Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-12-01
BY Ed /. Keen,
London Correspondent of the Unit
(Press)

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(Press)
LONDON, NOV. SUI mas 'q's o.e.
the proud BOAST OF Engishtfh ,"a'
tnelr parliament IS absolutely &C
grath
A'noush rlVai Ponticlans .e,,,,
sometimes accused eacii ouie'
entire .uli'--oi osins 'he'i oiii
sltlois 10 annex reialNes anu
10 the government Pa!ro,'' hone
gone SO iar as 10 iiitih'a'e 'lia' wv "a.
lster OF LEGISLATOR cohcerheo was
ing personally by sucn mann
OF faVoritism. Also II mas lreques
been alleged that iegislatloh fa>o."s
Dig business interests mas peeii p". Va
the statute DOCKS pu' trere mas
no PUBIC accusation Oh Persoh'' W.
ruptioh.
In fact' SO nrmly lntrencheu mas We
come the pei1ef IN the general lnhes'Ns
OF the men VINO GUIDE the pohcieS VI
the government and make us laws ','a'
1t is considered very reprenersioie
journalism for newspaper mercy 70
suggest the existence oil crookedhess III
these sacred quarters. Even the ii'os'
sensational Journals are eNceeoiiisls
shy OF making such ailuslohs. vi
course, the severity OF the Engish i'pel
laws may We p'''''i'S 'espo''
conf;d.rce ys Shaken.
Rut savera1 Incidents recently come
to light have had a tendency to shake
the wontcd complacercv of the aver
age Britisber. At least they have
caused him to do lot of thinking and
he is beginning to regard it as quite
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incorruptible ministry to make mis-
takes of Judgment, if nothing worse.
The Marconi contract scandal and the
conduct Of the India office since the
advent Of L. Scott Montagu as under
secretary are cases in point.
With regard to the first instance. 1t
had been suggested that the Marconi
company owed its 20 years exclusive
wireless contract with the British gov
eminent solely to the fact that Manas-
ing Director Godfrey lsaacs was a
brother OF Attorney General lsaacs, and
1t was even hinted that the attorney
general ana postmaster General Her
bert samuel and chancellor OF the Ex-
chequer DaVld Lloyd George mad usec
their inside Information about the COM
panys chance OF gettlns the contract
10 trade prontan'9 IN Maroon STOCK.
Vigorously Denied.
These things have beer. nubliclv anf
vigorously denied by the ministers con.
earned and rs they arc mon Of IN.
'blemished reputation their denials hay,
been readily accented nv even thei,
yorst no,itic,I foes Rut while m,
ministers nrobablv did not make n,
see,, to make nersonaJ prof,t out n,
tho transaction. the inquiry nv mar.
liamentary committee which the,
counted has already produced sevsra
remar,xab,e disclosures in other di.
rections II ia indicated prettv n1ainly
that although the government was
sunnosed to have considered other ten
dcrs the Marconi comnanv was the
or,v ono that had any req, chance
iron, tho start For instance Sir A1ax-
ander King secretarv TO the nostoffice
danartmept admitted that admiraI,v
var nffice and nostoffice exnerts Who
examined the Poulsen system renorted
that II was az good as. and would he
about $40 OcO cheaner than tho Mar-
coni system. Yet. this rcport was nev-
or suhmi,teH TO the immortal wireless
COMMITTEES which was arranging the
Marconi deal. The TREASURY uAich
had IN mt IN the money and the yAst
nffice department itself. never sawLhe
report. ~
This does not incriminate Tho din.
,ste,s nor show ANYTHING more Han
neol,pance nm the mart Of thei- suthr-
dinates. but the connection r post-
master General Samuel with The deal
could not fail to cause comment sam
mel is probaplv perfectlv hontst nsr :
sonally, but he is a member oftbe n :
nous Samuel or Montague family of
f,nanciers. and the Samuels are loom
ing very large in politics RICH now.
When reorganizing the big financial