The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1911-05-20

home rule from the scope of the veto
bill. That suggestion already has been
rejected with equal emphasis, and then
all of their dexterous and panic
stricken suggestions being refused,
the lords will finally accept, with big
gulp, the veto bill in it's present
stage of the struggle-namely; the
introduction and fight over the home
rule bill
Force Home Rule Action.
That bill will be passed through the
house of commons by next summer.
Then if it is rejected by the lords a
fierce agitation will open in the coun-
try, and some people suppose that
with the veto gone, the house of lords
may consent to some compromise
which will relieve the Liberals and
Irish from the necessity of passing a
home rule bill the second and third
time, and waiting another year for
home rule.
Finally | must add to this record Of
this week of extraordinary Liberal
triumph the re-entrance of Lloyd
George once more into the parliament
tary scene and a blaze of limelight
and glowing and universal welcome
to his gigantic insurance scheme.
No body of men can carry on fill
clustering for an indefinite time, and
the Tories have been filibustering for
many weeks. All night sittings take
the energy out of most men, even
when they are young, and the minis
try gave the Tories plenty of all night
sittings when they asked for them.
Through these sittings the Irishmen
set an example Although Redmond
Dillon and myself are no longer young,
we sat through nearly all of them,
saying nothing but determined to set
an example to all those who are en-
gagged III this tremendous battle for
English and Irish liberty. The lead
ing members of the Liberal party did
the same thing, and, though both AS
quith and Balfour went away usually
at about midnight, there were few
other notable absentees. In this way
the Tories are gradually worn down,
and the tilibustering began to get less
strenuous.
AS l have always said, the pros
pect of the coronation was bound to
exercise a profound influence on po-
litical controversy this year, and my
words are now being realized.
The Tories are getting uneasy at
the prospect of being placed in the po-
sition of having that solemn event
take place in the midst of a fierce in
ternal conflict, and the Liberals and
their own filbustering have gradually
cornered them into the position that
if that phenomenon occur they have
to bear the responsibility.
Before they can have made any SER
ious advance with their selt-reform,
the lords will be face to face with
their tremendous bill from the house
of commons. and they will find it diff
ficult to make the pletense that it
should wait. The prospect at the mo-
ment seems to be that the peers will
pass the seconding of the bill and then
proceed to mutilate it out of exist
ence.
The chief amendment, it is believed,
they will insert is that no home rule
measure shall come under the opera
ton of the measure. The Tories. still
obstinate, adhere to the idea that they
can rally their own forces on home
rule and that they can also rouse
against Ireland all the old tide of ra-
cial and religious rancor This idea
impels them to try any and every
method of forcing the Liberals to an
other general election before they pass
bill.
Lords Dodge With Home Rule.
1t is more than doubtful that these
calculations are we'll founded. Bal
four and the other Tory leaders tried
hard to raise the old ghosts at the last
two elections; and they failed. In the
recent debate in the house of COM
mons it was quite plain that the Tor
les themselves, outside OF the Ulster
Orange irreconcilables, were not as
keen against home rule as they for
merly were, and Balfour was content
to let home rule debate finish in a
few hours, half an evening, in fact,
when he could have taken the whole
evening if he liked.
But the lords will probably try the
home rule dodge once again and insert
the amendment excluding 1t from the
veto bill in the hope that they may
i, drive the government into some com