The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1919-07-28
BRITISH GOVERNMENT
BESET BY INTRIGUES
Country brought Within Nlcw of u
Military Dictatorship by Win
ston churchill.
LLOYD GEORGE FACES FALL
Ills PromieHd HrcpnHtructlon FOlic>
Breaks Down Under Double
Cross ~ Friends,
LLOYD GEORGE FACES FALL

uy Is WAITEU
LONDON July - Evasion ni
an Industrial problomH atI intrigue
in tho government iHrf have
brought the country within view uf
"a military dictai"rship with winston
churchill ~ candidate Iuliutc lo h'i
IN the coal commission. report lH
only one. but tho most serious ono ~
The breukdUS mo- Of Lloyd George H
promised. recUnHirurtiur policy lI'
Ia trying 10 run the country aB h'
ran II Ho mrrrufuUy during tho
war whom fuc words could work
miracles and hlH extraordinary HhlI
iiy In political intrigue H'rN"d ON
hold tho government together Iiui
now his differences with chufrhilI
have been revealed .hy his refusal
10 sanction tho publication m
ChurChill'H tpCroh 20 ih' nov cen
ter party which Lloyd George
thought was being formed io Ruhf
anteo his political Immortality. hni
~ I Plid last week would pruhhhN
turn out tu be- u double edged
weapon Iu tho unh'iuHH hands nt
Churchill Tho Nurthrllffo IfcH
aud other papers prr preparing the
downfall N LLOYD deorrc ana
Churchill iH cast for the Tulr Gcufr"
uhH"'ll l'''" '' '''
Asqulth.
II might De thought that tho
chaos into which tho country hnH
been allowed 90 arm would give
pause 60 such inirigucH Even to-
day N Lloyd george were ruurhg
rous enough go make personal np.
peal 10 tho country ho could rid
hhnaolf of, friendly onomiCH who
have driycn\hlm into corner oi
complete inaction but ho II hcdg"d
In by all the Hupertluous puliucAI
machinery he created from hts else
toral triumph last December For
that purpose he put himself In the
hands ~ men who. when he re.
turned from Paris, quickly scoichcd
his ambition 90 become once more
Tho popular leader of progressive
forces that he was In tho dayH ~
his land act They showed him
the division lists ~ IN" houFo ~
commons ana pointed 20 the DIS
trust IN which ho had fallen In Ia
bnr circles They vetoed any at
tempt to do Justice to Ireland al
ready under the rule ~ Churchill |
and tool him that n he would not
save them from. holHhevism church
~ would Ne has put himself unre-
servedly In tho hands OF those al
Wsefs and no will be their leader
80 long as ne retains the magic
qualities Of his war reputation, but
when that fades and n II fast fad
ing the adventurous Churchill viii
he ready nt the war office, In labor
circles familiar with the bitter
hatred OF Churchill In tho ranks pt
Industry and of tho army such n
turn OF evonts would he regarded
"a sure step toward civil war.
II IA hopeless 10 look 10 the pres
ent parliament for relief from these
intrlEues or from tho present
desperate industrial situation The
worse things get the more reaction
AIRY tho parliamentary majority be
comes A with ireland. 80 with
naturalization OF coal iloyd
George has been forced 10 abandon
any constructive policy and break
every pledge given by the govern
ment.
The root ot tho coal trouble "
dlstruat of the Cover lmont Great
promises had been made for mo
reconstruction OF industry ~ he
words Of Lloyd George labor was 10
have a new heaven and new earth.
The most notable step toward re
construction was the setting up 81
the coal commission ana tho suhFo
1uent declaration OF Bonar law that
tho government accepted the Snnkey
report IN the letter and In the
spirit The present system ~ coal
ownership under whi'h vast 7ums
are paid annually 10 tuodtl Hand
lords was condemned hy The report
ana a gESdual process u n1tion1l,-
zation was recommended. The
miners took nonar laws accop
tance to mean that this tuedhl tax
ON tho GOAL industry would be
abolished and system NJ national
control gradually introduced Thcn
tho government instead of acting ON
the commissions report further eN
asperated tho miners hy charging
against them alone the necessity
for raising the price of coal which
the miners say is due 10 neglect -
mechanical development In the
mines during tho war Deliberate
attempts to discrcdit the miners m
the public mind have not been sue
ccSsfil. tho Times, Mail News EN-
press star and other papers Join IN
a chorus of condemnation OF the DO
nothing policy ~ the government
Meanwhile tho labor triple al
iinnce or direct action soviet iH
raining prestige through each
failure ot parliamentary govern
mrnt and is actually winning Nm
pathy among middle class liberals