The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-02-01
saiisbury's Plotting Comes to Nausht.

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Cable Special
The Tories are sad Their plotting has
brought them to disastrous defeat Their
Wing allies failed them. and the Queen failed
them, for she did not send for Lord Hart
ington. Her Majesty hates Mr.. Gladstone, and
would send Mr.. Parnell to the Tower, but she is
anxious the Prince of Wales should have q
throne to sit on, and therefore her Majesty sent
for the woodchopper Of Hawarden. Mr.. Glad
stone and the Ministers he selects will receive
the seals of Office. Tuesdays defeat was an
awful sell" for the Tories. They had arranged
with the Wings to take decisive division
on coercion that would allow the mutin-
GUS Wings to rat without absolutely host-
ing the standard Of revolt The Tories, If
defeated. could then appeal to the coun-
try on the 'integrity -of-the-empiren cry,
but Mr.. Parnell's move checkmated them. In
order to compel the government to taks de-
cisive vote on the English land question, he de-
manded the debate on the address should pro-
ceed until disposed Of This move was supported
by Mr.. Gladstone and Sir William Vernon Har-
court, and the government was forced to give
way. From that moment their doom was sealed
courage to vote against Mr.. Gladstone on the
English land question, so they abstained, and the
Tory game was spoiled The defeat of the
Tories on Mr.. Jesse Collings's amendment is re-
garded fatal to their chances of success at the
next elections 1t is important to remember
that the general election sent to the new House
strong agrarian reform party from England,
Scotland and Wales. thoroughly in sympathy
with Irish Land League ideas, and prepared to
support very drastic measures of land reform.
Both in Great Britain and Ireland, the fear of
having their rents reduced is alarming the Wing
landowners more than the danger to the integ-
rity of the empire
Mr. Joseph Arch's speech demanding that
rents shall be reduced in proportion to the fall of
price in produce sounded the death knell Of En-
glish and Irish landlordism of the old type The
new element in English politics. combined with
the Irish representatives and town Radicals, will
conurol Parliament in the immediate future The
power Of the English land holding classes is on
it's last legs
Had the Tories been able and clear-sighted,
they would have concilated Ireland and sacri-
feed Irish landlords, using the solid Irish vote to
sustain themselves until they could have un-
loaded their overdrawn estates on new class of
small proprietors. They preferred to stake all
on single chance at winning by trick and de-
vice. They have lost. and will receive scant
mercy from the united democracy of the sister
isle. Mr.. Gladstone sees how the wind is veer-
ing and begins to trim his sails. This week he
announces to his tenants reductions in their
rents varying from 20 to 80 per cent 1t is an
ominous incident Evidently the grand old man
is preparing to take off his coat to deal with the
land question, as well as with home rule. This
fact is enormously important. 1t will rally to
his standard the whole farming classes of Great
Britain, and enable him utterly to destroy the
political influence Of the land-holding classes,
represented by Lord Harrington and Mr.. Cos
chen