The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-10-11
[NCL AND FACES
GRAVE CRISIS
SUNNI ONS OF ASQUiTH TO BAL
MORAL FRAucHT WITH
SIGNIFICANCE.
KING AS PEACEMAKER
Wants to Sound His Advisers On Bud
eet--Dfficulty in Situation Does
Net Lie With oopo-
sition Leaders.

Lodon. Oct 10-The political crisis
i'll England is reaching its acute stage.
OF this the outward and visible sign
is the appearance of the king upon
the political arena According to the
British constitution, the monarch
never interferes with legislative au-
thority, excepting when he is needed
in such critical matters as the forna-
tion of new ministry or political
crisis threatening the government
with a deadlock. 1t is his duty to act
solely upon the advice of his minis
ters, but when his ministers appear
to be within measurable distance Of
ceasing to be able to carry on the
government, then he exerts himself
actively as peacemaker and con
ciliator for the purpose of avoiding a
catastrophe.
The late queen on several occasions
notably in the case of the establish
ment of the Irish church, exerted her
self actively and with great success
in averting a collision which might
have had disastrous results.
The summons of the prime minister
to Balmoral which has been the great
political event Of the week, indicates
that the king, for the first time in his
reign, is following in the footsteps of
his mother and devoting himself to
the avoidance of catastrophe. AT
the present moment no one has anv
authentic information as to the ma
ture of the interview between the
king and Prime Minister Asquith, but
lit is currently reported and generally
believed that the King wished to
sound his adviser how far it might
be possible to arrange matters be
tween the government and the oppo-
sition so as to avoid a collision whict
would certainly precipitate a great
financial and political catastrophe.
KIM is Impartial.
The king looks at these matters
from an impartial point of view. The
kings government must be carried on
is the formula in all sucfl crises, and
J it is to him immaterinl how it is car.
ried on, whether by Whig or Tory, as
long as law and order are maintained
and there is no break in the regular
functioning of the administration of
the empire,
So far as the kings personal opin.
ion is concerned it is an open secret
that he shares the popular opinion as
to the necessity for allowing the com
munity to share i nthe profit from the
unearned increment of land values,
(which is due solely to the industry
and growth of that community. His
majesty. when he was Prince of
Wales was member of the royal
commission which recommended that
such unearned INGREDIENT should be
laid under contribution for the com
mon good. He will therefore be able
to address himself all the more vib.
orousy to the task of inducing the
lords to pass the budget.
AS | have frequently explained the
| difficulty of the situation does not lie
with the leaders of the opposition who
would be responsible to the ministers
| in case a geenral election resulted in
| a Conservative victory Lord Lans
downe and Mr.. Balfour and those
Others upon whos> shoulders would
! be laid the task of collecting taxes
and meeting the expenditures of the
land are only alive to the immediate
policy not to say the madness of re.
jecting the budget, but unfortunately
the house of lords contains an ire.
spensible majority of peers who have
never attended their legislative duties
at any ordinary time, but who, when
their passion or prejudice is excited,
troop up in hundreds to vote down
some Liberal measure.
Not to Get Buduet.
An eminent civic authority is re-
ported to have said last week that 150
of these wild peers are combining to.
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