Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1913-04-12
The Liberal Feeling Has Entirely
Come Round For His
Defense.
Public Opinion i'm England Now
Made Up For Irish Home
Rule.
ORANGE BLUFF NOW DISCOUNTED


1T. p. o'Connor, VI. p, notes the
shifting of political interest in Eng
land from domestic to foreign af-
fairs. All of Europe, he says, has
been held up by little Montenegro
and the diplomats again have begun
to shiver lest the small cloud on the
horizon should lead to a general
outburst of the European thunder
clouds. SO far the people still hold
hopes for the settlement of this
small outstanding difficulty, as the
powers seem disposed to ignore the
violent popular passions of every
country and determined to act to-
gether in the interest of general
peace.
The Marconi wireless scandal still
runs on, but 1t has lost much of its
original interest, and the force of
the panic which the first revelation
of the investments in the American
Marconi Company by Postmaster
General Isaacs and Lloyd-George
created among the Liberals now has
entirely passed away. Though grave
indiscretions may be alleged against
these two trained politicians for
embarking in anything so susceptible
to malignant distortion by their un-
scrupulous political opponents,
everybody now acknowledges that
the original charge of gross corrup-
tion has absolutely fallen to the
ground and the reaction already has
set in.
Lloyd-George still holds undimin-
ished his vast hold on the affections
and confidence of the masses and
they now regard the whole thing as
a foul conspiracy to drive Lloyd
George from public life and so rob
them of the man most able and will
ing to lead them to further victories
over the landlord and aristeeFa+Se-
privileges. Even the Tories on the
Marconi investigating committee
speak much more mildly, and except
for one or two rancorous and ire
sponsible members of the Tory rank
and file Lloyd-George is now unas-
sailed.
All talk of dssensions among the
members of the Cabinet and the
desertion of Lloyd-George by mis- col
leagues is absolutely unfounded. The
Liberal feeling has entirely come
round to his defense and instead of
fearing public discussion of the
whole affair in the House of Com
mons. the present intention OF
Premier Asquith is to force A. Bonar
Law, opposition leader, to raise such
a debate. Altogether the present
prospect is that the whole scandal
will disappear in a few weeks and
never will be mentioned again.
The week has gone we'll for the
Ministry The debate on tariff re-
form revealed once more the
irreconcilible differences of opinion
among the Tories and their hesitat-
ing utterances indicated their grow
ing belief that the urgink of
protection will keep them that much
longer out of office. Similarly
there is a pause in all of their con-
troversy over home rule, which is
one of the many indications that
public opinion in England now is
finally made up upon ii.
The Irish Orangemen made one
attempt to revive the old contro-
versy over the accidental collision
between the Nationalists and
.Orangemen last year, but after a
shrank from going to a division.
Similarly the loud mouthed appeal
OF the association in England to help
the IOrangemen resort TO armed
resistance was not even noticed by
most OF the English papers and the
Orange bluff now is discounted.
The severe sentence imposed on
Mrs. Pankhurst. the suffragette
leader, meets with general approval,
as everybody is exasperated by the
senseless and brutal acts OF violence
by the milltarists, and this feeling
is increased by the announcement OF
further outrages. Asquith encour-
aged his followers immensely by the
announcement that the bill to abol-
ish plural voting will be introduced
next Tuesday. No grievance has been
more heartily detested by the Lib
erals, and no measure has been more
ardently desired than this bill, and
its Introduction will help prevent
that slackness of energy and attend
ance which is the only serious
danger TO the continued existence for
several years OF the Liberal Govern
ment.
A movement under strong aus
pices also is being organized among
the rank and file Of the Liberals in
the House OF Commons TO secure
pledges OF continual attendance all
through the sittings till August, 90
as to insure the triumph OF home
ruiQ