Show r LIQUOR QUESTION r WORRIES ENGLAND r S New Leader of Liberal iberal Part Party Parts S Becomes Surprisingly f Aggressive CHALLENGE IS TAKEN UPi UP i Many Factions to Please and Important Matters fj S to Settle le S Republican Special Cable London March 20 Prominent a. ii member of or the Liberal party part who p pI I S were inclined to resent tho the assumption S oC or the party part leadership 1 by IW Mr Mt As As- r are arc n now v iw expressing their stirS stir sur- S r at th tho aggressiveness of oC the new leR lender leader whom tn they had expected to toS S prove too weak for tho the position left vacant b by the retirement of Camp Comp ft hell hell- hell Bannerman which I It Is no longer h i doubted will ill be permanent s That there will be nothing 4 or S' S in the A campaign earnS emu earn S n Is made clear b by the defiant II Inflexible In- In flexible way In which filch the tho challenge e of or the liquor trade has been tal taken eh up tip since the tine Peckham beer j It will also bo bf a n flexible government gow prepared to give and taJ take Q and post pos pos- t tho the dexterity r required for es- es 4 a system of oC checks and balances bal bal- ances among the religious bodies fi Xou The Tho Conformists Nan placated b by bythe 1 the support t given gi hen b by th tho bl bishops hops to Ito tho the licensing bills aro are In a n. mood for accepting accepting- a settlement of ot the tho I 5 lion question on tho the lines proposed by byS' byS bytho S' S the tho bishop of or St. St A Asaph aph and anti a chance for 01 a compromise Is steadily q log Ing Tho The Roman noman Catholics would pre pre- S for a n government go 1 bill hut but the they will have o compensation in Mr Mi- II Birch's t Irish scheme for or a university with nith a n. Jesuit colle college c at Dublin and colleges i at Cork and n united on a sin sin- gb sic foundation just ns Protestants arc conciliated In turn by tho the reconstruction recon recon- of the Presbyterian college at Belfast as a n university with Mazee i college e at Londonderry connected With IL It i 1 Mr 11 Asquith's tactics are arc not dI disclosed dir dis S clod closed but apparently he ho Intends to toS' toS S' S persevere with witha n licensing bill expectIng expecting expect expect- ing InS the bishops to help him and the tho lords lords' to extend the tho time from the thela I 1 la to lp 21 1 years lIe Ho also aleo hopes for the tile tileS S passage Sc of or th the Irish university bill anti and Is willing to accept the tho bishops of St. St A Asaph's aph's education bill as a n substitute substitute ti tute for the government measure Consolation for or OtherS S. S The mo moderate Liberals will iii bo ho conS conciliated con con- S ciliated ll with the withdrawal of or the theS S hour eight bill and tho ho labor group roup and the extreme Radicals will find consolation In tho the old ago ogo pen pension penIon scheme S S The rue strategy Is brilliant but hut Mr lr Is more moro accustomed to hard hi tI than to o diplomacy lp Meanwhile enn ai an awkward on Rod nod home rule lule resolution lon to zuan- zuan n- n age nc on ou Monday and amI a strenuous r w r-w fr gl gb over oyer tho licensing bill on its Us see sec v ond reading rending with the tine Unionists bent upon in Log ing up un their success at nt Peckham The Liberals have a great reat morn moral Issue issue- In aITa arraying public rights n against alnEt privileges and In Insisting that thai the tho state must control the drinking places an and Mr Tr A undoubtedly relies on strong support from the re religious re- re lous and antI temperance Lions in the coming fi fight ht |