The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1910-09-24
Members of the Tory High Tariff
Section Are Rebelling
Against Balfour.
Plan for Payment of Members OF
Parliament is Being
Favored
The Labor Party is at Present Pass
ing an Urgent Crisis in
England

In his final cabled message TO the
Chicago Tribune of Sept. is. before
leaving for America, 4. p. O'Connu:'
says:
The political truce now is definitely
at an end. The ilnpatiencc of the
through all bounds. Members of this
faction announce thousands of meet
ings. especially in the open air. to
reach the villagers and the masses OF
the people for the next few months.
This feeling is largely due to the
growing rebellion against Balfour's
leadership, because of the suspicion
that he is lukewarm on the high tariff
question. The Importance Of this re-
volt at this moment is that it weakens
Banour's hands in the negotiations
with the Liberals on the question Of
the veto power of the House of Lords
and makes it more difficult for him t.,
adopt reasonable compromise.
Balfour now knows that many, if
not the majority Of his own followers,
opportunity to knife him and if he
makes any concessions Which the high
Tories would regard as too extreme.
this section would disrupt the party.
Thus at the same moment in America
and England the tariff threatens the
unity and even the existence Of a great
political party.
This attitude on the tariff on the
part of the Tories is made more re-
markable by the contrast with the az
titude of the Liberals. Not a singh,
Liberal journal or newspaper has sail
a word for weeks, If not months, of
impatience or distrust of the Liberal
negotiators This again means that
the Liberals have a much freer hand
| in dealing.
All of the events of the present
week appear to justify Balfours grim
prophecy that gibbets were outside the
door Of the conference room for the
eight negotiators except that the Lib
erals appear to stand better chance
of escaping the gibbet, having now a
much more rational and united party
i behind them.
Less Chance Of Compromise.
| 1t is impossible to say anything
! definite now about the prospects of an
arrangement. as the negotiators have
not met even casually or privately
since the close of the preliminary ses-
sion, but do not think the prospects
Of compromise are as good as they
We're at the close of the session.
One important factor however, still
remains permanently and in a favor
able place. This is King George.
| The plan for payment of the MEM
bers of parliament has received fur
ther and more surprising assistance by
the pronouncement in it's favor by the
standard newspaper, which, like the
Morning Post, is great Tory organ
The Tory outcry against Lloyd
Georges land taxes received a severe
blow by the courageous action of
Lloyd George in summoning all of his
enemies and critics to public con.
ference.
Redmond with his colleagues will
I sail today on their mission to Amer.
lea, leaving behind an Ireland moro
united and more hopeful than for "a
years. All accounts from America
promise bigger triumph on this mis-.
sion than any since Parnelrs mo,.
glorious hours,
Labor Party in Crisis.
The Labor party in England is pass
ing for the moment through a crisis
of some urgency, and this crisis comcs
at the same time as only one of the
many embarrassments that pursue it.
as indeed is the case with every other
labor party in the world.
The crisis has been induced by wha
is now the historic case of Osborne
Osborne is workingman and a men,
Der Of trades union, who for some
reason or other appealed to the law
courts against decision of his union
which decreed compulsory subscrip-
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