Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1913-08-23
Liberals Weather Storm of Mar
conf Scandal and Retain
Control.
Reasons For Refusal to Exhibit
at Coming San Francisco
Exposition.
POLITICS WILL BE GIVEN A REST

Hon. T. P. o'Connor, M. p, re-
viewing the political situation in Eng
land, cables that the end of the
Parliamentary session leaves the Lib
eIal Ministry in as strong a position
as at the beginning, and much
stronger than some weeks ago.
There we're some moments so awk-
ward during the cyclone of the Mar
cCni scandal that even the most
sanguine supporters of the Govern
ment felt that the whole game was
up and that some indiscretions, how
ever innocent, were going to drag
down a powerful Ministry and sew
eTal great measures. During this
terrible time Lloyd-George, the most
active and popular force in the Lib
eral ranks, was paralyzed, silent and
nervous, and grew daily thinner,
paler and older, while the Liberals
in the country saw approach with
ranic the inevitable election with the
equally inevitable defeat. This be-
Ing all passed away. Lloyd George,
fully restored to health and popular
| lty, has already succeeded in work.
ing up the masses to feverish hope
and expectations OF new land legisla-
tion.
This session ends in almost a note
Of triumph. For some weeks politics
will be silent owing to the absence
Of all politicians, and even the diff
cult and outstanding problems of the
Eastern question can not keep the
Foreign Ministers and Ambassadors
from taking rest. This largely ac-
and Russia of the ardent campaign
for revision of the Bucharest treaty,
and the treaty wins the resignation
rather than the acceptance OF all
Europe, which is so tired that 1t can
rot work or quarrel any more.
The action of the British Foreign
Office in refusing representation at
the San Francisco Exposition is re-
gerded with mixed feelings, especially
among the Liberals and the Irish. 1t
Is quite true that the impulse for
such a refusal does not come from
Panama, but from the unwillingness
of British manufacturers to send
goods such a long distance at such
expense anu Wllu WHAT Juty CldlHl
are such problematical results. 1t
appears that the desire to increase
trade by international exhibitions
has rather died out in england. An
other explanation Of the attitude OF
English manufacturers is that trade
Is so extraordinary brisk at this mo-
ment that they grudge any division
OF time, energy or money to anything
but filling their orders, many OF
them in great arrears. Finally
quarter of a million pounds sterling
seemed large in comparison with the
sum voted by Washington. There are
real reasons from a pure bunsiness
point of view and business men APP
prove the attitude of the Govern
ment.
But all the same men political hold
that though business reasons thus
can be offered for the position OF the
Foreign Office, the sum OF a quarter
of a million, though large, is worth
sacrificing rather than give the ap-
pearance that England is sulking
over Panama. The desire to avoid
any such misunderstanding may sug-
gest some compromise later on, such
as a Governmental exhibit OF produc-
tons of the British empire, but such
q project has not gone beyond mere
suggestion by unofficial Liberals as
vet