New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-11-20
ASQU|TH GIVES KEYNOTE
Premier Says Conservatives
Govern In and Out of Offlce.
WITH HELP OF THE LORDS
-,s,al Measures, He Insists
must No Longer Be Rejected
bvHostile Upper Chamber
nv Cable to The Tribune, ]

,zor 7a-The Prime Minis
-. manifesto has not come from Ai'''7i'
usu where he gave famous please
Tho e,,~ragettes might have
-. themselves troublesome II '-i
L.. whereas he was safe Lo'"
-, ~ The National Liberal C4uo'
- he made a speech after luncIleo''
.o-5ex II was there, moreover 'l0'
-o,sa-,red with ane irony the actlon Oh
- r-r,,sA ~ Lords toward the close OF
-oos - rejecting the licensing bill anu
..-.-a5 +hst The ministers IllS1lN
.ooo-7nlish their purpose with the ''i' -
<,aneiaI legislation That was TIE s. IiH1i
e. T5ovd-ceorse's budget when mas
ID ~ +te veto bill and the crisis n til1
relations Of the Two houses
The National Liberal Gun as '-ie
,.~o-ghoI5 Of progressive democracy
IS -be national and logical Iiace Tor
,,.fas-77irs z fresh campaign AgaIiis'
-ho House Of Lords after Two fAi-''1-
mems had failed TO overcome the rec
anoe Of the privileged legislators 70 I1iS
---,a % the general electorate 1heIe
-za-a aIonuenr passages ii the speecA
and ferzfd ourbursts Of enthusiasm
The main issue Of the impending LID
cal canvass was described as the re-
-,ozs1 Of the grievance OF long standing
that the Conservatives. with the heIP
n 1he House Of Lords, governed the
co711trv when il opposition as Vel as
when n power.
Liberal measures. M AsQuith said
-77,5e1 10 longer be mutilated or re3ec'eo
nv 2 hostile upper chamber. Liberal
hills -nvst be carried WREN the min
ss-a-s have. the country behind them
The Prime Minister viii be io-IoWe1
next week by MI. Lloyd-Cseorge IN me
East End and Mr.. Winston Chilrchlll IN
IA North. and the Liberal policies VIII
he broadened and poDularized Possibly
there viii be 3 reversion 10 hInehoIs-
s,r~ Certainly there viii be attractive
forecasts Of social reform. accelerated pE
returns from land taxes and fortunes
The ministry has been kept together
ny LOYALTY 70 free trade and ny the
constitutional issue. fOolishlE raised D.
- FoLse Of Lords in holding VI me
midget With TIE leaders in hearty &C
cord and the party eXcheqrer vel sup
--lia-- b-- rich subscribers, eager 10 OBJ
.- -..-zrases as reNvards for party ser
--+.4 he rank and file are full OF fighting
The times are good, the coalition
----a- liberalism and Labor i close
I'D me z1-ernment. unless outnanoeu-
-ed during the next ten days, Is likely
=. emerge from the general election WIN
n increased majority
-T-. Ralfour's sound. Z belated, COZ
.--4etive programme, with tariff reform
IS me main Issue. and scientific recon-
--5--5o- II 1he upper house and the
f4-Ir PROCESSES OF constitutional re-
-a--- IS is leading features. Is ralIying
..e detected and dishea-tened Cnioutsts.
Fractional feeling has disappeared and
-spid PREPARATIONS ane making for
more strenuous canvass than the last
one. Il which over q hundred seats were
-ecapru-ed. Il Bonar Law stands for
Manchester seat II VIII be q bold stroke.
There Is z chance for q fine play over
he veto bill. v-ich may be referred 10
committee after passing The second read
ing; yet the main body OF the peers are
not vttaLly interested il Lord Lans-
cowne's clever manRJwres. Now that
they have themselves condemned the
hereditary principle as obsolete and Mr..
Rzlfour had conceded the necessity for
sweeping reductions and drastic reforms,
the veto bill appears 10 many Of them
less destructive than their own weapons.
Too late comes the confession that the
failure OF Llae conference was & catas-
rophe for the privileged classes. Tne
Lo15s are going into battle after strik-
ing their Cwn colors.