Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-01-03

will collapse. Nor is MIR. Gladstone less
anxious. His son Herbert fwhO Is not
one of the exceptions to the rule that a
clever father has fool for his SOM has
written a letter In favor OF an Irish par
! lament, and MIR. Gladstone, as q prlvy
fcouncilor, has actually addressed a
\ letter To the queen on the same
subject, The quiet attitude Of Mr..
Parncl is in dignlaed contrast with
/ that OF his late foe and now would
/ be friend Mr., Parnell has at his back
eighty 30 eighty-six members, mostly
shop-keepers, bar-keeperS, petty trades
men and the likes but at this moment he
and his party stand before the country IN
I far more digniiled and constitutional
attitude than Mr.. Gladstone aud his fr ends
II say friends adyisedly, for | question II
4 Mr.. Gladstone has party. The Radicals
mistrust him, the Wings win none OF MIN,
aud, the liberals contain such leaven of
moderates that It is quite certain Glad
I stone could not If ne would form a gov
eminent. Moreover, his tiIne-seryng
oyertures to the Painelltes at the mo-
meut OF their victory has covered him
with contempt aud shaken still further
I than before the allegiance OF his preylnuS
supporters. Mr.. Gladstone began life
as Tory. Next he was q
Wing. Then a Liberal To-day he IS
Radicals tomorrow he may be a Parnell-
tie, and the day after q Tory once more.
He is the prince of trimmets-- Ono, / was
not going 10 say the prince Of darkness,
with Archdeacon Denison, Who has writ
ten a book on Gladstone very much to
that effect) land he never had a greater
desire to rule in England than at this mo-
ment. Mr.. Parnell, neither by word nor
deed, permits the outside world 20 look
into his hand or to predict his game
Mr.. Gladstone, junior, has tried TO draw
him, Mr.. Gladstone, senior has offered
TO divide The stakes with him. He is as
taciturn as Lord Salisbury himself
After the first cabinet council this week
know several distinguished Tories who
tried TO pump minister after minister. and
without success. II has been stated that
Lord Salisbury will in his programme
offer the Irish large extension of local
self-goyernment This may have been 50
ieeler." II 50, the response TO il has
cone in general kind of paragraph
from Ireland which asserts that official
lrishmen regard this Kind OF extended
local legislation as thing entirely apart
from home rule. have reason 20 believe
that the chief measure which Lord Salis-
bury is preparing is one for giving the
counties of England, as well az Ireland,
full power Of elf-goycrnment so far as
the general management of their local
affairs is concerned; and It is thought
that Mr.. Parnell can hardly refuse to ac-
Cept this tremendous reform which
the English provinces will welcome
with enthusiasm. II he does accept 1t OF
course he will only take it as another in
stallmeut towards complete home rule
and an Irish parliament. The trouble 10
he feared in regard to the acceptance OF
legislation for Ireland only in the way of
nstallments Is that one day the line Will
be drawn er attempted to he drawn and
you will have cable announcing the mil
itarp occupation of the country. 1t is To
be hoped that Mr.. Parnell viii be wise
and that parliament will be generous. For
pit Is certain that neither Liberal nor d
Tory government dare, if they were in
clined, to sell themselves to Mr. Parnell
any more than they dare TO the emperor
of Russia. When Lord Palmerton
( truc&led to Napoleon III. he was
i'hurled ont Of office; when Lord John
Russell was suspected Of being too much
under MuScovite influence in his famous
embassy to Russia he was disgraced; any
/ minister that should seek to obtain power
/ or 70 keep it by Offering to parliament
/ any measure that should tamper with the
( existence OF the union between England
and Ireland would lind himself with little
more support than he could expect to Oh
tain from the Irish chief
e..
THE TRIPLE ALLIANCE ONCE MORE.
Nevertheless, the immediate future is
full of serious difficulties for England at
home and abroad. Trade was hardly ever
in more depressed condition Poverty
''stalks gaunt and wretchedn throughout
the land. Free trade is blamed for this.
The demand for a revision OF tariffs in
the direction of protection has arisen III
earnest. The alliance OF Germany Rus
STA and Austria is once more a menaeing
fact. You have only to read that
clever and well-informed Berlin
journal, the Kreuz Zeitung, to
understand this. Should MIR. Gladstone
come into power this alliance will as
suredly be antagonistic TO England. Even
with Lord Salisbury in Office the alliance
may not be very cordial in its relations
with England. But il is well known that
Lord Salisbury and the Conservatives
have far more influence with Germany
than the Liberals have, The Conserva-
tiyes are at least respected by Russia,
Germany, Austria and the rest OF the
| powers. To be respected in that connec-
ton is to be feared, and to be feared Is to
be strong Emerson was in England dur
ing an anxious and serious period OF her
history, and hope ! may be permitted to
quote as possibly apropos of the present
situation the last words of his touching
and eloquent farewell to Manchester;
"And SO, gentlemen, feel in regard to
this aged England, with the possessions,
honors AID trophies, and also with
! the inhrmlties of thousand years gath
ering around her, irretrievably committed
as she Is to many old customs, which can
not be suddenly changed pressed upon
/ by the transitions of trade, and new and
all incalcuable modes, fabrics, arts, ma
CHIMES and competing populations. see
her not dispirited, not weak, but well re-
Numbering that she lhas seen dark DAYS
1 before, indeed, with a kind of instinct
that she sees a little better in CLOUDY
| day, aud that in storm of battle and
calamity she has G secret Mgor and
pulse like cannon. see her In her old
aye, not decrepit, but young and still dar-
ing TO believe In her power of endurance
and expansions, Seeing this, / say, all
bail! mother OF nations, mother of heroes,
with strength still equal to the time;
stlll wise TO entertain aud swift to ex.
ecute the policy which the mind and
/ heart OF mankind require Ia the present
hour. So be it. And II 1t be not SO, the
courage OF England goes with the
4 chances OF commercial crisis, | will 90
back TO the capes OF Massachusetts,, and
NV own Indian atrentn aud .,.,, -,