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Show HOME RULE LIVE ISSUE IWLAIID Astonishing Political Actlv. lty of Viscount John Mor ley at Seventy-si. 1 . - LONDON. May 7. While th treee 0 politics i meat . moots as claimed many victim among At leaders of Ik partir it ia amasing.to tad tka oldest of them, all, Viscount glorify of Blackburn, - reviving hit youth sad assuming duties which hl juniors In years kav kad to abandon on account' of illnesses brought on by overwork. When John Morley, a radical among radicals, was raised to the peerage ia 1908 endlhe Conservatives Conserva-tives chaffed hist on entering a chamber, cham-ber, which he had-' attacked a melees, the government organs explained that his advancing years Ho waa then 73 made it necessary. If ho was to continue con-tinue as aerretarv of state for India. I that he should be transferred to the upper bouts, where he would not be called upon to take the active part ia politics that members of the cabinet in the commons necessarily do. Later his age- was again given ne the enuse of his retiring from the eecretnry of etateeblp and his assumption of the of I fire of president of the council to which no nrduoua dutiee ars attached. With the, at least temporary, retirement retire-ment of hi successor Karl Crewe aa a result of serioue illnees, Viscount Mor-lev Mor-lev is found again assuming the. bur deaa of the Indian office and besides thst the leadership of the house of lords and for n few weeke, during the absence of Sir Edward Grey, the poai J i os of secretsrv of state for foreign affaire. For voanger men, even one secretsrv ef atateehip ia not eonaid ered a very easy role to fill, but Vie make smoother his progress ia the upper up-per chamber. ' Viscount Haldane'a ambition ia to become lord chancellor. ' If the ex t renin Radicals had their wav ha would bo given that position immediately. Lord Loreburn, the preeent occupant of the position, an old-time and atill launch Radical in most respects, has gives offense to the Liberal members of rural districts, bv the persistency with which be appoints Conservatives to the magisterial beach, ignoring the claims of Li hers Is to those position, which are greatly coveted by the eoun-tv eoun-tv magnates. The government appointed ap-pointed committees in the varioui counties to advise the lord chancellor on these appointments, but despite this more Conservatives found their way to the bench than did Liberals. Flaying Politics. The Hon. Neil Primrose, the younger son of Lord Bosebery, is leading the ttaek oa Lord Loreburn and -has been trring 40 get the premier to appoint a day for the disrassiun of the whole question. The lord chancellor ha created a rather uncomfortable position posi-tion for the government, bv, in hit usual brusque way, declaring that the appointment of magistrates is the hnsinese of hts office and practically intimating in-timating that if the Radicals are die pleased they have the privilege of trying try-ing to dislodge tim. This is the aim of Mr. Primrose and the anti Loreburn party. Ia England particularly but in the other parte of the kingdom aa Well, the greet taern of -polHieiaua during the aanual fall eampajga, will be home rule. The Unionitte are preparing to impress upon the people the argumeats against the granting of home rule to Ireland. The Irih Unionist Alliance and the Ulster Unionist eouacil are working ia conjunction witk the Unioniat league of Great Britain and n large number of peak era hare proffered their services On the other hand, the Liberals are organising n counter rnmpaign and the whole of the Nationalist party have t plaeed their eervicea at the dinposai of the ministerialists. Already 6000 meeting have been arranged. Labor members of parliament, fol lowing the example of John Burna,tbe trst labor leeder to become a Britiih cabinet minister, have etarted a tern perenre campaign among the workers. The campaign was opened with a aeries of meetings at Browning hall, Wei worth, addreaaed by ten labor members Incidentally, the apeakera expressed a kope that tke Aaglo-Ameriean arbitration arbi-tration treatv would be concluded. count MorleT, throwinf off the mask, ef age, entered heartily Into the work of his triple office sad from the front bench led the little parte of Liberal peers aad answered questions about ladia and the foreifa policy of the overnment aa though he enjoyed it. Haldaae Is Diplomatic Ths Hon. Biebard B. Haldane. eer rotary ro-tary of at at for war, waa raiaed to the peerage to assist Viscount hforley, but thus far the aeweet Liberal viscount has found that th affaire of tke war omc occupy meet of hi time. Who th parliament bill reaches the bnuee of lords, howeeer. Viseouat Haldane will take a toadies part in anpoortiag th gorerameat policy. R bad a wav ia coir moat of Tereomias the opposition opposi-tion of the government's eritiea aad had a reputatioa of gattiag hie war mora often than any other member of the ear-inef. This characteristic will tesxBaamBxaEceaeaaar-saeaee-saaKaa |