Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1913-11-22
DISTURBING
Effects Of Labor Leader Lar
kins' imprisonment and
Release.
Home Rule Hopes Rise and FAN
with the Election
Results.
Carson's Campaign i'm Scotland
Has Left the Electorate
Untouched.
TORIES EAGAR FOR COMPROMISE

From London this week Hon. T. P.
O'Connor, M. p, cables that the i'm
prisonment and release of James
Larkin, leader of the Dublin strikers,
has had disturbing effect, increas-
ing the Socialist and Labor vote and
reducing Liberal majorities. Larkin
produced such universal symptoms of
unrest throughout the working
classes as to seriously imperil the
whole future of the Liberal Pro-
gramme and consummated his tri-
umph by being the chief subject of
kinds of interpretations are placed on
this singular phenomenon, but 1t
really points two morals quite clearly.
The first is the awakening of the
universal conscience to the horrors
of labor conditions in Dublin, and
above all to the terrible housing
conditions, with $1,000 families
living each in one room. But the
more important moral is that the
British working classes at last have
burst out into the long expected
revolt of their primordial and pas
sionate hatred at one law for the
rich and another for the poor. Thus
what is regarded as triumph for
Larkin is the emphatic verdict of
the British democracy against Sir
Edward Carson and his appeals to
civil war.
Meantime the orgy of party
speeches continues undated. The
by-elections, too, still continue to
absorb public attention, and party
hopes rise and fall with the alter
mating success or failure of the
party candidates. The Tories lost
their heads at the end of last week
with their victory at Reading and
the diminution of the Liberal major
ity in Linlithgow and proclaimed
these results as the death of home
rule and the end of Asquith's Min
lstry. Cooler second thought reduced
the magnitude of this success. Every
vote of the thousand votes given to
the Socialist at Reading was given
to an avowed home ruler and the
of Liberal and Socialist
votes in favor of home rule reduced
the majority of the Tory anti-home
ruler to sixty-eight.
The reduction of the Liberal
majority in Linlithgow, besides be-
ing due to many local causes as well
as to Larkin's imprisonment, was
mainly accounted for by the fact
that the Liberal candidate was a
stranger and the Tory candidate a
@f kAx
OF these cooler reflections came the
splendid Liberal victory at Keighley,
where in spite of a three cornered
fight and big accession to the La
Dor vote the Liberal candidate in
creased his majority. Two by-elec-
tons in Scotland still are pending.
The new Scotch law officer, though
he has but a small majority, will
probably win easily in Marlborough,
but in South Lanark, great mining
center, the situation is complicated
again by three cornered fight, and
the miner candidate is backed by the
great miners organizations.
Sir Edward Carson's campaign in
Scotland has left the electorate un-
and my counter campaign
and that of other Irish speakers has
in meetings of unparalleled |
size. In the face of a gigantic cam
paign by crowd of Orange mission.
aries, clericals and lay. who made a
powerful appeal to racial and relig-
Gus kinship in Scotland, such ap-
Deals found not the least response.
The prospects of home rule
-a0NftattAua ..fao aAI falI x.rfkI. &ha
election results. Immediately after
Reading and Linlithgow the rank
md file of the Tories proclaimed an
md to all negotiation. but this tenn
,orary phase is passing away with
he victory at Keighley and with the
certainty that there is no such tidal
ave against the Government as
would weaken the Liberals infiexible
not to leave Office or
dissolve Parliament until home rule
) passed into law. remain un-
haken In the opinion / have over
nd over again expressed that the
'ories will before the end OF the
truggle submit with relief to such
compromise as will save Carson
nd the Orangemen from themselves.
What form the compromise will take
J not yet certain, but It is some adj
antage that the Cabinet Ministers
re no longer offering the exclusion
I the four Ulster counties, which
o Nationalist could accept and even
lany Orangemen do not demand. It I
; also an advance to saner Minis
srial tactics that at present the
Iinisterial plan apparently is to
ave the matter OF offers TO the
DRY leaders and to confine the LIB
raj position to awaiting any such
roposals.
Thus at the end OF this strangely
neckered week home rule once
lore is advanced to its old position
{ q certain, steady, practically un-