Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-02-12
DENOUNCEs SELFISH OL1GARCHY"
Personally Witnessed Deplorable
Scenes in Ireland.
PEOPLE SICK OF HOUSE OF LORDS
Labor Leader Calls Them Hereditary
Nest of Noodles"
BULLDOG STANDS OFF POLICEMAN
Winston ChurchiII Gives Allegiance
to the Daylight saving scheme
and Is to Try to Enact Il
Into Law.
ny PAIL LAMBETH.

BY PAUL LAMBETH.
LONDON. Feb. 11-CSpeclal TO The Bee)
THE people Of Ireland may depend upon
the English labor members OF Parliament
TO support them in their efforts TO secure
the right to govern themselves. George n.
Barnes, leader OF the labor delegation in
Parliament has clearly defined the respect
to home rule for ireland in statement
which he made. He says
Il heartily join with John Redmond in
rejoicing 10 know that the long standing
grievance OF the sister isle is in a fair
way Of being removed. and l agree with
him that Greland's quarrel has not been
with the people Of Great Britain. but with
the small and selfish oligarchy which has
ruled the roost in both ountries. Irlshmen
are entitled to home rule and Engshmen
would be better relieved OF an Impossible
task. ireland could surely do no worse
than has been done; for the appalling fact
stands against US that the country has been
denuded of half It's population in two gem
erations.
Has Personally Investigated.
II have paced the streets Of Ireland
deserted places where half the buildings
were tumbling to decay. and have frater-
nized with toiling cottars where Michael
Davitt was flung with his parents on the
roadside. I have come away with a sense
Of bruised and banished, though home
LOVING people. Therefore. I am glad, for
Ireland's sake, that Ireland will get home
rule. and am sure that that is the feeling
OF the great mass of British workmen
''Misgovernment Of ireland is not only an
Irish question. II is British question. 1t
has been the cause OF some of our indus
trial trouble here
Poor and dependent Irshmen have been
thrust out from their native land, and
their influx into Great Britain has intensi-
fed competition for work and depressed
the standard of life. Home rule may mean
more home work for Irishmen.
1.-THE election, however. has cleared the
way for a good deal more besides home
rule for Ireland. Iandlordlsm and mlsgov-
eminent in Ireland are parallel with capt.
talism and monopoly in Great Britain. In
deed. the people in both countries are being
ground down by the same causes the in
terests OF both are the same.
I'm an industrial and social sense we are
one. While wealth and trade increase
among us, poverty turks in dark places
and voorhees, workers stalk the land"
severe on Lords.
Discussing the veto power OF the House
Of Lords. Mr.. Barnes says:
The veto proposals have been discussed
by both houses OF Parliament They are
embodied in a bill, and the way is clear,
in a constitutional sense for their adop-
ton. To mix them up with so-called reform
would ne fatal. The people are sick of cleo
lions, as we'll as OF the House of Lords.
81 assume. therefore. that the govern
ment will decline TO be made responsible
for any further election at this time on the
House OF Lords and that they will stick
to the terms OF the resolutions already
adopted in the last Parliament The lords
may again tack on the reform proposals;
and II so, these will be rejected by the
commons. What will happen then is
known, l suppose, only to the powers that
be- but II. as | have assumed, the govern
ment is true to It's trust. there can be but
one ending. That win be the surrender
Of the lords. with or without an addition
TO their numbers.
what sull astonshes me is the patience
and moderation which is being extended
toward the hereditary nest OF noodles. For
generation It has thought only OF its own
selfish interests and has been deaf to the
crying needs Of the nation. And yet It
has been allowed to exist. Even now,
when stripped OF It's last vestige Of de-
Tense, II is sim TO be allowed to exist.
Significance OF Elections.
The significance OF the recent elections.
however is not only, or even mainly in
the settlement for the time being. Of the
House OF Lords question II is in what
lies beyond the House OF Lords. The cleo
lions are an indication that the people are
coming to political maturity. The House
OF Lords has stood in the way Of settle
ment OF many questions The solution Of
these questions has been delayed because
OF imaginary dangers IN which they have
been enshrouded by ignorant or interested
with the terrors OF sectarian strife social
reconstucuon with the letting loose of
anarchy, and common sense in ornaments
with the fear Of invasion. Shadows have
struck more terror to the soul
than could the substance Of 1000 soldiers.
and so, because OF their shadows the
House OF Lords was allowed to shelter
hoary wrong and stand as & bulwark for
ali those who have been deaf TO the crying
needs OF the nation.
''-The elections show that the people are
no longer afraid Of shadows The night NJ
darkness has gone and, in the dawn OF a
new day, the shadows have disappeared.
The government Is expected 20 80 on more
fearlossly than heretofore with measures
Of democratic freedom"
DayiiEht saving Biu sure.
Mr.. Willett, author of the Daylight Saw
ing Scheme, had an interview with Wins
ton Churchill and laid resolutions by pub
nc bodies and letters from manufacturers
in favor OF the plan. Mr. Churchill as
sJred Willett that as regards the daylight
saving bill he uas a converted man. and
that he could conceive no argument now
which would cause him TO doubt the wis
dom Of passing the bill into law
Bulldog scares Police.
bulldog kept nine British policemen al
bay In Bartholomew Close for four hours
II IS not stated whether the animal was an
anarchist but It was not suspected Of
hainE an alien.