El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-06-20
FUTURE Of
ENGLAND IS
IN BALANCE
Impending Revolution May
Change History in the
British Empire.
ULSTER THINKS THE
ARMY MAY REVOLT
BIZ FREDERIC J. HAsKIN.

7 ONDON, Eng, June 20-What Of
the future? What will be the
- effect on England and on the
British empire of the revolution now
impending For revolution It is, quite
regardless Of whether it will continue
TO be a succession Of reforms peace
fully effected. or whether il will be
accomplished by blood.
It IS revolutionary to depose the
landed classes from their peculiar
privileges in government; it is revo-
lutionary to mend" or END" the house
of lords: II is revolutionary TO aban-
don the doctrine Of laissez fare
Expects to Triumph.
England has absolute faith that she
and domestic, and that her empire is
eternal. Even Macauly, when he wrote
Of the broken arch OF London bridge
and the ruined dome of St Paurs,
brought a man from New Zealand over
the ALFRED route to be witness Of the
And vet, although Britain will en-
dure, BritOns freely admit that II viii
be changed How far this spirit Of
change shall 60 is the 1undamenIaI
question in British affairs today.
Think Army VIII Revolt
The Ulster volunteers believe that
the army is in sympathy with them
meaning by "the army, us oIIlCeIs.
The army officers are erlstocraJc ana
the aristOcrats Of England are opposed
- abome nile The Ulstermen be-
Heve that their hundred thousand
troops are the equal Of half a mil
lion others, and they have IalIh lhaL
the army will disobey the orders OF
the crown rather than attempt TO CO.
cree Ulster into accepting government
from q Dublin parliament Al the same
time Ulster distrusts the priTates IN
the army, for some OF them nG e1',- 1SIS
sympathize with the home ruleFs-
The Irish Nationalist believe Jnal
q. 600 OF them can whip the entire
hundred thousand Ulstermen- Ineys
too believe that the army oI1lcers VII
be disIoyal when It comes TO a Ilshs
h71t while they distrust the oIIlcers'
fbev have an Astounding faith in Tom
my Atkins. They believe that "hen
she trouble comes Mr.. Atkins viii
Dromptlv shoot his officers in the PACK
Of the neck and join the Nationalist
Unions in Argument.
within the last two weeks mar
s-5 fasr agreement has been made by
me three largest unions in England,
-eiIrav workers and the coal miners
Il the army should refuse to put down
a rebellion in Ulster, these three unions
--o-71d at once order q general sUrlEse
80 Z-oTI1d raralvze transportation and
Industry in England, and bring Lon
don to the verge Of starvation with
IN a week --,,,
h long Ten years or twenty VIII pc
reauired for the flux Of the constitu-
4ion and its remolding into more
democratic form. The ohgarchlc gov
erning class must yield in the end, and
4 ie largely with this class whether
fbev will recognize the inevitable and
sacrifice their PRIVILEGES to save the
country or whether they will attempt
70 hold what they have and force
revolution Of blood and fire
Looks Bright for Ireland.
A.. for ireland. the future bright
ems. No matter If there is a war, It
can have but one end, and that the
{~i71r1nb of the new Dublin parliament
ireland Will be a nation; rot sepa-
rate from the British empire indeed,
hut still q nation even as Canada or
Australia l.
that # the conflagratiOn should break
ont in staid and conservative Britain,
nothing could prevent explosions from
the great body Of unrest and discon-
tent to be found among the working
class Of nearly all European countries