The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-10
HOME RULE FIGHT
 IS DRAWING NEAR  Can Present Men Do What
 Gladstone Could Not? ICUPID'S FIRST AIDE
London Viscar Promotes Scheme Of Public Register Containing Girls Names and Necessary Income
 of Their Intended Spouse
ByPHILlIP EVERETT

l London. March 9.-(Special.)- 1.-The day l for the introduction into the house or
 commons of a bill to provide "a better 1 government for Ireland" as the King briefly expressed himself in his opening i speech, is drawing near, and people are beginning to ask themselves if the present cabinet will be strong enough to carry through the act of justice Wh1ch proved too much for a statesman like Gladstone.
 II is difficult to act the political prophet
 nowadays The government, Of course'
 possesses the necessary majority III the
 house, and it is quite safe to say that very few. if any, liberal members will
 desert their coors, while the chastened
 house of lords is only able to delay the
 home rule law for two years.
 It cannot be denied, however, that the
 feelings of the people are showing ten
 dencv toward the side of the conservative
 marty. though it is apparent 10. anybody
 that the tories are divided against them
 selves and that Bonar Law is far from possessing the necessary qualfhcatioiis
 for a leader. Several by-elections have re-
 suited in the defeats of liberal candidates and the government majority, which after
 the election was 126, has now gone down
 to 116.
 The suffragettes insist that they are re-
 enonsihle for this. but while there is lb- soIutely nothing to prove that their as- sertion is correct is is equally certaln that the losses of the government are
 not due to increasing opposition against
 home rule for Ireland. It is possible tn
 we may see serious outbursts of passion
 against the bill when it has been actually
 placed before the commons. but at the present 1t creates no percepuple sur. The defeats are quite plainly due to Chancellor Iloyd-George's insurance Dill, which takes in sickness as well as lack Of employment and which imposes sacrlhces upon workers and employers alike. Ihe
 people of England, always incredibly slow fo see and understand. discover nothing
 but the new burdens. while they Will heeu
 years before they discover the behehts.
 Thousands of interests are hurt at least
 temporarily by this bill, great number
 of .'lxind hearted" doctors have refused
 to attend the sick under it's provisions,
 nntil Iloyd-George fulflls their demands,
 and the benevolent societies are still to A certain extent opposed to it. The torres have been smart enough to make use or this at all the by-eiections, though Bonar Law came near committing poltieai sul- eide as leader when Aslul,h .rappco him into saying that the conservative par tv would repeal the law as soon as they
 cot into noWer Even the slow minds or the English voters are, however, gradual- lv learning to see that, While hperal gov
 ernments are never afraid or attackms
 and overthrowing reactionary conserVa- tive institutions and enactments, the tories never dare interfere with the more mNo- ern miprovements introduced by their op- nonents and 1t is therefore possible that | these are all good, and that the insur- ance bill may turn out blessing In dlS- guise like the land tax, which was pre- dicted to be sure to ruin England, put which no conservative politician ever thinks of attacking now.
 The split in the cabinet which we heard so much about some time ago, seems to have been nothing but @ thought fatnered by the wish, for not ever' MT. Garvin' the Irish renegade, who leads the tory press, says any more about 1t.
 While the government Is marching on ward at home, it's foreign policy has won the admiration of Europe, and even such | foul mouthed noisemakers among the
 press as the Daily Mail and the Daily EX- press silently approve or Sir Edwaru | Crews efforts to bring about a peaceful understanding with Germany. England, which formerly stood isolated in Europe. has won over one great power after the | other, Germany only is left, but after the recent elections the German government will soon be forced to accept England | offer and thus put stop to the crushing
 armaments, which the people refuse to | support.
 | It is no longer a secret that the ad- miralty have commissioned Vickers, Ltd,
 to construct airship No. on designs
 which have been carefully prepared by naval and aeronautic experts. Uhe off- cer who will have chief charge of the ves- l sel has arrived at Barrow and Is already busy with the preliminary details of his work Commander Schwann, who is con nected with his majesty's steamship Her
 mione, the guardshp of the wrecked May fly, is coming to Barrow in April to re-
 sume his experiments with hydro-aero-