The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1886-02-05

Roveiw ofthe Situation In tie "A
glish Political Field


ish Empire with the Tory party, an,
wishes 10 resign. II can be said on 9
% the higses, auth orikS t;Aat tiss peHsic'
expects 20 ~rellnquish onlcc within ~
ncxt three weeks. Your couespondcnt's
Informant says; salisbury WORLD like 3,
settle The Irish question on a broad, lib
crSl basis. but he can not do II with Sucl
party IS he has. His colleagues wisl
him 20 crush the Irish. lie can't brins
himself 20 do anything Of the kind. ant
for this reason nc win bring abouI
the defeat Of the Government In order e
obtain a Justification for retiring from
power"
The minister, who gave this startling
piece 81 intelligence, was asked II hs
knew what were the prime ministers
personal views on the Irish situation,
and he said: sLord Salisbury cntcrtatns
none Q. the fears proiessed BY the Con.
scrvaiiscs, that, II Ireland had home rule,
the Irish uonld become practically 4 hos
tile people. Tic admitted to me re-
Gently that he believed that the
only hostility ever entertained BY
the people Of Ireland towarl
England could lie entirely accounted for
By the coercive natnrc Of The relations he
tween the two countries. lie went fur
Their. aud said he was ~ the opinion that
NIre;and were made free she would
voluntarily seek even q closer relation
ship with England than the one now
maintained by force. AMI would become
a most valuable and powerful ally. in
stead % being, rs now. = dissatisfied
troublesome. rebe,lions and continuous
" expensive province. I.nrl Salisbury
maintains that the vcrv Sitnation Of
Ireland wrull make her freedom inurc
cventnal'y to E~r-iard's advantage This
situation he points out. differs from that
Of Belgium a Switzerland in this That
whereas Belgium and Switzerland arc
snrrorriei nv powers all equally covct-
ons 81 tncir territory. and therefore
equally Interested in maintaining their In
dependence Ireland's c0ntiguiiy Is con-
fncd 70 great Britain, and the internal
tioral interests Of the two countries
would be Identical j. ,aey were neighbors
and not iArlIori and tenant.
.sBa.." went on the minister. s.it must
bc admitted that British parties. % re-
fccsed IN Pariiamcist, represent the com
mcrcial and land interests rather than
those Of the pcassntzy, although the en-
lafccd franchise will undoubtedly change
this eventually. The land interest Of
England thoroughly sympathizes With
that OF Ireland, partly from affinity and
also because the majority Of the Irish
landlords are Englishmcr. resident in
Great Britain but the land interest 81
Great nritciu. the greatest after its COM
mcrciai interest, has notiing like a cor
rect idea Of hon Insignificant a minority
the landowners suf Ireland arc Of is
whole population, nor % the rcaIly for
cign nature Of their proprietary They
have become convinced that Naii01nlisrn
in Ireland l. Identical with what COM
munish ronid be in England, and Of
course they are easily aroused TO Ugh: il
down. ,
The Irish Tories understand how to
keep this English hostility alive, and they
managc to make nearly rll the ordinary
violations Of the law in ireland appear TO
En-iishmen as crimes against properly.
As u happens that, while the number Of
arrests In ireland. where the police are
numerous and alert, averages much great
or than In England. where the of3cers Of
the faw are not 90 plentiful nor % enter
prising, IL appears 10 the Enc!ishman
that the Irish people spend most Of their
time attacking the vested rights, and he
Is thus kept pcrpetually disposed to rule
them with an iron hand.~
Vixen asked II there we're no statesmen
An h Conservative party who knew bet
ter the minister replieds eyes, Lord
Salisbury Il just a. well informed on this
whole business Is Mr.. Gladstone u, and.
in my opinion, Just a. well disposed"
well, then. why don't he settle III"
"Bccause he can't. His PARTY COM
prises tile bulk OF thc British land inter-
est In this case that means the bulk OF
tho ignorance and prejudice which stand
against q fair settlement Of the question.
and a. the Ignorant and prejudiccd con-
stitnte the majority Of the English aris-
tocracy. the most enlightened and liberal
aristocracy In the world, and the potent
element Of the Conservatory party, Lord
Salisbury, in an attempt to pass q liberal
measure, would simply be left without a
party
Mr.. Gladstone, however, does not
represent the aristocmcv. but the busi-
ness men Ind ~pcasantry Of the nation. II
he wishes to attempt q settlement Of the
Irish question, in INV opinion he. can 40
IL, and will attempt II when the govern
mcnt abandons ~ work"
LttIJ pNN-t VI tIt ctuAAtuU DcIfr out
The prospect suggested BY the above in
formant. Lord Salisbury wrote the
Queens speech. It did not oppose home
RUE, Int opposed separation. The Irish
have not a. yet asked for the latter or
even intimatcd that they cver would ask
for IL. Of course, the majority Of the
Tories believe that home rule and separI-
tion are identical, hence that paragraph
was simply a political play upon their
~prejudices. Mr.. Gladstonc's address
during the evening Of the Qnecn's
speech was studiedly vague ON
most things, hut Il was very
direct In reply 70 the Queens plea for the
maintenance ~ the Integrity d the Em-
pirc, and this integrity had been Just n
great during tire six hundred years which
preceded the legislative union a. u has
been tho eiglty-ivc years which have
elapsed since The Parnellitcs quickly
saw the subtle meaning In the sentence.
They accepted Il a. . proffcr on the part
Of the grand old man to cspousc III.
home rule cause In return for Irish sup
port during the progress Of The debate on
the address In reply 70 the speech from
he throne.
The Tories, ever since Thursday, have
been discontinued with Salisbury. They