The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-05-19
DEBATE ON HOME
RULE BILL IS DULL
House of Commons Visitors
Express Disappointment
With Speeches.
NO FLIGHT OF ORATORY
Tory Opposition to Measure
Affecting Ireland Is Far Be
low Expectation.
BY AUSTIN F. MAGUIRE.

DUBLIN, May l6.-Visitors TO TIL.
ere not slow in expressing their feel
ings Of disappointment at the rather
dull character Of the debate On the
home rule bill
Since the first day, when Mr.. As
glith and Mr. Redmond made their
great speeches, tie debate has not
brought out much oratorical fervor. In
fact, most Of the speeches since have
been uninteresting enough to be COM
monplace, save for an exceptionally
brilliant effort hy r. p. O'Connor and
the finely reasoned logical argument
for home rule made by Sir Rufus Isaacs,
who is fast working for himself place
in British public life. which no other
man of the Hebrew race has ever at
tanned, with the single exception of
Benjamin Disraeli, known later as Lord
Beaconsfield.
The Tory opposition bench have
been very stale. Much was expected
from Nh Balfour Bat ON the night
had not been speaking five minutes
before it was plain TO everybody that
bis heart was not IN his task.
EduoIr Is AmDlEl0nS.
The fact is, Arthur Balfour is not
yet by any means through with his
political ambitions He has been prime
minister and during his incumbency he
made good headway on the Irish ques-
ton, though ne shivered and stopped
short at home rule.
1t was Mr.. Balfour who gave Ireland
the system of county councils, whose
smooth and admirable conduct has done
so much TO strengthen the argument
for complete homo rule.
There are those who will say that
today Mr.. Belfour, if he can defeat
the present ministry, would not he
averse to again taking the premiership
even though his doing so would have
10 mean an understanding with the
Irish party.
Politics, imperial as vol IS parochial,
produce strange situations at times.
And nobody may say what is impossible
today at Westminster.
Home Rule Certain.
One thing is as certain as any human
contingency can be. 1t is that home
rule hns reached the point OF the in
evitable. Tho bill now before parlia-
ment has got to become law, or tho
whole parliamentary system OF Eng
lana Snull 20 10 pieces
Every sensible man in parliament
knows this and none better than the
Tories in both houses The house of
lords has two years to block the bill,
but at the end of that period the oppo-
sition of the peers must end. 1t is not
at all expected that the lords will use
their veto to the full limit of two
years. They can gain nothing by doing
so, except senseless delay and embltter-
ment of popular feeling.
1t would not astonish political circles
either here or In London. if, after ons
skirmish, the lords retired as gracefully
as possible from a situation which, at
best. can mean nothing for them but
humiliating defeat in the end.
Maurice Healy, brother of the IA
nous Tim. and, like his eminent broth
strongest speech against home rule that
was delivered this week. Indeed. were
Maurice HealY an out.and-out Tory
Unionist he could not have made an
ADLER contribution to the debate from
a Tory standpoint.
Healy Brothers Popular.
The two Healys are highly gifted
men. Both Timothy and Maurice are
in tho enjoyment Of great law business
They got their start through the infiu-
ence and power Of MI Pnrnell at the
very beginning Of the land league
movement. and from the first dny they
we're known as leaders among the ex-
pert lawyers on land legislation,
As he proceeded with his speech OF
opposition to the home rule bill, Mau-
ice Healv was cheered and hear
reared" with enthusiasm by the Tory
benches. These two bright attorneys
rom Cork are the great allies OF the
ruries in this struggle
1t was an interesting study to watch
he faces of the Irish Nntionalists as
hev sat silently listening to his attack
IN tho hill which thew as a body ara