Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-08-16
AN OMNIBUS PICTURE.
The Extreme Tory View of the British
Situation.
London News,

London News.
"Law and order trampled under foot, class
enmities envenemed, the rights Of property
overturned, country entering within the
very shadow of civil war, and vast empire
threatened with disruption" These are
the concluding words of an article in
which the Quarterly ReUiec in the
pew number issued yesterday describes
what it calls The paralysis of Gov
ernment." The lines suggest political puz-
zle. They recall Byron's enigma OF the
letter whispered in heaven and muttered in
hell. But they have no enigmatical mean
ing. This il n piece OF word painting. Lit
describes terrible reality. Englishm en will
be 10th TO believe ii, but II lie picture OF
themselves. 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 rea-
soning which only Mr.. Ashmead-Bartlett
could exceed in cogency; and terrible as the de-
scription is it comes out as the natural eli
max OF the Liberal policy. Mr.. Gladstone,
says the reviewer, "has given the nation the
benefit of his best services and of his highest
talents and we see the results" If the ma
ton does not see them "it must be because
the curse the prophet of old invoked upon
his enemies has fallen upon them. They
must be smitten with blindness" The blind
ness is due, the Tory oracle declares, 10 the
an unprecedented extent in Undue
ing the public to adopt their views"
The Daily NelOs is quoted in proof of the
revolutionary propaganda which is thus
SO successfully carried On. Speaking some
time since OF Irish agrarisn crime, we pointed
out that with the Whiteboys and the 1.-THE
war within the memory of living statesmen
turbances as unprecedented in quantity or
quality. The reviewer quotes these words az
evidence OF systematic efforts to give
the outbreak of crime In Ireland
an insignificant aspect. The Farmers
Alliance, the growth OF which in import nee
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 thief. The Daily NeiOs
has been ransacked for proof that this is the
Radical teaching, and oneiis Supposed to be
found in a sentence written in these columns
last September, describing the land as like
mummy swathed in the folds of an
tiquated system and pointing out that our
farmers and laborers must not be al
lowed "to linger on for years and |
years under their grievances because they
are not likely to get into rebellious mood"
In similar spirit of fairness, a phrase in |
which we expressed our dissatisfaction with |
the course taken by our diplomacy in Egypt |
by ironically describing it one by which /
British subjects are, if it pleases them, to
go away bag and baggage" is quoted as
cool statement of 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 concsve
mirror, which turns it upside down. The
unprecedented success of Radical journals in
teaching the public is likely to continue if
he Tory antidote is given in these distorted
shapes. This is no time for political OPP
imism, but political pessimsm is never
likely to commend itself to tolerably
prosperous people. Our quarterly cotem-
,orary has determined not to be exposed
o the charge of coming slowly behind
land. The reviewer boldly casts himself on
he future. He describes the date at which
lie is writing as, ito be precise, the 18th OF
Tuly| we are commenting on him on the
ssi~4-y .-~-AorAz,A- Illus l
ration of how history is made. Somebody
aid that in late division cabinet minis
er beckoned to the irish members in the
allery to come down and vote. The state
nent was authoritatively denied. But the
quarterly Recie,0 says that Mr.. Chamberlain
eckoned wildly to them. History needs not
basis of fact when it is used in political
opfroverav