The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-11-13
British DreadnOught Advocates
Fear ROosevelt's Setback
May Hurt Programme.
LIBERALS CALL COLONEL
WORST FOE OF PEACE
Not Even the Kaiser, They De-
clare, Has More Warlike
PrOclivitieS.
Special Cable to The Tribune.

Special CaDie 10 Inc Irlounc.
LONDON, Nov. 12.-On the eve of
the reassembling of parliament there is
r good deal of unrest in Irish and Ma
tionalist circles, the optimism so widely
prevalent ten days ago having gwen
way to less rosy views.
Indications multiply, though they may
be deceptive, that when Mr.. Asquith
faces the commons Tuesday he will not
Immediately fling down the glove 10 the
Unionists on the question of the lords
veto, but will adopt q temponzing pol.
lev He will be supported by all ele-
mcnts IN the cabinet with a view TO
carrying over until the February ses-
sion final discussion of the various
measures to reform the second chamber,
including the Rosebery bill of self-re-
formation
Such tactics would imply that Bal
four has given the prime minister as
surances of such action or inaetion on
the part of the UnionIsts as TO render
it impossible for Mr. Redmond to turn
out the government as he repeatedly has
said he would do if definite guarantees
Of home rule were not forthcoming i'm
mediately upon the reassembling of the
commons.
o'Brien Sees Hmnor.
William O 'Brien. who processes TO be
in high spirits, declared that 'even II
Mr. Punch were an Irishman, he could
not DO Justice to the situation into
which John Dillon. by his malign in
fIuepce on the well meaning. Redmond,
has brought the Irish cause. ~
Mr.. Roosevelt s temporary impair
mept of prestige as "a result Of the cleo
tiou will be followed. jt is feared, by
British Tories and British Radicals by
an important modification in the Amer
lean navy programme long identified IN
the minds Of Europe with his policy.
There Is a general expectation that
the next congress will refuse TO keep
up the pace set during Mr. Roosevelt s
second administration and maintained
heretofore in Taft s.
Liberals like Mr. Birrell Irish sec.
retarv. and Sir Robert Nlcoll have in
sisted ever since the Dreadnought
mania became rampant, that the chief
offender among world powers WAS not
Germany but the United States. ma
tion qualified beyond all others to lead
the disarmament movement.
Roosevelt Peace Foe.
To thinkers Of the "pcnco school -
Mr.. RooseYclt's 's big navy propaganda
brought as Mr., Birrell puts it, "an inn.
mcnsc discontinue. -
Greatly as they admire Mr.. Roose-
Welt S talent, they do not conceal their
satisfaction over s'thc check placed
upon the most militant of all American
presidents +"
BY the Tory press "A stock argument
in support of "more battlcships in dou-
BILE quick time has been found for sew.
era wears in Mr.. Roosevelt IS champions
ship Of vast augmentation OF the sea
strength Of the United States.
"And whenever confronted with
proofs that their Dreadnought arithme-
tic as regards Germany, they point TO
Mr.. Roosevelt and describe Washing
ton as the principal center of the
naval insurance business
Tories fear that the next congress
will not hurry to create for the Pacific
IN dozen or twenty floating Gibras
tars' as an object lesson in defensive
uuarantccS,