In the middle of last week the prolonged disagreements in
the Spanish Cabinet ended in the fall of Sams Moret. The King was advised by those whom he consulted that it was desirable to keep the Liberal Party in power, and he therefore entrusted the welt:known Liberal Senor Canalejas,-with the duty of forming a new Cabinet. -Senor Canalejas has for some time been the strongest man in the Democratic Party, and he is associated with a vehement Anti-Clerical policy. The fall of Senor Moret is attributed by the traditional Liberals, the Times correspondent says, to the disgust caused by his alliance with the Republicans ; but Senor Moret's friends consider that he was the victim of intrigue. Senor Canalejas in a conversation with the Times correspondent on Friday week said that he was uncompromising on the burning questions of the Church and eduCational reform: He further said that he proposes to apply the theory of unearned increment to land, and to establish old- age pensions on a contributory basis. Much of his social programme will be contained in the Budget, which he regards as an "admirable vehicle for reform." We fear that he is following a particularly bad example, but none the less we sincerely hope that he will be able to carry on the govern- ment with less internal friction than his predecessor experi- enced. The Liberal principles of Sefior Moret seem at least to have guided the country through a very difficult time with some success.
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