The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-06-30
GREAT BRITAIN.
Reform MeaSnres-The Irish
Difficulty.

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New York, 29.-The Worlds / on
don: Now that the land bill is safe
so far as the House Of Commons is
concerned, and that law and order
are being restored in Ireland, radi-
Gals are turning their attention ia
the great domestic reforms upon
which they have set their hearts
The assimilation of the borough and
country franchise will be a COM
paratively easy job. Tories who ap-
proved of Disraeli's reform bill of
1867, cannot logically resist its appli-
cation to the agricultural labOrer,
nor would it be prudent for the
tories to attempt to defeat such a
measure. The laborerS are now
bound together in unions and
swayed by 1t central committee,
comprising men who are both wise
and vigorous leaders. It is con-
tended that they are illiterate, and
therefore unfit to exercise the fran
chise. They may truly answer that
the fault is not theirs, but it is the
fault of the squireS and parsons.
AS regards education, however, they
are not one whit behind tens of
thousands of that ''reSiduum"
which DiSraeli was not afraid to en-
trust with power. The most i'm
portant part of the great question of
reform will be the redistribution of
seats. Fifty years have elapsed
since Lord Russell put his hand to
that work and wiped out some of
the anomalies of representa-
ton. Boroughs, which were
given member under that
scheme, have meanwhile grown
into populOus towns; new towns
have sprung up which are now
wholly unrepresented, and the sub
urbs of London and other cities
have themselves become cities in
point of population. On the other
hand. many old boroughS, more es-
pecially in Ireland, have sunk into
decripitude and decay and are no
longer worthy of representation.
The radicals hope to annul, to some
extent, the large influence welded
in many constituencies by wealthy
land owners; in other words, by the
House of Lords. Some cOnStitu-
encies of that ilk have passed away,
but the power Of the territorial
plutCcracy is still in very many
places unbroken. Thus North Aller-
ton, in Yorkshire, is practically con-
trolled by the Earl of Hartford; the
Earl of Egmont really keeps the lit
tie Sussex borough Of Medhurst in
his pocket; Earl FitZWilliam has a
controlling influence over Nation, in
Y Yorkshire; the Marquis Of AleSbury
is the power at Marlborough; the
Garpoa Litchfield, at Litchfeld; the
EarlS of Seton and Derby, in south
west Lancashire; the Duke of
DeYonShire in the Counties
of Cork and Waterford, and
in several English counties; Lord
Monson, i'll Surry, and so on. The
radicals, of course, expect the oppO-
sition of the territorial party in the
Commons, but if Gladstone brings
in the measure next session, his
large majority will drive it through
the lower house. and the upper
honse will think twice before its
rejection. Reform in franchise and
representation is always popular.
Parnell has twOf0ld object in
visiting-the United States in autumn
to pass round the hat and induce
the "skirmishers" on your side to
moderate the bloodthirsty utter
ances of O'Donovan ROssa's paper,
and of other journals of that stamp
which are cabled over here every
week, greatly to ParnelPs embarrass-
mant. One of these dispatches
quotes a astonishing journal as
saving: "Without some kind of fight
or skirmishing outside of Ireland
to back up what Prarnell is doing,
to draw off the enemy's attention
from his peaceful and constitutional
agitation, that agitation will col
lapse" This forces upon Parnell an
alliance utterly ruinOus to his power
and influence. Catholic bishops IN
England, without exception, have
denounced skirmishing in the
most solemn manner. Parnell
is tainted with these wild har-
argues by his opponents, and his
best friends urge him to take steps
to muzzle the patriots Of that coun-
try. Father RylOtt, member OF
the Dublin executive of the League,
implored the people at the last
meeting to pay no heed to the teach
ings of the Irish papers IN New
York and to abstain from acts OF
violence against the cOnStabularY.