Evening star., 1924-01-06
BY OLIVER OWEN KUHN.
y years past England has been
made to quake and shiver at the
ALWAYS eyer-ready tory and lib


made to quake and shiver at the
always. ever-ready. tory and lib
eral plant along about election
time:
The laborites will get you if you
don't watch OUT
forthwith, the people of England
like all perfectly well regulated peo-
pie clinging to conservatism and
loathness to abandon semblance of
old forms. grew properly fearful,
went to the polls and through their
ballots stayed the "onrushing men,
ace" of a government dominated by
interests a1legedly inimical to capital
inimical to settled order. and. which
politicians were prone to aver. rep
resented only those things designed
TO extract the very heart of British
life and industry.
But since the days that British
socialists raised their bugaboos and
people generally saw political BAN
shees at every corner, because Of the
radical purposes espoused by social
EStic standard bearers, these leaders
themselves have tended more and
more to conservative, constructive
rather than destructive ideas of gov
ernment.
Tend to Conservation.
Once radical as the world now views
radicalism, Ramsay Macdonald. Arthur
Henderson. Philip Snowden and others
tnnumerable of the labor party have
suffered a change at heart.
Today they represent sane, think
ing. conservative school in British po-
litical life. and they well realize that
EnSland's interests are, after all, para
mount to party creed. With modifica-
ton of precept. there is conviction that
England must continue to maintain her
prestige as one of the worlds greatest
powers, and be an instrument for the
advance of mankind generally. In
other words, laborites have found by
more intent study that political theory
cannot always be made to coincide with
rational advance; that once high flung
dogmas are not always applicable when
II comes down to the practical task Of
governing tens of millions Of people to
their best interest. Conservatism is
certain to infiltrate into radical TEN
denotes. modifying them. Responsible
tiles OF office and knowledge of the in
side wheels of any governmental ma
chine of whatsoever political character
work about the same.
With British labor leaders of Eng
land permeated with a shrewd sense of
the fitness of things. a keen desire to
preserve England's interests at home
:Lnd abroad, differing only as to some
methods of applying panaceas; tirmly
impressed with the insidious and de-
structive features of communistic poll
cies enunciated and practiced by
Moscow. and therefore unwilling to per-
nit inroads of the red element of
about decided that no harm can come
Of the ascension of Ramsay Macdonald
70 the premiership. England is prepar-
ing for that very thing without
-.
but should the labor party show real
advance in constructive policies. do
mestic as we'll foreign. there may be
expected to come popularity that will
make the labor party really one of the
two great parties in British political
life. Prolonged tenure possibly will re-
suit in but one thing, the emergence of
a tory-liberal group and the burying of
harchets which have been so valiantly
and forcefully welded by the two par
des upon each other during the period
OF British democratic political life.
Britain Now ReconciIed.
That Britain is reconciled to the
advent OF a labor regime is indicated
by the calm acceptance of the an
nouncement that the laborites will
make their test against the govern
ment on January II and that on jan
uary Is King George will be forced
to call Ramsay Macdonald and ask
him 70 form a cabinet. The potential
premier already has framed a cab
met slate and within day after his
election this will be announced to the
world--the very first laborite regime
in the history of the British empire
Liberals and conservatives have en-
deavored to reconcile their differ
ences within the past ten days, but
finally realizing the futility of such
attempts, have agreed 10 let things
remain status quo and permit the la
borites to have their chance they
ever remaining on the alert to pre-
vent undue departures reacting on