The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-07-21
J ! ! IL CLASS WAR
} TTER IN ENGLAND
Million Roses for King;
h V Christened Clothed
in Brown Paper.
IsslE SCOURGES LAND
Nled New Land Tax
Ills Sharp Cry of Horror
Over Country.
Ne SCOURGES LAND

NON July 20.-In no country is
Sr between the upper and lower
Casing waged with more persis-
terness today than in England,
B unbiased correspondent is
\ b admit that in no country In
q such war more justified than
front page of leading Lon
servative daily paper 1 read a
rs ago first the glaring head
THE King Visits Music Hall
millions of Roses Used to Deco
Interior of the Palace. A
lrther down on the same page
n set of headlines, comparatively
sside those containing the more
1T announcement, caught my
Starvation in the East End
bought to Church for Christening
n in Brown Paper. -
headlines contain a scathing ar
mt of social conditions in Eng
,hree million roses to please the
!. the king-a piece Of coarse
wrapping paper TO cover the
9,ss Of a workingman' s baby!
iy other country In Europe such
.hs would produce revolution,
md they simply cause unrest;
n working brains of the English
are gradually discovering that
Ing is not exactly as 1t ought
md that even the knowledge of
Nj community which can afford
je millions on decorations and
lioned ceremonies in honor of
King George, cannot make you
X that thousands OF people
Ives are at least as valuable as
the king starye to death in
] every year,
10 of England.
.Outsido world hears time and
hat England is sending money
10 relieve famines in other coun-
hi little is heard OF the contin-
mime which is the constant
of Englnnd's IS own great cities
resent Liberal government prob
rans well enough and its legis-
bearly all inspired by Mr.. Lloyd
seems to 90 in the right di-
but it is doubtful whether it
able to save the country from
~ social upheaval, such as must
I surely as there are limits even
Ihtience Of the English masses,
Y first place the Liberal party
ing the government contains a
aof men on its right wing who,
/ other country but England,
lP called conservative, and in the
place, the power of the conser-
1nrty proper, the tories, is enor-
I'D their agitation against dem
lteform is so violent that il is
Y If the government will be
ITO remain in power long enough
K out such reforms as will con
zen the dull masses Of English
nat they must look to the Lib.
lAd not to the tories to save
pm their present state Of bon
George is going to tax the landl
ing TO try IN practice on a large
dr the first time the principles
ned by the American Henry
There Is no longer any doubt
4 and a cry OF horror Is heard
hole English conservative press.
"a general principles tries to
cry change,
y the Cry.
|. .pancellor of the Excheouer will
y country, they cry. He is
8 class war and creating anar-
England where present condi-
t!e nearer the ideal than auy-
Use In the world.
laps OF Lloyd George are strik.
: fhe very heart of English CON
Rn, that much is evident from the
'1hey have caused. The land is
/. md 80 are its present posses
: sordlng to the tenets Of the con.
u faith. '
fngle example, however. win
~ radically wrong are the nree.
'ditions in England where all
5Iwned by q mere handful of peo.
We Manor of Huddersfield was
the Crown to q certain William
ancestor of the present own
dQ9, for s4,s75.
hundred years ago the yearly
the Huddersfield estate was
$l25. Now the yearly ground
eonnt to no less than 5000, 900,
ne OF the land in the old town
Huddcrsfield. with the excep.
small plot in Firth street,
ace built over, is the property
onn F. Ramsden, who thus poi
= PRACTICAL monopoly Of the land.
!, man who wants to buy a plot
noWnship for house cannot do
a Lnust lease it from the owner.
D9uence no moro glaring exam
pd hunger exists In the Country.
Pity Of 10000.
! nRIificant that up to the tinae
FINANCE act Of 19o9-l9I0 was
: the statute books the estate
2 py Sir John Ramsden, who La
suE. After the passing of the
Sstate was transferred by Sir
d MS son. Up to 1851 Hudders-
81 almost wholly an agricultural
rise, as the world knows, being
9Ene woolen industry.
Sn OF Hnddersfield today has
Lon OF ll0,005 and every inch
ven which 1t stands In owned