The Northwestern standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1885-1886, 1886-01-23

yesterday member OF ParIiamel
d close to the government and thorough
au fait with all the gossip Of st. st
" phen's, said: & Home rule must brea
out; but, like coming epidemic, l
one can tell how, when or with VIII;
N surroundings the break Will come "A
really known is that America is repay
ing US for o,lr silly sympathy with $,
cession. We aided Davis all we coult
8 The Irish-Americans are now aidin
Parnen. We can hardly complain (
our own precedent This much, how
ever, is known, that within the pas
week great press and political change
against Mr.. Parnell have been goin
I on, looking much as it combination
!, for thWarting him are beginning, lik
those in wv Washington in 1861, when th
war Dem ocrats and Republicans com
! bined to form an secession party
The Echo and Pail Mall Gazette (Radi
cal) said: What we shall soon be dis
cussing is not Home Rule, but dis
franc chisement; not concession, but co
ereion; not establishing county boards
but desperate attempt to throw Ire
land into huge Jail. Which is it te
be? 1t all turns upon one question
| will the Irish pay a fair rent for theil
farms, or fair price for their land? Il
i the Irish will not pay their landlords
20 shillings in the pound on the pal
value of their property, then they must
dispense, not only with the hope Of
Home Rule, but any semblance Of gov
ernment by consent. They will be gov
erned as Russia governs the Poles, and
their Inyfncibles viii be crushed as the
| Gar has crushed the Nihilists.'' = Home
Rule has caused difference Of opinion
| between Mr.. Robinson, manager Of the
Daily News, and Mr.. Frank Hill, who
has been its editor for sixteen years.
The result was the retirement of the
latter Saturday and the substitution Of
Mr.. Henry w. Lucy, chief of the News
parliamentary staff and best known in
America as the writer of a parliament
tary work. The News and Truth are
the only London papers sympathizing
with, If not backing up, Mr.. Parnell.
Mr.. Parnell is sphin1-like to all, refer
ring all inquirers to his recent inter
views, He held on Monday, in Dublin,
u secret caucus OF eighty-fiye men who
are defending the Irish Thermopyla
against coercion. Mr.. Gladstone fol-.
lowed with a secret caucus On the same
day in London. Lord Salisbury has
one daily; but only from the Queens
address can aught be even guessed at
as to Home Rule manGuvres. This
only is certainly known-all England is
atfrightedly angry at the money raising
and sympathy across the Atlantic. The
best account Of the Irish situation is
furnished by Mr.. Jennings to the New
/ York Times, in which this able CORE
psuondent says, writing from London
last 81 VI sss.y. The ceAseless roar Ms n I
the heavy guns Of the Thunderer, and
The rattle Of the fusiilade of the smaller
press guns do not allow one to forget
for al instant that a tremendous final
attack is being made all along the line
on Mr.. Glads.one's position. The at
tempt of the 1. higs to overthrow and
discredit his leadership in 1880 as an
intrigue rather than an assault. The
mutineers then took precious good care
not to go so far that they could not
easily slide back into Office when the
revolt collapsed. This time the CON
fict, if not distinctly above board, is
obviously bitter and determined. For
purposes Of their own the Tories are
merging their own identity with that of
the Wings, and are moving heaven and
earth to induce the latter to stand firm
and fight the grand old man. In the
name of the moderates Of both parties
a dozen different Tory lieutenants dur
ing the past week introduced I'm their
speeches profession Of their willing
ness D support for the premiership
Lord Harrington if he would take the
field openly against concessions to Ire
land, and there is still other evidence
that Tory strategy attaches as much
Importance to this bait for coalition
Whig and Tory ministry as to a menace
of swift dissolution. Until the smoke
clears next week it will be impossible
to judge Of the effect Of this fierce con-
certed attack on the Ha warden forti-
fications. The besieged have been very
saving Of their ammunition. Only the
Daily News has maintained a desultory
answering FIRE, but it is suspected that
this is cover for extensive mining OPP
erations the result of which may be sig
nally effective and diastrous to the
Wings and Tories alike. Even the
most sanguine of these are unable to
resist an uneasy fear that the strategist
is meditating calamitous surprise for
them. He will come up to London on
Monday and throw himself into the
task of getting acquainted with the new
members. The liberals are enlisting
under his banner. A week will either
confirm or crush his leadership. The
coolest and closest observers say the
balance Of success or failure is pain
fully even now. az
The emigration returns for 1885 show
decrease, as compared with last year,
Of 10000 in the number Of people who
emigrated from England to the United
States, and Of 5000 in the number who
emigrated from England to Canada, and