The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-27
England Is ReasSured By Gall
 to Privy Council
KING REMAINS NEUTRAL
In the Fierce Political Conflict Now Raging fin England the Sovereign VIII Take side With No
 Party

London. November 2e.-(Speclal)-By
 summoning the prvy council for Mon day on the event of the dissolution of parliament, King George selects the most emphatic method of showing his deter
 imitation to act as becomes consti- |'tutional monarch in great constitu- tional crisis. This step, very rarely taken, will reassure the country, banish the last suggestion that the king has
 taken sides, and bring the principal statesmen of the British parties together for a final judgment as to the course the king should pursue.
 There is now doubt that he will be advised to inform MT. Asquith that, II the coming appeal to the electorate re- suits favorably to the government ne will entertain suggestion from the prime minister as to the creation or sufficient number of peers to overcome all resistance in the house Of lords 10 | the veto bill.'
 Lord Iansdowne's declaration that the bill "endangers the constitution or the country. particularly as regards nome rrle leaves no doubt as to the issue upon which the unionists will make their | fight. ,- -. i1ntil if was made there had been more | or less uncertainty. Until then there hau been a possibility that the lana tax | fiscal reform, naval policy or the SO called soeialistic projects of Lloyd George I and Winston Churchill might be used 10 1 draw attention from the Irish demands. l Rur the situation has cleared up wonder 1 fully this week and the electors VIII go to the polls with an eye singie 10 | tho expediency of granting to lreiahu as much control of her local aHairs us has Canada, the South African coiiiiion- | wealth or New Zealand
 | Irish Issues Lead
 All other issues will be dwarfed by l the Irish issues MT Balfour hlmseii | says ., l thc lords are as Daniel Webster said iK l another renowned controversy, one and | inseparable." | Mr Redmond is dividing his energies 1 betveen an effort to hold unbroken the I line of seats occupied by the regulars I in the present parliament and an eIor' | to break the line or irreguiars, the TIT denendents." the "O'Brenites." This is l uhv the Irish chief decided to put can l didate In the field at Cork against the l reao,,btabl insurgent. If William O Brien oan he compelled to bite the dust the | Redmondites will be willing to accept all ,,,ost any other development In victory l for the Balfour- Chamberlain cohorts | His Dungarven statement that heu- mond. while in the United states re n,,diated his own words, and that this renudiation stirred up the tory party and l brought about the failure of the constr | tutional conference is regarded by Heo- mond as the most offensive of all Of the n. Rrten accusations.
 IT will never be condoned, and the whole campaign of the nationalist reg ulars in Ireland will be directed against nthe Catiline of Cork
 ORrien, so far from stunning the as- sault arms himself with fresh Japs ana ST eers He asserts that heamohd ana o,connor have thrown over Gladstone rule without the slightest cohsui'a'ioh with the Irish people.
 Je adds that he has in his possession Canadian papers containing long reports of OConnor's recent speeches Tn the Dominion in confirmation Of the asser- ton.
 Leaders Attacked Timothy Healey, backing up O'Brien in this, says that, though no statement made by Redmond anywhere couid pc or the smallest importance Tn itseil'| the oorcerted statements of O'Connor and Redmond fnuSL Dc .tnNNtA when taken seriously, indicate that the TWO men have been deluding the Irish people. But Redmond is careful to avoid any thing that might tend to break the soiia- ar,tv of British democracy. and, if the Ia borites were equally prudent, 1t would De better for their special projects In his Islngton speech, one of the strongest he has made. the passage that elieited the longest cheer from 400 Britons who heard 1t was And now that the council of eight Is not able to sell the possible birthright for a mess of peerase T mean pottage-the way is clear Tor de cision at the polls in behalf of the British and Irish democracies against the forces of privilege"
 It remains to be seen whether MT. ! souish will make any larger promise to inc laborites than the one they so fierce ly denounced as worse than nothing. It is generally conceded that the liberals will return to parliament with an actual. maybe though reduced. majority. lib- eral victory will be due to the premier's adroitness In consolidating the labor men and the Irish, and forcing the peers into auagmire of discussions over the de- tails of the house of lords reforms.