St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-01-07
Ruskin's Remarks ON Irish Race Peculiari-
ties Set Earl Gray to Painting Diff
fersnt Picture,
In Which he Calls Attention to Shiftless-
ness, ImprOvidsnce and Vindictiveness
as Irish Traits.
Ten Thousand Rebels Making it Inter
esting for the British Troops in
Burmah.
Servia VIII Not Accept n HumiL at
ing Peace--Turkey in Financial
Difficulties.
Home Rule and Personalities.


LONDON, Jan. cts representative has
cabled tonight to the Boston Globe as fol-
lows: Personalities being more interesting
than distractions to the average mortal, the
turn taken yesterday and to-day in the dis
cuSsion of Irish affairs affords relief to a
public tired of apparently endless arguments
based on general political conditions. Rus
kin's letter yesterday invited English states
men TO study the Irish character and to tit a
government to it. The eminent artists
painted the Irish as witty, warm-hearted
and careless. Earl Grey to-day takes up
Ruskin's challenge and proceeds to I'LL in
the picture with ultraWhig colOrs. He says
the Irish are also shiftless, improvident and
vindictive, and like children are always
crying for something, they hardly know
what, and as children are apt to be tyran-
nical when they play the role Of master. so,
according to Earl Grey, the Parnellites,
were they to obtain home rule, would i'm
mediately begin to make life miserable for
such of their fellow countrymen as did not
happen to be more
LOYAL TO LAND LEAGUISM
than to her majeSty's government. The
OctOgenaTian earl'S study of Irish character,
therefore, leads him to favor a strong gov
eminent that will promptly punish acts of
characterization and outrage and administer
Irish affairs in the interest of the United
Kingdom. There is no doubt that this
view meets the approval of the great ma
jOrity of EngliShmen. RuSkin did not help
the Irish cause any by appealing for
something cOngenial to the personal charac-
terStics of the people. The English people
are pretty we'll disposed to grant what
they think is fair on general principles, but
there is no cOncealing the fact that they do
not admire the Irish. and they would not be
as liberal to them on personal grounds as
on considerations appealing to their sense
Of fair play for friend or foe. Another evil
dence of the tendency toward personalities
Is the attack upon Parnell by Earl COwper
to-day in the Times. Earl Cowper plainly
intimates that Parnelps personal ambition
and interests are at the bottom of the Irish
trouble, that but for them there would be
no difficulty in coming to q satisfactory I'M
Outstanding with the majority of the Irish
leaders, and that ParnelPs ascendency is,
therefore,
SERIOUSLY DETRIMENTAL
to the best interests of Ireland Earl Cow
per, who was lord lieutenant of Ireland
some years ago. and ought to know some
thing about the people, says that Parnell
and his adherents only went home rule be-
cause they would then be rulers as far as
the mass of the people are concerned. They
are chiefly interested in the land question,
and their great grievance is excessive rent.
/ If this were made the foremost matter in the
| Irish agitation, a settlement could certainly
/ be arrived at. In making this assertion
/ it seems more than probable that
/ Earl COwper is speaking in accordance
with the views of his friend, Mr.. Gladstone
and it is believed by some that his letter /:
really hint ON behalf of Mr.. Gladstone lC
the Irish leaders, that if they will desert
/ Parnell and his home-rule demands, they
can get all they want from the Liberals in
the way of concessions on the land question.
Such a change in the Irish program would
be hailed with delight in England
and in the opinion of most people would be-
/ beneficial to Ireland.