The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-04-17

Element with Ireland said Churchill in
supporting the anti-veto resolution.
IRELAND's CAUSE Is SAFE
You would give home rule to the
Irish as the price for the veto.' shouts
Balfour Thus home rule is knit as a
leading issue now between all the par
ties next election.
But will there be an election?
believe ii must come in June, but some
think that the whole struggle may END
without an election"
The gigantic meetings in the Eng
lish cities certainly have convinced the
tories that they can not win the cleo
ton. The steady growth of hatred foI
the lords by their enemies and the
partial surrender by their friends is
shown by Lord Rosebery's desperate
efforts to induce them to reform them
selves.
The fatigue of the country at the
long duration of the struggle may
force the tories into an early sur
render, but, with or without the gen.
eral election, Ireland's cause is at last
safe, and Redmond did it,
KING Is NOW INVOLVED
AS was bound to be the case sooner
or later, the king is now freely brought
into the struggle between the house OF
commons anu the muse VI lOIuS' NJ
party wants TO do so but in the end
every party probably will have to dc
so. The king hates the whole business
and this was one of the many reasons
why he so strenuously objected to the
rejection of the budget by the house
of lords last year.
He is a very shrewd man, taught by
the long years of apprenticeship he
had before he came to the throne to
!, IL
whom he rules. He has keen in
stinct of how ugly they can be when
they get into big fight and he real
ICES that If he be compelled to take
a side in a struggle so bitter as that
between the commons and the lords he
is sure to get some very hard knocks
1t is a sign of the times that the
prince of Wales is coming down to
either the one house of parliament or
the other more frequently than his
father ever did before him. He evil
IDENTIFY is trying to spell out the situa-
ton for himself. and everybody knows
that he also is very anxious. The
throne of England is much too pleasant
heritage to be subjected to any risks
LIBERALS UPHOLD THRONE
On the other hand the members OF
the liberal ministry are in no happier
frame of mind about the position into
which they are drifting. Many OF
them have no desire to embroil the
throne in the conflict, for they believe
the throne to be necessary element
of British institutions. And those who
take a more cold blooded and less
chivalrous view of the situation feel
on the other hand that a quarrel with
the king is bad electioneering.
This state of mind creates one of the
difficulties of the situation. What is
going to happen when the house OF
lords rejects or shelves the veto reso-
buttons?
1t is a sign of the internal dis
sensions by which this cabinet-as, in
deed. with most cabinets-is divided
that Haldane, the war minister, should
have spent a few days vacation al
Easter time in trying to make things
hot for his own colleagues.
DIVISION IN CABINET
This strange man plays one Of the
most curious parts in the public life
of England of any man of his time.
He is one of the most powerful, and he
has this advantage in such a crisis as
the present that he is very close to the
king. And Haldane has been trying to
make things as easy for the king and
as difficult for his colleagues as pos
sibIe during the Easter vacation. He
has described the result of the last
general election as indecisive.
This is to give away the whole case.
This is what the tories have been con-
tending. And, except from the tory
point of view, the statement is not
true A majority of 40 votes-which
is what the ministry has-according to
the precedents of English history is
big. even huge. majority