The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1919-05-26
Mainly About People
Weekly News Letter
ByT.P O'CoNNoR.
SnCcial Gable DISPATCH.
By T. P. O'CONNOR

Special Cable Dispatch.
U'opyriCht. 1919. by Public Ledger COZ
LONDON. May @4.--London politics
recently have been like London weather.
LUST as the sudden fierce onrush of h"'
sunshine in imm"diatr succession 10
wintry snowStorms left Londonrrs de-
rrhtcd. but linn. 50 tho approaching
conclusion Of peace leaves them salts
fed as TO the present and languid as TO
the future, Nowhere is this languor
moro visible than in tho house OF COM
mons. The young members in the new
born parliament leave the benches as
empty as though il were an elderly
parliament in the last gasp before the
general election. They take revenge.
however by hospitality in lavish pro-
portions never before known in the his
tory Of Westminster.
The manager Of the parliament res
taurant groans over the rapidly disap-
pearing stock of champagne. The mem
bers fight for tables To entertain their
gentlemen and lady friends. The other
night could get table for f. l.. Do
henry. the big American oil magnate'
w. A. Brady and Grace George only by
promising 10 start tho dinner at 7 and
to surrender the table at o'clock
Across this scene of loud festivity,
however, stalk all the old spcctcrs OF
ever restless. anxious life OF the scat
tered British empire. There is warfare
on the Indian frontier. rebellion in
Egypt and things 90 from bad 10 worse
! In ireland. Financial anXietics are driv-
| ing men to new eHpedients TO raise
money, and the growth of democratic
| feeling. with little respect for persons
and none for property among the de-
Snldinrc roalkpS nOSqibln nrO-
posals quite impossible five years ago.
| Thus the Liberal leaders have now COM
mitted themselves 10 a levy on capital
to pay off Immediately thrce-Quartcrs
! Of the big war Indebtedness. a proposal
! originated few days ago by Sydney
Arnold. a young radical stock broker.
| To n house Of commons Of war million
aires and profitccrs amid their af-
frighted silence and with warm APP
prevail from the labor benches only. this
! is ono Of the most startling and signi-
| ficant manifestations yet given of the
| advance OF radical policies in this old,
| conservative. property loving land.
cripple Alliance" Mt work.
| Another glimpse into the grim rcali-
! ties that lie behind tho present pause
| in the struggle between capital and
| labor is the distinct and plain hint that
| the triple alllanCc OF HllHcTS' idII"h1
| men and transport mon may put forth
| their almost irresistible power to force
! on the government both abandonment
of CONSUMPTION and settlement of the
Irish question. This was related by
! Vernon Hartshor2 in moving home
rule resolution. and Hartshorn is
! known to be one of those daring and
dexterous leaders Of the Welsh miners
who have won many victo cries already
| in the stormy struggles of the Welsh
coal fields.
The labor benches throughout the de-
bate on Hartshorn's resolution were
restless and aggressive. and this pro-
duccd a corresponding restiveness and
! aggressiveness in the Tory and capital
! istic benches. perhaps moro from the
! yawning and widening gulf between
| capital and labor in England than a
stronger opinion against lrcland's
/ claims. Among English Tories oppost-
ton 10 ireland is dead. as it is In any
class OF parliamentary opinion outside
| Of Orange Ulster and such rcctionary
academic Tories as Lord Hugh Cecil
Converting Consistent Tories.
Lord Henry Bcntinck, a member Of