Editing Take Ionescu (section)

===1907 Peasants' Revolt===
He sided with the Conservative [[Nicolae Filipescu]], who shared his views on the issue of Transylvania, and provoked a conflict within his grouping at a time when the PNL was strengthening itself by incorporating a large part of the [[Romanian Social Democratic Workers' Party]].<ref name="dobrinunompolitic"/> Around 1907, seeking party leadership, he came to oppose the other main Conservative leaders Cantacuzino and [[Petre P. Carp]]<ref name="bulei">{{in lang|ro}} Ion Bulei, [http://www.zf.ro/articol_112292/rascoala_de_la_1907_in_parlament.html "Răscoala de la 1907 în Parlament" ("The 1907 Revolt in Parliament")] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930013000/http://www.zf.ro/articol_112292/rascoala_de_la_1907_in_parlament.html |date=30 September 2007 }}, in ''[[Ziarul Financiar]]'', 16 February 2007</ref><ref name="cernea"/><ref name="galceava">{{in lang|ro}} Florin Mihai, Ilarion Ţiu, [http://www.jurnalul.ro/articol_71822/galceava_politica_la_inceput_de_secol_xx.html "Gâlceava politică la început de secol XX" ("The Early 20th Century Political Raffle")] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070403125037/http://www.jurnalul.ro/articol_71822/galceava_politica_la_inceput_de_secol_xx.html |date=3 April 2007 }}, in ''[[Jurnalul Naţional]]'', 8 February 2007</ref><ref name="ornea1">[[Z. Ornea]], ''Viaţa lui C. Stere'' ("The Life of C. Stere"), Vol. I, [[Cartea Românească]], Bucharest, 1989, pp. 399-404, 429, 445, 447–448, 451, 471–472, 514, 526–528, 531–532, 554–565</ref> — the latter represented the party's ''[[Junimea]]'' faction, which had just re-entered the main Conservative Party after an independent existence under the name of ''Constitutional Party''; Ionescu also repeatedly clashed with the other Constitutional leader, the influential literary critic [[Titu Maiorescu]].<ref name="esimion">{{in lang|ro}} [[Eugen Simion]], [http://www.ziua.net/display.php?id=199990&data=2006-05-20&ziua=5d7e9ae273627914ae4f74577c9791e2 "Take Ionescu, memorialistul" ("Take Ionescu, the Memoirist")] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070926223843/http://www.ziua.net/display.php?id=199990&data=2006-05-20&ziua=5d7e9ae273627914ae4f74577c9791e2 |date=26 September 2007 }}, in ''[[Ziua]]'', 20 May 2006</ref> Constantin Xeni, his future collaborator, argued that "the [[boyar]] wing of [the Conservative Party] had made life impossible for this son of an obscure [[bourgeois]] from Ploieşti".<ref name="xeni"/>

Despite such differences in opinion, Ionescu initially stood by the Conservative establishment during the [[1907 Romanian Peasants' Revolt|Peasants' Revolt of 1907]].<ref name="cernea">{{in lang|ro}} Emil Cernea, [http://www.unibuc.ro/eBooks/istorie/cernea/cuprins.htm ''Criza dreptului în România'' ("The Crisis of Law in Romania")] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070227084200/http://www.unibuc.ro/eBooks/istorie/cernea/cuprins.htm |date=27 February 2007 }}, Part I (Chapter II), Part II (Chapters III, IV)</ref> He held up [[Leasehold estate|estate leaseholders]] as a productive [[social class]] (arguing that, unlike peasants, "[they] do not consume their own income"),<ref name="cernea"/> and approved of repressive measures to the point where he initiated the decision taken by his cabinet to resign, to be replaced by that of the PNL's [[Dimitrie Sturdza]].<ref name="dobrinunompolitic"/><ref name="bulei"/><ref name="cernea"/><ref name="ornea1"/> This was also prompted by his fears that Carp and Cantacuzino were going to use his ministry's problems as a means to undermine his political support.<ref name="bulei"/><ref name="ornea1"/> During the events, he questioned traditional Conservative stances, stressing that there existed a large gap between the ruling class and the mass of the people.<ref name="bulei"/>

Identifying him as the person behind his return to power, Sturdza publicly thanked Ionescu during his investiture ceremony, to the enthusiasm of the Chamber.<ref name="dobrinunompolitic"/><ref name="bulei"/> With 33 other politicians from both political camps (among them Carp, [[Constantin Stere]], [[Gheorghe Gh. Mârzescu]], [[Ion G. Duca]], [[Alexandru Djuvara]], [[Constantin Alimănişteanu]], [[Ion Radovici|Ion]] and [[Alexandru G. Radovici]], [[Dinu Brătianu|Dinu]] and [[Vintilă Brătianu]]), he was a member of a short-lived Parliamentary Committee charged with finding a solution to the agrarian issue; created in June, it was dissolved by the cabinet later in the same month.<ref name="ornea1"/> Soon after this, Sturdza and Ionescu engaged in a publicized argument, with Sturdza accusing him of having provoked the revolt through excessive taxation;<ref name="galceava"/> reacting to this allegation, Ionescu rested the blame with antisemites inciting public sentiment against [[History of the Jews in Romania|Jewish]] leaseholders, and with a wider network of agitators.<ref name="galceava"/> In addition, he virulently opposed PNL legislation that imposed a [[minimum wage]] for work on estates, a maximum income for leaseholders, and set aside grazing land for [[Commune in Romania|communal]] ownership.<ref name="dobrinunompolitic"/><ref name="ornea1"/> He argued that such demands went against regulations on the [[free market]] and property.<ref name="dobrinunompolitic"/><ref name="ornea1"/> When a compromise was eventually reached regarding land prices and the land which was available for leasing to anyone other than communes, he defended it in front of opposition from within his own party,<ref name="ornea1"/> while pointing out ways in which professional leaseholders could avoid the letter of the law.<ref name="cernea"/> Additionally, one of Ionescu's proposals, regarding the establishment of an agricultural bank ([[Casa Rurală]]) won support from both parties.<ref name="ornea1"/>