Show ALL FACTIONS IN FN AGREEMENT Irish Question in a Fair Way For 7 Settlement 4 NOW UP liP TO THE GOVERNMENT 4 AMAZING RESULT TO TOBE TOBE BE ACHIEVED t 1 t London Feb 21 As tlc the result of o In with the Duke of Abercorn Lord Dunraven John Redmond and others the Associated Press is able to announce authoritatively that the fol following followIng following lowing is the situation situation today regarding tie the t e plans to finally finaU settle the Irish land question All AU the interested parties nationalists unionists landlords and tenants are now for the first time in inthe Inthe Inthe the history of Ireland in agreement up upon upon upon on the lines of the Dublin conference They have also alse joined forces in bring bringing bringing bringIng ing pressure on the government to tomake tomake make Secretary forthcoming forthcomIng forthcoming ing report agree e in spirit with the rec recommendations recommendations recommendations of the conference and all aU Indications point to the bill blU conceding those demands It will be introduced In parliament at the end of March and if It passed will ill accomplish what Mr Redmond and Lord Dunraven agree in saying wilt will be one of the most ex cx extraordinary extraordInary peaceful revolutions ever effected If Mr Wyndham for lack of OC funds or other causes fails falIs to meet the views of the conference he will have on his hands to quote Mr Red Redmond Redmond Redmond mond an Ireland such su h as the world has never seen In this view such a strong supporter of the government as the Duke of or Ab Abercorn Abercorn Abercorn concurs Mr Redmond adds If this agree agreement agreement agreement ment of keenly opposing parties lacks fulfillment through the governments refusal there win wilt bt b twice as many countries under the ban of the crimes act as there were ere prior to the present truce trace This truce will be continued un until til tn ti the terms of the bill are revealed A great nationalist conference at which Bourke Cockran of New York Tork will be one of the principal speakers will meet in Dublin in April to take action on the subject Landlords Assent The Duke of Abercorn who is president president president dent of ot the powerful Irish Landlords association which at first declined to Join the Earl of Mayo and Lord Dun Dunraven DunI Dunraven raven in conferring with the national I but which later signified its as assent assent assent sent frankly admits that he is amazed at the results achieved and at the happy condition now pre pro prevailing prevailing in Irish politics Asked if he thought the nationalists were sincere In their professions of willingness to settle the longstanding grievances by a compromise he emphatically ex cx expressed expressed pressed his belief bellef in their complete sin sincerity sincerity cerit The duke could not conceive that the government would stand on or any quibbles when the solution of the most serious problem of the empire was I within its grasp He thought the process of changing the holdings rom I the landlord to the tenant might possibly possibly possibly bly cost annually adding It surely will trill be cheap at that price Neither Mr Redmond nor Lord Dun Dunraven Dunraven raven ra ven believes the transfer of the land would involve more than an annually annually and both the economies result resulting resulting resulting ing from the cheaper administration would greatly reduce this figure even if they do not eventually event quite wipe out the necessity for state hid aid in the payment of difference between bet een the maximum price the tenant can afford to b pay and the minimum price the land landlord landlord landlord lord can accept A Question of Money The Irish unionists leaders are of the opinion that the whole question might be settled in advance if the govern goern government government ment was wah not so desperately hard up in consequence of this lack of funds Mr bill will wili not be intro introduced IntrodUced introduced until after the presentation of or orthe the budget so that any money to carry carryout carryout carryout out the provisions of the bill will not be Included in the years taxes Chancellor of the Exchequer Ritchie while quite lotte sympathetic toward Ire Ireland Ireland Ireland land now faces a more serious financial l situation and more bitter protests against than have con confronted confronted confronted fronted any chancellor in recent years The phenomenally small government majorities since parliament reassembled reassembled reassembled bled are indications of the storm which Is brewing over Mr head he d He must also float a new Transvaal loan before Ireland gets an additional penny and the government with reason is keenly anxious In this respect Con sols mis yesterday esterday were at the lowest point reached this year and inquiries made at banking houses such uch as the Morgans and anti reveal the fact that there is no indication of the United States sub subscribing subscribIng subscribing scribing to a loan Since the last war loan was so largely underwritten in New York the international monetary situation has completely changed and the firms here say the Americans now need their capital for use at home One financier said Loan Would Be Popular If I the government brought out a aloan aloan aloan loan which would really provide means for settling the th Irish question they would get more underwriting than they would know what to do with both here and in America Mr Redmond was asked point blank If It he thought the landlords were Jn n earnest He replied I 1 have every reason to think they the are arc Just as anxious as we are to set settle settle settie tle tie once for all Irelands trouble If It Mr Wyndham brings in a bill on the t I lines of the decision arrived at by the I Dublin conference the greatest step In Inthe Inthe inthe the industrial and social history of Ire Ireland Ireland ireland land will have been accomplished More than that it will be a most im ira important important step toward home rule Under Und r the new system the landlords will live JivIn in Ireland derive benefit from their property and begin to take a new in interest interest interest terest In jn Irish affairs They will then see the necessity for an extension of local government and will eventually become as anxious as ourselves to se secure secure cure home borne e rule |