Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-08-12
ANONYMOUS PICTURE.
The Extreme Tory View of the Brit.
Ism Situation.
London Neius

Law and order trampled under foot,
class enmittes envenomed, the rights of
prooerty overturned, a country entering
within the very shadow Of civil war, and a
vast empire threatened with disruption, 4"
These sre the concluding words of an arti-
Gle in which the Quarterly RsVSeao in the new
numetr issued yesterday describes what It
calls ''rhe Paralysis of Government. The
lines suggest political puzzle. They re-
call Byron's enigma of the letter whispered
in heaven and muttered in hell. But thev
have no enigmatical mesuing. This is a
piece Of wcrd painting. II describes
a terrible reality. Enelishmen will be 10th
to believe it, bat 1t is q picture of them
selves. 1t is the British Empire which Is
thus In the throes Of dissolution. 1t is only
necessary TO read the four and thirty pages
of calm statement, OF impartial history, of
reasoning which only Mr.. Ashmead Bartlett
could exceed In cogency; and terrible as the
description is, 1t comes out as the natural
climax of the Liberal policy. Mr. Glad
stone, says the reviewer, "has given Che ma
tion the benefit of his best services and OF
his highest talents, and we see the results"
Ii the nation does not see them, ''it must be
because the curse the prophet OF old in
voked upon his enemies has fallen upon
them. They must be smitten with blind
ness" The blindness Is due, the Tory ora
Gle declares, to the Radical Journals, which
succeed to an unprecedented extent in in
ducing the public to adopt their views F"
The DAILY NesOs is quoted in proof OF the
revolutionary propaganda which is thus so
successfully carried on. Speaking some
time since OF Irish agrArian crime, we point
ed out that with the Whiteboys and Tithe
war within the memory of living statemen
1t was mistake to regard existing disturb
ances as unprecedented In quantity or In
quality. The reviewer quotes these words
as evidence OF Systematic efforts to give
the outbreak of crime in Ireland an
Insignificant aspect. The Farmers Alliance.
the growth Of which In importance and
influence is acknowledged, Is spoken of as
an English imitation OF the Land League.
and its case as built on the foundation that
landlord is land-chief. The Ddilu Nsaos
has been ransacked for proofs that this is
the Radical teaching, and one is supposed
to be found In q sentence written In these
columns last September, describing the land
as like mummy swathed In the folds of an |
antiquated system, and pointing out that our |
farmers and lab0rers must not be allowed |
'"to linger on for years and years under their |
grievances because they are not likely to get |
into rebellious mood" In a similar spirit |
OF fairness, phrase in which we expressed |
our dissatisfaction with the course taken bv |
our diplomacy In Egypt by ironically describ- |
ing 1t as cne by which "British subjects are,
IL IL PicteeS tneuJ 10 20 away Dag ana bag
gage" is quoted as a cool statement of q |
policy we approve. This is the kind of use |
which is made OF facts and quotations all |
through the article. Everything is seen as |
In concave mirror, which turns 1t upside |
down. The unprecedented success of Radi- |
cal journals in teaching the public is likely |
to continue If the Tory antidote is given |
in these distorted shapes. This is no |
time for political optimism, but political |
pessimism is never likely to commend itself |
to tolerably prosperous people. Our quar-.
terly contemporary has determined not to be
exposed to the charge OF coming slowly be-
hindhand. The reviewer boldly cast him
self on the future. He describes the date at /
which he is writing as "to be precise, the /
10 h OF July;" we are commenting on him /
on the l4th. He gives, moreover, a curious |
Illustration Of how history is made Some. |
body said that in a late division a Cabinet |
Minister beckoned to the Irish members in
the gallery to come down and vote. The |
statement was suthoritatively denied. Buu /
the Quarterly ReoSsaO says that Mr.. Chamber |
lain beckoned wildly to them. History |
needs not a basis of fact when it is used in |
political controversy.