Arizona republican., 1913-11-23
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 T" the question then-Ftas England her self2--the answer undoubtedly is Yes. Two years ago the Tory opposition to broadened government was more than obduratg; t furious NO sur render was the battle cry Hctheaded scions of great families n the house of commons hooted at the peoples ministers and hoVled down their prem fer, to the music of applause from their adyfoIk. save the constitution" erreason!" ~Treason!" murdered '5arNin week in and week out, to the light of earIs and countesses and seIf-expatrated Americans, Social ostraeism visited unsparing- E, though amusngIE. the prime minister the most brilliant woman in England, execration too savage for the chancellor of eXcheluer; Churchill was a renegade: Harcourt a time server: most detestabIe Of Fenians; Edward Grey alone was deemed worthy of respect and consideration
 Now all, or nearly all, changed. Public busi- ness is transacted without disturbance; Parlfa- ment meets. patiently performs the by oi grouse and P'rtrldsesi the voice of GarVin is become the merest echo; the entire opposition awakened finally realization impotence and miiabile dctu. is beginning to be reeonced to the ineNitaoLe-to the saving. not the wrecAng of national constitution
 But one Fay of hope has appeared upon the narrow Tory horizon in the past year-the specua- tion by Mir. Lloyd George and Sir Rufus in American Marconi shares At last there was something tangible 10 grasp-a veTitable scandal. which in truth would have spelled downfall of d ministry not so many years ago. But standards of official virtue high in England today once they were, and in the end the masses, evor found little difficulty in paIliatins against niceties judgment taste After ali, Iloyd-tieorse had not profited his impru- dent ventures. and. even though he had, he not
 
 from substituting MT Bonar Law the place authority? What could he offer lieu NeIshman's innumerabIe humanitarian proJects? Had the fogios his party forbidden him to enUnciate the broadcast kind a policy, to nothing of single specific proposal? So the tongues Wagged the corners and the conservative journals. the British tradition O invariably began criticism with apology.
 Nevertheless. the predicament forced upon the prime minister worse than awkward; it sUrcharged with menace to all his pans nothing than his immacuateness and perfect poise could have borne him through. time helped patience
 There is nothing paradoNical politics. At the risk of seeming presUmptuous. hazard the opnion-a view sustained incidentally by the latest bye-election-that the political result of the Marconi revelations is actual strenGtheing of the liberal party. Not only has the figure of the real leader been brought into bold and advantageous relief. but least dangerously possible rival has found his place most effective advocate unftted by temperament for the assumption of highest responsibility No doubt remains that. if occasion should arise to find q successor for Asquth the royal summons would not to IIoyd-George but Sir Edward Grey-a cir cumstance value a party still minority in England and be depend when the present allies shall have drifted away.