The San Francisco call., 1910-08-21
BRITISH ENJOY
QUIET WHILE
EUROPE BOILS
France and Germany Discuss
What Might Have Been in
War With Airships
English Chancellor of Exchequer
Promises TO Tackle Insur=
ance Against IdIeness
By T. P. O'CONNOR
[Speciol Coble 10 The Call

Especial Gable 10 The Call
Copyright. 1910. by Tribune Company, Chicago)
LONDON, Aug. 20.-There is a
strange contrast in the political condi-
tions at this hour in England and on
the continent.
The coincidence of the anniversary of
the opening of the war of 1870, coming
at the same moment as Frances tri-
umphs in aviation has awakened bit
ter memories Germany snorts def
ance to Frances suggestion of what
might have been if aviators could have
given warning against such surprises
as that Of Sedan.
Spain approaches the fierce passions
of religious war. In the Balkans
the renewal of sanguinary encounter
in Macedonia brings Turkey and Bull
garia gain to angry protests.
In England the only interruption of
the holiday has been the profound sor-
row Of the simultaneous loss of those
splendid national figures, Spencer and
Florence Nightingale.
INSURANCE AGAINST IDLENESS
Lloyd George in some hurried words
during his holiday motor tour through
Wales promised to tackle the question
nonemplOyment next year.
Lloyd George also destroyed the
hopes of an early settlement of the
woman suffrage question. He laid
down the condition that the bill should
give votes to men and all women. The
house Of lords will never pass a man
hood suffrage bin which would enor-
mouslX increase the power Of the woFk-
ing classes.
The noSs+ioy7 Of he .-efo ,-rac+ioy, for
the moment was summarized in last
weeks cartoon in Punch. The De-
serted Cat'-one of the old minor ira
gedies Of London. Many are starved to
death while their owners enjoy the
holidays. The veto bill was represent
cd as d deserted holiday cat. The poll
lticians, except Lloyd George, are si-
lent. including Redmond, who remains
at his Wicklow retreat.
LONDON on HOLIDAY
When the Englishmen take their va
cation they do it thoroughly, and they
DO II in every walk of life.
a travelling American told me today
that he had ordered a suit of clothes.
but when he called to have them fitted
he was politely informed that the
cutter had not yet returned from his
holiday and that he must wait.
Now is the time when the vacation
fever is strongest in England. Every
body seems to be on one. The stock
exchange is still open and some of the
offices in the city and all the banks
but men are keeping as shy as pos
sibie of the business center as if it
was the desert of Sahara
Similarly the politicians are off on
holidays and are not to be heard from
for weeks to come. In recent years
the vacation has been greatly short
ened because the platform has become
such national institution, and even
the holidays Of politicians are being
curtailed. But this year holidays are
once more restored TO their pristine
length The conference extends to
even vacation time the same influence
ii exercises over the house of commons
during all the months since it was
started.
MAY NEED SOME STEAM
1t is indeed one of the weaknesses
of this method of doing business
1t is especially prejudicial, it is
thought. to the liberal cause. and es-
pecially so at the moment when it is
necessary TO have a semirevolutionary
fever in order to carry a revolution
ary change in the constitution
For that reason many of the fight
ing men of the liberal party are some
what disgruntled and declare that it
viii be difhcult TO get UP steam again.
u certainly will il the conference
ends abortively. This is also the rea-
son why Mr.. Redmond and his col
leagues were little alarmed when they
knew that the sittings of the confer
ence were TO be renewed and that no
definite announcement was TO be made
with regard to it before the house sep
arated for the holidays.
Redmond and his friends seriously
debated whether they were not called
upon to initiate a debate before the
house did separate. but they found il
impossible TO DO so under the house
rules. This leads one to queer cpl
sode, in which figure an eccentric Irish
leader and a rule of the house.
CUMBERSOME RULE BY HOUSE
One of the rules is a very cumber-
some one with very unexpected and
oftentimes inconvenient results ANY
member can place on the order paper
Of the house a notice of a motion with
regard TO any subject under the sun
There is in the Irish representa- ton
q somwhat detached member named
Grinnell. He is one of those scholarly
revolutionaries, many of whom are
found in any country trying to be free:
q man deep in erudition, student of
the classics, well read in English litera-
ture, author Of a book or two; and, is a
skilled stenographer, he earned his live
nhOOd Tor some years as secretary to
John Dillon. He has one of those fiery
and uncomfortable souls, and might
have been pamphleteer in the days
when the French revolution was being
planned. He was one of the foremost
figures in that cattle driving move
ment which swept over ireland for a
season and which now has practically
disappeared
CATTLE DRIVING IRISH WEAPON
What is cattle driving? Not a new.
but an old weapon in the struggle for
Irish independence.
One of the most cruel and one of the
most morbid features in the struggle
between the Irish landlord and the Irish
tenant was the transformation of arabic
land into grazing land. A necessary
incident TO this operation was that the
arabic land had to be cleared of all the
people who lived upon it. In this way
hundreds Of thousands of people were
driven from the fields that their fathers
before them had cultivated and livec
upon. And those among them who did
not die by the wayside or end up in
the poorhouse mana ged to find an asy-
lum in the United States or elsewhere
Two millions of the Irish race are in
England and Scotland whose fathers
were victims OF this terrible war. To-