Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-11-30
Joseph D. LYNCH & CO.. PRorRIrroRs.
ADcspcrate Game.

IL looks very mucH as IL 'ho A'
Ia aders had determined upon the sui
c;da course of resurrecting coercion
in Ireland, with all its old time ma
lign features. While this may In
yolye the martyrdom OF a few reso-
lutte Irish patriots it really means the
ultimate dissolution OF the Tories and
the reorganization of that party un-
der quite radically different condi-
tions. II is great calamity that Mr..
Gladstone was not permitted to re-
main at the head OF the affairs OF the
Kingdoms of Great Britain and Ire
land; because, in the interim OF his
retirement, a pumber of great crimes
of violence are certain to be commit
ted in Ireland in the name of the law.
They will be absolutely abortive, and
will therefore be devoid even OF that
form of excuse which a Machiaveiii
could have constructed for them when
he was in the mood which evolved
his "Prince." The civilized world is
now thoroughly conversant with the
fact that the people OF Ireland simply
cannot pay the rents which landlords,
in many cases absentees, seek to ex-
act from them. When Governor STAN
ford, of California, some three or four
years ago, made thorough
tour of the Emerald Isle, he
looked carefully into the con-
dition of its people; and, on his re-
turn, he gave energetic expression to
his opinion that no human beings
could pay the rents which were ex-
acted from the small farmers of Ire
land. He said that revolt was an IN
evitable condition OF such state OF
things. The bloody-minded intent OF
the Tory Ministry is based not SO
much on opposition to Home Rule
for Ireland as ON an invincible deter
mination to wiring preposterously
high rents from the Irish people.
Their purpose is to stamp out any
spirit of resistance to the exactions OF
the landlord class, and their eye is
fixed quite as much on England as on
the sister Kingdom. In one OF his
luminous addresses, during the late
campaign, Mr.. Gladstone, with his
happy knack of comprising volume
in a sentence, called the present
struggle in the United Kingdom one
of the classes against the masses. In
such an encounter the latter are sure
to win. The last three-quarters OF a
century in England have been char
acterized in every decade by the pro-
gress OF a genuine democracy.
If is of course to be regretted
that the people of Ireland must for
q while be victims. of the reaction
ary Tory rule, but it will be all the
better in the end. The remedy, when
it comes, will be all the more thor
ough. There is flavor OF the Car
of Russia in the programme OF Sails
bury and Churchill, and they will
find that it has been developed in an
uncongenial atmosphere. 1t is per-
haps unfortunate that Gladstone is
not younger man, but he seems to
hav been marked out by Heaven for
the accomplishment OF great desti.
ny, and to be endued with a peren-
nial vigor which defies age and the
disabilities which usually attach to
advanced years. When Lord Church
i'll deliberately applied himself to
stirring up the old Orange spirit in
Ulster it at once became apparent
that The Tory leaders would stick at
n othing. The arrest of Dillon, the
threatened arrest of Parnell, the re-
vamping of the scheme of coercion,
all show that the Tory cabinet are in
tent on a scheme as radical as the
thorough" of Strafford, and which
cost that statesman his head. The
modern methods Of repressing tyran-
ny are OF SO violent as those of old
but they are as effectual in the end.