Morning journal and courier., 1886-01-07
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. GLADSTONE'S NEW IDEA. Bait To Catch The Irish
 Leaders.
 SILVER MEN IN THE SENATE, The House Committees Not
 Announced. MORE STATES TO HEAR FROM. The Football Game Re- stored At Harvard. NEW BAIT FOR IRISH LEADERS.
MORE STATES TO HEAR FROM.
The Football Game Re-
 stored At Harvard.
NEW BAIT FOR IRISH LEADERS.

| They May Have What They Want 0n the Land Question if They Will | Desert ParneH.
 LONDON, Jan. 6.-1ts representative cables | tonight to the Boston Globe as follows: | Personalities being more interesting than | distractions to the average mortal the turn | taken yesterday and to-day in the discussion of Irish affairs affords relief to public tired
 of apparently endless arguments based on
 general political considerations. Ruskin s letter yesterday invited English statesmen to | study the Irish character and to fit govern ment to it. The artist painted the Irish as | witty, warm-hearted and careless. Earl Grey l to-day take1 up Ruskin's challenge and I proceeds to fill in the picture with
 ultra Whig colors. He says the Irish l are also shiftless, improvident and vindis- tive, and, like children, always crying | for something, they hardly know what. And as children are apt to be tyrannical when they l play the role of master so according to Earl Grey, the Parnellites, were they to obtain home rule, would immediately begin to make l life miserable for such of their fellow-coun- trymen as did not happen to be more loyal to land leagueism than to her majesty's gov ernment. The octogenarian Earl's study of Irish character, therefore, leads him to favor a strong government that will prompt ly punish acts of insubordination and outrage and administer Irish
 
 dom There is no doubt that this view meets
 the approval of the great majority of the En- glish people. Ruskin did not help the Irish cause by appealing for something congenial to the personal characteristics 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 evidence of the tendency toward personalities is the attack made upon Parnell by Earl Cowper to day in the Times. Earl Cowper plainly intimates that Parnells per sonaI ambition and interests are at the bot tom of the Irish troubles, that but for them there need be no difficulty in coming 70 satisfactory understanding with the majority of the Irish leaders and that ParnelPs as- tendency is therefore seriously detrimental to the best interests of the Irish people, Earl Cowper, who was lord lieutenant of Ire land some years ago and ought to know some thing about the people, says that Parnell and his adherents only want home rule because they would then be the 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 settlement could certainly be arrived at. In making this assertion 1t seems more than probable that Earl Cowper is speaking in accordance with the views of his friend, MT. Gladstone, and it is believed by some that his letter is really hint on behalf of MT. Gladstone to the Irish leaders that if they will desert ParneI and his home rule demands they can get all they want from the Liberals in the way of concessions on the land question. Such change in the Irish programme would be hailed with joy in England and, in the opinion of most people, would be beneficial to Ireland