St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-01-03
THE UNITED KINGDOM.
A Legion Of Propositions Regarding
Home Rule.
Special 70 the Globe.

Special 70 the Globe.
LONDON, Jan, 2.-Discussion Of home
rule has continued all week with undated
energy in the press. The Times has pub
lished a number of important and instruc-
tive letters on the subject, beginning with
Lab Ouchere's account of what the Parnell-
ties would accept. The chief features of
this proposal are continued representation
for Ireland at Westminster in imperial
matters and supremacy of the Irish
parliament in Irish affairs. including police
tariff and the right 10 levy imperial taxation
as it pleases, no veto being reserved to the
imperial parliament on any subject. La
bOuchere subsequently intimated that the
Irish would relinquish the claim to sit in
the imperial parliament if they were re-
leased from imperial taxes, which cOmpe-
tent authorities estimate at 81. 900. 900 a
year. This project attracted attention be-
cause ii was known that Labouchere had
been negotiating with the Parnellites.
LabOuchere expressly stated that the Irish
members would accept these terms. which
nevertheless English opinion has promptly
rejected. Nearly every paper which has
discussed the proposition has
CONDEMNED IT.
The spectator describes il as the worst yet
produced. No further attempt has been
made on behalf of the Irish members, VINO
clearly prefer to withhold their views and
to persevere in the efforts 20 force hard one
or the other of the English parties. English
objections to the principles OF home rule
are stated fOrcIbiy in a letter from the Duke
of Argyle, who deals among other things
with Canadian and American analogies,
now continually invoked on both sides. He
points out that Canada is virtually an in
dependent state. and declares that there
is an absolute contrast between the union
of American states and everything that is
happening or has been proposed in refer
ence to home rule in Ireland. The spirit
of attraction, he contends, prevails in
the American union, the spirit of repul-
sion in Ireland. Earl Cowper, the last
yiceroy, has continued to debate the ques-
ton whether any party in Ireland really de-
sires home rule for its own sake. He in
sists the agitation is still mainly agrarian,
Parnell having succeeded where Butt and
Shaw failed, because he appealed to the Gu
pidity of the Irish people. Earl Cowper says
that he is convinced Ireland is on the eve
of a more formidable strike against rent
than has vet been seen. Prof. Goodwin
Smith, in to-day's Times, touches
A SIMILAR NOTE.
He affirms that the Irish were not voting
on a political question, but were voting
simply for freedom from imperial restraint
IN completing the spoliation of landlords.
He believes that the last election was car
ried, not by free suffrage, but under press
ure of terrorist organization welded by a
dictator and aided by foreign money
Large numbers of Liberal members of the
house have responded to inquiries by news
agency. One or two approve of home rule,
a dozen are willing to consider the scheme
either oppose the proposals or reserve their
opinion. The summaries serve to show the
uncompromising spirit in which Englismen
continue to approach home rule. There
is a growing conviction in England, that
there is no scheme for an Irish parlia-
ment which does not involve ultimate
separation. The Conservatives silence has
been broken by Webster, the attorney gen.
eral, who declares that Lord Salisbury will
tolerate no trucking with ideas tending TO
the establishment OF second parliament in
Ireland. Neither Gladstone nor Parnell
utters word. Nobody ventures TO predict
the course of events on the assembling of
parliament. The present theory is that
parliament will open with Dutch auction.
the Tories trying to get turned out and the
Liberals doing their best TO keep them in.
THE ANNEXATION OF BURMAH
excites little enthusiasm and little oppo-
sition. 1t is generally recognized as a
simpler and more efficient policy than pro-
tectorate. which is the only alternative
French opposition amounts to nothing
The real question is whether China asSents
70 annexation. and on what terms. The