The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-02-22
THE IRISH QUESTION.

Church Surplus To Be Used to Relieve Dis
tress-Giadstone Prep airing . Surprise.
LONDON, Feb. 2L-Mr Parnell has prepared
scheme to apply the Irish church surplus not
yet exhausted to relieve certain districts in
Ireland.
Captain O'Shea recently elected member Of
Parliament for Galway. although he pledged to
sit and vote with the Parnellites was not ad-
mitted to the recent private meeting Of the Irish
party. 1t is stated that Captain O'Shea was
fnl6lment Of promise made Mr.. Chamberlain,
and because of his utility as q go-bstween in
negotiations with the government.
Gladstone, whose greatest successes have
been achieved by bold appeals to the popular
heart as against the schemes Of the politicians
is about to put forth declaration which will
vindicate his reputation in this characteristic
He has great surprise in store for all parties
His first measure for Ireland will be neither the
granting of home rule nor the transfer of land
ownership to the tenants. The Premier, like a
true physician Of the modern school, proposes
to cure his patient, not by violent remedies nor
by empirical attacks upon the outward mani
festations of the disease. but by removing the
inaaming cause of the disorder and enabling the
healing influences Of unimpeded nature to do
their benefcent work The Premier, in short
has prepared bill for the suspension Of evic-
tions in Ireland. With the far-seeing con-
victicns Of Q man who has declared
his belief that true statesmanship in
| wolves obedience to the dictates of broad
| humanity, he is urging upon his colleagues in
| the Cabinet the argument that the removal OF
| this source Of bitterness OF feeling among the
| Irish masses is necessary step toward true
| reconciliation between the two races whose des-
\ TIMES have been joined in ipseparable political
| bonds. "Why," asks Mr.. Gladstone, should we
| permit to be deiven from home, and even from
| shelters, these tenants whom we are about to
| make owners2" The plan which he has in con-
| temptation will, he argues. introduce an era of
| good feeling in Ireland, which it is absolutely
necessary to establish before the introduction Of
the appropriation of the lands for the benefit Of
the tenant class measure so novel as to require
| for its successful operation harmony of action
| among all the parties involved which would be
| impossible where So many angry elements Of
friction exist as in the present politicosocial re-
| lations of Ireland.
| Meanwhile the Premier hopes that the pro.
| posed suspension of this Objectionable eviction
! system will piacate Mr.. Parnell and his party
| and enable the period for amicable discussion of
| the details of homo rule to be prolonged 1t is
| intended to modify the existing law so as to
! peal to the land courts, which are empowered to
| thereupon fix the amount which the tenant
| seems able to pay, whether in full or install
| rnents. This is the basis of the measure, which,
in it's details is o wide extension of the principle
| of Mr. Gladstone's land act of $780, and also re-
| sembles the measure suggested some time ago
| by Mr.. Parnell.
It cannot long remain a secret that something
| like treason is brewing in Mr.. Gladstone's camp
| The traitor is his most powerful lieutenant Mr.
| Chamberlain, the caucus king. This Radical
| leaders dislike to grant Parliament to Ireland
| is notorious. For months he sat on the fence,
only coming down to jockey Lord Harrington ont
| OF the reversion of the Liberal leadership. and
now he is man9uvering 70 trip up Mr.. Glad
stone in the supreme effort of the grand old
| man's life. While Mr.. John Morley accepts
national solution OF the Irish question
as necessary to its final settlement. Mr.. Cham
berlain takes opposite view and maintains
that the extension OF local government on the
same basis as to Yorkshire and Suffolk would
destroy Mr. Parnells power ana break down the
movement for legislative independence. Mr..
| Chamberlain seems incapable of understanding G
| the sentimental side Of the Irish struggle,
| though he sympathizes with every effort to re-
| move physical wrongs, whether social or politi-
| cal. His idea is to place the Irish people in
! dividual,y on footing of absolute equality with
their English fellow-citizens, but to treat Ire
| land as a whole merely as 80 many English
shires. But although hostile to the concession
of Irish legislative Independence. he is not un-
4 friendly 10 fh0 Iriah neGnla Mr. Chamhar.