New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-08-13
ASQU|TH At THE ZENITH
Cabinet Reaches Acme of Fort
unes with Passing of Veto Bill.
SUMS DECLINE IMPENDING
Home Rule and Other Trouble
some Matters Will Test Arti-
fetal Coalition.
lBy Gable 10 The Tribune. !

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London. Aug. 12.-With the rising of
Parliament next week until October the
Radical government has reached the
zenith Of it's fortunes. The Parliament
bill has become law and the ministers
have obtained an access OF prestige for
converting the absolute veto OF the peers
into a suspen>ivc veto and thus provid
ing for passage of Liberal measures
hereafter
1t is a triumph which carries Mr.. As
great Prime Ministers and imparts in
creased authority to his every Cabinet
associate. He and they are stronger to-
day than they can ever be again. for the
coalition factions have been kept to-
gether by the necessity for the enact
ment of the Parliament bill, and now
that the work has been done the min
isterial fortunes will inevitably decline.
Each group will insist upon having the
supremacy of the Commons employed
for its own benefit and will be irritated
and disappointed when coveted lcgisla-
ton is deferred.
Home Rule Difficulties.
Apart from the separatst tendencies
Of the artificial coalition there is the
supreme difficulty Of framing Home
Rule bill which Mr.. Redmond can &C
cept and reconciling Protestant Ulster
to it, The Gladstonian scheme is now
impracticable. and separate Irish
LEGISLATURE and administration must be
financed at the expense of the British
taxpayers. Home Rule is a bristling
garden of thstles, and Mr. Redmond
will have the thankless task of reduc-
ing the Parneil policy TO practical form
when more than half the land has
changed hands and there is new Ire
land which hardly knows what it really
wants.
Fresh problems arising from subordi-
nate parlaments for Scotland ana
Wales may be raised simultaneously,
and with them will be connected most
troublesome matters relating TO educa-
ton. disesta blshment, land reform,
licensing. plural voting, trade union pol
icv and social legislation. IT Is not
strange, therefore, that sturdy Radicals,
seeing the sun momentarily at the
zenith are already fancying that 1t IS
beginning to decline.
Unionists, on the other hand, while
deeply depressed by factional spirit and
the passage Of the Parliament bill, are
forced to revert TO the Home Rule ques-
ton and to concentrate their efforts upon
making 1t an unpopular issue. Fanatics
among them are blacklisting the bishops
and peers who delivered the government
from the necessity Of creating peers and
booing the titled traitors" at the Carl
ton. Constitutional and st. Stephens
clubs but these alterations Of a heated
period Of politics will speedily pass
Fighting Spirit Developed.
The Stalwarts with their errors of
Judgment, have developed fighting
spirit which will be serviceable in restor-
ing the party to power. Loyalty to
marty leaders will revive with the disap-
pearance or the puppeI peers hlond'V
and the constitutional issues, and the
ranks will be closed for vigorous cam
paigning against the unsettling forces OF
Radicalism.
While the Kings name has been freely
dragged into tho slums of Westminster
politics, his prestige has not suffered.
Even excitable Tory flre-eaters are con-
strained to admit that. He has acted
within dignity and firmness AS a con-
stitutional monarch, and has not sacrl-
feed the reputation Of the Crown for
impartlality and -partisanship. He
had the benefit of King Edwards ex-
ample and Lord Knoliys's advice ana
has not swerved from a straightforward
course as trustee and arbiter Of nation
and empire.