Omaha daily bee., 1911-01-08
HAVE THE VOTES TO GET ACTION
Government Can Put Through Any
Reasonable Legislation.
NOTABLE REFORMS ARE PLANNED
Include National Insurance and Re-
form of Poor Law.
PLURAL VOTING TO.BE ABOLISHED
Great Estates Are Being Cut. Up and
Sold Throughout the Kingdom,
the Duke Of Bedford Now
Selling.
BY PAUL LAMBETH.


The election being over and the liberals
having been assured of numerical strength
in Parliament sufficient to carry out pretty
nearly any program they may decide upon,
the people may depend upon securing any
reform within reasonable bounds which
they may ask for Lest there might be
gng doubt on the subject Mr.. Churchill,
ne of the liberal leaders, has come out
with an emphatic declaration to the
program OF the party. Speaking at Park
stone recently he said in the course Of an
address which applauded enthusiasts
cally:
After the veto has gone It is my hope
and belief that the new Parliament may
come together as no Parliament has yet
done In "a whole-hearted effort to solve the
great problems which stare US in the face
and to consolidate and fortify the strength,
the peace and the glory OF our common
country. After all. deep and wide are
party differences, strong as are the
contrasts of feeling and conviction of tenn
permanent and interest, which mark and
diversity our political life, the overwhelm /
ing majority OF British men and women /
stand true and clear for peace abroad, for |
law and order at home. for the reconcilia- |
ton of races within the kingdom, for the /
unity and consolidation of the empire, for (
supreme and interchangeable navy, for a /
better, a fairer and more scientific or
ganization OF the social life Of the people, !
for the due correction of the abuses OF
wealth and monopoly, for religious equality
and Tor Industrial progress.
Hopes for Good Work.
I'VE stand for all that and have hopes |
that the new House of Commons may find
IN great schemes OF national insurance in
the reform OF the poor law, in the develop /
ment OF national resources, in the training /
OF our youth. In relieving the imperial
Parliament from congestion by iwell-oon-t
sidered plans OF devolution, In the work of
reconcilinE the two islands by giving Ire
land q Parliament for the management of
purely Irish affairs, in prison REFORM even
In the reform of our electoral laws and
the redistribution OF constituencies-it is
my hope that the new house may find IN
all these immense and necessary labors a
great deal more common ground than is
now apparent.
II think that II Is the wish OF every one
OF us that the coronation Of the king
should display to all the world. not only
the abiding loyalty OF the British empire
10 the institution OF monarchy and It's at
tachment to the person OF the sovereign,
but should also make manifest the
deep and fundamental unities which
undorlie the clamorous conflicts OF British
national life, that there should be season
OF rejoicing and of amty, Of concord and
good, feeling in which liberal and conserva-
tive. churchman and nonconformist, shall
bear their part. In which Welshmen and
scotsmen shall be conspicuous. and from
which Ireland shall not be excluded"
Addressing an assemblage at Dundee, he
said: They have tried conclusions with us
once too often. This time they knocked
clean out Of the ring. They have got to
make up their minds to the liberal solution
OF the great problems OF the day-abolition
Of the veto OF the House Of Lords, discs
Establishment OF the Welsh church. mainte-
nance OF free trade, grant of self govern
ment for Ireland and abolition Of plural
voting
May Abolish Plural voting.
1t is more thaa probable that the priv
lege OF plural voting win be abolished by
the new Parliament Under the system 1t
is possible for man TO legally vote four
or five times,
How necessary II is foe the government
TO abolish plural voting Nhieh operates
go unfairly agairst lioezFls, is shown by
the results Of the elections in che county
constituencies. An analysis OF tAe polls in
these divisions proves that but for the
plural voters the tories not only would not
lost several In the five seas won by
them and la fifteen q tho twenty-five
held on the po'iings whteh took place on
Deoeraber and S, the plural voters out
numbered the majonties enormously In
many cases
MenHies Estate 60 he sold.
The Perthshire estates of Sir Neil Men
zirs win be sold at auction in May, con-
Of I do a. hau
5000 acres; Foss estate $50 acres; Cam
scrioht. 5000 acres; Corriewarkie, 5000 acres;
Talledh-a- Bhelthe. 1900 acres and Crag-
amour. 2o.000 acres. AldWark manor. near
York which has been in the family OF
Lord Walsingham FOR centuries, IS to be
sold BY action next year. The property
extends TO some 24OO acres and includes
the picturesque village OF Aldwark.
The duke Of Belford has decided TO offer
a part OF his Deyonshire estate for sale
next May The whole OF his house and shop
property at Tavistock and az Plymstock
and Creston. viii be disposed Of while
valuable lots Of accommodation and build
ing land at those places viii also be Of
fered together with numerous farms in
the PARISHES OF Tavistock. Brentor, Lamer-
ton Milton Abbot. Petertavy and Plym-
stock lie Is one Of the greatest landowners
IA the country, owning in all over StOO0
acres, peslues NAue"i0 Pi"PeitS IN the SitS-
over flOO0 was realized at the first days
sale az Tunbridge Wells OF about 500 acres
Of Lord De Ia Bars Buckhurst estate
Sussex.
A Thackeray oenenary commemoration
fund has been formed In Calcutta, the
city Of the novelist's birth Leonard Jen-
nmps. has been commissioned to execute
a marble bust OF Thackery. to be placed
In 81 Johns church. Calcutta, where he
Was bspuEed, January r. iSl2