New-York tribune., 1874-02-11

rupture, but has, suspect u good deal 10 DO With
the dissolution. Had the session begun. there would
have been questions and answers, motions and de-
bates on the everlasting 18th clause which must or
might have led to the retirement Of thu
Other Precisely how these troubles are 10 be STAYED
Oh n the Parliament l do not see. but Mr.
Gladstone doubtless counts on increase OF his
personal influence ii hc back with a majority
and hopes 10 keep his lieutenants within bounds
beside bringing Finance TO the front and keepingit It
t5cre Mr.. Forster has notion Of giving way.
= believes he has the country with him, and that
f5 he present his is the only policy In bis speech
las. ight, no reiterated in the most positive way
his adherence to his views; and this in the lacs
Of his 1stituents, small number Of whom. ho
well knows, dissent from him. and regard him on
this question a backslidcr. Nothe., IN the Other
hand. will Birmingham a"ts way, and | scc nothing
Tor 1t but Sf ,gge sooner later, and split that
w.. compel the retirement of the defeated champion
As have referred to high authority for tins view
add that the authority is not, directly or indrcy,
Mr. Bright.
Possibly it may amuse yOG to know that hf. Dis
raelis getting his reply to r. Gladstono ready fct
Monday mornings papsfs is considered an evidence
of great activity and sprghtlness well courage
The journalists who gravely praise him for being
able to produce cleyery written manifesto Of three
hours in which to prepare their own and there are
nearly as many marks of haste in in the other
Mr.. Dsraeli is practced writer well AZ politi'
can. perfectly competent to invent number OF
smart phrases in moderate space of time and sprIn
kle them al proper intervals over a state paper Ha
understands, which Mr.. Gladstone does not, tho
value Of breyiy, and knows how TO leave things out
Mr.. Gladstone never could make up his mind to deny
the world the benefit of sentence once wrtton, or
himself the luxury Of airing once more such griey
ance ag his defeat the Irish University bill and
Mr. Dsraelp8 highly improper conduct in not taking
Office on that OCCASION. mschiev0us friend Of his
and mine remarked to me yesterday that Mr. Glad.
stones address was written in bed during his illness.
aud seems inspired by the genius loci. Mr. DisraeI
is certainly anything but sleepy. 1t is true he seems
taken by SURPRISE and you may detect underneath
his bravado a tone Of chagrin and a consciousness
that he has allowed his enemy TO steal a march on
him. lie tries 20 make out that Mr.. Gladstone has.
to use Webitcrs phrase, stolen his thunder. be-
lieve it to be perfectly true that the Tories conem
plated the abolition of the Income Tax. party
had grown up in favor of the abolition, meetings
had been held, and considerable public feeling
aroused. OF this Mr.. Disrael was perfectly ready
10 take advantage II he had chosen to superseds
Mr. Gladstone last March, he might have tried. Tbs
difficulty was to know how To do it. Unless y0o
have got surplus yOu cannot well give 1t away, and
a Tory Administration means lavish expenditure
under the plea Of efficiency The Income Tax bnug
in five millions sterling, and if you give up tho tive
millions how are you going to make the two endi
meet Nfr. Gladstone does it by extra economy and
from the extra yield Of other taxes. But it takes
fnancer of genius as well as an economist to do
these things. Mr.. Love- in bis telling address pub
lished this morning, soliciting reelection fortho Uni
yersity of London taunts Mr.. Disraeli with never
having INDUCED in the luxury Of surplus of hs
own assuring him, at the same time, that he is per
fecty welcome to imaginary appropriation oil the
accumulations of others. The hit is fair one. and
the point will tell against the Tories all over the
country. The practical and fair-minded average
Englishman will say TO himself that il Is only just
that the man who saved all this money should be
trusted TO deal with it, 1t comes, however, to this,
that whoever wins, the Income Tax Is to go. Busl.
ness men will much prefer that the process of abo
ishing it should be intrusted to Mr.. Gladstone. in
whom they have great confidence, and not to Mr.
Disraeli, in whom they have little.
A shrewd old Whig, who. like many other old
Wings. loves Mr. Gladstone only shade moro than
Mr. Disraeli criticised the dissolution and the imam
cial policy Of the Prime Minister as alike without
precedent He objects TO questions Of finance beng
proposed to the people at large. As for abollshins
tho Income Tax my old Wing in his hOmely way de-
clares that Mr. Gladstone has only spit in the porrin
ger to prevent Mr.. Disrael from drinking out of it
which is what Mr. Disrae himself says in less forc
BILE language. OF the suddenness of the dissolution
he remarked that if it had been Mr.. Disraelps act
we should all have exclaimed How liko Dizzy|
Being Mr. Gladstone's, we can only say =" 1t must
have been done conscientiously.'
The Tory leader complains that he can find nothing
definite in Mr.. Gladstone's prolix narrative" ex-
cept that expecting surplus. he will remit taxa
ton The complaint is just and it applies equally to
Mr. Disraeli. All of Mr.. Gladstoue's address that
was not finance mist of suggestions Tor re-
FORM All of Mr. Disraeli's that is not finance Il
pledge to oppose reforms-until he can do better ny
advocating them. He does not hint at repeating
any reform already enacted. He beheves-there
never was time when an English Tory dld not be-
heve-that the cause of civil liberty and religious
liberty in Europe depends mainly on England and
he asks to be made Prime Minister 10 resist every
proposal which may impair her strength, and to sup
port by every means her Imperial sway lie is as
totally destitute of policy as he was when he
pleaded his want of one as au excuse for declining
to form government last year. There is nothing
in fashion but glitterng generalties-the remission
of the Income Tax always excepted.
II was not to be expected that after Mr. Gladstone
had gone TO the country on an issue 50 narrow ana
on principles SO purely economical. Mr. Dlsraeh
should have sought wider field or enieayored 10
import great question into the contest The I'M
preston left by Mr.. GladstoneS declaration grows
deeper every day. The papers are filled with the
addresses of candidates TO their electors Here and
there Is an alusiou TO grave matters, mostly an AZ
tempt to make Mr.. Gladstone mean more or less tDsn
he says. But there is nothing TO compare Tor NO
ment with the lofty and courageous spirit winch
breathed in the addresses of 1875, when the LIBERIA
u, Lof,r h a fnfure and unaersoOl