The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-31
HOME RULENEEDS INDUSTRIAL PEACE Asquith to Personally Take
 Charge of Bill
REDMOND IS HOPEFUL
Irish Leader Makes Prediction That Home Rule Will Be Law Within Another Two Years-Law
 Makes Bad Blunder

Duollf, hafcn N.-tSpeclal. Ali Iflenus of home rule for Ireland are frequently hoping that the industrial upheaval which is now perilously shaking our whole business fabric may be speedy adjusted and peace restored so that the country may be once more in tranquility before the second week of April, when the bill for home rule Is to be introdeed.
 Supporters of the. cause of justice for Ireland are highly pleased at MT. As- quith's decision to personally take charge of the bill during it's passage through the house of commons.
 In so decdng the prime minister takes upon his shoulder task of phy- sical proportions, to say nothing of the mental strain which will attend every hour of the big debates.
 In eleeung to be himself the minister in charge of the bill MT. Asquish gives one more significant proof of his earn estness and devotion to the cause with which his name seems to be destined to be linlSe in history with that of Gladstone his illustrious predecessor in the premier ship.
 John Redmond made the confident pre- dicton at the St. Patrick's day banquet of London Irishmen that home rule will be law within two years and that the coming bill will pass the house of com mons by a majority in all the stages of at least one hundred. This is ten to fifteen votes below what the government majority will actually prove to be. But MT. Redmond lops off the old members as a margain for unforeseen emergencies, sickness or death of members, and he places the majority at five score.
 With one hundred majority Premier Asquith can carry every bill in the ministerial program, including, of course home rule, before he is again obliged by statue to dissolve Parliament.
 There was some danger that the min CTS strike and the other serious labor troubles all over Great Britain might lead to a desertion from the liberal camp by the labor members of Great Britain
 If there was at any time any such in- tention on the part of the labor leaders, than whom there Is no more able or in- telligent body in all parliament, 1t was wiped off the slate completely a few nights ago by tho brilliant tactics of Mir Bonar Law, the Tory leader in the house of commons.
 To use an expressive and popular phrase, Leader Bonar Law put both feet into the toureen by an extraordinary speech of his on the minimum wage bill last Tuesday night. Backed by that other arrogant Tory blunderer Lord Hugh Cecil, MT. Law actually hinted in his speech, going almost to the point of direct suggestion, that the best way to settle the coal strike would be to con- fscate the funds of the trade unions and then pass law adding strikes to the list of criminal offences, punishable with fine and Imprisonment
 The manner in which Chancellor Lloyd George castigated the Tory leader for his callous and reactionary speech was one If ha r,ia n narlinnpntarU formance witnessed from the press gall lery in many months. There was simply nothing left of Bonar Law whens the elo- quent and scathing chancellor had finish ed his speech amid the grateful cheers of the labor members whose cause, Lloyd George had so magnihciently defended.
 The fact is the Troy leaders in the present Parliament are acting worse than a lot of Bourbons. so hopelessly dense Is their capacity for ignorance and the blundering that is it's child. The coal strike and all its resulting upset to busl- ness might have given the Tories a glo- rious chance to break Into the ranks of the government majority and thus imperil home rule. But, never learning anything from the signs of the times they actually succeed only in cementing the bonds still closer which bind the liberals. the Irish nationalists and the labor members in one solid phalanx. After Bonar Laws speech the labor men will stay in the liberal camp, proof against all allure ments of deserton. This will make eer- tain MT. Redmonds prediction Of lOo ma jority for home rule.
 There is wide satisfaction among those interested in the revival of Irish indus tries at the personal interest taken by President Taft in the Irish national trademen In a recent letter to MT. Red mond the president expresses the hope that the bill now before congress for the preservation of the Irish trademark against spurious limitations may soon be- come law MT Redmond thanked Pres ident Taft for the kindly interest he IS taking in this matter, which is frelghted with important results Tor the puslhess interests of Ireland.
 Commenting on the correspondence be- tween President Taft and the Irish lead CT the Freemans Journal says editor ially:
 "The rapid passage of the bill into law may now be confidently expected. me mere appearance of the Irish trademark on an article of commerce produces an immediate sense of security in the mind of a mrebaser in this cbuntry, and. 1t may almost be said, in Great Britain as well. The genuine Irish origin of the article is forthwith established
 But in America no such security ex- ists. There you may, by so-called lrlsh lace. and it may have been made out of French cotton by Syrian girls on the slopes of the Lebanon. So-called Irish tweeds may be innocent of aught shoddy and cotton Establish confidence similar to that now enjoyed by the Irish people at home. and 1t Is safe to prophecy that the sale of genuine Irish goods in the IJnied States will increase by leaps and hu1lnda