The morning call., 1893-09-03
HOME RULE SURE.
The Lords T1ust Bow to
Fate or Go.
ONLY A QUESTION OF TIME.
That Is Recognized in England Now
by Thinking Men of All
Shades of Opinion.

NEW ORK, Sept. 2-Harold Frederic
cables the Times from London: In the par
liamentary game as II is PLAYED in Eng
land self-deception is always trumps.
Nothing can be stranger TO the oulooker
than the splendid, IN wearying persistency
with which all the players keep up their
illusions. or. at least. an excellent SEM
blance of them, straight up to the tims
when the hands must be shown down.
Yesterday every Tory OF Unionist one
met felt wholly confident that home rule
would eventually be beaten. To-day they
all see quite clearly that this is nonsense
and that what further fight they make
must be in the air.
Nothing has happened in the interim
which was not entirely foreseen. Last
nights third reading of the bill was as
much fixture as the rising moon. It's
opponents, however, kept their tomtoms
beating vsliantly right to the last minute,
as If the whole thing were still a drawn
battle and their chance were TO come on
the morrow. The morrow is here. and
they know. as every body knows, that they
have no chance whatever.
The funny thing is that it was Just as
evident yesterday and nobody on either
side saw it at all.
All this talk about the House Of Lords
throwing out the home-rule bill again and
still again. which really sounded quite
formidable yesterday. has become obvious
and unmitigated bOsh over night
There is 10 precedent in the history OF
modern England for the failure of any
great measure TO become a law when
once the Commons had said it should be.
The deceased wife's sister bill is the soli-
tary concession made to the Lords, spiritual
and temporal They are annually allowed
to worry. shake their heads and growl over
this. and finally 10 throw it out, but that
is merely 10 amuse them.
They know we'll enough that there is a
very eremptory, sharp-edged limit to
what they may safely do, and in this line
they know they have got to pass the home
rule bill within the next year or two as
certain as fate. Everybody else recog
nizes this now, and the only question
open is how much spirit their lordships
will dare show before they take their
medicine.
Home rule. as a predominating issue
was wound up and finished last night, and
we are at last really through with all those
thousands upon thousands Of stale speeches
and worn out arguments, mock heroics and
lies sinterminable, platitudes and egetistieal
Mysteries which for seven weary years
have been passing for discussion on the
Irish question
Yes, thank heaven. it has come 10 an
end Politicians speak as if there were TO
be stlll other years of the same siekenlng
thing all over again. They are mistaken.
Audiences now will not listen to any more
home-rnle orations. Their minds are
made up either for or against, and what
they want now is good. hot, straight talk
about democracy versus the House of
Lords
That to-day is as prominent among the
issues as home rule was yesterday. Al
ready one sees it is going TO no an exciting
fight. full Of uproar. fsticuffs and loud
lunged enthusiasm, an altogether different
thing from what we have been having
these past dozen Irish years. There will
be less eloquence, no dOub', but much
more British local color. fewer tears aud
curses. but great deal more beer.
If the Lords have the sense to stop
fighting before bad blood is aroused, they
will not be The wOkse for the encounter,
and perhaps may even have secured a
AlcSG lcdcE VI itlb lUE tlrlE huOfuhbOUs,
absurd, but still very characIeristicaIly
iDsular institution.
But, If they go on past the danger-line-
that is TO say, If they keep ND the stupid,
hopeless struggle until Gladstone dies
things will grow savage in a twinkl ling.
This aged mans grip on popular indigna-
tion grows now into the fringes OF the su-
pernatursl.
The sweeping change iu London's attl-
tude toward him seemed strange enough
six months ago. but now il has become
fairly astonishing. Last night, long after
midnight, all the open spaces and streets
about Westminster were packed with
admiring crowds. gathered for the sole
purpose of seeing his closed brougham
pass on the way home. and their roars
cheering when IL did pass could be heard
as far away as Temple Bar. These shouts
and acclamation from the populace are
better worth remembering than anything
inside the houses of Parliament.
Last night il was an almost featureless
session in the Commons. though there wa.
crowded attendance, and the finishing
speeches drawled along 10 sleepy yawning
benches. There was smart enough
awakening when the division came, and
an eager eye kept on the half dozen
suspect Liberals, who have been wabbling
for months back.
There turned out to be only two actual
rats, though two others walked away
without voting at all. These four will be
remorselessly dealt with when general
election comes.
NEW YORK. Sept. "A cablegram sent
to-day by the officers Of the National Fed
Grafton OF America to Hon. William E.
Gladstone. c0ngratulates him and the Lib
eral party on the constitutional victory
achieved in the passage of the home-rule
bill by the Commons.