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Gated regulation of railway rates, and
LaFOlIette is fighting for physical valu-
alton of railway property. Before either
Of them had made any Roadway with
these doctrines, Great Britain already
had taken action, except that in areat
Britain the government not only regu-
lateS railway rates, but it makes the
rates and the railroads have nothing to
do with transportation tariffs except to
charge what the government says to
charge, no more and no less. NUM-
cipal ownership, cooperative societies,
and many such things are common in
Britain
If Lloyd-GeOrge limited his radical
ism to that of Bryan and LaFollette,
he would be more reactionary than the
opposition leaders Balfour and Cham
berlain If Mr.. Balfour, as a senator
from Rhode Island. and Mr.. Chamber
lain as a representative from Illinois.
were to make the same speeches in the
capitol at Washington that they have
made at Westminster, they would be re-
garded as devout followers of Eugene
v. Debs. But that is all because Great
Britain is not the United States and
British problems are not American
problems. There are political questions
in Great Britain upon which senator Al
drich and speaker Cannon would take
an attitude which the British Conserva-
tiveS- would consider dangerously So
cialistic-
English Expressions Confusing.
One great source Of confusion is that
the United States and Great Brit
ain employ the same outfit OF
political phrases, but none Of them
means the same thing IN the other
land to advocate the imposition Of land
taxes, yet even the staunchest Tory
when informed that in the United
States the telegraph and express busi-
NO iS 81 m W a
lions, will declare that America Is un-
! civilized. In the United States taxation
Of land is entirely proper, but govern
ment ownership OF telegraphs is un-
thinkable socialism.
How radical Mr. Lloyd-George Is,
whether he be democrat or dema cog,
may be determined by reading his own
words. Discussing the land laws and
the house of lords, the crucial ques-
tions in the British crisis, he said: The
question Is whether 500 men-ordinary
meH-choseIh accidentally from among
the unemployed, should override the de-
liberate Judgment of millions Of people
who are engaged in the industry which
makes the wealth of the country?
DemagOg Utterances.
who ordained that a few should
have the land of Britain as a perouis-
tie? Who made ten thousand people
owners of the soil, and the rest of US
lIcSPdoScIS III the ldIQ Oh OuE O1EIn.
Who is it-who is responsible for the
scheme of things whereby one man Is
engaged through life in grinding labor
TO win bare and precarious subsist-
ence for himself, and when. at the end
of his days, he claims at the hands Of
the community he served a poor pen
sion of eight pence a day he can only
get it through a revolution, and an
other man who does not toll receives
every hour of the day, every hour OF
the night, whilst he slumbers. more
than his poor neighbor receives in a
whole year Of toll?
from? Whose finger inscribed it2 These
are the questions The answers are
charged with peril for the order OF
things the peers represent. but they are
fraught with rare and refreshing fruit
for the parched lips of the multitude
who have been treading the dusty road
along which the people have marched
through the dark ages which are now
emerging into the light
That is LIoyd-George's estimation OF
the situation. His slogan is the abo-
1ition Of hunger He demands the
emancipation of the people from bond
age 10 the privileged classes II he is
a demagog, he is utterly without shame
If he is a democrat, he is the most
thorough going democrat who ever has
occupied a political position OF such
great power
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