Ex-Premier Sees Political- Storm
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Socialists
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Average Citizen Unaware of
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Lloyd George.
Warns of Indifference
By THE RT. HONORABLE DAVID
LLOYD GEORGE, O. M.. M. I*.
(Former British Prime Minister.)
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London. April 21.—A few weeks ago
I predicted that the comparative
calm which has prevailed in the pol
itical seas of Britain during the past
few years was coming to an end.
Recent parliamentary scene? leave no I
doubt that the prolonged political de
pression is to be followed by a period
of storms—it may be hurricanes.
No amount of organization or pro- .
paganda can excite a deal of feeling
in an electorate over trivial and un
real Issues. The war was real enough.
Why the cabinet split in 1916? Who
was responsible? Should a general
election have taken place in 1918 or
1919? Ought the open and declared
opponents of .the government of the
day to hav* then received govern
ment support, or at least government
neutrality?
These ate questions which agitate
a few who are personally interested,
but they leave the nation cold.
But the war was supported by men
of all parties and therefore provoked j
no political controversy. The minor-*
ity which opposer it was negligible j
and challenged no parliamentary
discussion on the question. The
treaty of peace was on the whole ac
cepted by all parties when first sub
mitted to parliament. The leaders of
the opposition parties in the lords and
commons at the time of its presenta
tion offered no serious criticism of
its provisions. Legislatloh proposed
by the Coalition—although in ordinary
seasons much of it would have
arnuser angry passions—coming as
it did after the war had exhausted
emotion, passed with no more than a
feeble murmur of protest.
Underlying Causes.
Take, for Instance, such contro
versial topics as adult suffrage, en
franchisement of women, wholesale
reductions in hours of labor, repre
sentative government in India, and
notably the conferring upon Ireland
of a measure of home rule more cum
ptete than any proposed by Gladstone.
Any one of these measures proposed
p
before the war would have led to
heated discussion throughout the
land.
The case of Ireland Is. perhaps,
most significant of the changed tem
per of the nation Immediately after
the groAt war. The conflict over
Irish home rule has now culminated
In a treaty noeepte'd by the nation ns
a whole and acquiesced in by the
most violent amongst Its opponents.!
But fiercer political passions were
stirred up by the struggle between
parties over Ireland than by any po
litical question of modern times.
The causes underlying the conflict
dealt with two of the most powerful
motives which make the human heart
throb—race and religion. There was
an old feud between Saxon and Ga»l
extending over at least seven ' cen
turies. It drenched the moors of Ire
land with the blood of both races be
fore a new sting was given to its
hatred by the introduction of an acute
religious quarrel. After the reforma
tion, the religious differences which
rent Europe with fratricidal wars
added fresh fury to racial enmities
which made poor Ireland a .cauldron
of perpetual strife.
Parliament Aroused.
When Glndstone proposed to settle
this raging tumult by wresting
supremacy from a race which had
been dominant in that island fi r 709
years, and a faith which had been
supreme there for 400 years, and
transferred it to the race ami re
ligion which all that time had been
in a condition of servitude: and when,
in order to attain his ends, he had 'o
secure adhesion of men of ruling
blood and creed to his proposals, the
passions raised were deeper and
angrier than any witnessed In British
politics for many a day. Tt led for
the first time In the history of parlia
nTetit to scenes of physical violence
on the floor of the house.
It shows what we may expect-when
there are genuine divisions of opinion
which profoundly move masses of
men and women in a democracy.
Those who recall the tropical heat of
the parliamentary debates • In 1893
naturally regard their voyage
through the frigid proceedings of the
last parliament as they woyld a sail
through Artie seas. That voyage :s
now over, and there are signs that
the waters will soon bo lashed into
fury.
For years political controversy be
tween parties has been suspended in
the presence of a common danger, lte
action was Inevitable, and the greater
the suppression the more violent the
rebound. That does not, however,
altogether areount for the omens
visible of a coming struggle unpre
cedented in its gravity. Funda
mental issues have been raised of
such moment to millions that they
cannot be settled without a struggle
that will rock society.
Gusts and Gales Expected.
The scene enacted In the commons
a few days ago was by no means
as exciting as that which some of us
witnessed in 1893. But it gave me
an uneasy feeling that the period of
calrA is definitely over u“nd that par
liament henceforth must expect gusts
and gales—and worse. Emotions are
once more welling up, and there are
signs of a great stir coming in Brit
Ish politics. The cause is easily ex
plained, the sense of exhaustion is
passing away, and issues containing
ft serious challenge to the privileges
and rights of powerful classes In the
community, and vital to the interests
of all classes, have been raised by
one of the great political parties that
divide Britain.
The momentous character of that
challenge may be gathered from the
terms of the motion submitted by
Philip Snowden to the judgment of
the house of commons: "That in view
of the failure of the capitalist sys
tem to adequately utilize and or
ganize natural resources and . pro
ductive power, or to provide a neces
sary standard of life for vast num
bers of the population, and believing
that the cause of this failure lies in
private ownership and control of
means of production and distribution,
this house declares that legislative
effort should he directed to gradual
supersession of the capitalist system
by an Industrial and social order
based on public ownership and demo
cratic control of instruments of pro
duction and distribution."
supported oy i-anot.
This motion wilt receive the full
support of every member of the ta
bor party. A few men outside the
socialist party who have acquainted
themselves with the publications of
that party were quite prepared for
this demand of complete change In
the organization of society. And as
they stew that party grow with
startling rapidity they knew we
should not have long to wait before
subversive ideas would be formu
lated in the house of common*
Still, even for students of socialist
literature, the actual introduction of
the resolution on behalf of the second
largest party In the state came as a
surprise and a shock. Too much credit
was given to the restraining Influence
of the trade union section of the
party. Sir T.ynden Maoassey. in his
Informing book on "I.alior Policy.
False and True.” points out that it
was in 1885 that the first avowed ad
vocates of this proposal fur the aboli
tion of privnte property and for pa- |
tlonulUattnn of all means of pi our
tion and distribution first stood for
parliament. There were only two
candidates standing on tills platform,
and they polled 32 and 29 votes re
spectively.
At the last election the aggregate
socialist poll reached the imposing fig ;
ure of 4.251,011 votes. The party!
that secured a majority of inembesr
In the house of commons polled only
5.487,871 votes. Kamscy MacDonald*
stales categorically ihat la knows
that independent liberal members— i
exclusive of their leaders—favor na- j
tlonallzatlon and a capital levy. If
that he an accurate statement of the
views of the majority of these gentle
men and of those who elect them,
nearly one half of the British elec
torate already is prepared to assent
to socialism in ease stag's- up -h :s
the purport of Philip Snowden'.-, mo
tion.
Capital to lie \rr.mged.
On that assumption we are on the
eve of greater and more fundamental
changes affecting the lives of every
class and condition of men and wom
en than has yet been seen In this
country. Hence the new sense of
struggle with which the political at
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that court is not today favorable to
the prosecution. But who will be the j
judges after the next general elec
tion?
It Is customary In a political con
troversy to state that the election
which is for the moment Impending
will be the most epochmaking In his
tory. < Without exaggeration, the
next British, election may well turn
out to be bo. The British people, with
their inherited political instinct, are
beginning to realize that grave de
cisions must then he taken. Jfence
the greater keenness shown by the
voters at bye-elections—hence the
new interest taken by the public in
the proceedings of parliament.
SI ill Mm-li Apathy.
There is still n good deal of apathy
and Indifference. The average com
fortable citizen is still Inclined to
think these socialist schemes so crazy
as to be impossible. They cannot
believe that 21,000,000 of sane people
can possibly contemplate giving their
sanction to such fantasies. There are
two cardinal facts which are con
stantly overlooked by the complacent.
The men and women who have no
property for the state to seize consti
tute an overwhelming majority of the
electors of the country. The second
fact of note is the great preponder
ance of the industrial population over
the steadier and more stolid agricul
tural population.
America. In spite of its gigantic
manufacturing and distributing indus
tries, still retains 60 per cent of its
population on the land The same
proportion of the French and Italian
populations Is agrarian. Barely 10
per cent of British workers are i n- i
caged in cultivating the soil. Most
of our workers breathe and have their 1
I eing in the crowded and excitable !
atmosphere of factories, workshops
and mines. The air is filled with
germs of all kinds, and isolation in
these thronging areas is irnpossille.
Hence the rapidity with which the
fever has spread. Can it be arrested? ^
Prophets I .aughed At.
Nothing will be done until the dan
ger Is visible to every eye. To vary
the metaphor, no one will believe In |
th* flood untit it is upon us. Trained '
weather prophets who forecast Its '
coming will be laughed a( or told they j
have a personal or party interest in
ark-building.
It is an old tale-—as old as the dawn
of lil^ory. "As in the days before
the flood they Were eating and drink
ing and knew not until the flood
came and took them all away."
The trouble (an be averted only in !
two ways. One is systematic incul- I
trhwa of i
truth Into, the minds of the working
people of this country. The second,
and more important, is the rooting
out of social evils which furnish the
revolutionary « ith striking and indls- ■
putable object lesions of the failure
of the capitalistic system ns an agent
of human happiness. Without the
latter the former effort w'll t-e futile.
Ateument* in favor of the existing
order will tie refuted by glaring and
painful facts. Meanwhile, let the
champions of that order take note
of the efforts put forth by the social
ist! to advertise their eagerness to
icdress the wrongs of the ex-service
men, and to soften the asperities of
discipline for the soldier.
The socialist leaders have shrewdly
taken note of the causes that produced
the overthrown of their Italian hreth
ren, and they mean to take such steps
as will ensure that If fascism comes
In Britain it will be an ally and not
a foe.
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