The Irish standard., 1910-12-03
AMERICAN MONEY
ENLVENS CAMPAIGN
Coming Contest Marked by Rapid
ity of Action and Violence
of Language.
Tories Watching Treasurer of Irish
American League With Fever
ish Anxiety.
Liberals Once More Pledge Them.
selves to Irish Home
Rule.

The coming election is marked not
merely by the rapidity Of action but
also by the violence OF the language
used In the campaign, says T. =.
O'Connor in his special cable to the
Chicago Sunday Tribune. AS one
Tory journal remarks, one speech by
Lloyd-George alone would in the old
en- times have involved a dozen duels,
and as the days so on this violence
increases.
American dollars still hold the
stage as the chief point in contro-
versy. The Tories watch every trans
mission from Fitzpatrick, treasurer of
the Irish-American league, with fever
ish curiosity and record them with
scare-head articles. Every American
paper is scored for any reference to
the Irish cause, and Patrick Ford of
the Irish World has taken for the mo-
ment the place Of the German EN-.
peror as the chief bogey man in Brit
ish politics.
The Liberals retort in kind, and the
Duke Of Marlborough and other hus-
bands of American heiresses are
yelled at as pocketing the American
dollars.
/ Canada Enters Into Fray.
, Similarly, Canada has entered into
the fray and the subscriptions and
speeches of Sir Wilfrd Laurier and
other Canadians during my Canadian
tour are quoted by the Liberals
against the cry Of american dicta-
ton and American dollars"
It emerges from all this that though
the veto of the House of Lords really
is the chief battle-ground in this cleo
ton. Home Rule occupies the first
place in most of the peoples minds.
The Tories, who were flirting with
federal Home Rule three weeks ago,
have turned a double somersault and
now ucIOullCC IL Will IAC oIu iCI Willy
The Liberals reply by once more
nlcdging themselves to Home Rule
and the Irish leaders, in their mani
fest, base their support to the Liber-
ais on the certainty Of Home Rule
following the destruction Of the House
of Lords veto.
/ The flank move Of the House of
Lords in proposing their own reforma
tion has not produced much effect
All Of the Liberals clearly see that
the so-called reformation is merely 4
dodge and means the perpetual ascen
dency of the House of Lords under a
rev name and new disguise.
The proposal to give the House OF
Lords the right to send all such biz
questions as Home Rule to referen
dunn means an indefinite postpone
ment of Home Rule, and thus it would
he with any other great Liberal re
form.
AS the election campaign proceeds
the leaders are more uncertain as tt
the result, but, on the whole, the Lib
eral party is in high spirits. Londor
presents the chief danger to them
largely because, as the election viii
take place under the old register o.
voters, many votes will thereby b.
impossible to trace, but even in Lon
don the Liberal spirit runs high ant
the meetings are crowded and enthus
iastic and the feeling against thu
peers runs high No uncertainty j!
felt about the other parts Of the coun
try.
Liberal Majority is Safe.
, Lancashire, Yorkshire, Scotland ant
Wales show no sign whatever o
changing the complexion Of the las
election. At the worst, the Torie
. cannot do more than reduce the Lib
: eral forces by ten or fifteen votes, ant
that would still leave an adequate ma
I jority to destroy the House of Lords
) veto and pass the Home Rule bill
! but it is possible the Liberals ma
: add a small number to their majo,
(. ity.
3 On the whole, the safest prophec
} can make is that the election vii
leave the parties pretty much as the