New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-11-15
LORD SALISBURY'S SURPRISE.
NEW MOVES IN ENGLISH POLITICS-STATE
SOCIALISM,

This impression ofmnc may be due partly TO the
/ fact that have been away from London for TWO
months But then London ceased upon the rising
of Parliament to be political centre, and nave
been spending nv time amid people whom the Con-
servatiyc managers have thought worthy ofaspeual
mission with view TO their Intimate political re-
generation. have been in Scotland, and Scotland
ust now is the scene of a Tory propaganda which,
Whatever else may be said Of it, is at least Jealous
and persistent. There is no secret about IT, met
ut Radical house in the Highlands
one of the most active emissaries of the Carlton
Committee. came across other evidences of this
curious movement in other quarters. The agents
who are concerned in it, so far from conceaing their
purpose. proclaim il. All Scotland is given to un-
dcrstand that the Liberal supremacy which has been
deemed to be as Interchangeable as her hills Is to be
challenged Mr. Gibson challenged 1t at Glasgow.
Mr. Chaplin hourshed his spear at FOTres Sir h.
Cross is sharpening his battle-axe and mace Tor
Aberdeen. All up and down the country Tory meet
ings have been held or are to be held, and the pr-
yate efforts of Tory missionaries are still more
numerous. The Liberals, must say, look on with
a mixture of increduous contempt and amusement
and though the Conservative speakers whom have
named. and sundry Others who are engaged with
them draw good audiences, it is difficult to hear
of anybody who reads their reported speeches.
In England agitation, with one exception, is
stagnant The Leeds Reform Conference made a
good deal Of noise, but politicians of all shades un-
deTstood that it was demonstration Of the Radical
or Chamberlain wing Of the Liberal party. 1t got
ont of hand, moreover and went beyond the line
laid down for tby its organizers, passing rcsolu-
ti0n for wOmans suffrage, which makes no part OF
Mr.. ChambcTlain'S present programme, and which
The present Liberal Ministry may be trusted not to
adopt On the question of county franchise the
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are divided it is only to the time of bringing in
bill and what the Leeds conference was
meant 10 insure was the acceptance Of
bill by the Cabinet as Il lpadngmcasurc of the COM
ing session. Ii may be due 10 the urgency of this
agitation that the first OF the Cabinet councils,
which were not intended To begin till about the ith
Of next month is 10 be held to-day. Butit isprcm-
allure to assume that this any other measure
oI policy llr. Gladstone, hand can Joe forced. HIS
authority and personality are rs commanding as
ever his influence in the country greater incompar-
ably greater than all the rest Of the Cabinet to-
gcthog and il &, sill hc who will take the ultimate
decision.
As for Sir stafford Northcoics tour In Wales. il
hardly within the category of polite. Wales
i, if anything totally given ovcrto Liberalism
than Scotland. any Tory enterprise in either Of
these quarter, il Of the nature of trrlom hope" and
can anybody picture 70 himself the excellent Sir
stafford Northcotr rs the leader of foTlorn hope
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of the Conservative party, it must De said Of
them that they have reused no enthusiasm In his
own ranks, and excited not the least alarm among
his foes.
taut than sir stafford Nor,hcotc', futile promenade
is the demonstration of his rival Lord salisbury
nc il' in"u' no I''t'''' '''u'" prov VI P,H-
'P"'IS. lie ms lo' Eve" '''','' aI',L" nc mas
T"'H "Ii'''n "n "I'','' III NV W"'," s'''''-
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~" single ld't Ih current ponies is moro IT. 1
naTkhb!e than IN" increasing attention the Con /
Srfvativc party has OF recent year, been paying u
several questions. LIVER Sih," SiT H'rhdId cross /
passed MS Artisans Dwelling act the Torres have |
posed moro OF less successfully before the country
ds inc IIlcndS Oh 'hc Io'i' II was an eA-I"iy |
,"pih'I Ni'his''r''I' W. ~ N'lh WI" 7'afllcH 'he
llou'' ol Iohnoh' ny resolution TOT IaNollhg the
creation OF an IRISH Peasant Proprietary. IL was
another Conservative hight Lord George Hamilton,
who worked ont the idea and stated at the end Of
last session the heads Of scheme for buying
)ut the landlords. Now comes Lord Sails
bury with IN article IN me National
"e'fr on L"hoIeI' ana Artisans Dwellings,
VI ""i'h H' mtA'' 'H' "'tc'' Pi'P''al IAA'
'o' '"'''"' shou" promote 'h' DUI'u'k" i SUN
WV muses. IoI l"""'C'' 'lih "ll'N''''' ~ ""IH
MAKE BEGINNING WIN inc o'H servants by way
'i showing what ''uld '' done with Inc poorly
'aid ciici-caril'Fs ana lcit'i-'ortrr- 81 the Post
)lce Tor example. Bnt he considers that public
oahs 70 be applied TO the erecting OF houses on a
'iSo 'c'Io womb De Juaiih'a by nhp,loHS consid-
'I"'o'' ol puDhc Pohcy' even Il an lho"ghis 81
humanity were cast a'dc. huch mas been done
on the rural classes and, though much remains 10
DC done, ia" housing OF the poor in London is to-
las a more urgent question than the hpueuG of the
'Jor in the country. lie assumes, indeed. that