The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-05-28
FRIDAY
NEWS BY THE AUSTRALIA.

news by the Australia in yesterday g
paper, owing to the demand upon our
space by legislative and other local
items. 1t deserves, however, more than
passing notice.
The imminent danger of a general
European war is at an end, but should
the Greek Chambers, from any influence
or motive, refuse to obey the orders of
the Powers, hOstilities between Greece
and Turkey could not be long delayed,
and this would to a certainty involve
Russia and the Balkan States, and
probably also Austria Meanwhile there
is no immediate danger to be appre-
hended, and the Foreign Ministers of
the great Powers are relieved of anxiety.
1t is stated that Earl ROseberry, the
English Foreign Minister, has been the
main cause of bringing about this favor
able condition OF European politics, and
the young statesman is the recipient of
general compliments.
If MIR. Gladstone could settle the Irish
question as easily as his lieutenant has
apparently settled the Greek one it
would be a happy thing for himself
and the British empire, but there is no
chance whatever of such fortunate
issue. The combination against Home
Rule for Ireland is of strong and men
acing character. The loyalists OF Ulster are
openly arming and preparing for civil war
In the event of the Imperial Parliament
conceding a constitutional government
to Ireland. In other words, the Orange
faction OF Ulster is prepared to levy war
against the Crown and Constitution un-
less affairs are managed to suit its own
peculiar views of ascendency. Consid-
ering that this faction is in an absolute
minority in Ulster, its course is, to say
the least, demonstration of bumptious-
ness unequaled in modern times. If
this anti-national spirit be general the
temper of the men of Ulster has won
derfully changed since the Dungannon
Convention of 1882, when delegates
of the Irish Volunteer Army, 10000
strong, every man Protestant, de-
manded the Parliamentary independence
of their country and got it, only to see it
bartered away by corrupt placemen and
pensioners few years afterwards We
do not believe this buster will amount
it will simply be suppressed by the I'm
perial army. The idea of giving Ulster !
a separate Legislature is also absurd if |
the object be to preserve Protestant as |
cendancy there, for the simple reason |
that the Roman Catholic population out
numbers all the Protestant sects in that |
province together.
What complexities affairs still further
is the terrible trade depression through
out Great Britain and Ireland Nothing
approaching the prevalent stagnation
of business there has been expert
enced in the past forty years.
This renders the political problem
before the British Parliament and
people all the more difficult of solution,
inasmuch as social and economic ques-
tiOns are mixed up in the constitutional
issues raised by GladstOne's Home Rule
measures. 1t is more than probable
that the land bill will be abandoned,
leaving the Irish landlords to come to
terms on their own account with the
irish people. This would be an UNI
thing for the landlords, but it
would probably placate British tax
payers, who are liable, under the land
purchase bill, for $3.50, 600, 900 to be paid
for the fee simple of the lands OF Ireland
In the United States the great strikes
are being closed on the assurance by
Congress that the rights of labor will be
by suitable legislation. 1t is
probable that compulsory arbitration
will be resorted to under law of Con-
yress, should all other means of adjust
ng differences between capital and
abOr fail The loss to the productive
Industries of the United States from
abor strikes this year have been enor- 5
nous, and no other country in the world 4
.ould bear such drain upon its re-
sources. If legislation can avoid such !
uinous waste in future it would be de-
irable to enact the necessary laws. But .
great deal must depend upon the gen q
raj intelligence of the working classes v
Indeed, in country gov s
rned by the people themselves, as in G
he United States, war between intelli- \
ent labor and capital should be as i'm. Il
ossible as it is absurd d"