Arizona republican., 1904-01-26
PHoENIx. ARIZONA, JAN. 2s. 1904
Irish Views and English Views.

John Redmond gave notice some time ago, quite frankly, that he and his Irishmen in parliament mean to get all they can for Ireland out of this hurly- burly in British politics. and don't care a rap from which side they get it. The party making the highest bid will obtain their votes.
 Even the spectator admits that Edward Dicey is a perfectly sober politician, not fanatical at all. In the pages of the Nineteenth Century Mir. Dicey says:
 To me the Duke of Devonshire's atti- tude is absolutely incomprehensibls. The great achievement of his long and honorable political career twas his se- cession from the liberal party in order to secure the defeat of home-rule for Ireland. His secession was openly justified by the plea that the mainten- ance of the union between Great Bri- tain and Ireland was matter of life and death to this country, and there fore of higher importance than any party considerations. Yet now he not only deserts the unionist party. but he is doing his utmost to secure the re = turn of the liberals to power. knowing, as he must know, that they can only hope to obtain a parliamentary ma jority by receiving the support of the Irish nationalists and that the price of this support is-.and must be-the concession of home-rule to Ireland.
 It is fact that the Duke of Devon shire proposed to Joseph Chamberlain a formal dissolution of the liberal unionist party--a proposal to which Mir. Chamberlain did hot assent. It is also fdct that number of liberal politicians have advertised their readt- ness to accept him as leader and pre- mier if he travels the whole distance Gladstone's time. Probably Labouchere would obiect-his sentiments on the subject of peer premiers are well known-and one can fancy Lord Rose bery. Lord SpenceG Sir William Har- court and Campbell Zimmerman gri- macing q bit over so unexampled a welcome to the returning prodigal.
 Lord Rosebery was in Edinburgh week before last. attended the dinner given by the Scottish Liberal club in honor of MT. Haldane. and made a speech. As far as appears, he did not say word about Ireland in his speech. But a few days before the Edinburgh dinner MT. Haldane wrote a letter widely published and circulated-in which he expressed the opinion that. as matters stand in British politics. the leaders of the liberal party ought not to think of reviving the Gladstone home-rule bills. He voted for them in the time of them, he says, and has done no penance on that account; hut they are of the past and should be left there. The best chance for accomplish ing anything worth while for Ireland in the future will to go about it gradually and in a fashion which will command public conufidence." Mean while, MT. Haldane thinks the present. ugent duty is to whip Joe Chamber lain and his protectionists. Needless to say the Spectator" concurs in both opinions. The fact is," it remarks, that outside the ministerialists of both sections, who find 1t a convenient stone 10 throw at seeding members of their party. nobody troubles his head about hOme-r,he. If a man cares for politics at all, he is absorbed in the great con fict in which we are now engaged. If he so much as gives home-rule a thought. it is simply as a side issue which, when the fiscal controversy is settled. may have to be helped or hindered.'