The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-24


terrify. The Mahdi is made Sultan by
one emissary and his soldiers, who have been
seeking only to gain for him some control of this
kind, are slaughtered by the other. No doubt
Mr. Gladstone wishes with all his heart that he
could wash his hands of this business. ]
sure he is sorry for the slaughter at Teb. But.
if the Prime Minister has been inconsistent what
shall be said of some other people, the Tories,
for instance. who have urged him on. and who.
now the mischief is done, turn round and abuse
him for having caused so much bloodshedt 'Tis
funny game, the game these British politicians
play. At least it would be funny were not the
honor of a great nation ana the lives of so many
helpless people at stake As it is, the present
proceedings in Parliament remind one of Nero
fiddling while Rome burned With the Tories
1t is anything to get office and am sorry to
add that lattery it has seemed, with the Liber
ais, to be anything to keep office,
GLADsToNE's COMING FALL.
This moves me to observe again that the pres
ent government must soon fall. A perpetual
dropping will wear away a stone, and the inces-
SAINT agnagging to which they are subjected
never fails after a few years. to wear out the
strongest British Ministry. Gladstone, in oppo-
sition has worn out several and now he is
taking some Of his own medicine. A Tory gov
ernment, with the present Premier to fight
them from across the table, would have sue
cumbed some time ago. Gladstone would be
just in his element fighting policy like that for
which he is responsible in Egypt The trouble
with the Tories is that they have a divided lead
ership and weak one at that. The Marquis of
Salisbury is not bad debater, but he is hope
lessly shut up in the House of Lords where
good speaking accomplish nothing. Sir
Stafford Northcote, an estimabe man person
ally, is an old granny in politics-too mild, too
cautious, too peacable, too much given to shape
his tactics with view to obtaining the goodwill
OF the party in power. When the Liberal Min
lstry falls it will certainly not be Northcote who
Killed IT. The eXecutioner is more likely to be
that dashing, brilliant, ever-ready, resourceful
and rather unscrupuOus young statesman, Lord
Randolph Churchill He. it appears now, is
the coming man" among the Conservatives
Northcote must GO He is old and stereOtyped;
he represents the Toryism of the drawing room;
Churchill that of the Music Hall-the rag tag of
the party-and that element, in The near future
will take the lead. The position of this young
hre-eater has undergone complete change since
Parliament met. At the close of last session he
was looked upon as almost as great foe to his
own party us to the other. One of Northcotes
last public acts at that time was to contemptu-
ously sit down upon him. But evidently there
has been a reconciliation between the two. They
pull together now. The younger has put himself
i'll training for Cabinet Office and he will get
one. NOrthcote forsees the inevitable and makes
the best of it. Churchill is in many respects a
reproduction of DisraeE Possibly as great a
career may be before him.
A REIMBURSEMENT OF POSITIONS.
This impending change in the Tory leadership
Will render necessary some readjustment of posi-
tions on the Liberal side. Gladstones work
is nearly done. With the death of the
present Parliament Englands foremost states
man will probably step down and out.
Upon whom, then, will his mantle
fall' The Marquis of Harrington is supposed to
have claiyn he d,,,;n
assume leadership But he will not long retain
it He comes of Wing stock and is entirely too
slow-going for the present times A radical
Toryism must be met by radical Liberalism.
The radical Influence is already very strong, both
in the party and in the Cabinet. In the near fu
ture that influence must increase. Reforms do
not go backwards and the progress of the past
makes it certain that events will advance still
more rapidly hereafter. 1t is not too much to
expect that within ten or fifteen years Radical
ism will have completely swallowed up Liberal
ism, and from this point of view it becomes ap-
parent at once that the man who will perma-
nently succeed Gladstone is Joseph Chamber
lain. Thus, III all probability, the great para
mentary conflicts of the future will be between
! two men who are just now winning their spurs
two who will be well matched
in courage and audacity. however they
may differ in other respects. Chamberlain
will represent progress and the people, Churchill
obstruction, aristocracy, iingoism and the
old condition of things generally. In this con
flict Churchill must finally go to the wall for
England is absolutely certain by and by to
wheel into line with the better features of our
own system of government. | do not say that
she will renounce her monarchy. But she will
certainly reform it, and the House of Lords will
share the same fate. Then the people will
rule and Parliament be not the bare faced fraud
on popular representation that il is at present
but body of Legislators correctly rejecting and
and honestly carrying out the sentiments of the
country.
An earnest of this good time coming has Just
been given to us in the formation of royal
commission to inquire into the housing of the
working classes; not so much, however, in the
fact that such commission has been appointed
as in the diverse character and station of the
individuals composing it. Tory and Liberal,
prince and laborer, churchman and dissenter
Catholic cardinal and Protestant bishop sit
down together on this commission (appOinted by
the Queen and Sir Charles Dixie the arch
radical. presides them all Dixie first
came into prominence by his opposition to
grants of money Parliament asked to make
to members of the royal family. Broadhurst
NJ. P, for Sheffield, who jostles the Prince of
Wales at the meetings of this committee is a
brcklayer as well as Radical. If the Queen
had only thought to put Labouchere and Brad
laugh on the commission the thing would have
been quite complete. But it is good enough as
it is and our hope is that this eveling expert
ment made in such good cause may prove salts
factory to both sovereign and subjects II. T.
Samples of Churchilrs ScurriIous Speech.
London Spectator.
Lord Randolph Churchill almost outdid him
self in the scurrilousness of his speech this day
week at the Princes Hall, Piccadilly, on the
Egyptian policy of the Government. The Lib
erals, he said, had wallowedin sitting morass
of the most degraded and servile worship of the
Prime Minister" they had "sunk below the
level of slaves" had 'become puppets, the oh
ject of derision and contempt" and had 'lost
all claim to the title of rational human beings
He exhorted his audience to dash from his
pride of place the evil and moonstruck Minister
He spoke of Mr. Gladstone and his colleagues a.