The San Francisco call., 1910-07-03
PREMIER YIELDS
To Home RULER
ON THE BUDGET
POstpOnement of Money Bill Un-
til Winter Session EncOur=
ages irish Party
conference on Lords Veto Con.
tinues. With Redmond Mas
ter of Situation
By T. P. o'coNNoR
Especial Gable 10 The COlI

lOpcctdt O0oie 10 ne Oou
Copyright. 1910. by the Tribune Co.. Chicago.
LONDON, July 2-Redmond has
scored again. ] have pointed out the
difficulty he would have in voting for
the budget while the conference over
the veto bill was proceeding and the
veto struggle was held up for weeks.
Redmond once more was face TO face
with the perplexing situation encoun-
tered months ago. namely, the impos-
sibility of reconciling Ireland TO the
. acceptance OF the budget unless Ire
. land were convinced that a strenuous
and hopeful campaign against the house
Of lords would follow as compensation.
With the veto guns silenced for the
" moment by the conference and the
budget coming on Immediately, with no
. relief on the whisky tax, the situation
was decidedly menacing for some days.
II the government had insisted on pro-
ceeding through all the stages of the
budget and al the same time had pro-
longed indefinitely the conference and
the pause in the veto fight. Redmond
would have been obliged to vote against
the budget and thus destroy the budget
and the government.
CLOUDS CLEARED AWAY
Such step. though inevitable must
also have brought some grave calami-
ties. such as the postponement of the
fight against the lords, the postpone
nient Of home rule, the evaporation of
liberals and. therefore, the creation of
two anti-Irish parties In British poll
tics instead Of one.
There were accordingly many anxious
hours for Redmond during the, week
but the situation has cleared. As
Guith's promise of winter session,
coupled with postponement of the
later stages Of the budget TO these sit
tings. leaves Redmond master of the
situation.
BY the time the winter sittings be-
gin one OF two things will have hap
pened-either the government and the
tories viii have agreed to a compro-
mise on the veto. or the conference
viii have broken up and the veto fight
once more Will be raging with the old
fury.
ADVANTAGE OF DELAY
If the government makes a compro-
mise hostile to home rule. Redmond
can defeat the budget and overthrow
the government II the government
enters once more into courageous
night against the lords, Irish opinion
VIII back Redmond in swallowing the
budget as Irelands price for a real
night against the lords and for. home
rude.
An incidental advantage of the win
ter sittings is that Redmond, DevIin
and BOYLE. who viii go on an America n
tour, beginning with the Buffalo con-
vention, can remain four TO six weeks
b II America, where all indications prom
ise a fruirfuf campaign.
Though the prospects are enormously
brighter than last week, Redmond's diff
hculties are not entirely removed.
Lloyd George made an enormous blum
der IN yielding to the clamor of the
ultra temperance party for the renewa l
Of the whisky tax
O'BRIEN AND HEALY LOSING
The effect on the Irish whisky trade
viii be serious. though it has been
greatly exaggerated. O'Brien and Healv
VIII make the tax a weapon with which
10 attack Redmond. but this game was
tried in the spring and ended in q
hopeless failure, and the faction is
dying hourly.
OBnens insane speeches and his
open alliance with the tories are driv-
ing the people from his ranks. and
Healy is doomed in Louth.
IN addition, the temperance move
ment IN ireland has made such sigan-
tic strides In the last two years that
rhe anti-whisky sentiment viii largely
discount the sentiment against the
whisky tax.
RADICALS GROW IMPATIENT
The conference situation stjl1 ia
mysterious and nebulous, The general
impression is that It must end IN fail
ure This was reflected in the wide
iepread rumor that the conference had
collapsed The impatience among the
radicals also has reached such a high
point that a written remonstrance
would have been presented TO Asouith
" the soothing tongue Of the master of
Ehbank, the chief liberal whip, had
not calmed the mutineers.
The result Of all this pressure must
be to hurry up the conference and
against any weak concession to the
tories. winston Churchill still speaks
hopefully OF the possibility of a com
promise, and the success Of the lber-
els in two recent by elections will help
the liberals and weaken the tories.
REDMOND THE REAL LEADER
In any case, however, Redmond's sue
cess in getting the winter sittings has
pleased the radicals as much as the
irish. Once again Redmond has shown
himself the real leader OF the English
radicals and has made the radical as
well as the Irish tactics win.
Thus the week which began in
gloom and uncertainty ends in energy.
confidence and a. closer union of the
The near future promises either the
acceptance by the tories of some COM
promise which viii give the liberals
and Irish most of what they want or
an Immediate and more violent renewal
Of the campaign against the present
powers of the house Of lords.
have TO add curious detail with
regard 10 Lloyd George which [ heard
hut recently, which is significant Of
much now and, still more OF much in
the future; he is at this moment the
prime fsvorite Of the new king. And
again it is just because he is Celt
When the ministers came to offer their
coincidence 10 the new king on the
death OF his father the Englishmen de-
naeaned themselves after the staid and
Peeerved manner of Englishmen, espec-
faily in moments of emotion-(a display
OF emotion is still rega rded as bad man
ners by the typical Englishnan)-
while Lloyd George. with his strong
feelings. has ouickness OF sympathy, his
own experience Of bitter family grief
poured out his heart. and the king, who
had a profound affection for his father.
was so much touched that he put Lloyd
George from that time forward in an