The sun., 1910-01-12
N0rES on TEE ELECTORAE
CAMPAIGN IN ENGLAND.

IOretGn OnIOOkGr9. A ROOO many 0AUTDs-
sions OF opinion from abroad similar 70
Canadian paper, are being reprlRted in
the English journals with the satisfaction
one feels when ones doinRa are reprepeuted
as In some way unusuaI: sIt "a douttful
II anything in the history Of politIcs the
world over will equal the bitterness with
which the present fRht in Great Britain
will be contested So far. at least. symp-
toms OF any highly wrought campaign
feeling are absent. and two weeks before
the polling there Il assursdlv not Sc rsuch
political emotion as would aRitste tho same
stage of the most torpid Presidential con-
test In the United States. A really marked
feature OF the crIsis IN the prodialous con.
fusion OF the issues at stake. and probably
this has done .omethinw to weaken partisan
enthusiasm.
lord Cnrzon obsarvad In a raoant .neeoh
that the public might feel IL dificuit to know
what the issues were ON which it had to
vote. 40 MANY voices asaaiIed N. and at a
meetinR I'm bath m. other dnv the Marouls
of Bath II,lstrated tha Doint rather hap-
Dlly bv telling how an Indian tnvn. WISHING
10 give the Vicerov an exceDtionaIIy cor
dial welcome. engaged a number of bands.
but forgot 10 instruct them Ali TO start of
with the same tune. Thew struck up stimuli
tapeousIy, but on different airs. and In liken-
of appeals now beeettinx the Britlsh elector
the MARQUIS OF Bath did not 70 too far. The
masses are in fact thoroughly puzzled,
and the ma tn raj result OF that state of mind
Is not enthusiasm
When the eIector is asked to decide by
his vote upon the probability of a German
invasion and the wIsest naval policy, on the
right Of the Lords to veto financial bills. on
protection versus free trade. ON the best
- IL Al. ux,1a Il
and Welsh disesta b ish ment. on the COM
parative merits Of a one house and a two
house Parliament. on a bold new system of
taxing land and OF restricting the liquor
trade and few other problems his under
standing is tried more severely than IL has
been by most electoral struggles
The educated elector may think he under
stands these questions, hut even so he will
perhaps he upset by the way the ~planks"
are sorted out into the two platforms. More
people than is common at an election dis
like prominent features OF both pro-
grammes and feel that accepting either
will be a choice of evils. Iorsf Robert Cecil
and the SpecfdfOr for instance support the
Conservatives while condemning Mr.. Bal
four's protectionism: Sir Frederick Pollock.
the jurist, sinks his old fear or Home Rule
and backs Mr.. Asauith from love Of free
trade and dislike OF the lords action in
A. tor ,hs IssS sd,,cs,~d si.c,or IN. wah
OF reconcile questions hung before him
would nerhaD. msr.iv-s HE mind ~ he raid
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