New-York tribune., 1886-05-16
EARL SPENCER.
v,o pos,TION-HIs NEWCASTLE DECLANA'
'ai0 TION FOR HOME RULE.

wv" LONDON, April %.
Newcastle. though not possesS'ns ."o 49, po half
,,,nortance of Birmingham, Is one Oh 'n"so n"
1o,en great towns which nave e'e"' ''
rnouldinS the general opinion OF 'he 1'"a", ,hor
--.a. nol,tical issue. 1t hns long had u r"'n1i
1T. 1T rnru,ation as the homo OF MT. Joseph
C.,ron That eloquent but impractcaDle pon'ioi".
S.s cot for Newcastle since 1874. through to0U
.rd throneh evil report, the Tynesdeis haVe o'e-e
a. tber hero read his newspaper, voteu ioi -
+olerated if not adopted his not very 'on' rho,r
aven consistent scheme of political ooo'''" 49,,
Ade,itv to him has brought upon then a l'p ,to
sor ecccntrcity which detracts h,''o n0'n
ya,ne 90 their public protestatons. "" w -.
hand. they have stoadied their snip ps 80 w..
hoard a second pilot In the person o' 'it' 'o'"
,o, Mr Morley. whatever else he may oe' Is ma"
~. .,;r,a works by orderly processes and not oy
.,;o ;mn,ses He would confer distlnctioh Oh
.nr constituency In tho Kingdom. ana nc mas "ono
something 10 sober tho Judgment OF Newcas'io' i'o
smoke there Wednesday evening IN company -, WV
lord Spencer. A speech from either 'S po'.'N
evept but the crisis Is one In whioh Loro "poN
name has q significance with the country wnion
makes his the most weighty declaration 'o' N'"'N
On the side of tho Government
There is no better man than Lord spencer, sal"
Mr. Gladstone the other day III the HOUSE u oV
mons There is certainly, none who through yea',
nf service
dootb with a cooler courage. He was as eoou "
"a Iieutenant as 1t is possible to find aoie'
...aafast chiyalrous In recent Enghsh hlstoiy
.h,a ia pothing finer than the devoted sense OF ou'
which led Earl Spencer to accept the Nlce'oS"n9 o
ireland Mt time when assassination was n's iio''
nrobable reward. He had everything wh'ch MA"
ran have to make life precious, or dehen'iui' W
honorable He put into one balance ni' i"A
-ao,th social positon. high fame, and the afection
4. nxS1 fhn al
@ben all down. He offered them all as a sac'i'''o -
b,s natrotsm and the honor due him Is ho' o''0
h;+ ,ho lass because il so happened that the s"o'
Co. was not consummated that the bullets uiu ho'
6nd their mark nor the kniie OF lnvlncloies i'' way
to Earl Spencers heart. ,a os
ror, snencer acouired knowledge OF lre'ahu-''
aurarian and political crime among o.ho' 'n'iN
which no other man can pretend TO- he ooo"p"
,,;oue n,siton before the English public. " men
q, ,becam, known that he saw his way 10 support =
Mr Gladstones Home Rule scheme, the mere i"''
80 his adhes,on was | think. a better argument
9TH most peope than the elaborate arEumei''
from, anvbody else For two years he had oeeh .lo
chief instrument of coercion. He had enforce" '",
Grimes Act detected and hanged the murueIe' VI
Dprke and Lord Frederick Cavendish ann l"ai'
,purlcrers beside suppressed In great part ayr 10"
crime restored social order throughout d sio'. P'
of Irel,pa rnlen with firm, just masteIful hand
ia
his federation of the National League wh'ch h'i
.nrnr, from the ashes of the Land League ana
,resentIv grown more powerful than It's preue-
cessor But beyond doubt, he had governed lre
land and when his successor Lord Carhar'"" ''o'
rnon himself to reverse the Liberal Nlceroy Po"o,
aud LET Mr.. Parncn govern it, the English sense o'
Earl Spcncer's capacity and services "oo""''
stronger than ever.
Well. IL was at frst a shock to the Enensh p"oAi
to he told that Earl Spencer, the Nlce1oy WHO =
- mind had proved the feasibility and tn
wisdom of English rule III Ireland. had declareu ~
1ush rnle in Ireland. When they had got over tn
crs, sbock they saw the force of his testimony
MANY of them said to themselves: II Earl spence
thinks Home Rule the sole remedy, whose opInAo'
can be weighed against hisf HIS speech at -,o"
castle will do something to strengthen th's iecn-
The condition of Ireland he declares 10 Dc 4"
everybody knows. SO serious that remeuS VI sum
sort must be found. The old remedies Me- nv "''
most strinaently and successfully worked them a'
r,;ts or asserts 10 be a failure II tmnk nav
shown YOU that the old methods are eAha,S'eu al, ~
,uor,ess and must be thrown aside" That is III
av,l;cit testimony Of Earl Spencer Not less ihtcl
es,,no is his account of his own experience.
Government over which presided dld restore J."
apd order in Ireland. If lock back ana cohsiu'
how the country was placed AT the en" Vi "
e.. and consider whether we had advanced In
NSh rule, am sorry to say 0ii"'
favorable answer to that question There w
] r1or Inf the hatred of England was more btt
+ba, ever Earl Spencer is not the man to say nio
+bar ba ,nnst about himself, or he might well ht
reminded his audience that his restoration Oh oiu
had made him the most hated man III i'ei""u' y
Parnel went to the limits OF MS caPao''S ioi
xective when he said Earl Spencer as perhaps
more detested figure than Mr. Forster hlihseh /
bovs oulc To turu back to the pages oil Parheii
nf
find Earl Spencer depicted as monster III mum
for,n In the same pages and the same speeches
now reanpears as something very ike an ahe
He is however still the same Earl spencer
nerh,ns il sbould be said the Earl Spencer wh
the Parnellites then reviled was the same Fl
Spencer whom they now arpiaud. IernaPS "
TOO is an argument for Home Rule
The point on which Earl spencers OPINION
be most influential is the point on whlch MI WI
stones proposals receive least support from
Irsh-tbe scheme of Land Purchase 10 leave
1analor,s of Ireland unprotected and uncared
xvonld be in his opinion neither just nor none
cit vould be a mean and treacherous thing IL
did not defend what we consider thelr JUS. III
ests" The reasons for that view are 100 ianii''a
need repet ition and they are so overwhelhlhg
Mr.. Chamberlain's inSensibility to the arsum
from honor is thing exceedingly dlihcuit u a'oo
for Lord Spencer contents himself with say
that he shares Mr.. Gladstone's view dead
has been made at him by some OF tne i'll
0i,,,,, Fn.1sh organs of Home Rule pure
siuple on the suppositon that he was more X
about Land Purchase than his colleagues
Gladstone has been urged IN print to throw o
Lord Spcncer rather than burden himself win
landlord proposals But it is clear that nei'he
principle nor in degree OF zeal in behalf OF the Il
Irish minority to whom the honor and the III
obligation of England are bound is there
essential difference between the eX-Nlceroy oi
land and his chief or his colleagues III Is no
Mr. Chamberlain would have you oelie'e' 'ne
iect of this land bill to buy of the opposition oil