CZAR AND DUMA,
"A TWO YEARS" CONFLICT.
DEMOURAY; 2, REACTION.
The abdication of the Czar of Russia, and the seizure of control by the Duma, have fol- Jowed a long series of extraordinary political developments. The startling elioux reached has been brought about by the remarkable chinnge in political opinion manifested in the Diana during the second year of the war.
gave
with great national undertakings and Jesus. The things they saw and heard seriously affected their political outlook, and when they reassembled in the Dunn, their attitude towards the Government, on the one hand, and the people on the other, had undergone a complete change. More than three-fourths of them hat become more or
liberalised.
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TRE HONGKONG
NO SEA-SICKNESS.
There is a widely prevalent idea that 4 submaring being a cramped and dan gerous sort of craft, life must of necesity be a hard thing for its crew.
be
DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, APRIL 20TH,
DRINK IN UNITED STATES.
TOTAL PROHIBITION MOVEMENT.
A THOUSAND MILLIONS. AMAZING WAR LOAN FIGURES.
The total figures of the Victory War Loan were communicated to the House of Com
1917
GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND.
NATIONALIST MANIFESTO. THE DRY BONE "LAW.
The Irish Nationalists held a meeting On February 21st the United States moms by Mr. Bonar law, the Chancellor of at the House of Commons last month, and House of Representatives adopted the the Exchequer. The results, far exceeding discussed the situation arising out of their Senate's amendment to the Postal Bill even the most sanguine expectations, aston refusal to accept the Government proposal forbidding shipments of liquors into ished and thrilled the House, and Mr. Bunar for the settlement of the Home Rule con- States having prohibition laws by 321 Law's triumph was loudly cheered. These votes to 72. The measure is popularly are the figures of new money subscribed, troversy Mr. Redmond occupied the described as the "dry bone Inwy
cause it is expected to render absehari-date Treasury Bills being included in chair, and. sixty-six members attended,
stranger.
the total
Ireland could never assent. Ho asserted
on this question of the so-called coercion
This opinion goes astray in that it leaves out of account the changes which increased displacement has wrought in submersible vessels. Not the least notable lutely dry those States which have
After deliberating for two hours the hitherto permitted shipments of limited
Through Bank of England... 4819,588,000 The moderate partips, the Progressives, the of these is a great improvement in living
quantities of liquor from other States.
Treasury Billa Converted 130,711,950, party decided to issue the manifesto set Octobrists, and even a section of the Conser accommodation, So much has this been
The Times Washington correspondent
Subscribed through Past Offices 30,715,000 out below - vatives, were brought into closer sympathy bettered that the complement of A
War zivings Certificates describes in the following article the
The 10 18,300,000
The Prime Minister, in his speech in with the Constitutional Democrats, the chief modern “U" boat are more comfortable great and growing force of the temper apposition party, by this change of opinion, at se, all things considered, than ance movement in the United States.
Total £1,000,312,940 yesterday's debate, took up a. position which was due, in the main, to the observa crow of a Hun destroyer. For while tn.
Few things are
The War Savings Certificates are those which, if adhered to, would involve the tions and
now more imporant, experiences, in
in the war, conservative members. Scores of these were, can (when they venture to face it at a paradoxical in the United States than the
of the latter must face bad weather as best the and nothing is now more superficially sold during the currency of the loan. between sessions, actively engaged in wax the boat can secure case by going impetus which the temperance movement
Only £22,000,000 is subscribed to the 4 per denial of self-government to Ireland for cent income tax free loanA.
ever. In it he laid down the principle. work, which brought them into into intimate
down
until conditions improve.
Explaining the efforts made to induce him that a small minority in the North-East She is
It proves how little there to issue the lown at Arury and the people, touch with the
assuming. and may sleep
upon the bottom until the
per cent.. Mr. Bouar then an opportunity of seeing the in-weather moderates, or, if the water is in common between the real instincts: 140 said: "Through the necessity of keep- } of Ister should have a veto, so long as competence of the bureaucracy 100 deep for tion no longer affect. /glitering often deceive the "casual higher than it would have been otherwise, ment for a United Ireland. That is a
that, submerge so far that of the country and the spectacular "and
exchange the value manifestations of American the surface wave
London, met halos of money on they chose to exercise it, on self-govern which her. Her grow need not risk sca-sickness life
and they do not!
and the result was that up to the very week Admittedly that is only part of the land one finds a vortex of gaiety and at per cent. 200 issued in consequence that he had never changed his position Visit any of the large American citice when the loan was fed Exchequer Bonds Position to which the representatives of
Bills at 5 per and still find life askut anything but justify the accusation that in peace and of this high level of m atory. One may avoid rough weather
thoughtless extravagance that seems to s cent. of Such matters as food, living prosperity the United States is in danger is high level of money it was urged upon conditions,
me by many of those most competent to and general environment are
of losing her soul Attend the debates in M. A. N. Khvosteff, leader of the Duma of these the Hun pirates does not do so tions which are introduced by its mem- be a failure if I did not take that advice.
factors not to be overlooked, and in Congress on prohibition, study the peti-e that the rate of the loan should be of Ulster. That is not true. He was a per cent. And I was warned that it would party to "the drafting of the original party of the Extrere tight, experienced this badly if from "
23 environment revolution of political feeling, and joined the we miss out the British Navy, which is bers, and their correspondence, talk to decided, as I am sure any Chancellor of the Home Rule Bill, which applied to
general Liberals in severely criticising Governmental the one bunch of bitter herbs in Hans ture, and one gets a very different pic that it would be a less evil to risk compara rejcetion in two successive sessions, in
the members of nearly any State legisla Exchequer in my place would have decidete all Ireland.
He was a party to the He confessed that the war had the Buccaneer's otherwise passable soup. Com hin to after his views, and
said
ture. Se far from being softly careless tive failure than to stereotype British credit- One might imagine that being boxed the United States is on the verge of em- at that figure (6 per cent.). I may say that face of the most passionate protests from that, in the interests of the nation, it was up in a steel cylinder for hours at a barking on one of the greatest imagin necessary to atilise
for as 249
I do not anticipate even comparative fail the as possible the stretch subjects him to inuch physical able self-denying experiments in what ure. strength of the people in co-operative work. discomfort. It does pot. In fact, so far
(Cheers.)
representatives of North-Eastern Even the extreme reactionaries moved to as the men inside her are concerned, the may be called national eugenics that the
* FREE GIFT TO THE LUAN."
Ulster, of amendments excluding Ulster. wards the Left, and the balance of political crew of a "U" boat would hardly know
Counting the crop of new "dry"! power in the Dums moved in the direction of whether their craft was awash or sub-
The amount of new money subscribed to
When vader pressure of the threatened the Constituional Democrats.
States produced by the election last the loan exceeds the amount of the two pre-rebellion of Ulster, he and the Govern- merged were it not for working the ma-November, 2 out of the 48 States of vious loans together. (Load cheers.) Thement of which he was a member, weakly Refore the war the Government could chinery that has to be put in motion to the Union are now legally committed to 1936 loan brought in £616,000,000 but of that generally rely on the support of 300 members get her up or down. Inside her they are prohibition; while the majority of the £200,000,000 was subscribed directly by the yielded to the threats of rebellion hurled out of 139, but in less than a year and a half quite warm and comfortable, not very rest have local option, like New York banks. All would agree that if it was not at them by Sir Edward. Carson, the pre- the relative parties was reversed 7f the centerding bard worked, and able to move, and
it State, for instance. But that is not the necessary, Liberals and moderate breathe quite freely. For their leisure important thing What really counts is large contributions from the banks; but it seat First Lord of the Admiralty, the
was undesirable to have such Liberals controlling 300 vates, and the Gov. hours the "U" bont crews have gramothe gradual nationalisation of the move was a right polity in 1915, when the deposits Government of that day, through the pre- ernment parties fewer than 140. In the autumn phonce and a good supply of tobacco.. ment. It is that which gives it its even- of the banks had largely increased. The SOMSION of 1914 the so-called "Progressive A long submergence may result in the tually popular flavour. President Wilson Chancellor paid a hearty tribute to • up chiefly of the Progressives. At that time Leaving out exceptional circumstances, very important leaders
consent to the concession of county option the Duma comprised 14 political groups or that is the worst to be said of it, and a thought, nec for local option. Tary be of national
Apart from the figures quoted, 444 indi- for a strictly limited period. · We agreed, idual gifts
to £60,000, amounting factions, all but five of them being under the few hours on the surface at night with heve that it is the right of each State to received, and 87 individuals had made leans on the pledge repeatedly given by Mr.
had been the conning tower lid open will purify decide whether it wants to drink or not.
Free of interest, amounting to £196,000. This The "blog" programms included auto- the atmosphere within the craft so that Other leaders, like the average. Conserva meant an addition of a quarter of a million loyd George on his own behalf, and on nomy for Poland, a more conciliatory policy she can dive for hour after hour again tive, on the one hand, and Mr Gompers to the lean. Promises to return interest to behalf of the Government, that if we in Finland, amuesty for political and re-without her crew suffering any difficulty the President of the American Federation
thei ligious offences not of criminal character, respiration. REGENE
by Labour, on the other, believe that in at equal rights for the Jews, recognition of the For the majority of the men, work the interests of the liberty of the subject
world has ever seen.
blos" was formed This was a coalition made air in the boat getting somewhat heavy and Cardinal Gibbons, to mention two the banks had done for the new lhe work sent Prime Minister, appealed to us to
control of the "bloc.
of
Regality of teades uniots, and removal of the being fight and living conditions not is there, should be no restrictive legislation a year had been made consented to this, concession we should.
in general.
Our success.
cess with the German never be asked for any further concession,, Bonar Law aid last German and that the Government would under- med £632,000,000, and the one before take to see the settlement through at any the German lonna have become smaller, cost. How, then, can Mr. Lloyd George £608,000,000 It is instructive to note that
Calculating numbers of scribers, on the question of Ulster ?
he B210 1913 loan hind 1,100,000 subscribers, divided almost equally batween the Post
the Bauk
Office
was
received
of a pirate is not fraught with mang conspicuous politician who is for national Naturally the Government took alan Physical hardships and is a fairly easytemperance. Yet public opinion, through while ours bave increased," he pointed out.my that he has never changed his attitude and the Dum was forthwith prorogued belong to a side of the story which we are
one. The war perils attaching to it Congress; moves steadily towards it. by the Czar. But the people gave the are not looking at just now In the
blee all the support they could...
TWO BIG TEMPERANCE VICTORIES.-Y., congress of zemstvos (shire council) and to do
The matter of food the pirate
Recently it scored two most important mostly able tonkicipalities, which assembled in Moscow be de, himself well. Cooking when the constitutionality of n law, voted lost hop England. taken by is at the urgent request of the
Supreme Court
The negotiations of last July, under- allowed five days Inter carried resolutions for pre-war sentatives to the Czar, in which it was dewart up some water for him to dip hie Mr. Taft while President as unconstitu through banke clared that the war must be carried to a Kidd consequently has to content himself obey the laws of the State into which they sent the total number of individuals as understanding that one year after the end
sausage in before he eats it, and Herr tional, which obliges liquor dealers to
(Cheers.) This, however, old 1,080,000. Government, referred to a strictly tem- did not repre- rorary war arrangement, with the express victorious conclusion, anil that, as a means with cold meals for the most part, wish to ship their commodities. Simul many firms took up loan on behalf of their of the war things would revert to the to this and, the reassembling of the Dems although he may and the reconstruction of the Ministry vero
dish himself taneously Congress for the first time took employes the names of whom were not status quo ante The attitudo taken up
up vitally essential.
a good feast when his boat Boas a direct part in the movement by pro given. The number awash, using for the purpose the electric hibiting after the beginning of the next the Post Office wher of applications through by the Prime Minister last night wan was impos- therefore, a total change of the position Discontent increased when the Czar's pro-cooker fitted in her. But although his fiscal year the sale of intoxicants in pubible to give more than an estimate of the on the Ulster question, and generally on mise of reconvening the Duma on Novembermeals through force of circämstances may die places in the District of Columbia number of people known that 400,000 took and a breach of faith with the Irish
taking up 14 was not fulfilled, and on Decexuber 7 (1915) have to be served cold, try that If Government.sures the Liqunt-Ship-16s. 6d. certificates sold was 6,000,000. He will undoubtedly tend to intensify the War Savings the question of Home Rule for Ireland, (Washington), the seat of the national Certificates. It was he found it necessary to give reasons for the stantial. The pirate sees
Bums of £12 and upwards and the number of party and the frish nation, and his speech breach of convenant. A little later, finding it his own larder runs low he replenishes ping Law is the most telling. Its ratifica thought thay might estimate an average of distrust of the pledges of British Minis
Of the two measureN inexpedient to further postpone the assembly it from the ships he overhauls of the Duina, he called representatives of When they want food or any other tion revolutionizes the whole situation. to certificates to a person, ami the people
Goreykin, bis reaction-
The total subscribers w
and have a most serious effect in etrength- thus brought up were ary Premier,
ships they attack. In fact, they loot" Bohon peoples pederal amen orient to 5,2-9,000 (Loud chsers.) In the case of gent power of the revolutionary in his stead M. Starmer, à
German these quite systematically, even to reliev serious effort for a Federal amendment to A burenneratio as was believed, of pro-German symrings, and other personal belongings of of existence in one fell swoop from Call subscriptions until they reached the amount this speech of the Prime Minister, we felt movement in that country. In view of nxtraction, ing the crews of their money, watches, enabling Congress to legislate drink out our War Savings Certificates arrangements the terrible seriousness of the situation Batter which
were made to receive wee
week by week small
for Ireland and the Empire created by 168, ed If applications of that kind and their arguments are plausible.
ineasure,gether and to placate them in a stores the pirates, take them from the It paves the way for the next step of the 2,500,000 subscribers, Dat would tera, now so widely spread in Ireland,
the
Duma was brico
prorogue, bly in the hope that the even trifling value whenever they thinkfornia to Maine. At least, so they tho, into account the total sumber of appfi.it would be idle to prolong the debate,
jess
und
the
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As the winter approached, many victorious finish. They arc, moreover, incom- } selves of the privilege un behalf of their the loan was about £1,562,000,000, and it is Nationalists in Ireland, and in a special Auction of Boots and Shows, &o, at
:
a plethora of food in some e provinces and in
rash sympathies.
Between inadequate railway faculties, pro only by an indecisive peace can it va however, the Anti-sme entitled to want these sacritices and he had the catspaw and tool of Germany, and itself from extinction. Hence its pro-Ger and other organizations are sanguine the jewellery was sent anonymously keep open the road to Irish liberty
The existence of this antagonism explains | absolutely dry." The opposition are thusiasm and the
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gressive bloc would disintegrate between it safe to do so. sessions. But while the bureaucracy s
cracy showed
Far they say, they have suffered hope cations would not he fewer than 2,000,000 emphatic method open to us our sense of owed with wine and cigars, though one docs tion which reserves the regulation of com
and felt bound to mark in the most itself less and capable of de
of dealing with not hear much of such luxuries abroad
with 3,810,000 subscribers oblems waiting for
solution,
to the last ththem now. None the less, they may be merce between the States to the Federal steadily gained in stred there in diminished quantities Of this Government A State slight paSE & we as low as 18, and though Germany future policy of the Irish National party, aggressiveness. The Czur
la popalation exceeding ours Minister for the Interior
by four times less much there can, however, be little doubt: forbidding the sale of liquor; but it was
in than 10 months; finally, in October or Now the German pirates do not lead such a not clear that it could forbid the m0 per cent. (Cheers.) He could give no
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hard life on the domestic side as is comportation of liquor. The result has been of the amount of conversion, but he
At the outset we must declare that the appainting 3. 4. D. Protopopolmonly supposed. Daily Mail. wealthy
the stultification of wholesale State ter sought it might be estimated that the was a member of the Dumo and an Octobrist,
perance laws, the passage of many half-eater bulk of the percent loan had been action of the British Government since
converted Approximately but he was too pliable to represent the ag gressive popular majority in the Duma, and its right to keep the Government up to the South Carolina and Virginia, allow each Treasury Bills amounted to £1,053,000,000. task of carrying on the constitutional enforcement. Thus some Stats, like
1915, culminating in the speech of the the loan was issuer the outstanding Prime Minister last night, has made the rafused to give his programme before intermark
person to import a queta of wine and riewing the Casr, after which he proclaimed. it to be that of the Ministry then in power.
The Russian landed classes, who form the spirits a month, with the result that child-Sore had been paid off, some had been con- movement in Ireland so difficult as to be verted, and the amount now was £718,000,000, almost impossible. The constitutional chief element in the Dumns, are entirely in for and in tristically to vel hove Therefore, including Exchequer Bonds, which movement man, yet he saved, but only by Bitter disappointment net his announce favour of the war, and its continuation to a
been known avail them are really not ment.
at the time of active assistance
level-headed parts of the Empire began to suffer from promisingly anti German. They have fought parents and masters while in other now about £95,000,000. The cost of shortage of food and feel, though nga whole against German influence since the reign of States, like Maine, the oldest dry the loan, including the advertising and all Irish race in the great Dominions of the fraising degree by the aid of the millions of the the country contained abundant supplies. Feter the Great. Measures of relief
State in the Union, strict laws are an expenses of the War Savings Associations, Crown and in the United States of adopted by tho
eth the bureaucracy it is very different. Wushingly ignored. Cinly the state mber of gifts of ment failed, whilst in some provinces
was £75,0.
America. To them we appeal most and
of gifts of jewellery were earnestly to come to the aid of those who Son?
The bureauferacy to entirely product of in fact what the prohibitionists call received, but he did not think they were have rescued Ireland froth being maga krain Between placed
influenco, and is wail aware that vincial ambargoes, and
bone drys prices there was
League sent them
except in two cases where are struggling against terrible odds to others condition not far from famine. The
that in 10 years the United States will be widespread distress intensified the hostility of the people to the bureaucracy, and why the majority of the Duma adopted all nervous, but not utterly cast down. They the will of the people of this country to win pered by a British Government which widespread through peaceful and constitutional of the applications are expressions of means, a struggle in which we are ham- an attempt was made when the Dama met the resolutions directed against the so-named think that real Phohibition will prove too the war, and the result of the loan is evid plays into the hands of the Irish pro- for the 1910 autumn session to cut the bureDark forces The Union of Zemstvos was uncomfortable for the amateur reformer. aucratic cords that bound the faces of the Forbidden by M. Protopopoff to hold its They argue that prohibition has so far to see it to a successful conclusion." (Loud stupid perversity worthy of the worst ence of the financial ability of this country German revolutionary party with a stitutional Denivcrats, M. Milyukor, struck
attended shire and
by never really prohibited. They support cheers) delegates
reactionaries of Petrograd, the blow, and brought on an open fight be in Russia, and
offered his engratulations So far as Ireland is concerned, the the tween the people and the Erogressive bloc, can
well be true of unblushing smug on the unparalleled success of the loan.
Government, is doing all it can to do the orde, and the Ministers and the then population oven more accurately gling, or extra carriages to trains on
the Dama
In defiquée of
work of Germany, and so long as this apparently compelled to give way. Stormer their
On the other. The Czar was the delegates met - private] » de Minister Saturday nights going from wet to dry i
and declared States to accommodate the suit cras
attitude is adhered to we, as Irish repre the reactionary Premior, was
their adhesion to the anti-Government General Trepoff
brigade" Trepoff, Dunia, when it met, backed up the Zemstvos drinking-places in other
speak-easles,
and almost overt traordinary strides that woman suffrage convinced of the justice of the cause towards the war and remaining firmly thongh not Liberal by any means, was by declaring its resolve to fight the Clovern besides Maine. How otherwise, they ask, really not much economic or social need resolve to do all in our power to aid in
"dry" States has made in a community, where there is anxious to keep the peace, and to work with ment to a finish. Events show that this decan the prohibitionists explain the statis for it, and by the extraordinary energy bringing it to a speedy and successful of the Allies, and unchanged in our the Duma, as irr as his colleagues would let claration was meant seriously. him. He thus became obnoxious to popoff, who by this time had become
tical fact that, though Prohibition has that the modern-American women How well-informed and dispassionate Rus enormously increased in recent.
display increased bad, local and national. Ve ment by every means in our power, element
in the bureaucracy. He soon had to Czar and his advisera is well shown by
soon had to attitude of Count Benekedarf, they
the
ALDOROL AND PRECINCT as at that efficiency and alcohol cannot go toge spoken effectively in support of Irish But strongest of all perhaps the feeling The Senate of Australia has already make way Prince
distin Be that as it may, the Aght nemontity, who could be trusted to obey order gisheri Russian Ambasador in London, and least entered a very serious stage. Pro- ther. In the South the chief argument freedom, and on behalf of the Irish nation In the re-almfle, the opportunity was taken one of the authors of the Anglo-Russian hibition in Americe, in spite of the cock for temperance has been the wish of the we tender them our most grateful thanks to dismiss Connt Ignshell, the Minister of entente. Speaking to a Ruman friend tail and treating habit, which has struck white community to make the negro To the men of Irish blood in the Domin- Education, the one inan of
shortly before
his death, hos modern VIOWS BIG
said, commenting all travellers from Dickens downwards, less inefficient member of society. Keep ions and in the United States of America Bon M. Sturmer's appointment as Fremier is as I have mdicated above, a far more had whisky from very soon after his fate was shared by the Minister of War, who had a few months be the edge of the abyss by the hands of men country. The Puritan tradition which decreases and his capacity for work pressure on the British Government to
capacity for crime all the means in their power to bring Sore declared his wish for the co-operation of whose duty it is to save her from peril, my has swept westward from New England is grows. In the North the Duma ARMEN Dufferings are inexpressible. In Petrograd behind it. Only last year was not Mr. become part of industrial dicte les towards Ireland in accordance with the Barometer.
eficiency, principles for which they are fighting in Humidity they
· ន But the bald attack on the Government in I am a Liberal in comparison with those wise Wilson put to great pains to explain that Everywhere in fact the prejudice against Europe, and we especially appand to the Bumidityon
Temperature Laos who hot drink esnied on its way to his rooms drink spreads spontaneously. Countless American people to urge upon the British the Duma, and the support itreceived outside, are at present in power. I have spent all after he had been caught in the rain on business men have knocked off cocktails Government the duty of applying to Ire Was evidence that the nation would not con- my life in Europe and I have formed ties of his honeymoon contained nothing more because, they tell one, they impair their land the great principles so clearly and True to tolerate the way in which Ministers kinship with England, who enlightens and potent than lemonade 1 A Kindred fac shility to cope with modern competition splendidly enumerated by President Ral were bungling the war, and would insist on teaches. But there, in Russia is blindness, or to this popular prejudice is the power They must be at their best all the time or Wilson in his historie address to the
(Continued at food of next column,)
They live with their eyes blindfolded"
Continued at foot of next solumn.} go under.—Timer,
people to the stone. The leader of the Con- annual congress, which local council their argument by stories, some of which Mr.
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