  The depolarization asymmetry seen in double-lobed radio sources, referred to
as the Laing-Garrington (L-G) effect where more rapid depolarization is seen in
the lobe with no visible jet as the wavelength increases, can be explained
either by internal differences between the two lobes, or by an external Faraday
screen that lies in front of only the depolarized lobe. If the jet
one-sidedness is due to relativistic beaming the depolarization asymmetry must
be due to an intervening Faraday screen. If it is intrinsic the depolarization
asymmetry must be related to internal differences in the lobes. We assume in
this paper that the speed in the outer jet of several Fanaroff-Riley Class 1
(FRI) sources exhibiting the L-G effect is close to the 0.1c reported by
several other investigators. For these sources we find that the jet
one-sidedness cannot be explained by beaming and therefore must be intrinsic.
In these FRI sources the L-G effect must be due to differences that originate
inside the lobes themselves. Although it is not known if the flow in the outer
jets of FRII sources also slows to this speed it is suggested that the
explanation of the L-G effect is likely to be the same in both types. This
argument is strengthened by the recent evidence that FRII galaxies have very
large viewing angles, which in turn implies that the L-G model cannot work
regardless of the jet velocity. It may therefore be too soon to completely rule
out internal depolarization in the lobes as the true explanation for the L-G
effect.
