Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-05-24
Mathew Arnold Writes a Letter to
the Thunderer
Protesting Against Mr.. GIadstOne's
MEASURE.
The Eminent English Literatsur
Saws Some Interesting Things.

ment themselves, but are so anxious,
seems, that we set up an Irish one. Suhe
me to say before 1 depart, that to my min
the country is slowly but surely aWskenin
to the Irish question. 1t will no
be satisfied unless a vote be tskel
on clear issue, and unless a distinct en-
gsgement shall be made that vote shsl
not be considered to have been taken on
clear issue if taken on any question bu
that of separate National Parliament foI
Ireland. Messrs. Chamberlain and Ire
vylan may be so committed that a VOL
should be taken on some other issue. They
deserve every consideration. They hac
the merit of opening their eyes when they
saw where Gladstone was going instead o.
shutting them tighter like Bannerman
An indirect issue would possibly suit the
other members, but direct issue alone will
suit the country. A separate parliament
for Ireland is Gladstone irreducible mini
mum.
"Irelsnd is a nation says Mr.. Parnell
menscingly, and Mr.. Stsnsfeld, gushing
". A nation should have its national par.
lament. Ireland has been nation, and q
most unhappy one. Wales and Scotland
also have been nations. Politically, none
of them are nations now. Britain could
not have Iisen 10 her present greatness il
she had given them separate psrlisments
You begin to make them nations political
ly again, but you begin also to undo what
made the country great.
"Do not let US" continues Mr.. Arnold,
"be PROFESSIONALLY slarmists. Perhaps, if
il suits Mr.. GladstoDes purposes, Scot
land, Wales and Irelaud-all to Mr.. STAINS.
fields delight-may become politically ma
lions again and yet the country, such is its
force, may still, by new and untried ways,
continue great But it will be plunge in.
to the unknown. Such plunge is danger
GUS and should not be risked without alb
solute necessity. In the case of Austria
and Hungary the dual arrangement was u
necessity. Hungary Was the bigger Of the
two. Sill, it was of Austria q plunge in
to AN unknown grave. Who will say that
Austria is today as strong and as solid a
power as Austria was at the end Of the last
century, or that by the end of the mex;
century Austria's German provinces will
not have gravitated to Germany
Some find arguments faVoring q neces
sity for home rule in Ireland in our i'll
treatment Of her and the failure Of coer
cion. Sir Lyon Playfair says We have
given Scotland schools and church but
have not given them to Ireland. Mr.
Bryce SAYS the Northern States of the
American Union could not continue to
rule the South by coercion and, therefore,
we must make Ireland o separate govern.
meut. But the Northern States did not
give separate Parliament 10 the South,
neither has England given one to Scotland,
Scotland has simply had due control Of her
own affairs, and the South was permitted
simply TO resume such control. This,
then is what the analogy is The need OF
Ireland is this only--a just and due control
of her own affairs. Why should the lmpe-
rial Parliament only cure Irish discon
tent"
Mr.. Arnold here instances the cases OF
Brittany and Scotland in the Seventeenth
century, and says They were seethiug
in turbulence and hatred. What changed
this condition. Not the Parliament, but
rational and equitable systems OF govern
ment.
1.-THE awakening mind Of the country,
continueu Mr.. Arnold, demands, not that
we give a separate Parliament to Ireland
but that We seriously get ourselves 10 the
task of giving her separate laws aud instl-
tutions. Lord Sslisbury's bad and arbi.
trsry temper as home politician is ss
great a misfortune to the country as Lord
Randolph ChuSchi!rq intriguiu: The
establishment Of separate PaElia.
ment would be o dangerous and
unnecessary plunge. Lord Salisbury talks
only of coercion. Let us refuse a
separate Parliament with firmness but
with equal frmness let uS insist upon q
condition which alone justities this refusal.
Lord Harrington has good temper. He is
no intrigper, Mr.. Goschea hes made local
government special study. hope they
may be trusted to make our refusal firmly
aud our engagements emphstically. The
passionate supporters Of Mr.. Gladstone
are political dissenters and Radical work
men OF tbs great towns. ] agree with Mr.
Labouchere that sristocraCies are not the
best guides in politics, but have to much
respect for his lnioqhted incidity to be
Iieve bin capable OF really thinking Dis
senters and Radicals are better guides, OIL
evan uond on the IriGh question. They
would have equally spplsuded Cromwell
dealings with Ireland or William the ThirC
in their time as they do Mr.. Gladstone
proposals now. On the mind of the whole
country we must rely.
Dissolution-Anothe Fight.
LoNpoN, May 22-Members Of The
Government state that election writs srt
oeiug prepared in anticipation Of the dis
solution of Parliament, after the uecesssr!
vote shall have been taken on the hom'
rule bill.
Adyices have been received here statirJ
that another fight has taken place betweel
Turkish aud Greek troops. A lsrg
number OF Turks attacked force of Greek
at q point between Turnsvo and These
1t is not known which side was victorious
Sympathy for Minister Pendleton.
BERLIN, May 22.-Mr. Pendleton has n
> covered some#hst from the shock On
: prostrstion caused by the news of his terri
BILE be,esment. He is to day more con
! posed but remains undecided concernin
!. his future movements. Itisthought by b
o intimate personal friends that he will NJ
be able to go to New York Letters tel
grams aud csblegrsms bearing message
of sympathy, have poured into the otiice
the American Legation from all parts
v Europe and America.
Three Governors.
, CINCINNATI, May % Governors Wilsc