New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-05
London, September 1S.

q week since Lord Lore
oAppeal to the Nation was
pOO'' OR a Conference with view 10
v"' ,sttlement of the Home Rule lues-
' lnS BY consent. In this Conference
wv and Liberals, Ulstermen anu
Nationalists were to join. Inc
h''" &c 70 the leaders of all these
Sp PTS. and to the nation to put such
p sure upon their leaders as may
20, them either to agree upon d
80 s,-arce or TO explain why they re-
W. Neither Unionist nor Lioerai
us vs.. have thus far made any pnOic
''1 onse TO this appeal. Nothing mas
49,, 49,, heard from Mr.. Asquith nor from
Suybody entitled to speak In his name.
a nswer has been given either by
who leads the Union
=. narty in the House of Lords or oy
~. Ronar Law, who leads the Union
.. Marty in the House of Commons
So Lord Curzon, who seldom neg
-. on occasion for a letter to the
1-,as" Is silent: and though LORD
econ Is not the head of party ne
:. nv virtue Of sheer intellectual aoii-
,,v a parsonage whose voice is always
,,.,.red 10 with attention. Nor mas
-. Rslfour. whom I called the other
80 The intellectual chief Of the Union
;.t. spoken since his address at HAD
sngton on the 9th, with its demand f"r
Dissolution of Parliament.
The only authoritative replies to Loru
,oreburn come from Ireland. Sir ho-
~.ra Carson. speaking at Durham IN
rrsland. last Saturday, the 13th' de-
c,.rpd roundly that 'it is not OF the
.ur,test use TO meet in a Conference
which must prove abortive." MI heu-
mond is voiceless, but his lieutenant
Mr.. Dillon, whose voice is seldom uh-
hsord denounces Lord Loreburn's pro-
nosal as futile and mischievous. MT.
Deylin. whose real authority in ireland
4. ,erhans greater than Mr.. Redmonds'
.co1s Of the whole business. The irish
nrsss Nationalist and Unionist' is
practically unanimous in opposing 'he
Conference. 1t may be said, therefore,
,he+ Ireland, whose interest In the
whole subject is second only to Eng
lands will have nothing to do WIN
this new scheme for an amicaoie az
rangement or attempt at arrangement
The two great parties into when ire
land is divided agree in rejecting horo
Ioreburn's kindly suggestion that they
sbcll at least meet to discuss their ait-
ferences.
On the face Of 1t, that is not prom
Using state of things; nor is it any more
promising If you go to the root and rely
upon logic. Ulster says: =.
I'VE will consider no scheme Vi
which an Irish Parliament at Dublin
with AN irish Executive responsible 10
that Parliament is the basis
And the Nationalist retort:
I'VE will consider no scheme OK
which the basis is not an Irish Parma
ment at Dublin with an Irish Executive
responsible TO that Parliament"
Is there any ria media between these
two uncompromising negatives olr
Edward Carson. as If TO underline his
position, has gone from Durham 10
Ulster. where he is reviewing his VOL
unteers: finding time also to make
pregnant brief speeches; describing the
proposed Conference as a SPIDERS par
lor and to the charge that what ne ana
Ulster are doing is illegal, answering
"Of course it is illegal. We shall SET
I'D a Provisional Government. Ihat
will be illegal. We are drilling. That
is Illegal But they are illegalitles
meant to assert the elementary right OF
every citizen: his liberties, the rights
he has inherited and the institutions
essential TO the defence Of those rights
and liberties"
What Is that but an echo Of the
voices Of Otis and Hancock and other
great leaders of the American Revo-
luton?
Nevertheless, the effect of Lord Lore
burns manifesto has been great, ana
the prospect Of Conference is by no
means so hopeless as it looks on the
surface Politics do not rest on logic
mainly, nor, even If they did. would II
be certain that out Of these logical d.
lemmas there would be no way or
escape. A Conference may mean
many things. II is evident that a Con-
ference of which the present Home
Rule bill is 10 be taken as a starting
point can never be held, and would
come to nothing IL II could. But
Conference called to consider with an
open mind the whole question Of the
better government of Ireland Is a dill
ferent matter. That sort Of a Con-
ference may be possible.
Lord Crewe. who leads the corporars
guard OF Liberals in the House OF
Lords. said in that House last July:
We do not pretend that this Is the
only Home Rule bill, or even the only
Home Rule bill which Parliament
might be asked to reconsider" Lord
Aansdowne. replying to Lord Crewe.
referred to Lord Grey's earlier fedora