El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-07-13
impending Social Revolution
Results From English Conditions
VIII-THE BRITISH CRISIS.

r ONDON. Eng, July 15.-"we
mean, at any rate, before we
-- are done to eliminate hunger
from British civilization. Thus spoke
David LIoyd-GeOrge, the Welsh chan
cellOr of the exchequer of the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
in his famous speech delivered at Lime
house not quite a year ago. That
speech marked the beginning OF a new
epoch in British politics, and it pre-
saged a powerful determination to
reform to the point Of revolution the
existing social order in Great Britain.
Protests against the existing order
have been heard for years, but they
came as single voices from out the
midst of the multitude and We're passed
as uncOnsiG cred trifies. The protest
was given form and force by the budg-
ct introduced in the house Of commons
by Mr.. Lloyd-GeOrge which undertook
to revise the revenue laws of the ma
ton 10 include tax on land and upon
unearned increment in land. For
time the budget was discussed solely
with reference to its expediency. And
then the Welsh chancellor in the Lime
house speech gave voice to this great
swelling protest in his official capacity
as the representative of the govern
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finances of the kingdom. The faint
rumble of discomfort instantly swelled
into the thunder OF battle against the
privileged classes.
Americans Understand Condition.
Americans will understand and sym
pathiZe with that part Of this radical
protest which is directed toward an
equalization of the burden of taxes
among all the people, placing the great
est burden upon the broadest shout
ders. Perhaps they will not be so
quick to give their sympathetic ap-
prevail to the demand, accompanying
the protest, for those radical and even
socialistic reforms looking to the es-
adjustment of what Lloyd George has
embraced in the defining phrase the
rights of the average man. These
rights include the right OF every man
to work; to obtain a fair and living
wage for his labor; to share, directly or
indirectly, in the produce of the land;
to compel non-productive consumers to
serve the state and the people in pro-
portion to their ability; to expect from
portion TO their ability; to expect from
the state a pension in old age; and to
stand as the equal in political power
of every other man.
In an individualistic community such
as the united states, most people hold
TO the theory that it is not the business
Of the state to guarantee employment
for its laborers, nor TO pension them
when old age has robbed them Of the
power to work. America is rich its
people are prosperous and II occupies
a position Of geographical and political
isolation which prevents its people from
knowing what other nations are doing
BritOns Hungry.
But the English people know what il
is to be hungry and to stay hungry.
and they have but to look across the
narrow strip Of salt water dividing
them from the mainland Of Europe to
see in actual Separation the reforms
which English radicals are demanding.
In Germany the state comedies no
rights 10 its people as rights, hut it
has given to its working classes a
great many extremely socialistic re-
nssspts Of mercy vOuchsafed
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