The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-08-11
ENGLISH PRESS GOES
ON WITH BITTER WAR
Labor Insurance Law Attacked
by Conservative Papers;
Politicians Resting.
A NEW CLOUD APPEARS
Great Britain Fears Loss of
Naval Supremacy Through
MotorsEip Era.
BY PHILLIP EVERETT,
Special Gable 10 The Tr,bune

| special Cable 10 The Tribune.
London, Aug. l0.-Parliament has
dispersed and the politicians have scat
tered all over the country TO enjoy a
well-earned vacation. but in the press
political agitation goes on with undi.
mlnished fervor and it is, as usual, the
measures, accomplished and planned of
| Lloyd-George, which supply the ammu-
nltion during these otherwise dead
months
| Like threatening cloud in the hor-
| rizon hangs the chancelor's intended
revision of the doomesday book, but di-
reetly overhead and affecting all is the
labor insurance law, which came partly
into force n little over two weeks ago,
and which will be in full force in
| October. Against this measure. which,
for campaign purposes was originally
hailed with loud cheers of welcome even
ov the most bitter opponents of the
hperal government the whole conserva-
| tive press is now using its heaviest
| artillery.
SO unscrupulous has one sensational
conservative paper. the ''Daily Mall
been IN the choice of its arguments. that
it has repeatedly encouraged its read
ers to break the law of the land
Bitterness Famed.
In the meantime the fact that il has
come TO the knowledge of the people
that the paper III question does not
practice what it breaches, has deprived
It's arguments of such of their force,
for while it has encouraged It's readers
to refuse to pay the weekly Insurance
premiums demanded by the law, it does
not want to be fined itself for break
ing the law and enormous posters all
over its premises are informing all it's
employees that they must fulfill the
requirements of the law or leave their
jobs.
The fact is, though the conservative
press has succeeded in tanning up con
siderable bitterness among the people
against a law which keeps them out
of want and insures them medical at
tention while they are sick. the oppo-
sition TO the measure. which has been
praised and is being initiated all over
Europe, is rapidly disappearing, and but
for violent agitation IN the press ii
would have disappeared entirely long
before this.
Government Alarmed.
No vessel thut comes 10 Englau&
in time of peace has probably ever
been the Indirect cause of SO much
anxiety and alarm to the government
as the big Danish motor-ship "Selan-
dia, which arrived here the first time
four months ago. and which has just
left the port of London for her second
trip to East India. The success of
this vessel means that oil will displace
coal in the navy, that the internal com
bustion engine will Danish the steam
engiue and that in comparatively few
wears every battleship and cruiser In
the British navy will be antiquated and
outclassed, for not only will motor-bat
tleships be less vulnerable, and steered
with much greater ease. but they will
be able to carry heavier guns and
armor. freed from the enormous weight
Of boilers and coal.
It has not relieved the public mind
in England that the kaiser's friend,
Herr Balljn, of the Hamburg. American
line, has bought the only other large
motor-ship from the Danish East Asia.
tic company and that the results of all
the tests which it will be put through
will be at the disposal of the German
government-that in the strict secrecy
OF Germany's naval dockyards may be
put down and finished motor battle
ships before the fact of this may be-
come known in England
Oil Versus Coal.
Just as Great Britain had TO build
new navy at the time when steam re-
placed sails, she will have to do so
again now that oil is about TO drive
out coal, but while a country rich In
coal, like England had the advantage
when the former change came, she will
now be severely handicapped, because
nowhere in the British empire is oil
found in such quantities as will be
needed before long, To the dread of
not being able to get food supplies in
times of war, which has long been
haunting England, now comes the
dread Of being cut off from the sup
plv of oil abroad which is to insure the
lighting strength of England g floating
line OF defense,
Quick and alert as is Mr.. Churchill
first lord of tho admiralty, he imms-
liately grasped the Importance OF the
new invention and he was among the
very first TO inspect the Selandia dur
ng her first visit, and it is also he who
mas seen the necessity of appointing
loyal commission TO decide what is TO
pc done on the eve of new revolu-