Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-26

the House of Lords and eliminating the
hereditary right have been nailed to the
platform on which the tories will 20 TO
the country at the next general election.
Less than 200 Of the 615 members considered
the Rosebery move of sufficient Importance
to forego their lenten gayetles and attend
the sessions, well knowing that the reso-
lutlons and the speeches were strictly
academic. 1t is conceded that the adoption
Of the third resolution against hereditary
right to a seat in the house serves the
doble purpose of a play to the political
galleries and as a matter on which to lay
the imposing declarations which the min
listers will transmit presently from the
House Of Commons 10 the peers. These
declarations as formally announced, fol-
low the lines hitherto indicated by liberal
party leaders. The lords are to be de-
prived absolutely Of veto power over money
bills. Any other measure receiving the
adverse vote of the lords may become a
law by a vote of the Commons In three
separate sessions but two years must
elapse between introduction and third ap-
proval The hereditary principle is not
attacked, nor the aggregate membership
Of the upper house. II the veto teeth can
be drawn, progressive interest in the make
up of the body will become one of curiosity
After the Easter recess the resolutions
Will be whipped into shape by the Com
mons, provided the ministry lives through
the contest sure to arise should Premier
Asquith persist in his purpose to send the
Lloyd George budget through before deal
ing with the veto.
No matter where one encounters the
tester OF standpatism, at home or abroad,
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body polite is the same In every case
symptoms of stagnation are manifest diff
fering only in degree of activity. Witness
the amazing hysteria of the standpat ee-
ment in the Hungarian Chamber Of Dep
uties; observe their attempts to strangle
progress. The new government following
in the footsteps Of it's predecessor seeks
by various conciliatory measures to wipe
out racial rancor and bring racial cohe-
sion out Of conflict. Fair and fraternal
treatment of the non-Magyer races has
been urged as a matter of justice and
national unity. But the Magyers regard
themselves as superior people, entitled
to greater privileges, and is having no
interests in common with non-Magyers.
Appeals to patriotism, to the spirit Of
charity and good WILL served to inflame
the boil to the bursting point, and pro-
voked the shower of inkwells which fol-
lowed the retreating ministers Whenever
the dispatches report an eruption of ink
wells in the Hungarian chamber the
reader is safe in concluding that some live
booster of the human family has rudely
Jared the standpat tester.
Americans are frequently regaled with
foreign criticisms Of various phases Of life
in this country. Christians. whether favor
able or unfayorable, are considered OF suf-
ficlent interest to secure the benefit Of ex-
tended newspaper circulation. American
globe travellers are beginning to retalate
in kind, providing enough fuel to keep
typewriters hot on both sides Of the pond.
Emerson Hough, in the Saturday Evening
Post, fires at the old world these epigrams:
Europe hs a sponge not a fountain.
America is where things grow. Europe is
toy country and one continuous Coney
Island, but at lacks Coney Island decorum.
In Italy ana France they prepare an entire
dinner out Of little water mingled with
copying ink, six onions and the foot of an
ancient hen. All over Europe you have to
pay from ten to twenty-five cents for a
demi-tasse of stuff that you would throw
in the face Of any waiter who would offer
that Europe could live off the leavings Of
the American tables. What total money
European scenery has taken from Ameri-
cans is something that staggers imagina-
tion. Yet most of the beauty Of that coun-
try is the beauty either of condensation or
of property"
From a British point of view, the situa-
ton in India continues extremely perplex-
ing. Repressive measures aimed at agita-
tors and suppression Of native newspapers
from the chief activities Of the authorities.
An editor of a native paper at Lahore has
been convicted of sedtion, his offense con-
sisting of printing William ]. Bryan's re-
view Of British rule in India, written during
his trip around the world. Sir Herbert
Risley home secretary, in presenting
bill to the supreme legislative council at
Calcutta, openly charged that widely
read portion of the Indian press was en-
gagged in rendering the government odious
in the sight of the people; representing 1t
as foreign, therefore selfish and tyrannical;
draining the country of its wealth and inn
poverishng the people; poisoning the wells
to reduce the population, and trying to
wipe out religion by goddess system CT
education in which it seeks to destroy
caste. He is elSO quoted as SdyllB' livery
day the press claims openly by suggestion
| that the only cure for the ills of India is
freedom from foreign rule, and urges mar
tyrdom on the part Of the young using
Eindoo mythology, European literature and
the sacred book, Gita, corresponding to our
Limitation OF Christ" in an attempt to in
duce political murders and sedition."
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triumph over those seeking to smirch the
French ministry with responsibility for the
scandalous looting of confiscated church
property. The announced determination Of
the government to prosecute the thieves to
| the full extont of the law satisfies the leg
islative conscience which is not particu-
larly tender with respect to church prop
erty and averted a troublesome issue on
! the eve of a general election. A political
scandal is disagreeable at all times. 1t is
particularly offensive in campaign ac-
/ companied by odors of loot that smell to
heaven. Suppression with promised fumi-
cation conduces to party success and helps
to explain the enthusiasm Of the French
assembly in hurrying the scandal to the
limbo Of an investigating committee. More
important issues viii be pressed to the
front in the campaign. The election has
been fixed for April a. and the second bal