Omaha daily bee., 1884-12-20
OTHER LANDS THAN OURS.

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OTHER LANDS THAN OURS.
The course of Prime Minister Glad
stone In making important concessions to
the lords In the matter of redistribution
has caused much harsh criticism in Eng.
land. G~lsdstone's course is, however,
regarded by level headed men as pru.
dent and wise. he is, above all things, in.
terested In the bill extending the fran
chise and this he regards as vital. He
regards the bill Reproducing represent
tation in parliament as less Important
and only incidental to the great reform
he is laboring for. Gladstone wisely
thinks he can well afford to concede to
the lords terms that will make their de-
feat less humiliating 80 long as he in
sures the primary object of his
contest with them. And even the rsdi-
calls in his cabinet agree as to this. No
doubt the reason for this is that popular
sentiment will be felt through the fran.
| chise anyhow, and if the bill is not best
another distribution can be afterwards
made.
At all events, in view of the condition
of affairu on the continent, England can
not afford to be divided at home. Incl.
dentally Gladstone may be tempted by
| the prospect of promotion to the house
of lords which, however, may prove to
be one of the greatest mistakes of his
public life.
The new chief secretary for Ireland
recommends more liberal legislation for
that country, and there Is an impression
that his advice will be followed. Some
people prefer to be kicked down stairs
gradually rather than to make the flight
all at once. When the land agitation be-
gan certain acts of common justice on
the part of England were clearly demand
ed. Oppressed and oppressors saw the
frmness of the demand that was made
even if all did not admit the desirability
of it, but the policy of the English has
been to compel the Irish people to put
Nv with the least possible reform, and
they have yielded only as they have been
compelled to yield. The fact that still
further concessions are now promised is
In itself evidence that their justice has
been apparent all along and that they
have been denied only because it has
been hoped that they would not be ex
acted. When England comes to deal
with Its Irish question in a spirit OF gen.
erosity and fairness dynamite outrages
Will doubtless cease, and if lawlessness
should follow a sincere effort to alleviate
the condition of that island publicssym-
patty would not as now be almost Bwhol.
ly with the Irish people. 1t is now plain
that Ireland Is to have it rights or be de-
populated. If England is to yield them
at last 1t would save trouble and money,
and possibly life, by making the reform
a genuine one once for all.
Bismarck is meeting with most de-
oided opposition OF the s! hsna hi fsasfs
"secretaryship" or dictatorship in the
ministry of foreign affairs is regarded
by the German press as a piece of con.
temptible spite.work. 1t was in the
ministry of foreign affairs that the chan
cellor appealed, in view of his age and
infrmities, for official assistance. None
of the disputable points in his policy or
his career are connected, at least In Ger
man minds, with his administration of
the foreign office. The dissatisfaction
with which the majority In the relchstsg
views his programme of domes-
tic politics would not have
been waived-on the con-
trary, it would have been emphasized
by granting every unreasonable request
which he might have made in connection
with the business of that Office, and the
request which he actually made, seems
perfectly reasonable and moderate.
There was never a better opportunity
than the liberals of the Reiohstag had,
after the defeat which they had inflicted
on the chancellor, to show that they
knew how to discriminate between the
services which the chancellor had render.
ed his country In it's sforeign policy and
the disservice which he had attempted to
do her by arresting her social and politi-
cal development.
The latest phase Of Freuch folly is the
boom of the Bonapartists, Illuminated in
a banquet In Paris on Sunday, to the of.
feet that Plon-Plon should be accorded
the chief place in the French government
the advocates of this restoration for
getting all the time that when another
Napoleon, In reverence for the memory
of his uncle, was elevated to the chief
place in the republic after the flight of
Louis Philippe, the new president but
used his power to kill the institutions of
liberty to which he had sworn allegiance
and wade to empire In the blood of pa
triots. There were not wanting special
pretexts for the coup d'etat of 1859;
and special e~xouaatory pleas were
put forward in abundance for
the preparation of that act
of usurpation pithily described by Victo
Hugo as a "a Great Crime" And now
the same process of h~oodwinking is Do
ing resorted to. M. Richaud, at the
Sunday Bonapartist feast, declared that
France was in the same state of anarchy
at the present day as it was in before the
accession of Napoleon. "We are there
fore" he said, 'forming a national league
to elect a responsible chief" AID Mr..
Pascal followed openly demanding that
Prince Napoleon be made chief Of the
government.
France ia donbtless in n state of i'm.