The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-03-01
'PEOPLE ARE TIRED
4 Of POLITICAL GAME
Mould Gladly Give Home
/ Rule to Ireland to Be Done
With the Subject.
LITER LLOYD-GEORGE
Tory Press Utters Insinua.
tons of Self-interest on
4 Very Silly Pretext.
liter LLOYD-GEORGE
BY PHILLIP EVERETT.

heclal Gable 10 The Tribune.
tIONDON, Feb. 2S.-The battle fol
hd against home rule has now been
bging for nearly three weeks, and
khile it must be supposed that it In
brests, at least to certain extent, the
bliticians who are taking active part
it, and perhaps even the political
friters who find in the debates mate
lei for articles without number,
bubt whether the Westminster per.
FINANCES really interest the thinking
kembers OF the British audience watch
ke them.
III have before expressed the opinion
LAT undoubtedly, If left to themselves,
lie majority Of British voters would
bnfess that they are not at all inter
ted in home rule whatever, and that
ley would willingly give the people
I Ireland a chance to manage their
bn affairs. in order that members of
lie Westminster parliament might get
Ilittle more time to attend to affairs
u home, where there is room for much
Improvement and I still stick to that
'Enlon
||eople Are Tired.
LAS in America, the people here have
,ecome tired of machine politics. of the
krty game, and politicians and press
IKE have spared no efforts, unwit.
1hgly Of course, to open the peoples ,
Yes to the fact that the present pro-
aledings are a mere party game. The
Pdical and Liberal parties stand
,|edged to give Ireland home rule, and
lie doing their best to keep their
lfomisc for the sake of the future of
,ielr organizations, which would be
'pwhero If ii cheated the Irish Ma
bnalists.
IOn the other side the Unionists are
II present fighting home rule, not for
Ie sake of their beloved Ulster, but as
Imeans Of fighting the parliament act
ID preventing the decentralization of
lie house of lords, the services of
tich BODY arc invaluable to them.
Their principal argument against
bme rule is that it has not been prop
py submitted to the voters of the
pnntrv, whom they thus try to flatter
endcavoring to make them imagine
hat their verdict is the highest law,
4 they spoil the value of their flat
~ by absolutely refusing to promise
pRt they will abide by that verdict in
se it goes against themselves, which
putting the thing rather plainly TO
Fery thinking voter; but the fact is
'ht they think themselves safe in do
g so, arguing that the majority Of
pters do not think.
Pelaboring George.
There is no end to the hatred of the
psatlonal Tory press against Lloyd.
Ecrge, whom these papers justly con-
Ger the foremost champion of politi,
progress III England, and all means
fe !esorted to In order to disgrace
H in the eyes Of the credulous aud
shihnklng. The latest move against
chancellor in the opposition press
kes the form of a request addressed
Lord Murray of Elibank, who as ev-
Ebody knows is associated with Pear
rs gigantic oil schemes, to deny an
Ercdlbly stupid ,canard,
~ happens that younger Son of
foyd,George was discovered to be en-
pycd by Pearson IS as a geological en-
peer, and it was Immediately insinu.
eo that this young man was engaged
negotiations with certain South
menean governments with view of
Enrng valuable mining concessions
n the firm. With q variety of inuen-
es it was implied, if not actually
! Egested, that the older Lloyd George
Ight ,contrive to profit by tie persua.
ia, ,eloquence with which he is sup
led to have endowed his son. Now,
Lord Murray finds it below his dig
p to reply to such a silly affair as
we will very soon have it estnb.
PED as fact in the minds of part
inc people who read the sensational
bservatiye papers that Lloyd George
once more been caught using his
eclal position to enrich himself.
peed, politics is a very clean pro-