The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-12-09
The Pulse of tie Nation

! by the war coalition cannot be dis
solved and, reformed into original
party units by a single election. It
will take time and test to straighten
out the tangIe." The big surprise,
as we'll in the. opinion of the New Or
| leans Times-Picayune, was the lad
vance made numerically by tho Labor
ties
Lloyd George merits praise, the Mo-
bile Register says, for agreeing to do
everything he can to help in every
honest effort made to improve the for
eign situation: and he is a man who
can be relied upon to keep his word"
And that the Laborites gained votes
instead Of losing votes must be- the
Knoxville Sentinel asserts, ''most
alarming to Conservative England,
the backbone of which, of course, is
constituted of the capitalstic and
, land-owning classes" This fact need
not cause trouble just at present, in
the view of the Cleveland Plain Deal
err, because "for the present the gov
eminent will be most deely concern
ed with foreign problems" The fear
expressed that that the election means
the end of the Liberal party also finds
no response from the Richmond News
Leader which believes that the Liber-
ais are not lost in Britain so long as
they live up to their name and are lib
eral rather than radical or mildly
conservative" The drift indicated
may be significant" however, to the
rest of the world, in the opinion of
the Springfield Union because "the
effects of the war on the psychology
of the people of the stronger indus
fri to no
manifestations in Great Britain"
Which leads he Boston Transcript on
its part to suggest that the ELECTORS.
weary Of agitations, have chosen the
sleeping sickneEs. But something
may happen to wake them up"
There is no question in the mind of
the Brooklyn Eagle that 1.-THE spectre
of Labor control in government has
been effectually laid" which brings
in contradiction from the Baltimore
Sun, a declaration that ''the record
vote polled by Labor, the triumph of
the pacifists. the precarious victory of
the old party leaders, are all indica-
tkons that Bonar Laws government is
not so substantial as it appears Eng
land wants peace, which he promises
but her people also want ideals differ
ent from those so furnished in the last
eight years. And those Bonar Law
cannot provide The New York
World also feels that "Bonar Law has
obtained an unstable majority on a
deliberately negative platform. He
offered England not a program, but
a mood. and by that decision he show
ed that the English electorate, like !
the American, is still split into fac
lions which no leader now in the lime
light knows how TO consolidate into
genuine parties" The difference on |
both sides of the Atlantic, as the |
Public Ledger se&s it, is |
that where America tried for nor !
malcy' Great Britain will try for sta
bility.' The horizon of the new gov
eminent is crowded with problems :
waiting to test the mettle Of the dour /
claim to the seat of the "WeIch |
Wizard -
John Bull extends his hand across
the sea to Uncle Sam and says me |
too" says the New York Evening |
World. The results give a close |
parallel to those here. The advantage |
Of the Britisher is that he can clarity |
the issue that were fog bound in this +!
election and try another in a few |
The United States cannot |!
clear up the tangle for two years"
AS IAN influence upon business" how
aver. the Wall Street Journal thinks |
he result of the British elections is
strongly encouraging. The net re- |
suit is a return to responsible party
government with some changing of !
abels." Somewhat similar is the