The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1910-05-21

The question of the veto will be
fought to finish, in the parlance Of
the prize ring, and the so-called no.
bility will be forever deprived of the
ing and mutilating measures passed
by the Liberal party in the Commons.
Within the last quarter of a century
the hereditary peers have emasculat-
ed bills of vital Importance to the ma
jority of the people. They rejected
with disdain the home rule bill of
Gladstone: they amended land acts
for Ireland so as to render them mop
erative and worthless; and few
months ago, because the landocracy
was taxed in the Lloyd George bud
get, they threw out the bill entirely
ton the proceeding. They were sadly
disappointed at the polls after an acri-
monious discussion on the hustings
where the Tory aristocrats received
slight courtesy from the yeomanry of
England who "heckled" them to the
kings taste by asking awkward ques-
tons relative to their landed property
and how they had first acquired pos
session of it in the days of conquest.
The English democracy, who have
some forty representatives in parlia-
ment told the aristocracy what they
thought of them by voting again for
the Liberals. The budget was again
passed by the Commons and sent to
the Lords, and the second time it was
passed without a murmur. That is
the grandest victory won in recent
years by the democracy of the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
and greater victory will soon fol-
low
The first thing to be done under the
reign of George V is to take from the
upper house the power of vetoing bills
passed by the lower house. Before
that work is accomplished another ap-
peal will be made to the country, and
there is no doubt of the result. The
aristocracy and the whisky interests
combined. and the Liberals will be
re-elected as before by a good major
ity. If the veto bill is again rejected
the king will be called on by the Lib
erals to create new lords who will out
vote the old fossils in the higher
chamber. What King George will do
time the great unfolder of events, only
will determine.
When the veto power Of the lords
is abolished, then comes Home Rule
for Ireland, which should have been
granted in the days of Gladstone. An
other terrific battle between Liberals
and Tories will ensue over that meas
ure, but the Liberals will be victorious
and Ireland once again will be ruled
by her native sons in the City on the
Liffey.
The most prudent thing done b,
Redmond and his faithful followers ir
parliament was to vote solidly with thu
Liberals on the Lloyd George budget
Without the vote of the Irish the bill
could not pass, and the Liberal party
is in duty bound to recognize theil
support at the first opportunity. The
Labor party is also indebted to the
Irish for the passage of the bills ii
their interest, and there Is no doub
but the English, Scotch and Welsh
democracy will stand by the Irish ir
the cause of Home Rule. They cannot
afford to do otherwise. At no time ir
the last hundred years were the
horny handed sons of toll in Grea
Britain and Ireland so united in bonds
of sympathy and friendship as they
are today; and let us hope they will
remain united until the Irish have
obtained the national rights to which
they are entitled. God speed the day
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