The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-01-29
FOREIGN GOSSIP.
Review Of the Situation in the En-
giish Political Field.
The Irish Question Pushing Everything
Else Aside--LOrd Salisbury Likely to
Resign and Gladstone to be
Again at the Helm.

LONDON, Jan. 24.-LOrd Salisbury is
tired of his attempt to govern the Brit
ish Empire with the Tory party, and
wishes to resign. 1t can be said on next
to the highest authority that the Premier
expects to reIinquish Office within the
next three weeks. Your correspondents
informant says: salisbury would like to
settle the Irish question on a broad, lib
eral basis, but he can not do it with such
party as he has. His colleagues wish
him to crush the Irish. He can't bring
himself to do anything of the kind, and
for this reason he win bring about.
the defeat of the Government in order to
obtain a justification for retiring from
power"
The minister, who gave this startling
piece of intelligence, was asked if he
knew what were the prime minister's
personal views on the Irish situation,
and he said: Lord Salisbury entertains
none of the fears professed by the Con-
serVatives, that, if Ireland had home rule,
he Irish would become practically hos
| tile people. He admitted to me re-
Gently that he believed that the
only hostility ever entertained by
the people of Ireland toward
England could be entirely accounted for
by the coercive nature of the relations be-
| tween the two countries. He went fur
ther, and said he was of the opinion that
if Ireland were made free she would
voluntarily seek even a closer relation
ship with England than the one now
maintained by force, and would become
a most valuable and powerful ally, in
stead of being, as now, a dissatisfied,
troublesome, rebelliouS and continuous
ly expensive province. Lord Salisbury
maintains that the very situation of
| Ireland would make her freedom inure
eventually to England's advantage. This
| situation he points out, differs from that
| of Belgium and Switzerland in this: That
whereas Belgium and Switzerland are
surrounded by powers all equally covet-
Gus of their territory, and therefore
| equally interested in maintaining their in
| dependence, Ireland's contiguity is con-
fined TO great Britain, and the interna-
tional interests of the two countries
would be identical if they were neighbers
and not landlord and tenant"
EfBut,'' went on the minister. sit must
! be admitted that British parties, as re-
fected in Parliament, represent the COM
mercial and land interests rather than
those of the peasantry, although the en-
| Iarged franchise will undoubtedly change
England thoroughly sympathizes with
that of Ireland, partly from affinity and
also because the majority of the Irish
| landlords are Englishmen, resident in
! Great Britain. But the land interest of
| Great Britain, the greatest after its COM
! mercial interest, has nothing like a cor
rect idea of how insignificant a minority
the landowners of Ireland are of its
| whole population, nor of the really for
elgn nature of their proprietary. They
! have become convinced that Nationalism
! in Ireland is identical with what COM
munism would be in England, and of
| course they are easily aroused to fight it
down.
| s'The Irish Tories understand how to
| keep this English hostility alive, and they
! manage to make nearly all the ordinary
violations of the law in Ireland appear to
Englishmen as crimes against property.
| AS it happens that, while the number of
| arrests in Ireland, where the police are
| numerous and alert, averages much great
| er than in England, where the officers of
! the law are not so plentiful nor so enter
| prising, it appears to the Englishman
! that the Irish people spend most of their
time attacking the vested rights, and he
| is thus kept perpetually disposed to rule
| them with an iron hand"
When asked if there were no statesmen
! in the Conservative party who knew bet
| ter the minister replied; eyes, Lord
| Salisbury is Just as we'll informed on this
| whole business as Mr.. Gladstone is, and,
in my opinion, just as well disposed"
'fWell, then, why don't he settle it?''
| ''Because he can't. His party COM
prises the bulk of the British land inter
! est. In this case that means the bulk of
the ignorance and prejudice which stand
| against a fair settlement of the question,
and as the ignorant and preiudiced con-
stitute the majority of the English aris-
! tocracy, the most enlightened and liberal
aristocracy in the world, and the potent
| element of the Conservatory party, Lord
Salisbury, in an attempt to pass liberal
measure, would simply be left without
| party.
.'Mr. Gladstone, however, does not
| represent the aristOcracY, but the busi-
ness men and peasantry of the nation. If
| he wishes to attempt a settlement of the
Irish question, in my opinion he can do
| it, and will attempt it when the govern
| ment abandons the work"
Every phase of the situation bears out
the prospect suggested by the above in
| formant Lord Salisbury wrote the
! Queens speech. It did not oppose home
| rule, but opposed separation. The Irish
| have not as yet asked for the latter or
even intimated that they ever would ask
/ for it. Of course, the nesslority OF the
Tories believe that home rule and separa-
! ton are identical, hence that paragraph
was simply a political play upon their
/ preiudices. Mr.. GIadstone's address
| during the evening of the Queens
/ speech was studiedly vague on
/ most things, but it was very
| direct in reply to the Queens plea for the
maintenance of the integrity of the En-
! pire, and this integrity had been just as
/ great during the six hundred years which
/ preceded the legislative union as it has
| been the eighty-five years which have
elapsed since. The Parnellites quickly
saw the subtle meaning in the sentence.
] They accepted it as a proffer on the part
/ of the grand old man to espouse the
/ home rule cause in return for Irish sup
| port during the progress of the debate on
the address in reply to the speech from
/ the throne.
The Tories, ever since Thursday, have
/ been discontented with Salisbury. They
accuse him of everything bad politi-
/ cally, but principally of want of
! courage in delaying to offer coercion
/ proposals The upshOt of the develop
ments resulting from the Queens speech
| win probably be the proposal Of measures
I certain to secure defeat of the Govern
ment. If the Government is defeated
/ Salisbury may than either resign or re-
| main in power, and order a new
| election, or aappeal to the country.
/ Ii ne GeslSnS, VI COuA9 "a
| win be called upon to form a cabi-
/ net. 1t has been urged by the Tories that
/ Salisbury should, in the event OF
/ defeat in Parliament, order a new
| election for the purpose Of running the
Irish party by the expense. The Queen
| favors this plan, and, in order to insure
/ its success, would redouble coercion in
rIreland f'in o4der TO secure free cleo
| tions,'' but there is reason to state that
Salisbury is opposed to it, because OF its
injustice and because he believes that the
| Parneliites would really increase their
| membership He is at present disposed