The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-12-15
SAYS ULSTER
SITUATION IS
"QUITE NASTY"
Too Late Now for Any Settle
ment, Declares Wilfrid Ward,
English Publicist
INSISTS LLOYD.GEORGE
is DOING MUCH HARM
Can See No Justification for the
Attacks of the Chancellor
on Landlords

WIZ VIII icStuAO ou INC AOuA oSS
English cardinals, Newman. Wiseman,
Manning and Vaughan. In the Broad
way theater, Sunday evening. under
the auspices OF the Catholic Settle
ment association, arrived In Detroit.
Saturday morning.
He reclined carelessly on a brown.
semicircular seat In the flamingo
room OF the Hotel Pontchsrtrain while
he was being interviewed. He was
dressed In u brown suit that would
have stamped him az an Englishman
anywhere in America. He cherished
. halfconsumed brown cigar In his
left hand, and occasionally he gesticu-
lated with II. And part Of his con-
versation was about Browning.
MIR. Ward took q brown view OF the
situation In ireland.
1t looks quite nasty" he said. THE
people Of Ulster seem very deter
mined, and the home rule party is
equally determined. But I am not an
authority on politics, and I have not
been over there for seven weeks. so
] am not In close touch with the stu
alton and my opinions must not be
given extraordinary weight.
II believe that . settlement could
have been arranged. II one had been
proposed early enough; but It ap-
pears too late for that now. Ulster
II well-armed; they saw to that very
early. II IL impossible to tell what
win come Of It all. Things appear to
have come to an impasse, to use the
French word.
Asked the significance OF the by
elections, which are being won by the
Unionist party, Mr.. Ward said:
1T IL not surprising To a great
extent they are q protest against
Lloyd-George's schemes. He is &C.
complaining great deal Of harm
. His attacks on the landlords are not
| Justified. Many Of them are very
genrous men and are doing much
good. But they will certainly not re-
duce rents II they are to be so heav-
fly taxed az Lloyd-George would like.
They could not AFFORD to.
The Marconi exposures hurt Lloyd
George to a considerable degree; much
more than they did Sir Rufus Isaacs.
The chief justice admitted that he
had made a mistake. and was silent.
but l.loyd-George clustered about and
cut a very poor figure. There Is q
good deal OF doubt as to his SINGER
ity, but there Is no doubt that he In
tends to put his program through.
But, az say. / am not an authority
on politics. I keep in touch with 1t
TO be informed. but II Is not my spe-
cialty."
Mr.. Ward was directed into the
channel OF literature He drew out g
leather cigar-case and lighted another
cigar with the fragment OF his old
one. His gray beard bristled as he
attacked the new subject with ner-
vous energy.
81 have seen a great change In
poetry" he said, speaking very fast.
climbing the unimportant words and
landing with great emphasis on the
important ones. When was young,
there were four great poets In Eng
land--poets OF the first magnitude
Tennysou. Browning Swinburne and
Matthew Arnold. They are gone now,
and there Is no one to take their
places. The present laureate. ROBERT
Bridges. would not call great poet
mot like Tennyson. Neither was A.
fred Austin, though / believe popular
opinion belittles him too severely
ne has written some charming poetry.
But because OF Wordsworth and Ten
ayson, the people had come to expect
greatness In the laureate. Still, 1t
must be remembered that there have
been obscure poets who were elevated
70 that position. For instance. there
vas Nahum Tate--doubtles you have
aever heard OF him. Nahum
Tate. Gle spelled ~. Nobody has
sver read his poetry. And there was
3outhey, hut I believe that there was
more In Southey than people OF today
dive him credit for. Kipling would
have been q more popular choice than
bridges. But his health. understand.
4 not rood. He lives In . dne place,
'Burrsh.' It Is spelled Bu-r.w-a-s-h.
but It's pronounced Burrsh. I have
been there.
at seems to be the fashion Of the
universities to decry Tennyson. This
ada to my dislike of the universities
ana my contempt for university opin-
Ion. He was great poet and great
thinker. make no concealment OF
nv contempt of the universities,
which set their arbitrary opinions up
A the truth. I have seen literary
fashions change and change again.
Iongfellow was q very pleasing poet.
, poet who reached the hearts OF the
people. would be inclined to de-
lend him from adverse criticism.
Browning was very justly praised by
Aubrey De vere--perhaps you never
heard Of him (Mr. Ward didn't spell
ht this time)-who called him q great
thinker in verse;"
Mr.. Ward praised John Stuart Mill
% an economist, but primarily as a
logician: and Arnold Bennett and II.
"a. Wells as novelists. Galsworthy. he
said. was we'll liked by those who
like him.
Saturday afternoon. Mr.. Ward lee
tured In st. Mary's college. Monroe,
on Tennyson. A number OF the De-
troit Catholic clergy accompanied him
In q special car Mr.. Ward Is mem
Der OF the council OF the Catholic
Union OF Great Britain. He has writ.
ten many books. including life of
Cardinal Wiseman. and IL frequent
contributor to the Dublin Review, OF
which he IL editor. and other British
periodicals.
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