The Irish standard., 1911-10-21
SEPARATION BOGY
REVIVED BY TORIES
Speeches of Irish Leaders Being
Searched for Evidence to Boil
ster up Their Cause.
Home Rule Campaign, Already in
Full Swing, is Producing an
Excellent Effect.
Redmond's Moderate Speeches are
Being Reported Fully in the
English Press.

English Press.
| In his special cable from Liverpool
to- the Chicago Sunday Tribune, II. p.
O'Connor states that political condi-
| tions in England are subject to al
most momentary changes while the
| developments in the Turko- Italian
T; war are such as to make the outcome
doubtful He says:
! The week ends in tumult and all
round uncertainty. Whether the reb
! els will succeed in China or the Turco-
Italian war will end soon or much
i later, whether Lloyd George will carry
| his insurance bill and finally whether
one side or Balfour and his rebels on
the other will end their differences are
all problems that nobody can solve.
Some of these questions may color the
future of events.
| In regard to- China, all accounts re-
veal an extraordinary and unsuspect-
ed strength in the revolt and even the
cautious correspondents, such as Nor
risOn at Peking, talks of the Manchu
dynasty as effete as we'll as corrupt.
l. Another singular feature Of this re-
| bellion is. that foreigners are not at
tackled, that pledges are made to re-
spect the treaties and other obliga-
tions, all going to show that this re-
! bellion is being carried out by intelli-
gent men after long study, prepara-
ton and intimate acquaintance with
Europe and America during their eX-
| lie. .s..
War Accounts Vary.
Accounts about the Turkish inten-
tions vary from hour to hour. At one
moment the peace party is declared to
be in the ascendant, and in the next
| it is said that sound indemnity
| would secure to Italy all she wants.
J The Young Turks, apparently, are re-
! solved on stern resistance, but the in
dications point to their gradual loss of
| power.
| In home politics the Home Rule
campaign and the campaign for or
against Lloyd-George's insurance bill
now is in full swing. Redmond's mod
! crate speeches are reported fully in
the papers and are producing an ex-
cellent effect, especially in contrast
with Carsons blood-curdling appeals
to rebellion in Ulster.
The tories are digging up every
speech made by every Irish leader, in
cluding Parnell, whether in Ireland or
! America, to justify the old bogey Of
separation, but the indications are that
it will be impossible for anyone to re-
vive the old passions, old war cries
and old bogies. Lloyd Georges bill.
think will go through after all, al
though the labor unrest, which still
causes much anxiety, further exasper-
ated the tory opinion against him as
the author of the present war Of class
es by his limehouse and other speech
es. Ramsey Macdonald, leader of the
| labor party, publicly disoWns Keir
Hardie and the other laborites who
/ denounce the bill.
Astor's English Estate.
Most of your readers have see- that
| no fhn,IOh email n1 in
the lovely bit of it which lies between
Maidenhead and Oxford, and Of that
bit, far and away the most beautiful
! is that which comes Immediately after
Maidenhead and runs under the shad-
ow of the Cliveden woods. The Clive-
den woods cover gradually ascend
ing hillside until they reach table,
land that towers above the Thames
and is in marked contrast to the brok-
en- flatness over most of the banks of
the river.
This tableland is occupied by two
great houses, one the property of Lord
Desbourgh. member of the important
family Of the Grenfalls; and the other
is owned by young Mr.. Astor. Clive-
den was formerly the property of the
Duke Of Westminster, but when Mr..
Astor came over to England. Cliveden
was the first great possession for
which he longed, and check for ST.
s OOO.O made him the owner. l believe
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