El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-10-15

chief and go down to certain defeat.
Tories answer this problem accord
INK to temperament, and two wings
are growing up within the party. One
would sack Lloyd George and fight
openly for the maintenance Of the
old social order and the imposition
upon the working classes Of war
burdens, which now press crushlnEly
upon the rich The other group, with
more regard for office than sincerity.
desires 70 follow the prime minister
anywhere on the ground that any
other course means defeat.
CD The third main political party
Is made up Of ministerial liberals.
These are the men who backed Lloyd
George against Asquith IN the crisis
Of 1915. They form the most devoted
followers the prime minister has for
they know their former chiefs viii
never forgive their desertion OF the
old man" as AsQuith is affection
ately called by his followers, and that
III George falls they VIII be cast into
outer darkness.
t4) Next come the old Liberals. Ap-
parently Asquith. NcKenna, Haldane,
and the "oid gang" who were in
power when war came and for two
years thereafter, had been showed
under permanently iu the 1918 cleo
ton. All the leaders were defeated
.
bers represented the remains o. the
orthodox Liberal party in the present
house.
But the old Liberals have staged
sensational 4cou1c-hack.n They
have won many elections. and
while not strohE enough them
selves 20 form q new government.
rhe old leaders viii have much 20
say about Its composition.
Tnaaa -rHr-aH Crow
politics because Of SEMI blindness.
and is now in America. Winston
Churchill has cast in his lot with
Lloyd George and De- running the war
office but with these two exceptions
the Liberal chleftains OF the early war
period are united In bitter hostility
towards the prime minister ana are
working day and night 10 overthrow
Labor Party Figures.
Then there is the Labor party,
which despite its disappointment en-
the 1913 election is now rrowne rap
IDLY in strength and boasts that 70
VIII form the next government itself
arthur Henderson. Its old chief. was
badly beaten last year by q George
candidate, but hae just been returned
n triumph from constituency that
lad voted Tory for many years. 7. -.
Thomas. leader Of the striking rail-
ravmeu, has seat in the houss- and
II he succeeds IN leading his followers
10 victory in the present struggle his
admirers predict that a Thomas Han-
derson ministry VIII control the
country within a year.
Five political groups have been
enumerated. all having representation
in PARLIAMENT. Besides this. there Is
siNil group. To the extreme labor
men, Russia offers an example worth
initiating Soviet government. they
say must Elperse1e the present out
OF date and hoDelessly bourgeois
parliament After lettering along for
200 years, the house Of commons is
effete. and snould be dissolved II Ia
ror Of examinations modelled on those
o. Lerin and lr0tskv.
Just how strong the extremists are
now y j. oltucult Go say. They ap-
pear 70 have lost some ground since
last February. when their activities
ID labor circles alarmed society and
custed many conservative labor
clieftalns from control But the Bol-
sheTviks. MeAanus and watson. with
their Red Ieutenants. hailed with
delight the railway strike Tor they
saw IN disorder and privation. in the
stcppaEe OF industry which the tieup
entorcez on tne country their chance
70 spread Boisherik doctrines.
0rerstafed HIS Case.
During the continuance OF the
strike the revolutionary party sought
In every way TO take advantage OF
me en- narra1su ent OF the community.
But when Lloyd George said that the
ends behind the strike we're -politi-
cal Dy which he meant TO convey
the ide1 that the British BolsheFlss
controlled tne railway workers. he
oTerstated his case for effect On the
public. Thomas is no Boistevik. but
a member Of parliament who Is
conservative as British labor leaders
90 these days he Is the man who
called the strike. and 30 WAS his voice
that decided when 90 ls to end.
Compared 10 American railway
workers. British engineers. firomen
and brakemen have always been paid
very little. they have won substan-
tial increases during the war. But
when &c is considered that the urin-
clple demand Of the strikers Wls FOR a
minimum wage q $3.50 a week for
an adult railwaJman. The gulf that
separates British wages from Amsri-
can VIII be realized. And the cost Of
living has 60 risen 81 these islands
that prices are llttle n any lower now
~ London or Manchester than Ga Sew
York or Chicago.
] have briefly explained the pollti-
cal lineup ~ England today. 10 Is
obvious that as new wine cannot be
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