Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-26
Make Many Addresses in Cam
paign Wind-Up.
THEY FAIL TO INTEREST
Few Men of Eloquence in British
Upper House.
CURZ0N DOES GOOD SERVICE
But the People Pay More Attention
to Lloyd-George and
Churchill.
Special Cablegram TO The Star.

Special Cablegram to The Star.
LONDON, December D-The ChriU~-
mas lull in the political campaign Is wei
come to everybody. Battle will be re-
joined Tuesday. The peers must leave
the arena on January s. after. which
they are not allowed by the constitution
Oh Great Britain 10 participate in cleo
tloneering work so far as addressing
meetings is concerned, but between Tues
oay and that date the peers are booked
Ior hard work Thiriy-five of them will
address lib public meetings in all parts
of the country within that period.
This unprecedented flood Of lordly
eloquence does not seem thus far to have
had any great effect. Lords Curzon and
Milber have probably done their cause
good service. but in reviewing the first
OF the campaign unionist paper is OBJ
nged to confess that with the pest ause
In the world the unionisIs are lamentably
lacking In men who appeal to the m
agination, and more es. c.aliy the sem
sational interest OF the electorate"
Fail to Interest Voters
1t adds that voters require TO be inter
ested as well as instructed, and II is
afraid that they for the most part are
more deeply impressed by the purpie
matches of Mr. Lloyd-George and the
caring inexactitudes Of Winston Churchiu
than in the cultiva ed, thoughtIul q GU
ments of Lord Curzon and Walter Long
This Is undoubtedly true, and the un-
fonists are now relying chiefly on that
mysterious factor well known as the
silent voter. Certainly the nois1 ones
who attend their meetings give them lit
tie encouragement.
Apart from the budget and the house
Vnrlr ax,l
have been the most prominent features
in the political fight within the past ten
days. One wonders what kind of idea
the unsophistcated. untraveled Britisher
has OF Christmas conditions in these two
great cities. One set of newspapers re-
fers pftytngly to New York's bread lines
and the enormous cost Of every kind OF
provisions there. Then, turning to Ber.
lin. these papers draw a narrowing pic
ture OF German worlZmeu living on sour
black bread, horse sausages and dog q
flesh. while unemployment 10 rife through
out the fatherland.
Protection Argument.
The other papers declare that Americs
celebrates Christmas joyfully. Prices ara
high, but money is abundant. Unemploy-
ment is rare. while Berlin is described
as paradise for workingmen, for whom
tradesmen have had to stock their shops
with goods twice and thrice the cost
that humber customers could afford.
1t Is needless to say that the artistic
writer's whose descriptions of New Yori
and Berlin would make those cities ap.
pear to have a good claim upon the char.
ity of this happy. free-trade country in
the form, say. Of gigantic mansion
house fund. are pointing out the deadly
results of tariff, while those who would
persuade the English that the inhabitants
of New York and Berlin are reveling in
an excess of prosperity attribute this
universal wealth to the blessings of pro-
lection.
1t is crude. childish stuff. and gives
some excuse to the National Zeitung of
Berlin for concluding that when one
reads what is written in England about
Germany one must assume that the Eng
lish electors are credited with suffering
from temporary mental arrangement be-
fore and during elections