The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-08-24
Fox Has Helped
 Liberals During
 1Wenty-One Years

Who Has Been Favoring
 Monarchy for America.
 London, Aug. 2LTwo Americans took an active part in the controversy which ragged around the veto bill re- cently passed by the House of Lords which abrogated a large portion of
 that body's functions and powers. The circumstances of two foreigners figur- Ing prominently in a purely domestic quarrel IS the more odd in view of | the fact that they were on oposite sides of the fence. Both, throughout
 the consideration of the bill in the
 two houses, were constantly writing to the newspapers setting forth their
 views and addressing mass meetings. The Yankee champion of the house of Lords hid his identity behind the
 pen name of An American Exile.' The American colony in London be- lieves him to be Price Collier who re- gently has been telling the world
 through the Pierpont Morgan publish ing trust how much more efficient and in every way desirable a monarchy is than a republic
 His opponent was George l.. Fox, of New Haven, Conn.,, who is stopping at the Strand Palace Hotel Fox is veteran instructor who is said to have prepared more boys for Yale than any other teacher
 Twenty-one years ago he visited England for the first time, and be-
 came so interested in the fight the
 Liberal party was making for the people and aginst privilege that he Of
 fered his services to help along the
 cause Since that time he has taken
 part in every general election cam
 raign.
 In the budget fight of 1909 the Lib
 eral leaders sent for him to explain
 to the electorate the systems land tax
 alton in operation in the United States
 and Canada and he was again requis-
 itioned to educate the masses in pre-
 paratlon for the contest, just closed.
 A few weeks ago, An American Elk
 Times possibly to counteract the
 efforts of Fox. The exile devoted
 more than a column to show that all
 Americans viewed with horror the mo-
 tfon of abolishing the House of Lords
 and the adoption of the single-cham-
 bers system.
 Exile" admitted that the American Senate has done many unpopular and
 unwise acts''. It has usurped power"
 Tt has encroached upon the execu- tive" "It has snatched from the House of Representatives an apreciable portion of it's authority" It has done a lot of other things
 Yet continued the Exile" mark the differences. Never once have tnes American people thought of abolish ing either the Senate or it's legislative authority. Never once has the mad dream of single chamber been the nightmare of American politics.
 Exile apoligized for putting in. No business of ours? It is the busi- V1n Nc x@11 sound government, for ordered free dom." And he went on to say, The English Parliament,-it has been said a thousand times-fs Mother ofsParlia- ments, and it is to be destroyed The parliament as it has existed for TOO years is to cease, to exist. England is to be governed by single chamber. which Cromwell called the horridest government of all.'
 He attacks "the heresy of delegation which has not begun to profane the po- litlcal religion of the United States | He charged that prime minister As qUith is treating the power of the | people as delegated to the Parliament; the rower of Parliament as delegated | to the cabinet; the power of the cabi- ret as delegated to John Redmond.
 Fox came back at the Exile" | through the columns of the same news paper. The duel went on merrily un- til the final vote on the bill was talk en.
 Fox in an interview with the United | Press said he could not be sure of the identity of An American Exile" I could guess, though he said. "His arguments are so full of holes as every ! ory argument is bound to be, be- cause right and reason are not onsthe Tory side. It seerns funny though to hear an American singing the praises fhn air {; with our Senate, S(which, heaven knows, is bad enough), and telling everybody the Americans generally were shocked at the idea of wiping the Gilded Chamber off the earth.
 ''In my speeches about the country told the voters just what Americans and Canadians, too-think of the House of Lords, of the property quail ification, of plural voting, and the many other evils under which a pa tient people have suffered so long.
 T told them that seven of the nine provinces of Canada have single chamber legislatures with greater powers than the British House of Commons has under the veto bill. On taro, the greatest Canadian province, is entirely under the control of a single-chamber government to the en- tire satisfaction of it's citizens.
 ;. There are Tory members of Par lament here who knew these facts IS well as I, but sedulously conceal ad them. Such members as Benar r Law, Sir Gilbert Parker, Donald Mac Master and William Hay Aitken know that single chamber government has oeeen tried in Cenada and not found wanting.
 'tAs for 'EXiles' comparison of our Senate and the House of Lords, it was SO transparent as to confute itself. It $ one thing to give coordinate legiS- ative powers to a Senate chosen by he states legislature, and quite an- other to give the same powers to a clique of hereditary legislators who nave proved themselves to be corrupt