The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1911-12-16
new PHASE OF
HOME RULE CAMPAIGN
English Liberal Ministers to Visit
Ulster in the Interest of the
Irish Cause.
Asquith Promises Utmost Assist
ance in Pressing Forward
Home Rule.
Lloyd-George Insurance Measure is
Now Before the House
of Lords.

This is Chancellor Lloyd-George's
week. After eight months Of discus
sion, hundreds of interviews, fifty
nights of debate, innumerable attacks
by a gigantic hostile press and a social
campaign against him. he succeeded
In passing the insurance bill through
the House OF Commons with a big ma
jority and nobody anticipates any
trouble for it from the House Of Lords,
says T. P. O'Connor in his special Lon
don cable of Dec. 8 to the Chicago Tri-
bunc.
Lloyd-Gcorge is the only man in
English public life today who could
achieve such a remarkable result His
friends are delighted to find him in
perfect health and ebullient spirits af-
ter a task so fearfully eXhansting.
Never did he speak with greater fire
than in the last speech, driving his
own side to outbursts of fierce enthus-
iasm and his opponents to tempestuous
rage by the exposure of the unfair
| and lying attacks made by the tories
on the bill during the recent by-elec-
| tions.
Today be stands forth as the most
commanding figure OF English politics
and my own opinion is that he is GER
tain, ultimately, to be prime minister.
! Except for this triumphant ending OF
a prolonged battle politics in England
| has reapsed into dullness, although
the events in Persia still trouble the
English radicals and enbarrass the
foreign secretary, Sir Edward Grey.
Bitterness Loss Intense.
The final result of the trouble over
! Morocco is to leave both Great Brit
ain and Germany much where they
were, but already the indications arc
that both sides realize such perilous
misunderstanding must be avoided in
the future and though the bitter feel
ing is far from exhausted it is less in
tense than two weeks ago.
The speech of the German chanccl-
lor produced n good impression in
England and increased the misgivings
as to the necessity for the violent
speeches and acts Of the liberal min
listers during the fatefu crisis Of last
July, but the fundamental difference
arising from the naval competition re-
mains and unless some agreement is
reached England will be forced next
year to again Increase the gigantic
navy and the gigantic expenditures
The prospect alarms even the best
liberals. Two new by-elections do not
inspire much apprehension. although
in one constituency the liberal major
ity was only 300, but the Scotch con-
stituencies usually are steady and up
to the present no complication by a
third labor candidature is visible.
Now Phase Of Home Rule.
The Home Rule campaign is stead
lily proceeding and next week it will
enter a new phase. Ireland will be
visited Dy inc llnSlSn IDcFaI minis
tcrs during the next few months and
, Colonel Seely, under secretary of war,
opens this campaign Sunday by speak
I ing In Newry, an Ulster town repre-
scnted by a nationalist. Lloyd-George
and Winston Churchill will follow.
The committee Of the cabinet which
, is discussing Home Rule Is near the
close of it's labors and active negotia-
tons soon will begin. Although some
differences of opinion will develop
. during the negotiations, nobody need
Z fear differences which cannot be ad-
! justcd.
| William OBrien in pursuance Of his
] campaign Of dispara ging the liberals
9 and nationalists processes anxiety lest
+ the liberals do not mean to push for
:, ward Home Rule and carry 1t in the
q present parliament without another
}, election. Premier Asquith has set all
r such doubts at rest by his emphatic
), declaration that he would press for
3 ward Home Rule with every means In
n his power and pass 1t into a law In
Y the present parliament and without an
Q other election and only run Of bad
luck in the by-elections can now de-