The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-02-08
More Careful.

While he Is keeping up his game of
bluffing, even at this very moment,
other less daring and reckless spirits in
side the opposition, who realize the poor
ed new tactics and are appealing to the
king 10 withhold his assent to tho home
rule bill until the voters have beeu
asked TO make known their opinion
once more.
/ do not claim to know what is 90
ing on in the mind of King George. but
I 40 remember an exceedingly frank ar
ticle which appeared in the London
Daily Chronicle when some Tory editor
mer Irish home ruler of the Observer
and the Pail Mall Gazette), first made
the suggestion that an appeal should be
made to the king to revive n custom
of interfering which had fallen into
disuse a long time ago, and 1t is hard
to imagine that King George should
care to take the risk. The judgment
which public opinion has rendered in
the case of the Prussian colonel, who
recently revived an ancient Prussian
cabinet order from 1920, is not very
encouraging precedent, and the active
interference of an English monarch in
politics is practically rs dead as Colo
mel Won Reuter- 'se cabipet order, in the
opinion of all unpreiudiced Englishmen.
who, though generally inclined toward
conservatism. do not like to see the
hands of the clock put backward.
Social Condition Bad.
Aside from the great political ques~
tions which are about to be settled. the
English people would like TO know that
the present year would pass without too
many industrial disturbances, but pros"
poets are not very good.
II cannot be concealed that social
conditions i'll England are very far
from ideal and that the workers on
the whole are receiving wages that
have failed to keen step with the in
creased cost of living,
So far English strikers have not been
very successful. Leeds and Blackburn
have successfully overcome the strikes
of municipal workers, The postmaster
general, by very narrow margin, sue
ceeded In staving off postal strike
which would have cost untold millions,
but this does not mean that the post
Office workers are satisfied Unless
something is done very soon to improve
their condition, nothing can prevent
postal strike which will paralyZe the
country. In the London police some
what similar conditions prevail and
strike was recently very imminent but
nobody seems to care. To the watchful
student Of social conditions IN Eng
land tho future looks very black IN
deed.
II is an interesting and instructive
fact that Notwithstanding the more
drastic licensing laws that prevail III
Scotland-Sunday closing of public
houses and the observation-disclosures is
steadily increasing in the land o. cakes.
According to Scotland g crjminal stats.
tics for 1912 just published, 1905
more Hdrnnlss' were dealt with by
the police that year than in 1911,
Improved Service.
Il is hoped to get over existing diff.
Geulties in the way of telephonIc COM
munication between England and Ger
MANY bv means of new cable from
Holland, and thereby TO reduce the sub
marine circuit.
CAT present. an official OF the
telephone controller department in
formed n news agency yesterday, the
long circuit by way of Brussels has been
AGAINST SUCCESSFULLY establishing CON-
mvuication with Berlin. Experiments
have been made, and are being con-
tiuued. but they have not been such
Success as to warrant immediate hope
oP the service being commercially USE
full TO tho public.
"We are very optimistic, and be-
Iieye that in the future it Will be pos
sible TO extend telephone commuuica-
tion with European towns much further
than even Berlin. The public hardly
realizes vet how efficiently it is able to
telephone by way of Paris to towns as
far distant as Geneva In long Distance
telephony, where the sea lntorVenes,