The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1919-07-03

dencc i'll London have l seen a. season
eayer han the present. John Bull or b
dinarily is a grumbler, but he also In
sists on having mis- good time. Never
did he insist so strongly as today on
fancy dress balls and big weddings
Derby day was unexampled for attenuN
ance and was reported more fully IN the
papers than the proceedings OF the
peace conference. On the opera seal
son, where ANEW tenor or new primal
donna is introduced, every week young
ladies are displaying leap year lnltla-
tive of love making to the despair OF
old fashioned parsons and prlm dow
ayers. And with regard to dress this,
for instance, is what 1 find in the chaste
columns Of the Daily News:
There was no back in her dress;
there was very little front, and moth
ing to speak about in the way of sides.
The skirt came to an abrupt end well
above the knee. The only articles of
dress were a pair of lack stockings
and a pair of Shoes"
Reaction From Wars Stress.
Such is London today. 1t reminds
one of that orgy of enjoyment which
followed the execution of Robesplerre
and the end of the reign of terror In
TuIlS, Nl.Hl NJpO.Sol dlio ooiAoo "NNO
rivals for the favois of Josephine, Inc
it comes from the same cause, namely,
tho cessation of the prolonged anxieties
of four years and the spring tide of
relief and Joy of life which nothing can
now dam.
You will, therefore, form a wrong m
preston of what London thinks n
feels if you take too seriously any pic
ture of anXieties about the terms or
peace or iercmiades about our financial
position. Northcliffe's organs try In
vain Il new stunt against Premier
Lloyd George. Even Horatio Bottomley
cannot raise moments Of emotion in the
house of commons by long ;.eremptory
demands for a bigger indemnity from
the Germans.
London still feasts and dances. Yet,
OF course, there is the specter of many
coming troubles, such as insistcnt
voices that the rise in the price of coal
f~oreshadoWs q hard winter, with fireless
CRATES. Paris is breaking out after a
self-restraint of five years of war; that
old feud between capital and labor,
which often held up French capital in
pre-War days with demands for wages,
is soaring above anything the Widest
agitator suggested in pre-war days, and
mere IN EIlSlduu tdDOI UNREST leCc1NSS q
certain impetus from the strong divi-
sion of opinion between the govern
ment, represented in this respect main
" by Churchill. with jingo niilitarist
speeches. and the working classes and
some liberals on the question of sup
port for Admiral Kolchak in Russia
against the bolshevists.
Public Remains Uninterested.
w. ,,,o,, l~ ~ 1~1.o,@ 1.,,t ,-o =,
London are dancing gayly upon it. 1t
is significant at present of the rather
disheveled and absentminded public
opinion that even the controversy be-
tween Asquith and Lord French excites
but a tepid interest. Over this and all
other controversies there hangs the
overriding fact of the entire disappear
ance Of the old party spirit, and that
destruction of all old party lines which
Lloyd George, for good reason or bad.
from personal conviction or personal
ambition. has managed to accomplish.
Lord French's proceedings, especially
in his free attacks not only on the dead
Lord Kitchener, but on living officers
like Sm1th-Dorrien, whom military dis-
cipline does not allow to reply, and the
raking up again OF old feuds in the ag-
ony of war time does not commend it
self as good tactics or good
But though some liberal papers attempt
to utilize Asquith's brilliant retort as
ammunition against Lloyd George for
his share in the intrigue that brought
down Asquith and set him up, and
though Lord Northcliffe, who was the
chief agent for producing that result
attempts to renew the campaign
against Asquith, the public remains un-
interested.
One of the most curious symptoms 0;
this strange unprecedented temper 81
narcotized opinion was revealed in tht
debate in the house of on tn.
proposal TO substitute federal for The
present unitary parliamentary system
in the British isles. The debate W..
allowed by the government to occup.
nearly two fell nights, and even Wa te1
Long, the most typical tory Of the re
a]ctionaries, gave his blessing to TIKI
!, scheme.
What happened in the debate woul
, have been impossible five years age
1t is almost incredible even today. Her
was a proposal in this most conser~a
, tive of nations to pail to pieces til
thousand year old parliamentary ma
chine, and it was discussed before emp
ty, ~listless benches with perfect tran
guilty and, more remarkable, with vir
tually universal assent to the urgen
\ necessity of the entire transformatiol
} Of the whole machine at Westminster
y few Orangemen and a few little nm
English reactionaries alone opposed
: but it sounded like voices from tn
grave of dead policies and & dead II
gone epoch Of English history. Ne'
parties will, of course be formed i
time, but for the moment party spsr>
i and party organization in the house {
commons is as clean a sweep away a
\ san Francisco after the fire.
- Irish Question Broods Over All.
t There will evidently come in time i
f the United Kingdom local legislature
: after the name of your state legis
= latures, but it will be some time yet.
$ In the meantime, as all the member
d thought and most members said, theI
t t.; the question of Ireland, different
r character and more urgent in delnar
s than the somewhat uniformed tepid d.
sire of either England, Sc-t.and {
- S-alnc for local parlia mertS lrcl1r