Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1916-12-09
TORYISM

The British cabinet crisis is the climax OF a relentless Tory campaign
that has been waged against the Liberal government since the beginning
of the war. states the New York World.
Its one of the strange and inexpicable phenomena of the conflict
that the German government has tended to grow more liberal and the
British government reactionary. AS Jnukertum has waned in Ger
many, Torysm has waxed in Great Britain.
The Tory press began in the first days of the a to pick off IN by
M md destroy the Liberal cabinet. 1t turned upon Lord Haldane n
forced him on for the crime of speaking German and studying German
philosophy. 1t doomed Lord Kitchener into the ar office and then turn
ed upon and prosecuted him to the day of his death.
Winston Churchill "a forced III of the administration to make place
for MI. Balfour, and the government "a obliged to accept a Coalition
cabinet. In doing o it gave hostages to Toryism and empowered the
Tory members to force a crisis whenever they say ht incidentally, every
lish NATIONALIST n va NY" to ppo oe empire cespre ofoke"
pledges of Home Rule, a slapped in the face by the appointment of Sir
general.
The Tory drive is o directed chiefly against the prime minister and
the abtest OF British dpomaists but is the ab1est of Liberal diplomat
to have isolated Iloyd-George from his former colleagues and have used
him as the wedge to make the split in the cabinet irreparable. Apparent
ly he too has the markings of another Joseph Chamberlain, who began his
as a radical and ended it as al ineprialst.
There is a remarkable similarity between the Tory attacks upon the
Asquth cabinet and the recent Republican attacks upon the Wilson ad-
ministration. We find the same accusations of ineptitude," the same de-
mand for efficiency" the san plea for a strong, virle government and
all of them used to mask the real purpose of the drive, which is to over
throw Liberalism and establish Toryism in control. Apparently British
Toryism ar see n way of overcoming Germany except to initiate the
Junker politics that has brought to Germany so much calamity.
While the Tory government gains in force in Great Britain the liberal
movement grows stronger in Germany. Every important change made in
the Imperial government since the beginning OF the ar has beer away
from Junker bureaucracy. Mohke had to give way to FaKenhayn as chief
of the general staff, and Falkenhayn to Hndenburg, who is the idol of
the German people, not TIT idol OF the Berlin military Clique. lirpiz as
forced ut and Frightfu1ness officially repudiated. Jagow has been sup
with the old regime. Germany is bringing its government closer ITO TIL
people and more responsive to popular sentiment, but the British govern
opinion. The Prussian theory of government is losing at home but IT is
gaining moral victories in Great Britain.
American interest in the British cabinet crisis is by n 0 means
academic. We have our own disputes with Great Britain, and the more
complete the triumph Of Torwsm the less likelihood that these disagree
ments will be settled to the general advantage OF both countries. Every
serious controversy between the United States and Great Britain has
taken place when a Tory government was in power at Westminster.
Under Liberal government Americans and Engrhmen manage % speak
the same language. Under Tory government they have rarely succeeded
in finding an interpreter.
Tory reaction in Great Britain cannot be viewed with indifference by
Americans. II Mr.. Asquith and Vscount Grey re finally forced out OF
office, the change may prove anything but beneficial to the good relations
between the two great groups OF tnghsh speaking people.