Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-01-14

Six days hence the British people will begin voting what
considered of the biggest issues that has thrust itself
their life since the forced King John Runnymede
the Great Charter Like of history crucial affairs this
pvos upon questionable support the reec
ton of the budget which the land of the lords and which
provides also for Redistribution of property and taxes general
London vered New York the brink OF
presidential election. Fsix provincial constituencies al
though the battle be instead OF
ballots.
said that this fight of the peers against the
people That the the party the socaed Liberal
party has phrased the contentious and that battle the
Liberals relying victory striking fact that the
themselves the who have appealed to the people
They said 1--WE believe that this budget which
all political claprap
slider sociasm don't believe the wishes OF the
majority of English people and therefore refuse
until people themselves hidden Strangely the
Liberals forced into the rather paradoxca position protest
implicitly if openly against the being referred
those very whose they holly champion.
This precisely the situation that in all political contests
Both the advocates and the of high tariff begin and end
arguments ground they welfare
the the people The wonder that the people themselves
ever know just what is for their good
Perhaps the most that truly be said particular
that represents fight between the
and the house of lords better STILL perhaps
between two noIa nare the Liberals and the nonists It
prevalent opinion that the Liberals bound
Rather hastily cOnstrue this contest into reproduc
tion of the hattie nonu rights and vested interests in orr
country 1t certain however that majority of the
English people consider appears certain that
tb now dominant beraists will have things all their own wav at
approaching Those peers who been described
battenng upon the poor all for hunting pheasant
shooting drinking barOns Nor they without
strong hold the hearts and minds of the Brther
active the battle have been truly described
as give hundred men of all ages all degrees all possible walks of
life great science in discovery in politics
staterat whose known throughout the
zed world administrators fighters leaders, thinkers They
whose ancestors fought at Agncour at Crecy Families
descendants of Crusaders Normans and En and whose
grandfathers laborers "
When such begin WELD by direct per-
sona appeal to the they cannot fail produce results The
fact of their land ownership the lords strong
what call the country districts and their conservatism
them appeal commercial interests These have
than proved winning cards in politics.
the other hand have the situation painted
decisive battle between ogarchy and the sovereignty of the nation
whole 1t is said that the peers onehrd of all the
land Britain and that much of this land productive
If they made TO pay upon their holdings they would
thereby be forced to sell them instead of retaining Them
lords and idle estates And
in this it is of livelihood would be
for thousands Of PEOPLE and of production added
the nation 1t is contended that without paying anything like
the the duke of Norfolk gets million
dollars from his property London that the duke
Westminster derives of five millions from his
holdings duke of Bedford millions At time
pointed that London there hundred
twenty thousand five hundred and people absolutely