| Show Home Rule Rule Not Not YetT Yet HE p passage of the tile Irish home borne rule bill in the T o ol oi Commons does docs not cud the lOll long struggle for self government for Ireland It is isone isono ono one more moro victory for the cause canse which must rail prevail ill in the end because it is just and because it is in iu harmony with the movement and spirit of the tIle times but it will not prevent long and bitter fighting fight fight- ing ilIg in Ill P Parliament rl and probably before the people in ill a n. general election before the final triumph of homo home rule The House of Lords will ill denounce tile Ute measure sent up up-or up or more properly down from down from the House of Commons and then reject it b by a heavy majority i It will win fortl forthwith with go back to tho the peoples people's leople s representatives tat hes and and there it w will U once more be lie made the subject of prolonged and lud bitter wrangling ng Again Agnin it will pass in all nIl probability and once more it will vili willbe willbe be lie sent back by bj- the House of Lords With the authority of that body curtailed by recent changes in tho the United Kingdom one more moro favorable fn vote yoto ill in the House Honse of Commons would make the tho bill hill a 1 law taking for granted g the assent of the tIle s serc sovereign To 10 prevent this the lite opponents of home lOme rule nile are 1 likely to go to great g lengths They will strive desperately to force a general election on the tIle plea that the people should have haTe the final voice in ill ill the fate of so momentous an act of legislation It If i is h by no means certain that filet they will fail to bring about aboul this test of public opinion because there louse House of in the are arc many ninny members member of the majority Commons Common who ho are not ilOt certain of or the support of their con continents in ill respect ct to 10 home rule iule and nud they would be glad to submit the tue whole matter to tho tile electors of tile iho kin kingdom dom Such a n virtual referendum would bring on a battle at nt the polls which would certainly be of or unprecedented violence The issue would bo be drawn sharply and clearly on home rule and national fechin feeling would ouM be appealed to in e every cozier coiner of the kingdom in a 3 way war which could not fail to engender entler much bad blood Home rule for Ireland Irean is comin coming but it will nolle not nol be le a fact until it jt has made more history of a u most vital ital kind for the British nation and 31 afforded ed extraordinary extraordinary ex ex- spectacles ces for the world A Phase of Direct Government O ONE NE of the supposedly important provisions pro oC or ortho tho the form of municipal government go the tho City of Des Moines roine is enjoying is the tho initiative e and dum For five years the people of that prosperous Towa Iowa city have had tho the privilege of oC laws initialing ing laws and aua of expressing their will ill upon the ordinances adopted by the city commission That right has never been exercised but will be in ill a few lays days on such a a. ital vital subject as the tIle method of operating tho the fire department whether or not 1101 there shall shah be he a platoon double system The firemen desire and th the city cily commission commission declines to authorize its establishment establishment the people are arc going to decide By way war of examining the idea one ono is probably justified in supposing that the firemen have studied the question from all nIl angles and know whether it would promote their own welfare The city commission commission com corn mission it may bo ho assumed has 1135 examined the issue from the standpoint of public service ice and that their investigation has led e them to disapprove e it The commission having haying been chosen by the people to adm administer nister city affairs is obviously the superior of tho the fire department the fire department should not control the commission commission The people weary of the wrangle Ie will settle it for themselves It is a fair assumption that not ono one voter in each cach thousand knows anything about the be fire department would not recognize a double double- platoon system if he met it in ill the tile street and doesn't caro care a a. rupee about it But in the light of this pub public ie i ignorance and general popular indifference the people peo peo- pie pIc of Des Moines l arc going to 10 take e a t. t da day off and address themselves to deciding a question of government govern overn meat ment detail with wilh no assurance whatever Cr that it willbe willbe will willbe be settled right This we wc take it is one of the beauties beauties beau beau- ties tics of or the initiative e and referendum I i I r PI End of European 1 7 R RECENT D developments de' in Turkey in indicate that the infidel at last is to be driven from Europe Outgeneraled an and beaten in iii the of arms anus tho the Sultans Sultan's government concluded to make peace on the best lest terms obtainable and adhere adhere to as much as possible of its European possessions That policy at this distance seemed its only possible c course urse but the Y Young oung Turks have decided otherwise They have abruptly seized power on a platform of a continuation continuation continuation continua continua- tion of the struggle and it is difficult to conceive of any other termination than their final expulsion from Europe Tho Tile Turk has lias existed for than more a century merely upon sufferance The great grent powers need needed cd him at Constantinople to preserve e the tho peace to hold for them what none could control without launching general warfare The great nations to whom he lie has been useful have 0 tried to save savo him even after the tho disastrous defeats of the last few few months They would have lone done so 60 had bad the people given the government gov gov- their support This they ther havo have not donand done don and they must take lake the consequences pa pa I Before it is too late the eminent Democrats who aspire to portfolios under the next administration should pause pauso to consider tit that at the Ilie Wilson Vilson cabinet may be lie a bicycle cabinet Ja S For claiming ho he can cnn produce a a. cross between the bull moose 1 and nl nd the elephant it is to bo be feared that Mr fr M will have hare to be enrolled among the tIle nature fakers Lakers Pa pt M JES Governor Hodges of Kansas began his ills career in ina a t. t lumber yard 1 Probably that is ib where he lie learned to saw woo wood and say nothing Pa pa John has bas just died dietl at the age of or years He wasn wasn't L a n. soda water clerk but a n Chippewa Indian S SS S Pa P fa Arnold Bennett says tit fit it is no iio sign sig of ability to 0 accumulate a fortune flints That's comforting to a alot lotof lot lotof of us anywaY M n ss J Ida il l' l Tarbell nd advises cs married women to a demand s Then who will wiIl be the tile boss oss 2 L |
