The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1911-11-04
Passage Of Lloyd-George Insurance
Bill is Assured, Say Follti-
cal Lea Iers.
This Swings All Attention to Con-
sideration of Forthcoming
Irish Measure.
Enthusiasm Reaches as High Pitch
as in the Palmiest Days of
Gladstone and tarnell.

1t is only one week now until the
session of the House of Commons is
over and yet interest is almost dead.
But it is dead because Lloyd George
has won a victory so complete that all
is over except the shouting, says II. T..
O'Connor, M. p, in the Chicago Tri-
bune OF Oct. 2S.
Having first squared the insurance
and friendly societies by judicious ne
gOtiatiOnS and adroit concession he
next broke down all the plans of the
tories to hang up the bill by getting
Premier Asquith to propose drastic
closure, which killed filibuslering Of
any shape whatever. The tories are
ready to give up the whole campaign
and do not call for divisions except
on rare occasions.
suddenly during the debates, which
exposed to the world the whole object
of the tory campaign. They intended
to force the hanging up of the insur-
ance bill until the next session to en-
cumber the path OF the Home Rule
bill. Austen Chamberlain who, always
is inapt, was stupid to make his avow-
al, and Redmond seized upon it at
once and the debate is the first shot
in the Home Rule campaign. Lloyd
George rubbed this moral in by tel
ing A. j. Balfour, who complained OF
the impossibility of giving adequate
discussion to any business In the
present House of Commons, that the
ministry proposed to remedy this
state of things by relieving parlia-
ment of Irish business in the next
session.
This is one of many indications
that already the whole political in
terest has shifted to Home Rule and
that nothing else seriously occupies
anybody's mind A further and even
stronger indication Is the extraordi-
nary success of the Home Rule cam
paign of the Irish leaders in England.
Redmond, McPhee, Devlin, Gwynne
and myself all return from the Eng
lish meetings with the same story.
| The meetings are crowded and en-
, thusiastic. ..
Audiences Greatly Interested.
| Above all, the audiences are keenly,
almost painfully interested. They
hang on the works of the Irish speak
ers and listen to the story Of Ireland
with bated breath and sometimes
with tears.
Even the most sanguine Irishmen
never expected it would be possible
to re-create the high tide of enthusi-
asm, which existed in the days when
Gladstone ruled England and Parnell
Ireland. They expected, at the most,
a gratifying surprise and once more,
as in Gladstone's day, the Irish mem
ber is the most popular figure on the
English platform.
The question of financing which
even the Irishmen regarded as seri.
Gus, is disappearing under the super.
ior knowledge of facts and now the
good financiers, English and Irish
have arrived at the conclusion that
Home Rule will be beneficial to Eng.
land even from financial point OF
view. The newspapers publish al
legged outlines of the Home Rule meas
been made in the preparation of the
bill, nobody outside Of the cabinet vel
knows the plan and not even the cab
met as a whole, and all such forecast.
may be discarded as groundless anG
absolute guesses.
i One of the stout autonomous rulers
whom this crisis brought to the front
is Frederick Harrison, the famous au
thor.
To Discuss Home Rule Bill.
The greater part of this recess
after few weeks of necessary rest
will be spent by the liberal and th<
Irish leaders in the discussion Of the
details of the coming Home Rule bill
/ Up to the present there have no
been any consultations at close quar-
ters between the ministers and th<
Irish members. A committee of Il
q NJ iSF !