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ur0pes Preliminary Gestures Before Settling the Peace

the Coalition victory being foregone
conclusion. Several millions of women
were added to the register and there was
considerable anxiety as to the effect of
their votes. 1t was thought in some
quarters they would surely elect the
women candidates, and in the hectic mo-
ments of the first receipt of the returns
the defeat Of the women was laid to lack
of time to organize their vote. Calmer
thought, however, decided that, once hav-
ing won the franchise, women vote by
principle and not by sex.
Essentially, the result was a great
personal triumph for Lloyd George as
the "Victory Premier" But it was an
exceedingly we'll organized triumph with
little room left for defeat. Four hum
dred and seventy-three Of the victorious
candidates went to the polls as the Of
fetal representatives of the government
that won the war Forty-six others were
pledged to support victorious Coali-
ton. The Coalition programme com
prised five exceedingly simple points:
1. Punlsh the Kaiser.
2. Make Germany pay
3. Get the soldier home as soon az DOS
sibIe.
4. Fair treatment for the returned SOL
der and sailor.
8. Better housing and better social con-
ditons.
On the surface of the results the
Unionists are back in power for the first
time since they had to give way to the
Liberals during the South African War
In the new House Lloyd Georges major
ity will be made up Of 1886 Coalition
Unionists, 127 Coalition Liberals, 10
Coalition Labor and as straight Union
ists. The old Liberal party has prae-
tica)ly ceased to exist, but while Lloyd
George had to make many concessions TO
the Unionists for the sake Of the cleo
ton, 1t is expected that they will have to
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Irish Question Moves Toward Another Climax

man" the well-informed weekly of the
Fabian socialists. After pointing out
that the approach Of the peace confer
ence gives the separatists the long
yearned-for chance to stage monster
demonstration and to inject the Irish
problem into the official inter-Allied ne
gotiation, the article, printed in the
December issue of 1.-The New States
man." says:
"The anti-British state of mind now so
strong in Ireland, finds au outlet in voting
Sim Fem. Moreover, there is a general
impression that the possibilities of the
Parliamentary Home Rule movement are
for the time being exhausted. The move
ment has lasted over forty years, and
Messrs. Dillon and O'Connor are the most
venerable politicians in the British Empire.
On liberal estimate the Pariamentarians
will retain twenty of the sixty odd seats
which were in their possession at the disso-
luton. Sim Fem is assured of from sixty
to seventy victories; its great strength will
lie in the newly enfranchised young men
of property. Mr.. 7. M. Healy and Mr.
William OBrien, with their followers of
the All-for-lreland League, retire in favor
of the Sim Feiners. Organized labor in the
South of Ireland does the same"
The article gives the following sum-
mary of the Sim Fem issue against the
Nationalist on the one hand, the British
government on the other:
"The principal Sim Fen points are as
follows: (a) That the war has ended with
the principle of self-determination being al
lowed to all the beligerents; CD that it is
more important to save Ireland than to
save the remainder of the party; (c) that
while Mr.. Dillon repudates a Republic for
Ireland, he favors Repubicanism elsewhere;
(d) that Mr.. Dillon appealed for recruits
during the war; (e) that the condition to
which Ireland has been reduced by the re-
cent declarations of British ministers
shows the futility of the Parliamentary
policy"
The Nationalist realized the hope
lessness of their situation About half
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eminent. He was promoted from Parli-
amentary Secretary of the Home Office
to Financial Secretary to the Treasury
IN 1912, and later to Chancellor of the
Duchy OF Lancaster. His present defeat
at the polls is not his first experience of
the kind. He was beaten at the polls in
1911 and 1912, and finally the Liberals
had to find an 'easy' constituency to
secure for him seat in Parliament
Reginald McKenna's defeat eliminates
one of the most conspicuous members
from Parliament. He was first returned
by Monmouthshire in 1895. In 1905 he
became Financial Secretary to the
Treasury, in 1907 president of the
Board Of Education, in 1911 Home Sec
rotary, in 1915 Chancellor of the Elk
chequer. which post he held until the
downfall Of Asquith. He was one of the
ministers who were roughly handled by
the militant suffra gists in 1913. who
even planned to kidnap him for his
stout resistance to the suffrage demands.
Sir John Simon is one of the leading
British lawyers, with an income reputed
to exceed s15o,ooO a year. He was
always loyal Asquithian. At the out
break of the war he resigned but was
induced by his chiefs urgings to retain
his post as Attorney General. He was
strong opponent of CONSUMPTION, and
during the last year was classed almost
as pacifst.
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Secretary Daniels Thr0,vs
Il Depth Bomb in a Big
Macy Declaration

4 Y ECRETARY DANIELS raised a
storm of protest. in Washington by
~ the three-year building programme
for the navy that he laid before
the House Naval Affairs Committee.
This programme, according to "The New
York Tines
calls for the building of ten first class
batteships, six battle -crusers, ten scout
cruisers and 1870 small craft. 1t is cst-
mated that such programme would place
the United States on the same relative foot
ing with Great Britain, giving this country,
with tho vessels now building, sixty two
iIrst class battleships, while England has
sixty-onc at present in commission.
Mr.. Daniels explained that the now three
year programme which President Wilson.
ne, and the General Board of the navy
wished Congress to adopt this session was
approved by the President after the sign
ing of tho armistce.
may say that you cannot do anything
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follow him into strange ways, if the Coal
ition pledge is kept and he is retained in
power. The prophecies are that the pres
ent alignment will not endure for any
great length of time but that the hide
bound reactionaries of the Coalition will
soon again be found in the Unionist fold,
while from among the others will be born
new party under the leadership of
Lloyd George. The question is whether
the Lloyd George party will command a
clear majority of the new House or
whether there will have to be another
election. The Northcliffe press antici-
pates new election in very short time.
"The London Sunday Observer" j. L.
Garvin's paper, said Of the election:
Lloyd George has gained personal tri-
umph which is quite without any parallel in
our records. Above all, the pacifists are
annihilated everywhere. And not only that.
All who were suspected of semi-pacifism,
or of the faintest tncture of it, or of weak.
ness in any phase Of the struggle, or of
feeble inclination to par!ey with the enemy
when the fight was ut it's darkest and grim
NEST have been cast out. If no man could
have greater fortune than Mr. Lloyd George
has at this moment, man could bear
greater responsibility, nor one of more
definite kind"
"The London Sunday Times said
at is not the Premier alone who stands
or falls by the work Of the new Parliament;
the governing classes are equally on their
trial. Men Of all parties have come back
from the constituencies with report of
new and rapidly growing impotence. not
confined to any one class Of the political
game, ar il has hitherto been played IF
the governing classes wise, they will
recognize they have now what may be "A
final opportunity to justify their traditional
place in the political system by their light
and lending, and that they cannot do this
better than in furthcring to their utmost,
even at the cost Of their own class. the
privileged programme Of social rcconsLruc-
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the number of party members did not
seek reelection, so that even before the
polls opened the Sim Fem won twenty
five seats without contest. The Ma
tionalist leader, Dillon, however, de-
cided to put up desperate fight on both
sides, against the Republicans and the
Unionists.
The result of the polling was pretty
clear already on the evening of Election
Day, December Ia. Said an Associated
Press dispatch from London:
"Polling in the greater part of Ireland
passed quietly except for minor collisions
between Sim Feiners and Nationalists@
"a close analysis of the voting shows that
the Nationalists have been hopelessly
beaten by the Sim Fein, even in places
supposed to be Nationalist strongholds"
The final count of the votes on De-
cember 2S more than confirmed the
triumph of the Separatists The Asso-
ciated Press reported;
"The Sim Feiners, as expected not only
swept Ireland but gained their seats with
enormous majorities, leaving the National
list representation in the new Parliament
bare members. John Dillon, the Ma
tionalist leader, was defeated by De Valera,
Sim Feiner, for East Mayo by majority
of 1000. Joseph Devlin, however, defeated
De Valera for the West Belfast seat. De
Valera also candidate in the South
Down constituency"
One of the successful Sim Fem can
didates was women, the Countess
Markiewicz, one of the leaders of the
Easter rebellion in 1916. She won in
the st. Patrick division of Dublin, as
the only woman returned out of the
fourteen female candidates in the
United Kingdom. Her election, how
ever, was not expected to change the
100 per cent masculine complexion of
the House of Commons. For one thing,
as a Sim Fem member she would have
refused to axe her seat anyway; more
over, admission would have been denied
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not to take the Sim Fem victory too
seriously, there is Enthusiastically a sub
dued feeling of alarm as to what will
happen if the extremists insist on lv-
ing up to their threats and attempt to
put over their plans to declare Irish
independence without delay 1.-The Sun:
day Times" of London writes:
ireland has not disappointed, because
the result was foregone conclusion. Sim
Fem has thrown down the challenge to
ordered government, and it cannot be ir4
nored."
'The Observer is more outspoken.
1t says:
"Slnn Felners, whose pro-Germanism
rocked no doom for the liberty of other
nations, if only their own impossible pur-
poses might be served, have torn Ireland
asunder, as she was never torn, and made
wider, almost beyond healing in our time,
the division between the Unionist North
and the rest"
According to "The Morning Post"
of London, the responsibility for Sim
Fem victory belongs on the shoulders
of the British government The paper
says editorially:
"lf the opportunities of this war had been
in the hands of real statesmen Ireland
might by now have been as well affected
as any part of the United Kingdom"
The Dublin correspondent of 1.-The
London Daily News" discusses in detail
the plans of the Sim Fem leaders.
ireland has voted herself out of the
British Parliament" he writes, and pre-
diets that the seventy-three Sim Fem
leaders will constitute themselves into
National Council at Dublin. Then he
says:
"As far as I can ascertain, the business
Of the council will be to draft a scheme
for the establishment of sovereign Irish
state, and appoint delegates to present this
scheme to the peace conference
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pe0n Fields

at was thought that, with a small Allied
army here as nucleus, which actually is
neither active large enough, the Rus
SLAMS would flock to our standards and de-
velop strong army over night. There were
some peasant volunteers, but the results
have been far from satisfactory SO to-
day the Allied forces find themselves handi-
capped by lack of men, with vastly
larger but potentially much inferior enemy
force facing them.
"The Allied forces have not even been
strong enough nor has their policy been
sufficiently clear to convince fully the
population here that they will not have
to fear the return of the Bolsheviki. With
proper faith in the future policy of the
Allies, it is quite possible that thousands
of Russians might join the fighting ranks,
but up to the present time practically all
the fighting has been done by the Ameri-
cans and their allies.
"Our soldiers know this far better than
the people of America can possibly have
known 1t. They have great faith in Presi-
dent Wilson and patiently await the action
of the Paris conference"
An Associated Press communication
from Warsaw, printed in the "New York
Times" outlines a new military line es-
tablished by the Polish government on
its Eastern front. The line extends
from Lapy, in the north, southwark to
Litry and beyond Lemburg. The article
states that thousands Of refugees con-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-05

NF THE eyes of the world are not
fixed on Ireland to-day it is really
n not Irelands fault. She has done
her best. In ordinary times the
crushing victory at the polls of the Irish
party. whose candidates were elected on
a platform of secession from the British
Empire and the wiping out of the his
toric Irish Nationalist party of Parnell
and Redmond, would probably have
moAopolized the front pages of news
papers printed in the English language
from London to San Francisco, from
Toronto to Singapore. To-day the an
nouncement that the Sim Fem leaders
are about to declare Ireland an indie
pendent republic is received even in
New York. the largest Irish city in the
world with the equanimity of news
paper readers, who are accustomed to
have served to them, along with their
coffee and toast, reports about the col
lapse of mighty empires and the birth,
by the dozen, of new states and nations
The results of the Irish election,
WIlCI gave " lliS AolHll Iolli StNCuUy-
three of those seats at Westminster,
which they, true to their traditional
policy, decline to occupy, did not come
as a surprise. The outcome was antici-
pated. Ever since the failure of the
governments recruiting policy in Ire
land the rapidly advancing conquest of
Irish sentiment by the Sim Fem was the
outstanding feature of the situation;
and the evident dangers of the admins
tration's half-heartedness caused con-
Germ both to Unionists, who called it
leniency, and to Home Rulers, who saw
in it the abandonment of reiterated
pledges to solve the Irish problem &C
cording to the desires of the overwhelm-
ing majority of the Irish people.
The sweeping victory of Sim Fem
was predicted on the eve of the election
by a correspondent in "The New States
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tinue to arrive in Poland from Moscow
and other points in Central Russia and
the Ukraine. Desultory fighting is re-
ported at Lemburg between the Ukrain-
ians and the Poles. The Associated
Press also reported thirteen hours of
street fighting in Odessa between Rus
sian volunteers and the Russian Repub-
lican army The fighting ceased finally
with French reserves assisting the vol
unteers
Gertrude Atherton writes in the "New
York Times" from Paris that the Polish
question is the most significant of all
the problems before the peace confer
ence so far as the peace and we'll being
Of Russia is concerned. The writer
goes on:
"American sympathy for Poland has been
largely sentimental. Once great and
powerful nation, she bitterly wronged
by the partition, and during the recent
was devastated more thoroughly by
the Germans than France or Belgium. The
cloquence of Paderewski opened many
pursese in the United States and inspired
still more good wishes for the union of
the three several parts of the ancient king
dom. SO far good; and no doubt the
great nations will keep their pledges to
restore to the smaller and long oppressed
races their ancient rights
"But that is question for tomorrow, and
the Polish question of Che day-of the mo-
ment-is acute.
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Campbell Bannerman became leader Of
the Liberal party, and when the latter
was appointed Premier he named AS
qulth to the supremely important post
OF Chancellor of the Exchequer By
this time his radical tendencies had
worn off to a large extent.
His zeal for Home Rule, however. con-
tlnued undated, and he also made him
self conspicuous as one of the most re-
lentless opponents of the tariff reform
movement instigated by Joseph Cham
berlaln. He was an advocate of good re-
lations with America, and supported eff
forts to establish good relations between
Britain and Russia. He became Prime
Minister in 1908, after the death of
Campbell-Bannerman, and retained the
post till 1916, when one of his lieuten-
ants, David Lloyd George, succeeded
HIM. But this is already recent history.
Walter Runciman, another defeated
Liberal, was appointed president of the
Board of Trade corresponding to our
Secretary of Commerce), in 1914, when,
on the declaration of war with Ger
many, John Burns resigned from the
Asquith Cabinet. He is a wealthy ship
owner, of Scotch descent, and entered
political life in 1899 by defeating, at
Oldham, his friend Winston Churchill,
then Conservative.
Charles F. G. Masterman successfully
held several posts in the Asquith gov
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-05

in the world which would so strengthen this
country's position in the peace conference,
said Mr. Daniels, as to authorize this en-
larged naval programme Before I wrote
my annual report | took up the matter of
a big building programme with the Presi-
dent, and then, later, after the armistce
was signed, I spoke to him again on this
subject. He very earnestly urges that this
programme be adopted. Nothing would so
aid him in the peace conference as Con-
gress's authorization of big navy"
1t was this feature of Secretary Dan
iels's statement that brought forth the
protest in Congress. The Tribune's
Washington correspondence said:
"Men who have been advocating a larger
navy for decades forced an increase
of preparedness at time, just after the
outbreak of the European war, when Presi-
dent Wilson and the Administration gen
orally, including Southern Democratic lead
ers in Congress, were laughing at the pre-
paredness agitation hysteria- no
sympathy with this gesture at this time.
There is no belief, even among the friends
of the Administration, that the bluff as it
is freely characterized by its critics, will
have much effect
Enlarging upon the needs for a great
American navy, Secretary Daniels told
the House Naval Affairs Committee:
ut is my firm conviction that if the Con-
ference at Versailles does not result in a
general agreement to put an end to naval
building on the part of all nations then the
United States must bend her will and bend
her energies, must give her men and give
her money to the task Of the creation of in
comparably the greatest navy IN the world
She has no designs upon the territory,
or the trade, of any other nation. or group
or nations. But she Ii pledged to the sup
port Of the Monroe Doctrine. She is
pledged to the support of tho weak wher-
ever they may suffer threats. She is incom-
pntaby rich. incomparably strong in natu-
ra! resources. II need be, she must be in
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"As to what will happen if the peace
conference refuses to admit the Irish dele
gates, | can only quote Harry Boand, Sim
Fem NJ. P for South Roscommon, who said
yesterday: If the conference fails US we
will put forth such organization in Ire
land as will make it clear there can be no
peace in Western Europe as long as ireland
remains under the heel of the English
oppressor
THE weapons of general strilt, of sabo-
tage, of civil disturbances with attacks
upon property and wholesale passive re-
sistance to the collection of taxes, are all
limited at.
Threats like these may sound foolish
in London, but in Dublin it is impossible not
to admit the great mass of the people are
terribly in earnest"
That the Irish question will be brought
up in the peace conference is the opin-
ion, among others.
That an attempt will be made to en-
list President Wilson's support for the
cause of Irish independence, was fore
Swallowed by an Associated Press re-
port from Dublin, according to which
December % was celebrated as Wilson
Day throughout Ireland The dispatch
said:
Meetings were held in more than forty
towns and resolutions drafted by the Sim
Feiners inviting President Wilson to visit
Ireland and pledging to him Ireland's sup
port were adopted AT most of the meetings
Constitutional Natonalists joined with the
Sim Feiners.
"The attitude of the Unionists is that the
President will not interfere in the domestic
politics of Ireland, but that he would be
welcomed to examine into real conditions
and problems
The London correspondent of "The
New York World" believes that Presi-
dent Wilson has already brought up the
problem of Ireland in his first conference
with Lloyd George and Balfour. He
adds, however, that there is no positive
information to this effect
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an END to British, Irish, French and Amer
'cah bolshevism, and portends the over
throw and destruction of German and Rus
sian anarchy and anarchists Lloyd George,
already at the head of European statesmen
IN lhhuence, is promoted by the result of
the British election to a position =, still
greater personal and political sire 9Th and
advantage. 1t puts in his hands = tremend-
Gus responsibility. He becomes the chief
organizer of the work of restoring the
Slapped and white-bl nations to vigor and
strength. He is not merely the pillar of
nation's hope but the centre of a worlds
desire."
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comparably strong in defence against ag-
gressors and in defence against evil-doers."
Foreseeing, however, that the peace
conference might result in the forma-
ton of a league of nations and meas
ure of general disarmament
Mr.. Daniels proposes that tie bill should
contain the following provisions
eff at any time before the construction
authorized by this act shall have been con-
tracted for there shall have been cstab-
lished, with the cooperation of the United
States of America, an international tribunal
or tribunals, competent to secure peaceful
determinations of all international disputes.
and which shall render unnecessary the
maintenance of competitive ornaments.
then, and in that case, such naval expan-
slons as may be inconsistent with the en-
gagements made in the establishment Of
such tribunal or tribunals may be suspend
ed, when so ordered by the President of the
United Stntes.'"
"The Times's" report of the hearing
before the committee said:
How will you settle how large our navy
shall be, if league of nations is created? "
asked Representative Butler of Pcnnsylva-
MIA.
1--WE ought to contribute in units, power
and men just as much as any other nation
and not allow any other nation to have
more power than we have replied Mr.
Daniels.
"Do you think there is great diplomatic
advantage to the United States in being
able to say to England that it must agree
to limitation of ornaments or the United
States will build navy able to whip the
British navy?" Representative Kelley de-
manded.
II have great faith that whom the peace
conference adlourns there will be an agree
mont to limit ornaments" Mr. Daniels re-
sponded. "If there Ia no agreement, then
we must build the ships SOFAS to have such
powerful navy that il would make sns
nation in the world think seseral times be.
fore yenturing TO attack as"