The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-07-23
HOPE THE KING
WILL DECLINE
To MAKE PEERS
British Unionists in the Last
Ditch and Casting About
for Arm Strong Enough
to Save.
LIBERALS LAUGH
AT THEIR PLIGHT
With the Veto Bill Out of
the Way the Opposition
Plans Active Warfare
on Home Rule.
BY Leased Wire to The Tribune.

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+ ONDoN. Jnly 22.-Mr Asquith
las the whip hand in the contro-
versy between the houses of
parliament over the veto bill,
acd his followers predict he will flour
ish tic lash next week with the ges-
ture Of master.
Infuriatcd Union sts dcnounce hum
for no. having been more explicit on
the subject of the assurances be mas
received from George V regarding the
creation of peers
His supper, ers reply that he has oeen
cxpljcit enough and that wnen TIC
nhvsc,Iogical moment arrives lie will
show his hand and that in his last np'
pea to the British people he. and ms
COLLEAGUES have rot been guilty OF ad-
vicating anything affecting the SOW
eIcgn,
That the king will prove strict
construciio isl Of his prero satives is
the rock upon which RADICALS build
Their hopes.
ToIi,s profess to think th"t il called
az on by Asquth TO create peers on
scale for which no precedent exists he
vii ciu5c. dissolve parliament and
aivr the Fall -Lansdowne-C Chamber
lain coalition an po,tunitv to snout
''Save the king IT nj lie no throttlcd by
socialists and traitors.
Sure Of Their Ground
But men close TO Lloyd George aud
Winston Churchill laugh at the lden
that any Unionist OF authority wonld
risk Involving the king in the ruin
of the lords.
Go l-headed liberals say, in the Ian
aurg, of Sr Robert Nichol. that they
arc hap, to believe the king S own
wisdor II resist such an attempt al
this time, ''when thrones arc tottering
in Eurarc and wien the BrtIsh throne
has lust been rebuttrcsse- by imperlai
good will. .'
With Lori Llnsdowne at the helm
and the flag of referendum flying detl-
antlv. the house of lords craft has en-
tered the shoals.
"Have the men IN charge or the yes
s,l,'' asks London radical sheet,
"eycs to sec and ears to hear what IS
ahead and what is around7 Was there
ever so mad an adventure as Lord HAS.
bury proposes. except in he records OF
smuggling aud piracyf'
Peers Amaze Democracy.
Democracy throughout the country
whether British or Irish, has been
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gssIil!' gsIl' a"''"s 'ne 'e0A'F' On '"F WV
Tory lords have sneercd when the
champions of the government and the
Radical partv have referred to the su-
premacy of the house of commons.
A few like Lord Willoughby DeBrokc
have boldly repudiated that supremacy
and asserted it 70 be the duty of the
peers 10 revive powers long ago fallen
into disuse. Anti-democratic bias has
been slaringly obvious on the Tory
benches.
In resisting the pretensons of re.
dictionary peers, Lord Morely and Lord
Haldane have displayed frmness, dig,
nity and the spirit of the new democ-
racy.
Though these peers belong to different
sections of the Liberal party and do
net see alike OIL all questions, the
"moderate' secretary of war has 10y
ally seconded the "radical' secretary
for India RS the government represcn
tative.
Fighting Home Rule.
In the big campaign against home
rule that the Unionists are getting
ready 10 wage in the early autumn thev
will raise the cry of religious intol-
erance,
So plain is the purpose that the Ma.
tionalists have decided to take time by
the forelock and are issuing through
the Irish press agency an impressive
appeal to the British people against
reversion to this old, exploded. wicked
slander upon the majority of the Irish
people
Jeremiah MacVeagh, a member Of
parliament for Southdowne, has put
forth booklet containing statements
by hundred we'll known mont Catholics
living in various parts Of Ireland, as
we'll AS several British officials posted
regarding Irish affairs by personal ex.
periences in the island. refuting the
theory that the establishment of an
Irish parliament would be followed by
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