St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-01-24
liberals, Conservatives and Parnellites
Watching Their Enemies While Gov
ering Their Own Hands,
Eladstone's Appeal for Cancellation and
Justice the Work Of an Unusually
Adroit Tactician.
9fsnarclx Fayors Sterner Measures to
Force Greece and Servia to Lay
Down Their Arms.
Extraordinary Precautions Taken by
English Authorities to Prevent Dy-
namiters Doing Damage.
1t All Means Nothing.

Special to the Globe.
LONDON, Jan. 23.-This has been an in
teresting but disappointing week. The
English and Irish public alike looked to the
queens speech and to the speeches of the
Conservative and Liberal leaders in parlia-
ment for some relief to the prolonged anxi-
ETY. about Irish matters. They got very
little. The crisis now hangs fire. Neither
the Tories nor the Liberals are satisfied
with the course of affairs. What most con-
tents the most people in England is what
the queen says about home rule. The
speech made in her name by the ministry
announces a definitely Conservative policy
against all attempts to disturb the ex-
listing legislative union between England
and Ireland. The ministerial method
of dealing with the other and
more urgent part of the Irish question bears
the mark of compromise between differing
sections of the cabinet. The tone of the
speech itself was thought firm, though it
was known to have been modified in conse-
quence of Lord Randolph Churchill's re-
monStrances against the use of
THE WORD COERCION.
Lord Salisbury, in the house of lords. and
Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, in the house of
commons, disclosed notifications much
more important. The best-kept secret
of the ministerial policy was the
resolve to propose reform in the procedure
in the commons and give this reform pre-
cedence over all other business, Irish mat
ters included. The ministers allege, as an
excuse for delaying Irish legislation, the
necessity of obtaining further information.
Smiths appointment as chief secretary for
Ireland supplies plausible preteXt for this
delay. The new man must have time to
decide on a new policy. The Liberals re-
tort: "Why, then, did you make the
queen draw such gloomy picture of the
social condition of the country about which
you profess to not know enough to be able
to legislator" There is no answer to this
question. The Tory mistake as matter
of tactics is obvious. They have wholly
broken with the Parnellites. They must
therefore rely wholly for majority among
Liberals who are opposed to home rule and
ready to grant the government the powers
they consider needful for restoring law and
order in Ireland. But the ministry post
pone the demand for these powers, while
every days delay
WEAKENS THEIR CASE
and gives time to restore unity in the Lib
eral ranks. The Liberals for the moment
appear TO be without leadership. The min
istry offers a distinct challenge on home
rule Nobody takes it up. Probably it is
a good party move TO abstain. The minis
try if beaten would appeal effectively to the
country as the champions of imperial unity,
nor could they probably be beaten in the
commons on that issue. Nobody is willing
to make the first move or show his hand.
Gladstone's speech was the speech of an
adroit tactician. and committed him to
nothing. He regained, while speaking
AL hn nd
eXcelled himself in fervent appeals
to the spirit of conciliation and justice. 1t
is doubtful, nevertheless, whether he has
not still further widened the breach in the
Liberal party. Everybody understood the
speech as bid for Pamellite alliance. The
Irish cheered him warmly throughout
His denial of responsibility for home-rule
schemes convinced nobody. He did not
deny his conversion to the principle of
home rule. While his speech confirmed the
universal belief in his desire to secure Irish
support by creating an Irish parliament, its
tone was one of
ANXIOUS DIFFERENCE
to Irish opinion. Nothing marked it so
strongly as when he besought the Irish to
forgive him for saying that he still warmly
supported Lord Spencers administration.
The Irish members not only forgave him.
buO NdllulS WClCOHcu Tic new
Parnell. with his usual deXterity, declared
himself desirous to intimate GladStone's
spirit. He said he believed that between
them they could find a solution of the IRISH
problem. He sat down without giving
single hint as TO what scheme of home rule
he was ready to propose or accept. There
matters stand, and seem likely to stand for
the present. leaders all around marking
time. Outside of parliament nothing has so
much influenced English opinion as the
statements of the royal Irish deputies to
Lord Salisbury, representing that com
merce industry and society were suffering
grievously from the tyranny of the league.
Gladstone's refusal to receive these numer-
Gus and influential deputations was signifi-
cant. Not less significant was the fact that
Lord Harrington did receive them. Many
other topics, some of them important, occu-
pied the queens speech, but nothing diverts
attention from Ireland. The queens pres
ence at the opening of parliament gratified
the Tories and set some liberals grumblng.
The ceremony was splendid. The queens
reception outside was cordial, but groans
were occasionally heard.
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