The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-02-22
ALL FACTIONS
IN AGREEMENT
Irish Question in Fair Way For
Settlement.
NOW UP TO THE GOVERNMENT
AMAZING RESULT EXPECTED TO
BE ACHIEVED.

London, Feb. 21.-As the result of in
terviews with the Duke of Abercorn,
Lord Dunraven, John Redmond and
others. the Associated Press is able to
announce authoritatively that the fol-
lowing is the situation today regarding
the plans to finally settle the Irish land
question: All the interested parties.
nationalists, unionists. landlords and
tenants, are now, for the first time in
the history OF Ireland. in agreement up
on the lines of the Dublin conference.
They have also Joined forces in bring
ing pressure on the government to
make Secretary Wyndhams forthcom-
ing report agree in spirit with the rec
| concentrations of the conference and all
! indications point TO the bill conceding
| those demands. 1t will be introduced
/ in parliament at the end of March and
/ If passed will accomplish what Mr..
! Redmond and Lord Dunraven agree
| in saying will be one of the most ex-
! tTaordinary peaceful revolutions ever
| effected" If Mr.. Wyndham, for lack
| of funds or other causes, fails to meet
| the views of the conference he Will
! have on his hands, to quote Mr.. Red
/ mond, an Ireland such as the world
| has never seen.
In this view such a strong supporter
, of the government as the Duke of Abb
ercOrn cOncurS.
Mr.. Redmond adds: IF this agree
ment of keenly opposing parties lacks
| fulhllment through the governments
! refusal there will be twice as many
| countries under the ban of the crimes
| act as there were prior to the present
truce. This truce viii be continued I'M
III the terms of the bill are revealed. A
! great nationalist conference at which
BOurke Cochran of New York will be
one Of the principal speakers will meet
! in Dublin in April to take action on
the subject"
Landlords Assent.
The Duke of Abercorn, who is presi-
dent of the powerful Irish Landlords
| association, which at first declined to
join the Earl of Mayo and Lord Dun
raven in comforting with the national
lists but which later signified its as
sent, frankly admits that he is amazed
| at the results achieved and lat the
happy tOpsy-turvy condition" now pre-
vailing in Irish politics. Asked if he
thought the nationalists were sincere
IN their professions of willingness to
settle the long-standing grievances by
a compromise, he emphatiCalIy ex-
pressed his belief in their complete sin
certify. The duke could not conceive
that the government would stand or
any bubbles" when the solution of the
most serious problem of the empire was
! within its grasp. He thought the
process of changing the holdings from
the landlord to the tenant might posi-
ply cost $500 annually, adding: 1T
surely will be cheap at that price
Neither Mr.. Redmond nor Lord Dun
raven believes the transfer of the land
would involve more than 81. 100000 an
nually, and both the economies result
ing from the cheaper administration
| would greatly reduce this figure, even
If they do not eventually quite wipe
out the necessity for state aid in the
payment of difference between the
/ maximum price the tenant can afford
10 pay and the minimum price the land
lord can accept
A Question of Money.
The Irish unionists' leaders are of the
opinion that the whole question might
be settled in advance if the govern
ment was not so desperately hard up"
in consequence of this lack of funds.
Mr.. Wyndhams bill win not be intro
duced until after the presentation OF
the budget. so that any money to carry
out the provisions of the bill will not
be included in the years taxes.
Chancellor of the Exchequer Ritchie
while quite sympathetic toward Ire
land. now faces a more serious financial
situation and more bitter protests
against overtaxation than have con-
fronted any chancellor in recent years.
The phenomenally small government
maJoritieS since parliament reasSem-
bled are indications of the storm which
is brewing over Mr. Ritchie's head. He
must also float a new TransVaal loan
before ireland gets an additional penny
and the government, with reason, is
keenly anxious in this respect. Con-
soils yesterday were at the lowest point
| reached fhic
at Anglo-American banking houses,
such as the MOrgans, Seligmans and
Speyers, reveal the fact that there is
no indication of the United States sub
sCribing to loan. Since the last war
loan was so largely underwritten in
New York the international monetary
situation has completely changed and
the firms here say the Americans now
need their capital for use at home. One
financier said:
Loan Would Be Popular.
IF the government brought out a
loan which would really provide means
for settling the Irish question they
would get more underwriting than they
would know what to do with, both here
and in America
Mr.. Redmond was asked point blank
if he thought the landlords were in
earnest. He replied:
I have every reason to think they
are Just as anxious as we are to set
tie, once for all, Ireland's trouble. If
Mr.. Wyndham brings in a bill on the
lines of the decision arrived at by the
Dublin conference, the greatest step in
the industrial and social history of Ire
land will have been accomplished.
More than that il will be a most i'm
portant step toward home rule. Under
the new system the landlords will live
in Ireland. derive benefit from their
property and begin to take a new in
terest in Irish affairs. They will then
see the necessity for an extension of
local government and viii eventually