The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-11-20
Politicians Are frying to In
vOIve the King Himself
PARTIES RAISE ISSUES
Liberals Are Divided on Measures TO
Reduce Power of the Lords, While
other Factions Present
Their Hobbies
BY PAUL LAMBETH


London. November s.-(Speoial)-It is
a tight to finish with the lords.
Premier Asquths speech at the Nation
al Liberal club today leaves no doubt on
that point
| The questions today are:
Has the premier got his guarantees p
Mr.. Asquith's vague statement yesterday
disappointed many. but now, after renec-
ton, all liberals think that lie has rec
ognized the fact that the premier must
at all costs keep the King out of party
politics.
Probably the recent long and mysteri-
Gus negotiations between the King and
cabinet during the Kings visit to London
! dealt with that point The King was
most anxious for secrecy the premier
insisting al first on the absolute necessity
OF announcing his reception of the guar
| antees to prevent the breaking uD of the
| liberal party.
An indication that implies that Mr. As
quith got his guarantees is to be found
In Mr. Redmonds silence and apparent
satisfaction
| 1t is not improbable If the guarantees
are not given the crown itself will be
| involved.
Laborites and socialists predicting a
| large increase in their delegations in the
hext political meeting are making a lot
or the aliusion by the Daily News to
"Monarchica Revolution" and James
keir Hardie repeats the threat about
crowns and melting pots"
Moderate liberals deprecate violent LAM
| guage, and the mutterihgs of radical ex-
| tremists against George V are likely to
cause an answering outburst of loyalty
In other quarters. But the fact that the
name OF the King has been dragged into
the controversy on the assumption that
ne has acted in partisan manner shows
the degree to which passion or
'as peeh aroused. ,eions Is drawn TO the
NIP, a. the personal relations be-
tween the occupants OF the two front
benches In the commons resulting from
the meetings Of the council OF right
| Apparently the close contact of the
| conference chamber has rendered their
attitude in the house of greater ease
mutually.
| Austin Chamberlain has crossed tho floor
| to the treasury bench to speak with Mr..
Asquith and Mr. Balfour has been de-
tected whispering to Mr.. Lloyd George.
IF Lord Cawdor would be good enough
/ to pass the time of day with Mr.. Church
| ILL.," says a London paragrapher "all
| might yet be WE'LL.
Neither of the principal British parties
takes kindly to a solution of the problems
of home rule and a privilege Veto by
| the creation of 800 peers TO vote the eX-
tinction of their own order
Would BE severe Blow
That blow would stagger the whole en-
| pire, according to an Independent COM
mentator In summing up the case.
Tariff reformers are determined not to
allow their speciality to be lost sight of
| in the din of dispute over other issues.
| 40 1a,, l...s, 4
preferences gives them great encourage
ment.
| Mr. Lyttleton and Bonar Law, who ex-
| poets to be in then ext unionst govern
ment, II there is one to come, are also
advertising "this superb policy"
| It is their best rallying cry, though
| Sir Robertson Nicoll one of the most
capable personalities of the liberal press.
| implies that Joseph Chamberlain, by re-
viving this old idea of federation on the
! Canadian model, provides them with a
better shibboleth.
| Colonial preferences is treated by the
liberal orators with hostile hilarity.
Mr. Churchill declares that the cab
| met is a unit In opposition to any prof.
| ect which could not be carried out
without a tax on food. The fiscal po-
/ sltion of the Asquith government
shows no sign of weakening. Al the
meetings of the labor party more num-
erous and more largely attended than
ever before the Osborne Judgment,
which has all but paralyzed the polit-
ical activities of trade unionism, is a
more prominent topic than the veto,
home rule or tariff change
Redmond Is Forceful
John Redmond has risen to the sit
uation with promptness. dignity and
tact modifying his tone discretly as
conditions have become more and more
acute, but not abating one jot of his or
| iginal demands.
AS during his absence in the United
States a mistaken version of his ut
terances there led to considerable er-
ror here, he has REDEEMED the position
OF the Irish leaders.
What they want, what Ireland wants
he asserts, is not parliament on col
lege green. having sovereign author
ity like the London parliament but a
parliament with at least as much au-
thority over local affairs as Is pos
sessed by the political parliament OF
the South African commonwealth and
by the legislature of every state In the
German empire. lie admits that this
demand is somewhat less sweeping
than Parnells but Denies that he has
yielded foot OF the ground occupied
three years ago, when, after rull de-
liberation. the people OF Ireland re-
jected the policy OF evolution THIS
| definition OF home rule by analogies
accompanied as it is by Redmond's
promise that, if such It measure of jus
tice is given, there Will be no part OF
the empire more loyal than Ireland [,
tire crown. the central athority an,
the imperial system, strikes the mine
of the ordinary Briton favorably,
Plans for Big Fair