Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-29
RULE
M FEBRUARY
Ed George Then to Begin
arsat Land Reform CAM
paign in England.

sEDON, Dec. 2e.-The new year
Zoe crowded with events which
leave their marks upon this poll
s of England. In the second month
~ the year the House OF Col nmons
s4Fill formally decide the fate of Ire
land. which In the future is to be
free to settle it's own internal affairs.
Nobody expects anything more
serious than q mere formal protest
on the part of the Tory party in the
House of Commons, if, indeed,
compromise shall not have been ar
ranged before that time III order
to save the honor of the Cqnserva-
tives The Kings assent to the bill
Is already assured.
the petition started by one OF the
most sensational of the London con-
sentative papers for the purpose of
proving to the King that the gov
eminent was out of touch with public
opinion has been shelved. AS for Ul-
ster, no one ever really thought that
Ulster would fight, and everybody
knows that Sir Edward Carson Is
more than ready to come to some ar
rangement which viii save HIS repu-
tation before the time comes when
he will be compelled to surrender un-
conditionally or run the actual risk
Of arrest.
With home rule out of the way the
u c5tllI 11lpGAdl VIII n1dh-
gurate In real earnest the new policy
Of land reform, as planned by the
genius of Lloyd George, which, II car
ried through, Will peacefully revolu-
tionize England and to a certain ex
tent make it able to provide it's own
food and provide employment for
every worker IN the country willing
to leave the crowded city TO go to
work on what, thanks to our present
system, is practically virgin soil, UNI
touched by the pillow for many gen.
erations. The battle for the owner
ship Of land will make or break the
Liberal party.
Tories Oppose 1t.
Even now the Tory press, after in
sisting at first that the land cam
paign was nothing more than a red
I herring drawn across the trail. is
beginning to denounce the land re-
forms with every means at their dis
posal. Lloyd Georges scheme of MAX
ing use of the time between now and
the next election to educate the COM
mon people and show them clearly
what land reforms will mean to those
who work. Is being made the subject
of ridicule in Conservative papers.
Because the masses of the people
have heretofore been inert and sat
isfied to vote as did their fathers or
as they were told by their squires or
their bosses, the Tory leaders con-
clude that they will continue to do so,
and they leave out of consideration
the gratitude which thousands Of
voters feel toward the man who gave
them old age pensions, who laid the
foundation of labor insurance. and
whom they now trust when he prom
Uses that he will deliver them from
the yoke of the landlords.
With the veto of the House OF
Lords abolished forever and with the
4 h11s nR hn AaV, IN
plural vote. a wide breach has been
made in the stronghold of the sTories
and the way of progress has practi-
eally been cleared in England.
ST John G. Ervine, the brilliant
irish journalist, has just returned
from a careful tour of the whole
country, and he gives the rosiest ac-
count of the conditions that are like
" to prevail in the old land within
the near future under the blessings of
home rule:
More Happily Situated
Man for man. the people in The
country places are more happily aiti,-
ated than the people In the rich Ulster
town, and l believe, given the state
of society we now know, that in
short while the countrymen will be
we'll to- do. In Mayo I saw a small
farm of eight statute acres. a cold
md hungry looking place, put up for
sale, ana the owner or II refused
bid of $3.50 for the tenant right. I
was told that II was not worth moro
chan $780, but the woman who craved
for 1t was willing to pay more than
its worth to get 1t
II saw a small farmer who had
four daughters, and to each of them
he gave a dowry of $3.50. Every man
in that place owns his little bit of
land or is in process of owning IT.
Every girl in that place has her for
tune the amount of which is noised
abroad. and the man who has the
finest holding gets her. There is no
nonsense about love in Connaught.
Marriage is a business transaction.
We gave a dance one night to the
country people, and when they came
the cook told me of a young girl who
was in the house She's looking Tor
a man thatll suit her. Her fortunes
over $780,
"They have hard winters there, and
somtimes man is hard put to II to
pay his way, but few of them go
under. The Irish are vital people
THE roots of them are deeply plant
ed, else they could not have held on
to the land as they have done during
six centuries of red persecution"
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