The Osceola times., 1885-09-26
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

Mr.. Gladstoue's Programme for ConsoiL
dating the Liberal Forces Outiined-Hb
Irish Plank Proclsims "Justice to Ire
land and Preservation Of the Union"-No
Suspicion OF Whigl,m In the Grand Old
Man.
LONDON, September 20.-Mr. Glad
stone proposes 10 follow his pamphlet
platform with q series Of speeches un'
folding the ample political scheme out
lined In the printed address to the
electorate. The question Is, where,
when and how shall the words be ut.
tered? The party managers have no de
sire TO see their chief again fritter away
his slowly returning energies In Mid
lothian campaign. Mass-meetings are
stricken from the programme. II Mrs.
Gladstone and Sir Andrew Clark prevail
there will be no stumping the country
this time. But the bare skeleton OF Lib.
cral policy given to the Nation Is going
to be covered with living flesh; let there
be no mistake about that. Mr.. Gladstone
himself favors the idea Of addressing
conference of Liberal leaders In London,
to begin with. It is easier to reach
the ear of the country in this way than
any other. This was the short, sharp
and very effective method adopted OF ex.
citiling public opinion in the Irish land
question. Speaking In Conversations
tone to a gathering comprising recos-
nized representatives of every shade oil
Liberal thought, seated comfortably In
moderate sized suite OF luxurious rooms,
Mr.. Gladstone did more In one hour to-
ward cementing Liberal unity than he
had been able to accomplish previously
by three weeks incessant effort inside
and outside Parliament. The onthusi.
asm aroused cast into the shade all pre-
vious. experiences. The selection OF
Birmingham, the headquarters oil
advanced Radlcalism and the
caucus, for the next address would
undoubtedly rally the radical masses and
bring The caucus system of the kingdom
into line, disciplined, eager and obedient
TO the leaders will. Words of counsel
to the Liberal committees OF Manche ster,
Leeds, Liverpool and Glasgow, skillfully
designed to break down the barriers be-
tween Wings and Radicals, extremes and
moderates, would conclude series, the
absolute certain effect OF which must be
to consolidate all sections Of the Liberal
party and create the needed en-
thusiasm, Mr.. Gadstone'c appeal
to the electorate is admirably
framed, as whole, for the ends in
view. Isolated portions may tend per-
haps to divide extremists in the great
wings, but the effect will not be lasting.
The disestablishment plank will be han
lied by the Tories for all 1t is worth, not
only 10 Scotland, where disest blishment
is a living issue, but in England, where 1t
is distantly threatened. MIR. Gladstone,
however, is careful not to entangle lin.
self; he leaves that to the Tories. The
non. conformisis are vastly In the major.
lty in both countries, and in Wales over
whelmingly so, and II 1t comes to square
fight on the maintenance of the State
Church, Gladstone will find himself on
the popular and winning side, the side
with most votes.
The Egyptian question, which seems
20 be regarded by outsiders as Glad
stones weakest point, Is really his
strongest, from the electorate point OF
view, strange as it may appear to Amer
lean readers.
Something more than superficial
view OF surface facts Is necessary to un.
derstand the motives underlying Glad.
stones exposition OF Liberal doctrines.
The Liberals were sent to Office In 1880
with mandate from the Nation to
reverse the foreign policy OF the Tory
Government and this Egyptian question
was a prominent feature. Liberal opin-
ion regards Gladstone's failures as the
logical result OF the Tory legacy. The
evils Gladstone was sent to Office to re.
move have not disappeared. Five years
OF vain struggle have left them intact
and the task of sweeping them away has
still to be accomplished. Tory
triumphs over Gladstone simply
mean that success has crowned
their efforts to resist the Nations man
date. Their work, therefore, will have
TO be done all over again; this time In
such fashion as 10 bury the Tories and
sccessionsts deep out of sight. These
are aspirations which fire the Liberal
heart In 1885. When 1t Is said that
Gladstone's Egyptian plank is rotten,
every potent fact in English poll.
tics Is forgotten. The admission oil
Liberal error In going into Egypt to
perpetuate Tory blunders is, to the
minds OF Liberals, the most effective
indictment of Tory policy possible &c
conceive, and the strongest claim OF the
Gladstone Cabinet to further term
In Office and another opportunity TO
reverse Tory policy. The withdrawal OF
the army may be bitter pill! to swal.
low, but ia neetlng incident Of political
action Is, after all, a small thing com.
pared to the eternal principles OF Ma
tional life.
The Irish plank, from Liberal out
look, Is perfect. Gladstone takes his
stand on the principles Of lss0-"Justlce
to Ireland and preservation of the
Union" 1t is impossible of imagine a
better double-he party cry. The
Tories can do no better. The Irish sure.
~ ask no more than justice. Gladstone
promises this in the fullest sense, and
the National conscience is satisfied. Re
cent events In Ireland are not calculated
to weaken the impression that
Gladstone is likely to prove a
wiser guide than Lord Randolph
Churchill, the author of the Tory-Irish
alliance aud dictator OF the Tory.Irish
| policy, the indication OF which would be
so quickly followed by Parnell's declara-
tion OF secession, renewed agrarian out
RACES, Redmond's threats of armed re.
bellion and the Nationalist organs In.
,itement 10 bloodshed. Gladstone's
declarations for free land, the abolition
of primogenitufc, and a reform of the
House of Lords as well as the Commons,
place him at once in the front rank oi
advanced Liberals, and dissipate any
suspicion of Whieism with which his
name may Of late have been associated.
These are principles to which the entire
party is committed and 1t is nonsense to
say they can ALLEVIATE Wings or tc