The Omaha morning bee. [volume] (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927, 1923-05-15
Normalcy
to Return
in England
Empire Will Stage Political
and Economical Come
Back Predicted-Posi-
ton Is Difficult Now.
L a b or Is Conservative
BY MARK SULLIVAN

This is the aspect that today stands
out like rock of hope in the midst
of Otherwise pretty unhappy eondi-
tions. 1t is the character that led
her TO fix the terms of payment of
her debt to us. and actually to begin
to pay the money at a time when
her hard-pressed leaders find it far
. from easy to see where the money is
TO come from. These leaders do not
see the path out of Englands trou.
hles. But the national character leads
them to be steady and cheerful, TO
rely on sound principles and right
practices and for the rest trust To
time and fate.
To the eye the most conspicuous Of
her troubles is her million and half
of unemployed They are unemploy-
ed because the hoped-for restoration
of international trade has been so
long postponed. TO England. inter-
national trade shipping the transfer
of goods f.'om nation to nation, in
ternational banking. and the like all
these are to England what corn IS 10
Iowa or cotton to Alabama. And in
fernatlonal trade is in serious lump.
It Is made worse by the French in
vasion OF the Fuhr which action has
retarded the economic stabilization OF
the world more than is realized in
America.
Britain Will Garry On
England trusts. however. that this
is temporary. and is content to wait.
she knows that while the immediate
aftermath Of the war is pretty bad
for her, nevertheless. looking to the
future. she has won great permanent
advantages Germany's threat to
eclipse her as the leading power in
International trade is postponed for
generations. BY the colonies she ac-
ouired. either directly or Indirectly,
her bases for international trade have
become even more farnung. Through
her Immediate troubles. England will
carry on" and in due course will
get back to something like her old
place.
OF the things that have happened
to the British empire the most con-
spicuous Is the loosening OF the tics
that bind the various parts 10 the
mother country Ireland is gone and
gone forever. No possible outcome OF
the present troubles in Ireland VIII
cause England ever again to send
troops there English public opinion
would not endorse IT, England VIII
rot 20 to VA for anything any
where. She . weary of war.
Dominiops Show Spirit.
british dominions show a d sposition
toward increasing independence from
the mother country. The fact that
Canada a few weeks ago, for the first
time in history made an Independent
treaty with the United States, without
conducting the negotiations through
London. passed almost unnoticed by
the American public But to British
leaders of thought it was well-ob-
served omen. Nevertheless the Brit
ish empire is sure 10 remain as
federation of commonwealths
Politically and economically the
British empire In due course viii
"eorae back" The strain Of England 8
Present troubles is pretty serious. Her
million and azhalf of unemployed mus
remain In that condition until world
trade is bach 70 normal, and every
body knows that world trade Will not
come back To normal until the German
reparations are fixed II the time Is
100 long postponed. England viii be
compelled to find way TO send her
surplus population to her colonies.
one reason for Englands business
depression is her unwillingness to
adopt the artificial stimulant that
practically every other country on the
continent has adopted the hypoder'
mic OF currency initiation Because OF
currency initiation. The continent. and
particularly the farming classes on the
continent, are enjoying period or
stimulated prosperity.
Farmers Unhappy.
In England. on the contrary. the
farmer is unhappy Toward the end of
the war, England came TO a point
where she raised upward OF so per
cent Of her foodstuffs. Since the war
this has receded. England's farmers
have not adopted modern machinery
to the extent that the continent has.
She has refused TO initiate her cur
rency materially. After the continen.
fal countries have ended their JOY
ride on inflated currency England will
be in the position to reap the fruits OF
her devotion TO sound money and
sound principles generally
The present is the period Of hardest
strain on British character and Brit
ish common sense. II she has come
so far without failing for the falla
cies of inflated currency or commun
ism. she will come through TO the end
Nearly everybody believes there Will
be change OF government soon. But
il viii not be a change toward any
kind Of dangerous radicalism II II
should be a so-called labor govern
nent. 1t viii still be common sense
government. for British labor is es
sentially sound and conservative.