Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-04-12
FATE OF LORDS
MAY Be SEALED
BY IRISH FIGHT
Asquith, Returned to Commons,
Faces Crucial Period in Eng
Iish History,
EYES OF WORLD WATCH
Outcome Of Struggle Holds Great
Signifcance-May Mean
Fall of Grown.
Special Cable to The American.

Special Gable to The American.
LONDON, April 11-Prime Minis
ter Herbert H. Asquith has two foes
who hang about his heels in his great
battle for home rule in Ireland. Mrs.
Flora ("General") Drummond, now
the most prominent militant leader,
and Jim Larkin, chief of the proleta-
riat, are raising their voices to pro-
test that Ireland's government is not
the most important issue before The
British people.
Mr.. Asauith has just been returned,
unopposed, to the Commons by East
Fife When he took the Secretary
ship for War in addition to his duties
as Premier, he was compelled to seek
the approval Of his constituents.
Ii had been taken for granted that
Mr. Asquith would be elected, for the
Unionists never considered nominal
ing a candidate.
A new era of English constitutional
history may begin when Mr.. Asquith
returns to London after this election.
The final outcome may be a fedora
ton, like the United States; it may be
further Socialist measures along the
line of national insurance and old age
pensions; it may be the final down
fall of the House of Lords and the
Crown At the worst, it may be
armed civil war, aristocrat against
commoner, army against people,
Catholic against Protestant, or the
renewal Of the old conflict of Round
head and Cavalier. The United King
dom is SETTLING with discordant ele-
ments. Berlin looks on and smiles.
Government Well Manned.
In this strait, the English Govern
ment has a strong man at it's head.
Recent events-the apparent totter-
ing of the Cabinet-have only served
to show the greatness of Asquith. For
eight years he has guided the desti-
MES of the empire.
Mr. Asquith is now 81 years old, a
stalwart Yorkshireman with crown
OIL SHOW Nuit6 HAIL Lie Wet9 q RAS
tege of William E, Gladstone, whose
attention was attracted to him by a
speech made at a dinner 1t will
probably prove, indeed that the pro-
tege will put through the very meas
ure. home rule, which split the pat
ron's party asunder and proved his
undoing. He is considered the keen
est debater since Gladstone.
There is the greatest contrast be-
tween the Premier and Jim" Larkin.
Where Mr. Asquith is the prince Of
logic, Larkin hurls his arguments at
his audience without any sequence or
cohesion. The latter is prophet
CRYING in the wilderness, full OF
rough. uncouth force. His sincerity
is uudoubted,
Larkins Rise Fast
L.arkins strike of the Dublin trans
port workers came near to wreeklng
home rule He was figure IN the
labor world which almost In an IN
slant eclpsed all other leaders Whlle
Sir Edward Carson was quietly drill
liz his men, I,arkin was leading IN
real civic strike, with long casualty
list.
L.arkin's position is scarcely more
curious than that of the Laborltes as
a whole. If there is a Parliament at
Dublin the Irish Cabinet may hnd It's
chiefest problem not Ulster, but tnS
great mass Of impoverished Irish raj
lying around the standard OF this
rough workman.