The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-11-27
Ruler Shows Emphatic Determi-
nation to Act as COnstitu-
tional Sovereign.
LANSD0WNE HAS CLARIFIED
COMING PARAMOUNT ISSUE
Electors Will Decide Whether
Ireland Shall Have Partial
Home Rule.

special Gable TO The Tribune
LONDON, Nov. 26.-By announcing the
privy council for Monday on the eve OF
dissolution Of parliament, King George
selects the most emphatic method OF
showing his determination to act an
becomes a constitutional monarch In a
great constitutional crisis
This step, rarely taken, will reassure
the country. Danish the last suggestion
that tho 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 no doubt he will be advised
to inform Mr.. Asql,ith that II the COM
ing appeal to the electorate results IA
Vorably to the government, ne will en-
iertain a suggestion from the prime min
lister as TO the creation Of sufficient
number of peers 10 overcome all resist
ance In the house OF lords to the veto
bill"
Lord Lansdowne's declaration that the
bill "endangers the constitution OF tho
country particularly as regards home
rule leaves no doubt as to the Issue on
which tho Unionists will make their fight,
Until that declaration was made there
I'll then there had been a possibility
that the land tax, fiscal reform. naval
policy or the so-called Socialistic prof.
ects Of Lloyd George and Winston
Churchill might be used to draw atten-
ton from the Irish demands.
Home Rule Issue Clear.
But the situation mas cleared UP won
deNully this week and the electors will
go 10 the polls with an eye single to
the eNpediency OF granting to Ireland
as much control over her local affairs
as has Canada. the South African COM
monwealth or New Zealand
All other Issues will be dwarfed by
the Irish issue. Balfour himself says:
THE cause of union and the cause of
the lords are, as Daniel Webster said
in another renowned controversy. one
and lnseparable.'
Mr. Redmond is dividing his energies
between an effort to hold unbroken the
line OF seats occupied by Liberals in
parliament and an effort to gain new
is why the Irish chief decided to put a
candidate IN the field at Cork against
the redoubtable insurgent William
o'Brien. and 1t is hoped he will be made
be willing to accept any other candidate,
o Brleh's. Dungaron statement that Red
mond, while In the Unionists repudiated
his own words and this Reputation
stirred up the Tory party and brough,
about the failure OF the constitutional
conference, is regarded by Redmond as
sations. 1t will never be condoned and
the whole campaign OF the Nationalist
! regulars in Ireland Itself will be directed
against the "Catalne OF Cork
O'Bren, SO far from stunning the re-
suit. arms himself with fresh jibes and
sneers, He asserts that Redmond and
| o'Connor have thrown out Gladstonian
home rule programme without the slight
est consultation with the Irish people.
! He adds that he has in his possession
| Canadian papers containing long reports
| of O'Connor's recent speech in confirma-
| ton OF the assertion,
Redmond Called Traitor
! Timothy Healy. backing up O'Rrien In
| this, says that though no statement made
by Redmond anywhere could be of the
smallest importance in Itself. the con
| cerred statements of O'Connor and Red
mond must be taken seriously, and when
| taken seriously indicate that the two
men have been deluding tho Irish people.
! But Redmond is careful to avoid any
| thing that might tend to break the soli-
darty of the British democracy, and. II
II would be better for their special pro-
jects.
In Redmond's s Islington speech. one of
| the strongest he has made the passage
that elected the longest cheer from 1000
| Britons who heard II was
And nov that the council OF eight is
not able TO sell the peoples birthrght
for mess of peerage-I mean peerage
not pottage-tbe way Is clear at the polls
for the British and Irish democracy te
win against the forces Of privilege"
quith Will make any larger promise &c
| the Labortes than the one they most
fiercely denounce as worse than nothing
II is generally conceded that the LIB
erals Will return 10 parliament with AT
| actual but possibly reduced, majority
| a Liberal victory Will be due to the pre-
mier's adrotness in conciliating the la
boring man and the Irish. and forcing tbs
| peers into a quagmire OF discussion over
the details Of the house of lords reforms
| The peers wanted TO put the premier II
the ouagmire, hence their delay.