The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-10-23
PAPERS FEATURE
CMPPEN TRIAL
Case Overshadows All Other
Subjects Of Public
Interest.
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ARRANGEMENT OF IDLE RICH
American Constitution Favored
as Madel BY Noted
Englishman.
ARRANGEMENT OF IDLE RICH
ny WILLIAM II. STEAD.

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London, October 22.-The week has
been fertile in sensations, which have
followed each other so rapidly hat
the public has hardly had time to tax
It's breath. It opened with the splen-
didly dramatic flight of the Clement
Bayard airship from Paris to London
IN SIX hours, an event compelling the
most sluggish Imagination to realize
some of the revolutionary possibilities
latent IN the conquest Of the air.
Then followed the immortal speech
OF Lloyd-George, arraigning the idle
rich, the echoes OF which had hardly
ceased to %reverberate when attention
was called on to the magnificent au-
dacity Of wellman's attempt to cross
the Atlantic In the air. Then follow
ed the alarmist stories. soon contra
dicted, as to the approaching. partition
OF Persia. Quick on the heels OF this
came Balfour's alarmist speech. de-
y M11anaing the expenditure of our last
snllilns, II necessary, in maintaining
n supremacy Of the British navy.
All the week, also, the political at.
mosphere has been thick with ru-
mors as to the recasting of the British
constitution, as to the probable out
come OF the conference in crisis OF a
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perial federation beginning at home.
But, Notwithstanding all these thrill
Ing n vitality important sensations.
the Crtppen trial has held undisputed
Shadows all other topics Of converse.
ton. and the newspapers have with
one consent treated it as the topic
OF the week. Whatever else is doubt
Is clear. It has made the reputation OF
MI. Tobin. counsel TO- the prisoner.
Before his presentation for.the de-
tense there could hardly nave been
AID to be a Crippen party: now the
public is divided into two camps. The
majority thought him guilty, but after
Iobin sat down the majority believe
IT would be impossible to secure a YER
dict Of guilty.
Lloyd-GeorEc Is Revolutionary.
The Crippen trial will soon be a
thing of the past. 1t is far otherwise
with the speech of Lloyd-George. deliv-
cred on destitution. have seldom
heard the Chancellor of the Exchequer
or with more effect. When he had
finished his measured. but impassioned
impeachment OF the social system and
MS confident appeal to the nation to
the distribution OF wealth, the chair.
man expressed the unanimous opinion
of all present that Lloyd-George would
Inevitably be the next Liberal Prime
Minister.
The speech, which seems to be a
menace to all vested interests and
m~onopolies which are opposed to the
general welfare. was hailed by the
sincerity. moderation and philosophic
method. This declaration by the Times
excited even more CONSERVATION than
the L~loyd-George philippe against the
idle rich. 4
Mr.. B%alfour's sensational demand for
a navy loan. II necessary, to restore
the threatened naval supremacy of
Britain was more mischievous han
practical. He might. have lone some
for some plain, Simple standard Of
naval strength, such as is supplied by
the two keels to one formula. He
shirked this.
He might nave done good service
formula; that is to a the definition
that for every pound spent by the
strongest European naval power on
her navy Britain, would spend two.
was a plea for the multiplication OF
superdreadnoughts Of the type in favor
To-Day, but with airships looming over
nead n submarines burrowtng below.
IT Is a doubtful question whether in
1913 a single Dreadnoughtw will be able
to keep the sea.
Fnvors American Model.
LORD Esher. writing under the title
OF pacihcus,' has begun a series OF
papers In the Times on the conference,
which he regards as having inaugu-
rated a new era In constitutional gov
eminent The sittings Of the confer
ences have beer suspended this week.
but there Is expectation In the air that
when Parliament meets It's members
VIII have to admit that no tinkering
compromise Is possible, and that the
only way out Is a Great constitutional,
remodeling, which. however tits dis
Euised, Will more or less %refashion the
Brltlsh Empire on the general lines5o
the American Constitution.
On November 10, Admiral Lord Fish
81, the great sea captain, who moro
man any other man of@our time has
inc true Nelson touch. will sail for
America to be present at the wedding
@, MS son to an American bride.
lherc Is no atom of truth in5the abb
surd canard that the British govern
nent Is contemplating the acquisition
Or q Danish. or any other island. In the
west Indies. It Is not in that direction
tnat srltlsh eyes are turning. I mar
WI often at the p~reternatural cred
why OF he Washington correspon-
cents. who seem eager to swallow any
Iaoie as long as 1t serves to 1ustify
Lhelr craze about the non-existent anti,
american British octopuses.
Fourth Yenr Added at Emory ana