The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1913-03-01
RATHER CANDID
BRITISH OPINION
Lords Are Making Themselves a
Nuisance by Delaying the
Cause of Home Rule.
Will Have to Accept it Eventually
and if They Do Not Swallow
it Willingly
They Are Doomed to Have it
Rammed Down Their Threats,
Declares Reynolds"

| "Reynoldss Newspaper" of Lon
! don, tersely sums up the action of the
House of Lords in rejecting the Home
Rule bill:
The Lords try to take themselves
seriously, and they came together T."
pretend to debate the merits of Home
Rule. They are impudent hunbugs-
noble az we'll as impudent of course.
Everyone knows they had made up
their minds to reject the bill, and they
might just as well have done so with
out nouthing out q lot of stale and
dreary common places. We can fancy
more exciting forms of pleasure than
listening to Il speech by the Duke of
Devonshire. His uncle. the late Duke.
was not exhilaratng, but men lis
tened to him. because he was rare
type-that is to say, he was really in
dependent in mind. He would hit out
solidly at either Chamberlain or
Gladstone whenever he wanted to.
! the Tory Whips room as any man
who is cadging for Knighthood.
Nor il: he anything of an orator, be-
ing essentially dull, and even bovine
in appearance and in disposition. So
he said his say, and his speech may
be correctly described in precious
made up OF "common- places the most
mouldy that have ever baited the rat
traps of criticism"
The Tories are forever running
, about and trying to persuade people
in the Commons. 1t strikes us that
the public would not be very much
upset If this were actually true--but
1t is not true at all. Both on the
Home Rule bill and the Welsh Discs
: tablshment bill they have found II
r impossible to keep the debate going.
tUu LIlC ldlK Has CcdSSu DClOEe Lie
time appointed for the application of
the closure. A few weeks ago we de-
scribed how q despairing Tory men,
: Der turned to his colleagues and call
!, ed out, Get up, somebody" and NO
! one got up. Later, when 1t was ar
ranged that the Committee stage of
1,
ten, the debate collapsed nearly two
: hours earlier, and as a matter Of fact
. the House adjourned long before its
-, accustomed hour.
q 1t happens that Mr.. Rosenbaun1
has been in the House of Lords oi
late, no doubt willing to assist them
!, in speaking against Home Rule, and
I this may account for the fact that the
Church champions in the Commons
n were unable to continue the discus
sion. However that may be, the Tor.
les had nearly two hours more al
q their disposal in which to talk II they
h liked, and they had nothing to say
:. Thus, when they tell their tales abou
p being gagged the public will know
h that the tales are what are politel,
called fairy tales, and what can bt
, accurately described by lnucl
shorter word.
They Will Be Forced to Accept It.
On the second reading the Lords
d went on with their farce or pretend
y ing to consider the Home Rule bill
: on it's merits. They were treated t,
o a remarkable and vigorous defence
@ of the bill by Lord Haldane, and ais,
Y to a curious speech by the Archbishop
II of York, who did not condemn tn
d bill, but said he would vote against l
: unless the Government would oblig
, him by having General Election OF
! it, This is rather cool. The Lord
h not very long ago insisted on thei
It alleged right to have General Elec
tion on the 1909 Budget, and they ha
d 1T. All their recent troubles may b
i traced to that piece Of trucu]ent i'm
t, pudence, and the country If not go
i. ing to be worried and bothered b
e, all the upset of a General Electio
n even to please so nice man as tn
l. Archbishop of York. If the Lords lik
it to make d nuisance by delaying tn
l. cause of Home Rule that is their oW
affair. They will have to accept