The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-04-06
When Welsh and Irish Rule.

/ The present political situation in Great
1 Britain is so astounding 50 unprecedent.
ed, that ii a writer attempts dipassion.
ately to portray it, he should be out OF
I the turmoil in London, and view the
position with the impartial gaze of an
alien | happen to be well equipped for
such a task, for | am writing these
words in an questionable Italian town
! the click Of the typewriter punctuating
the steady roar of Mediterranean,
am quite out Of reach OF any book of
statistics, therefore, thank goodness,
can give you no figures, yet | shall en-
deavor to be accurate as the multiple
cation table
A short distance along the coast west
ward, a few miles nearer America than
| am, a man from the same island to
which ! belong, but OF a different ma
tionality, is at this moment playing
golf sometimes see his smiling face as
hc rushes past in motor car, and |
always think OF another trip he took
along the same road somewhat more
than a year ago on the most desperate
man hunt that any automobiles ever
undertook.
This man is more powerful than King
George OF England. He is more powerful
than the Right Honorable Mr.. Asquith,
premier of Great Britain. He is more
powerful than the House of Commons,
the mother Of parliaments, as it is called,
and he is naturally much more powerful
than the House of Lords, recently ham
strung by himself, and this potent, tenn
porarv neighbor of mine is David Lloyd
George, chancellor of the British eX-
chequer.
hasty person might jump at the
conclusion that if what / have writ
ten is true, David is the most inhu-
entail man in the British empire, but
reflective reader well upon Bible his
tory which David loves TO quote when
he makes his exciting speeches at White
fields tabernacle, will remember that in
the olden days the David of that time
had his Jonathan. They We're friends
and equal, but our David's Jonathan is
as much more potent than Lloyd. George,
as Lloyd George is more potent than
King George. This Jonathan is John
Redmond leader of the Irish National
lists. The first governor of England.
therefore. is an Irishman: the second
Is q Weishman; the third, nominal lead
er of the party, is member for a Scotch
constituency So heres state of
things as Sir w. S. Gilbert remarked.
a state of things, indeed, to be equalled
only in the regions of his own topsy-
turvey drama. The Liberal party is in
the minority yet the Liberal party is
in power, while the Irish Nationalists
rule. OF the political groups in the
House of Commons to-day the Con-
sentative party stands first in point of
numbers; the Liberal party, even with
the extreme radicals added. comes sec
ond. while the Irish Nationalist come
long way behind for the third place,
vel actual power in country sup
posed to be governed by a majority,
rests with the smallest group; the NOM
inal power is held by the largest minor
ity section, while the Conservative party,
which possesses a plurality Of votes in
the House of Commons and in the coun-
try, is helpless as a smoker lost in the
desert, with good cigar and no matches.
England. the most conservative of coun-
tries, is in the hands of the most radi-
cal of governments. and Lloyd-George,
by kind permission of Mr. Redmond, is
king.-Robert Barr in April Technical
World Magazine.