The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1913-05-17
DETERMINED TO SEE
HOME RULE THROUGH
All Members of Liberal Party United
on This as Their Main
Purpose.
Leaders Hope it May Keep Forces
United Until Irish Parlia-
ment is Won.
European War Cloud Has Vanished
and the Sky Again APP
pears Tranquil.

To the fixed determination of all the
members of the liberal party to see
Home Rule through. T. z. O'Connor
attributes the unity and the conse-
quent success of the party in the pres.
ent parliament. In q special cable to
the Chicago Tribune of May II, Mr..
O'Connor says:
This determination is Il bond uf steel
which keeps all sections Of the coali-
ton inflcxibly and irresistibly togcth
;; cr, which enables them to laugh at
difficulties and ignore scandalous CAM
paigns and also to reject every en-
tanglcment, such as woman's suffrage,
, which might stand in the path of Home
Rule.
| This is tho key to the whole situa
ton and this supreme factor now is
expected with perfect hope to keep
government in power and all the pro-
| grcssivc forces together until the Irish
parliament is rc-cstablshed and plac-
ed on al imprcgnable rock.
Ulster, which has been silent for
months, is beginning to get restive
over being ignored and an active CAM
paigr was started lately once more to
frightcn English opinion OF announce
j mcnts or secret drillings and many
other preparations for civil war, and
Sir Edward Carson will spend the
I. present vacation in an attempt to blow
the ashes of Orange passion once more
into a flame.
Threats Will Be Subdued.
This movement may he allowed tt
20 On some time longer but when the
government strikes il will strike as
hard, if necessary. as il did with tho
. surfragcttcs. England is not to he
cowcd out of doing the right thing bS
such threats The perfect Tranquility
of the English mind in the face OF
Orange threats found final expression
in passing upon first reading Of the
Home Rule bill this week under par
e liamcntary rule which precludcd al
I speeches and all divisions.
MI liberals and Home Rulers will
separate for a brief vacation in hiRf
spirits This temper is in sharp con
i trast with that Of few weeks ago
I announced, seemed destined to brni
about the crashing fall Of at least tw'
ministers and possibly the downfall o
'' the whole ministry. The woman's suf
fragc bill presented many pcrils, in
: Guiding an open division of opinion
q among the liberal ministers them
G selves. Long and excited debate
x caused "a arrangement of the whol
: program for the session and a possibl
peril TO Home Rule and other grca
ministerial measures. Similarly o.
IL the continent the black spcctcr of wa
II seemed to be finally descending upO
II Mortified but inpotent Europe. Sim
s ultanco,sly the prospect of a big de
!. ncjt in the budget portcndcd the ne
: ccssity OF new taxation and. with ne,
d taxation added to all the other bur
n dcns of the ministry. might well hav
"a proved the final straw to break til
ramcrs back .....
n Every one or these pcrils now ha
: disappeared or is disappearing. I'll
ii prolongation of the Marconi commit
"a tee investigation first bored, then es
II aspcratcd the public. AS days stretch
~ cd into weeks without adding any
thing to what Chancellor Of the r,
m chenucr Lloyd George and Sir Ruff
is Isaacs, attorney general, had alrcad
ayowed and AS the evidence dcvelopc
III more and more into childish chatte
OF! eliminating in Winston Churchill
sh fierce but most artistic outburst Of il
Mt dignation, people began TO sickcn
vc the whole thing and a reaction can
H. in favor of the accused ministers.
i'll ate history of the United States.