The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1910-07-02
LEADERS
GETTING REs1|vEI
Both Parties Are Fearing Leadero /
May Concede Essential .
Points.
Probability is That Crisis May bN
Delayed for Several ,5 5
Weeks. Is
Redmond and Other Irish Leadernt
Will Arrive in London
This Week. ~

Both political parties are gettinAJ
restive under the compulsory truce and.
the conference, writes T. p. OConnora
in the Chicago Tribune under London
date of June 25.
The protectionist organ. the Morn>
ing Post, sees a vision of a betrayakJ
by Balfour of its darling scheme OF !
tariff reform, while the Radicals aruA
possessed of an equal fear that th0l
Liberal ministers may give away somQI
essential point of the program againshi
the peers.
The secrecy of the proceedings cons,
tinues to produce hourly crops of rue I
mors. The most absurd rumor and
the one most persistent Is that homol
rule may be one of the questions sets
tied by mutual agreement. The Irishs
men naturally would rejoice at this
early close of their long struggle, but
do not entertain any hopes Of the
conference even touching the Irisk
question.
Radicals Fear a Trick. III
In the meantime the Radicals grow
more suspicious of the whole proceeds
ing. Their fighting men in the con.
stituencies are losing some hope En-
thusiasm and a passionate revolutions.
ary temper are necessary factors to
enable the Liberals to carry the aboli-
tion of the lords veto, and enthusia sns
now has vanished.
Awkward questions still are thrown
at AsQuith from the Liberal members
and meetings of 1iscontented groupn
continue to take place in the confe-s
ence rooms Of the House OF Commons
One result is that the hopes of q
compromise between the two parties,
which were high on some days of LAST
week, have diminished. and that even
that incurable optimist. Lloyd Georgia
shows signs Of encouragement.
The arrival of Redmond and tho
other Irish leaders this week brinRa
another disturbing factor into the sita
uatlon. While O'Briens exaggerated
and mendacious campaign against the
budget has lost all of its influence,
the feeling against the budget still 10
strong, especially against the huge
addition to the whiskey tax. If the
whiskey tax IL renewed the Irish mems
bcrs will find it difficult to vote for
budget brings back the old trouble and
the danger Of the early spring-namea
ly, that the Irish members may ba
forced into action which will destroy
both the budget and the ministry, and
thereby end for the moment the cams
paign against the House of Lords. NJ
Crisis Will Be Delayed.
Active negotiations are proceeding tus
avoid such a catastrophe. Fortunately
the early stages of the budget which
will come next week do not raise tnS
whiskey tax and the Irish members
can vote for the early stages without
hesitation. #3
f,S3
The suspension Of the active cams
paign against the Lords through the
conference produces in Ireland q cer-$
tain unrest and suspicion and the sitss
uation therefore is less easy than
when Asquith threw the bombsheIl
into the Tory camp before the latsi
kings death in declaring his resolution
to demand guarantees from the king.
The best solution of the whole situa-i
ton is that Liberal negotiators should
not allow the Tories prolonged COM
ference and that at the first moment
that all chance Of real compromises
disappears the conference should b0
broken up and the ministry resume the
House of Lords campaign. s8
Lloyd George Again Victor.
The agreement of the Liberal ManS
istry to propose conference with the
Tory leaders is another instance q
the enormous ascendancy which Lloyds
George has gained in the innermost- 7
circles Of his party. 8llj;s
He is tenacious-or, to use famil-
Tar phrase. sticky. It is the universal