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AN AMERICAN VIEW OF BRITISH POLITICS

TROUBLE ON A TRANSPORT AUSTRALIAN TROOPS ON VERGE

OF REVOLT.

A Melbourne message of December 29th says: Five hundred New South Wales and Queensland soldiers, who reached Melbourne by a transport on Friday, re- fused to travel further by that ressol. They were given leave to go ashore on Friday, but could not be persuaded to re-embark and continue their journey by

A TILT AT THE TORY PARTY

The San Francisco Examiner, in a leading article expressing the fear that the Tary Party may endeavour to carb British liberty, saya:

i has been the After

it a great war history of the world that reaction wets in against the victor. Nothing better than war illustrates the truth of those lines, the greatest perhaps, in the Enga. On reaching Melbourne, they called lish language. by Kipling:

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If you can meet with triumph nud disaster And treat those two Impostors just the

Dat

have a

All down through the ages of which we record, even the most complete victory has taken something out of the very winners of the victory, and often the vanquished have in the long run won the greatest advantage.

Great Britain and France especially want to beware lest the Germans, freed from their chains and becoming the freest people in Europe, do not gain more from the war, do not risc stronger out of the ashes of their defeat than France and especially Great Britain I cannot be doubted that the British has become reactionary. IL cannot be doubted that Lloyd George's coalition with the British Tories during the war, and justified, perhaps, by the war, ha converted the Liberal ministry which entered the war into a reactionary Tory Cabinet. But the continuanos of thie coalition between Lloyd George and the British Tories has much less justif cation, if any, in the great radical which Lloyd George unce was, now that the

Cabinet

WAT 16 Gyer.

at the rooms of the Returned Sailors' and Soldiers Imperial League and made seri. ous charges of bad feeding, over-crowd- ing and lack of discipline on the trans. port. Those charges were later repeated to the staff officer for returned soldiers, and again the men firmly refused to retura to the ship by mid-night when their leavy would expire. Last evening, a special train was provided for the men, who travelled to Sydney on the understanding that they would, pay their own fares.

Before entraining, the men alleged that the there was gross Inck of order on transport, and that on two occasions the troops were on the verge of revolt becau30 there was little room for rank and file to exercise. The sergeants agreed to hand over the space allotted for men of ser

rank and over, but this was not

ruen alleenly The men

that the врах

for the officers was unduly large, and there was an ugly incident when the officers, with drawn revolvers, ordered the men off the boat deck. A large crowd of soldiers gathered below and threatened to throw overboard the afficere who had threatened their comrades with revolvers. Representatives of the rank and file appealed successfully to them not to re- Folt, and, subsequently, special were granted the men.

Regardinvileges

food the men complain that they did not receive the scale of rations posted up for perusal. The men appointed representa

and they collected lives on the ship. information which they desire to place before a Government inquiry.

It is certain that Germany, unless & is formed by secund "Holy Alliance'

Regrettable happenings occurred when the Allies to destroy libera) ideas in the

the transport reached Darban, where world, will gain out of this war complete leave was not granted on account of the

Freedom political freedom-a political

in South Africa, epidemic of influenza equal to that enjoyed by any country a few broke away and actually returned

ip the world. It is also highly probable that they will gain out of the war as economic freedom equally important and one vustly greater than that enjoyed by arty nation except the British colonies in Australasia and the Russian people, if they succeed in preserving the fruits of their revolution.

ent

the vessel for pay, which was refused. a large number went ashore in a barge and as the men refused to mount guard one was formed of officers and sergeants who had rifles and fixed bayonets and The naval transport officer at revolvers. Durban requested the officer command ing the troops to allow the remainder shore as so many Australians were already in town.

Great Britain had, before this wer, achieved a practical political freedom though preserving archaic forms and A party of 20 of the men visited Port names of political institutions inconsist Melbourne, yesterday, and made merry. with democracy. But forms of A military prison van arrived with four government and uses of institutions attendants, who ordered the men to enter are unimportant, if under their political the vehicle. The order was ignored, and When the democracy reigns supreme. We are just three of the soldiers who were seized were

released by their comrades. beginning to appreciate that

civilian political democracy is only to win hall position looked threatening a

pointed out that the men had barely time that a complete vistory for to catch their train to Bydney. The men

requires the establishment then left in a body unmolested, economic democracy. It ፫-

a

demperacy

of

quires the overthrow

of

3D Coquo-

auc autocracy. It requires an equa

lity not only of every man before the the small minority enjoying special law, but of every man before the estab privilege has been able, in this country, lished economic conditions. As a matter to fight off the progressive advance of

of fact, you cannot have one without the the great majority. other You equality of

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It is inconceivable that any plan very

before the would come out of the Tory party to give but unless you

have economie the House of Lords real power or to equality you will never have any give any second legislative chamber real thing but the theory of equality power that did not so hedge about the of all men before the law. It is absurd method by which its members were to be to say that a poor man has an equal elected and the character of ita tenure of office as to remove it far from popular chance with a man of great wealth any offic where, under any political institutions, control, to make it unresponsive to the however politically free tr theory they may be.

will and thus to make it the tual Deer of plutocracy and special privilege. which constitute the economic autocracy

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But so far as mere political freedom

concerned, political democracy could of Great Britain and of America and MANAGER, yo unaccompanied by economic freedom of France.

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had gone as far in Great Britain as if a revolution of this character takes political democracy could go.

But no place in Great Britain, the British une dreamt that out of the war would people will have lost more out of this come any danger to the mere political war, which they supposed they wore in this freedom and democracy of Great Britain fighting to preserve democracy

while There was fear that the war would delay world, than if they lost the war, the growing appreciation of the neces the German people, set free from their economie autocracy, will sity for economic as well as political political and freedom.

gain more than any of the victors. But to-day there appears, at least on It is astonishing, it is tragic, that the surface of things, to be a serious with the lessons of history before us, danger not only of a loss in progress to people will go on committing the same ward coonomia democracy, but oven mistakes and suffering the same penal. los in suere political democracy in ties that their prototypes in the years Great Britain. According to our latest gone by have committed and have suffer. dispatches, the Lloyd George.Balfour- ed. Athene and the best democracies of Bonar Law coalition party to reorganize the House of Posts to Greece were destroyed by their military As to uccesses; and Rome, the most democratio make it a body of real power under the government of her time, was also des camouflage of converting the House stroyed internally by the resuite of her Lords from a hereditary body into a body victories.

having access to the people." It is The American people admire, and, in- deed, love the Great Britain of the

alleged that the Tory party is hatchingral party. The British Governm

a scheme to give the House of Lords power.

real

as it is said this achemo does, which

ia a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Now, there cannot be any doubt that the Tories it has been guilty of the worst any scheme coming out of the Tory party, and faithlessness known

barbarition arty international meanssinations bas

Un to history. to give the House of Lords real der, the Liberal Government it has won

tho

the admiration and affection respect, of the wholo world. If the British

atteme power in England is a read

hundred

tionary schome intended to get political democracy in Great Britain back a people fall under the rule of a Tory got

years,

We may depend upon ernment, as a result of the last general it

that any

talk about changing the election, it will be a matter which the Hous

of Lords in order to make a.com. American people will grieve over almost sible to the people and to deprive it of as much as the people of Great Britain its hereditary power is more camouflage, will surely grieve when they wake up to in merely to sugar-coat a downright ro 800 what has happened and what the

bo. actionary revolation of the most fundo consequences of it must mental character in the British

Under

a Tory government there must The House of Lords, to-do

nand Great Britain, because Americans whatever.

The British House of know from their history that a Tery power

ommons is

The Housent:

with the toast supreme.

government never has yet, dares not veto any of its lawn, spontaneity, been friendly to America. neither do any of the judges dare to Two out of five of our foreign wars have declare any law it enacts unconstita been with Great Britain under tional. It is the most affective represin government, and we came within hair

body the world has known. It is brondth of waging two more ware with a Tory governmonb working so satisfactorily that an eriti-Great Britain under a ment had sprung up for they initiative Had a Tory government controlled Great and referendum in England, because the Britain, it is doabtful whether the necessity for it has not been apparent, American people would have tolerated ainco ilie legislativo power is not hedged the entranon of America into this great about by a hundret checks and balances war.

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