The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-08-14
NOW AT ZENITH
OF ITS P 0 We R
Cabinet Reaches Acme of For
tunes With Passing OF
Veto Bill.
SUMS DECLINE IMPENDING
Home Rule and Other Trouble
some Matters Will Test
Artificial Coalition.
SUMS DECLINE IMPENDING

London, August 13.-With the rising
the Radical government has reached
the zenith OF its fortunes. The Par
Lament bill has become law. and the
ministers have obtained an access OF
prestige for converting the absolute
veto of the peers into a suspens.ve
veto and thus providing for passage
OF Liberal measures hereafter.
1t is triumph which carries MI
Asquith's name high among Eagiand's
great Prime Ministers and imparts in
creased authority to his every Cabinet
associate. He and they are stronger
to-day than they can ever De again
Tor the coalition factions have Deeri
Kept together by the necessity for the
enactment OF the Parliament BILL and
now that tho work has been done the.
ministerial fortunes Will Inevitably
decline. Each group will insist upon,
haVing the supremacy OF the Commons
employed for its own beneht, and viii
be irritated and disappointed when
coveted legislation Is deferred
Home Rule DIFFICULTIES.
Apart from the separatist tendencies
supreme difficulty Of framing a nome
rule bill which Mr.. Redmond can ac-
cept and reconciling Protestant Ulster
10 It, The Gladstonian scheme is now
lmpra cticaole, and a separate Irish
Legislature ano administration mus,
be financed at the expense OF the Brit.
iah taxpayers. Home rule Is a bristlinp
sar"en oi thisues. and Sir. Redmond
VIII nave the thankless task of reduc-
s. al
FORM when more than half the land
mas changed hands and there is = new
ireland which hardly knows VIVA, q
really wants.
Fresh problems arising from snhor.
dinate Parliaments for Scotland 49,
wales may be raised Simultaneously
ana with them will be Connected mos,
tsouoiesome matters relating to educa-
.ion, disesta blishment land reforr,
licensing. plural voting, trade ,rinn
pohcy and social legislation. II is M,
strange therefore, that sturdy Rad,s
ea!s' seeing the sun momentarilv a,
8, h are already fancying that
is beginning to decline.
ohionists' on the other hand. while
deeply depressed by factiopaI snir,e
and the passage of the Parliamsnt p hiI,
are rorced TO revert to the hone r,,ia
question and TO concentrate their -
aoI's upon making IT an unpopular e..
sue. Fanatics among them arc Hal,
using the bishops and peers who de-
IiVered the government from the nc
Oh creating peers and booIne
ehe titled traitors" at the cari,an
constitutional and ST Stephens r,Inhs
OUT these alterations of baa,
gu period OF politics Will speedily mss
Fishtins Spirit Developed.
ne staiwerts. with their errors ~
judgment. have developed a nrhtins
spi.it which will be serviceable in re-,
storins the party to power I.ovsit,.
20 party leaders will revive WITH 49,
disappearance OF the puppet naArs
menace and the constitutional tssunr
ana the ranks will be closed for v;nor
lis csmpaisning against the unset.
'i'hs FORCES of Radicalism.
While the Kings name has hssn
teey dragged into the sluns "A
Westminster politics, his prestige has
not SUFFERED. Even excitable Tory a.
Eaters ga are constrained to admit thai
re mas acted with dignity and Arm
as constitutional monarch and
mas Lot sacrificed the reputation ~
ehe crown for !mparriality and non
p Ha,ltisansnip. He had the beneat q,
hihG EDWARDS example and LORD
knollys's advice, and has not syrerwsd
from straightforward course &c
trustee and arbiter OF nation and am.