New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-05-23
OPPOSING AN IRISH PARLIAMENT.
MATTHEW ARNOLD THINKS IT WOULD BE DANGER
OILS AND UNNECESSARY.


OUs AND UNNECESSARY.
LONDON, Nav 22.-In addition to the extracts
nom Matthew Arnod's letter to The Times published
tbs morn!ng the following will be Of interest do not
let US the writer, be preposterousy alarm
ist Perhaps If II suits Mr. Gadslones purposes. Scot
land. Wales anl IrelanGal 10 Mr.. stanhelds delight
may become politically nations again and yet the cOun.
ty, such force may still by and un tried ways
great. But it Will be plunge into the un'
known. such "A plunge IS dangerous and should not be
Tked without absolute necessity In the case OF Aus
trs and Hungary the dual arrangement was necessity
Hungary the bigger Of the two. Still 1t was Tor
Austria plunge into unknown grave. WAC will say
that Austria today strong and as solid power as
at end Of the last century or that by the
enl the next century Austrias German
provinces will not have gravitated TO Germany
tome find arguments favOring necessity for Home
Rule in ireland In iltreatment OF her and the fa
coercion. Sir Lyon Payfar says we have given
tcOtand schools and church. but have not given them
Ireland Mr. Bryce says the Northern States or the
American Union could not continue to rule the South
by COERCION and therefore must make Ireland
separate government But the Northern States did not
give separate Parliament the South; neither has
England gwen one to Scotland. Scotland has simply
had due control OF her affairs and the South
permitted simply to such control This, then
what tae analogy la The need for Ireland is this only
jus, and due control OF her affairs Why should
The Imperial Parliament only cure Irish discontepti"
Mr.. Arnold here Instances the OF Brittany and
ecotlaud IN the seventeenth century and says: "Ihey
we're seethns ia turbulence and hatred. WHAT changed
this condition Not the Parliament, but rational
and equitable systems Of government The awaken
Ing mind Of the country. demands, not that
We give a separate Parliament TO Ireland but that We
seriously to the task OF giving her separate
laws and institutions Lord Sssbury's bad and arbi
trary temper home politician Is as great msiort
une TO the country a Lord Randolph Churchirs In
trguing The establishment OF separate Parliament
would be a Dgerous and unnecessary plunge Loru
SasDury talk. only at coercion. Let US refuse sepa
Parliament with rmness, but with equal nrinness
let insist upon condition which alone Justihes this
refusal. Lord Harrington has good temper He Is no
intriguer Mr.. Goschen has made local government
tpeclsl study. 1 hope they may be trusted 10 make
onr refusal firmly and engagements enDhatically
IAe passionate supporters OF Mr. Gladstone are potica
olssenters aud radical workmen OF the great towns
agree with Mr.. LIbouchere that aristocrlcies are
not the best guides IN politics but have too much
respect for undoubted lucdty to believe him capa-
bic Of really thinking dissenters and Radicals are better
guides. or even good. the Irish question. They
would have equally applaudod CromwelPs dealings
with Ireland William IIIs in their time AS they 40
Mr. Giadstone's proposals now. On the mind Of the
sLOie county We must rely"