greaA deal of suggestion of the false
that the resorts and expedienfs to
which the government were turning
Bhowed their line OF defense was not
20 strong, as the ministers might de-
bire. The Finance Bill was not being |
used for the purpose Of revenue only, |
but also TO carry out various legfsla- |
tive projects which the government |
9SnBw had no chance Of passing unless
LACKED ON TO q Finance Bill
eocialism Triumpheu..
II would be difficult to FORECAST
what form the measure would take
when. lt reached the House OF Lords, |
bus hb thought himself Justified in
Fasang that q new condition of affairs
pad arisen, and he was OF the opinion
that the Lords would be fully 1usti-
fled sn taking every precaution for
observing how far the bin dealt with
fstiisr siketdly realms % future iegis-
}akfon. The government were taking
b further step to curtaii the liberties
OF dBbate In the House OF Commons,
and. before proposals 30 vast az those
in the finance bin were forced upon
The country the latter ought TO have
bn opportunity Of expressing its
bpiniou Many who supported the
government were honestly opposed to |
Socialism, but It was the Socialist wing !
OF the party that had triumphed. The |
appeal the other day Of the Chancel- |
Tor of the Exchequer was not to |
Liberalism or Radicelisn, but TO Social |
ism pure and simple.
The Earl OF Dartmouth. speaking at |
O Primrose League demonstration at |
Weston, Saaop. the seat OF the Earl of |
Bradford, said he could not tell them
what the House of Lords was going to
do, but even in the midst Of misrepre-
sentation ana attack the people of the
country looked to them for statesman
ship and Justice. As far as the posi-
ton OF the upper chamber Of the
House Of Commons as an advisory
chamber was concerned, IL would be
perfectly easy to show that in the case
of measures which they had revised,
and to which they had added amend
ments. they had been perfectly Justi-
fled in the action they had taken.
The difficulty was to turn the abb
stract cries of elections into the con-
crete form OF q bill. The House of
Lords had one idea, ana that was the
desire to interpret the wishes OF the
people. In the Lmehouse speech the
Chancellor of the Exchequer trusted
10 the ignorance Of the audience. and
appealed to their cupidity However,
said his lordship, nobody could afford
the luxury OF two Radical governments
in one generation.
An interesting reference to the
bruce case was made by the Duke of
Portland in an anti Budget speech at
Bothaa, Northumberland He complain
ed that az a result of what he said
before his Welbeck tenants recently
paii1uls OF abuse had been poured over
hts head by Radical newspapers. He
noticed that the paper which poured
out the most dirty water, and made
the most use of strong expressions,
was that which published the largest
and most untruthful reports of that
wonderful ana ridiculous fabrication
known as the "Druce case" Was II
too much to hope that the more or
less ridiculous proposals and impos-
lures contained in the present Finance
Bill might be as completely pricked
when referred to a tribunal of public
opinion as were the wild imaginations
which gave rise to one of the most
extraordinary fabrications of modern
times-"the bruce case2' So far as
he was aware It originated in the dis
eased brain of some poor, old. crazy
person. He did not know exactly from
whose brain the finance bill originated,
but somehow or other the bruce case |
would occur to his mind and get mixed |
up with his thoughts when he reflect |
ed upon the Budget Possibly that
might be because the finance bill and
the Druce case appeared somewhat
alike. It seemed to him that the lat |
ter had been, and the finance bill was. |
a preposterous attempt to obtain |
money by wild statements and ter |
neurological inexactitudes.
Payments Are Cut Down.
At a meeting of the Cheshire Agri- |
cultural Society at Chester. the secre-
tary read the following letter from the |
Earl OF Haddington:
"Arderne Eau. Tarporley.
August 81. 4
Dear Sir:--I beg to enclose herewith |
10 check for $25 In payment of my
Absorption to, the Cheshire Agricul-
tiiAal Society.
s0wing to recent legislation. I find |
that I must reduce the amount of my
principal subscriptions, and am
afraid may have to reduce that to
the Cheshire Agricultural Society to
91S.7b in the future.
Yours faithfully,
"Haddington."
Recently the Marquis of Lansdowne |
made a speech in which he posed as
a Democrat, and said that the will of |
the people must prevail. AS a con-
aanxauea one of the Radical ORGANS