The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1910-07-16
Irish Party is at Present in Con-
troll of All English
Politics.
Ulster and Orangemen are Only OBJ
stacles to Settlement of Home
Rule Question.
Postponement of Part of Budget
Satisfactory to Liberals
and Irish.

The situation is greatly changed in
the house of commons and the whole
political world. John Redmond's sue
cess in getting the ministers to have
November sittings and to postpone the
final stages of the budget till then
has produced equal delight and ap-
peasement in the Liberal and Irish cir
cles, says T. P. O'Connor in a special
cable to the Chicago Tribune, dated
at London, July g.. .''.'. ',,.
The Liberals are pleased because the
postponement of the budget leaves the
fate of the government entirely in the
hands of the house of commons and
thus prevents any chance of any COM
promise by the liberal. negotiators as
would imperil the. Liberal principles.
Hence that dangerous spirit of mis-
giving and revolt which threatened
open rupture between the ministry and
their supporters has been overcome
and the whole political temper again
is tranquil so far as the Liberal and
Irish ranks are concerned
But, although this Transformation of
temper may mean something; it can
not be taken too seriously. Never has
q political secret been better kept than
the proceedings Of the conference.
Even to their colleagues the negotia-
tors are dumb. Balfour's illness also
introduces a new element of uncer-
tainty and delay.
Another curious sign of the times
is the feeling among the more rational
Conservatives that the conference, if
it means compromise on the consti-
tut'onal question of the lords veto,
may also mean compromise on the
Irish question. Evidently everybody
feels the solution of the Irish question
cannot be much longer delayed.
Irish Party in Control.
This feeling is aided greatly by the
spectacle of the Irish party controlling
all of the English politics at this mo-
ment 1t was the Irish party which
forced Premier Asquith and the cabi
net into the announcement of the de-
mand of guarantees from the late king.
1t was the Irish party that passed the
budget and forced it down the tfroats
of the house of lords and it was the
Irish party that forced the November
sitting.
Another factor is the we'll known
opinion of the present king that the
local questions should no longer oc-
cupy so much of the time and atten-
tion of the imperial parliament and
that a system of home rule all round
should leave the imperial parliament
to deal solely with the imperial af-
fairs.
Ulster and the Orangemen are the
only obstacles left to settlement be-
tween the two parties on the home
rule question.
The uncertainty and surprises. of
British politics are revealed by the
history of the accession bill.
It appeared impossible for any per-
son to object to the removal Of the
words of insult in the royal oath to
millions of Catholic subjects, but the
mo popery" feeling was being care
fully machined by the ultra Protestant
associations.
The peacemakers are experiencing
the usual rewards of their beneficent
activity. They are equally suspected
by their followers on both sides. Each
set, and, indeed, each member of the
conference, has his own group of
watchful friends that might easily be
turned into enemies
Mr.. Balfour notoriously cares little
for tariff reform, has scantiest faith in
it, and If he could, would drop it al
together from the Conservative plat
form. Any little steps he has taken
and he has taken his steps by incline
he has taken under the relentless
press of the tariff reform section Of
the Chamberlain family. The result i.
that tariff reformers are always in.
triguing against him.
Some of them speak of him in pri.
vate in a fashion that startles ever
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