The New York herald., 1921-02-13

Special Gable TO THE New YORK HrRALD.
Copyright, 1884, by THE New Yosx HERALD.
New York Herald Bureau,
London. Feb. Ic.
Parliament will open Tuesday with
almost wartime rigor. Guests are TO
be excluded from the Royal Gallery
and hundreds who have hitherto en-
joyed the privilege of dressing in full
court costume and courtesying to
Their Majesties as they passed
the House of Lords will be disap-
pointed.
Furthermore, when the ancient beef
eaters" the Yeomen Of the Guard from
the Tower of London, perform the
time old ceremony OF searching the
vaults under the houses of Parliament.
a practice faithfully carried out ever
since one Guy Fawkes first had his
day. they will be accompanied by
shrewd eyed detectives from Scotland
Yard.
Another gunpowder plot enters
largely into the calculations OF this
year of 1921. There are two reasons
for this extreme caution-one Ireland,
the other unemployment. Both ques-
tions are bound again to take up much
of the time of the coming session.
Joseph Devlin and other Irish Ma
tionalists already are preparing to
heckle the Government methods Of
repression in Ireland, and with the
railroad engineers threatening to
strike unless the Mallow shooting is
Inv cit <o1 tee t~,
they are represented the questions
promise to take on more than an aca-
demic interest despite the fact that
home rule legislation has passed and is
out of the way.
Test In Cardigan Election.
Parliament reopens under the shadow
of the bye-election at Cardigan, which
the enemies OF Premier Lloyd George
insist is another crucial test In his
career His candidate. who is one of his
secretaries. was turned down by the
Liberals and Is running on the Tory
ticket. There Is nothing in political ac-
tualities to indicate that whichever way
Cardigan goes his control Of the docile
coalition majority in the House will be
seriously impaired.
If crushing defeat should result In
the face of Lord Georges appeal--not
unlike President Wilson's for a Demo-
cratic Congress In 1e1s-the result itself
can't force the fall of the Government.
That must be forced by Parliament. and
while opposition success at Cardigan
might embolden the plans for attack. It
has been proved again and again that
when the zero hour arrives for the op-
ponents to go over the Parliamentary
top there is no leader in the house
capable of crossing swords with the
little Welsh wizard himself or. indeed.
with either Andrew Bonar Law, Gov
ernment spokesman In the house. Sir
Edward Carson or one or two others of
his faithful Parliamentary supporters.
except Mr.. Asquith, on his own chosen
occasions.
And behind Lloyd George sits the
House. that is described as "hardfaced
men who have done well as "a result of
the war" sometimes listening TO the at
taclss, but always following the Govern
ment into division.
AS far as Ireland Is concerned, the
Government sticks doggedly to its de-
termination TO fight II out along the
present lines. II Ireland accepts what
she calls the "plunder partition" bill she
can have peace. The Government is still
convinced that the army has secured the
whip hand over the Sim Fein. even
though admitting the frightfu cost In
the methods used, which were horl'ifymg
to Great Britan's friends and are be-