The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-12-15

may be familiar your readers There is no oveler or
enhancing than those which the eye
falls the traveller returned from the continent of Europe rush
the train from Dover London mile mile YOU
look stretching fields of dazzling emerald green immem
ora em coored by the rays of the setting give you strange
and potent impression of the age, the spndor and
English life and history the red brcked house stands
lief from this gigantic of green you realize all
Of struggle of tranquility of patient work. of ordered govern
ment of progressive civilization which lie behind nation
can thus reveal to the world miles upon miles of land cultivated
to the sotness to the prettne the regularity garden And
then suddenly there you another thought You battle
your in the beauty of that wondrou landscape sink back
IN your seat IN the anguorous peace OF satisfaction until suddenly
jump up with start and remember that you everything
the landscape but the human face and the human home For
these succeeding miles of uninterrupted mostly silent
solitude The houses but intervals the figure
OF man OF woman or young boy or young girl which now and
then you see crossing through the path in the fields rather nens
fes the of the loneliness of the land you
that England is not the land France Ireland becoming
OF hundreds OF thousands OF small peasant homes but the land
where the few the soil and the many banished from it.
And then all that bewderng and Intoxicating beauty Of the Eng
sh landscape presents itself to under different aspect
Perhaps the best etome and figure of your sensations lovely
English with crawling inside its beautiful and deli
petals That bit of England up the question To-
within few of the Norman conquest eleventh
century the land in the hands of few great families What
was given to the English noean bv the Norman conoeror
conferred him by Henry VII when the
monaee Coniscaed Everything in English life Eng
s legislation has been conved to perpeuate that state of things
the law of prmOgenue beggang all the of the family by
giving the land entirely the eldest the social distinction
house of the houses of the Legislature by the belonging
almost exclusively to these great families All these things
bne keep the land spaces still in the hands
seemed able the present produce serious change in this
system he village deserted and usty country lads who
ought singing behind the pow drudgng in the sum and
alley of the congested English city, But the ancient land system
persists the English still carries in the bottom of its petals the
of land monopoly. *
The landlord party powerfully represented in the house of
in the press especially of London where al
entirely in their hands i'll exclusive control of the house of
lords where something like members against forty lib
erals backed up by rich liberals who have been frightened
the landlords say regard the proposals of this budget fatal
blow at their prestige their property and their power The
wealthy and powerful liquor interest RACES against the budget
ercey and of the big income and inheritance have
eXasperated the capitalist All these threatened and
urated interests their hopes the house of
lords final and also potent factor the potectionst
tariff reormers, they called They also wish prec
pae election regarding the budget deadly blow their
hopes of framing poectonst budget when they get into
Not for three hundred have the Lords venred to haeng
he of in this way No wonder England in tn
hroes of exciting campaign and the rest of the world look