The Red Cloud chief., 1886-01-29
FORM GOSSIP.
Review ofIsituatian in the En-
gnfolitical Field.
The Irish dion Pushing Everything
Else AsidDrd Salisbury Likely to
Resisd Gladstone to be
in at the Helm.

wishes TO g. II can be said on next
10 the higlfauthority that the Premier
expects tu)inGuish Office within the
next thredks. Your correspondents
informantF: salisbury would like to
settle thcEi question on a broad, lib
eral basiAt he can not do il with such
a party as has. His colleagues wish
him to en- the Irish. He can't bring
himself u anything OF the kind, and
for thisbson he will bring about
the defcj the Government in order To
obtain ajtiflcation for retiring from
power."l
The dster, who gave this startling
piece Intelligence, was asked il he
knew \ were the prime minister's
p~ersona3ews on the Irish situation,
and he ]: lord Salisbury cnteriaIns
none Of. fears proicssed by the Con-
serya,ii that, if Ireland had home rule,
he Irifould become practically a hos
tile Pfc. lie admitted to me re-
Gently bat he believed that the
only Utility ever entertained by
the ,oPle of ireland toward
Engiatould he entirely accounted for
.,y thas.Tciyc nature Of the relations he
twccis two countries. lie went fur
Their, ] said lic Was ol the opinion that
If Ircd were made free she would
yolusily seek even a closer relation
shin On England than The u now
maiiird by force, and would become
Il ~mcsaluable and powerful ally, in
sieatf being, a now, a dissatisfied,
irosssOmc, rebcIiious and continuous
" eSEsivc province. Lord Salisbury
maihns that the very situation Of
IrIa would make her freedom innre
e~vetally TO En.land's advantage. This
sitJon he points out, differs from hat
Of Eium and Switzerland in this: Tina,
wttas Belgium and Switzerland are
sufindcd nv powers all equally cOvct
oupf their territory, AMI therefore
eally Interested in maintaining their in
d,5idcnce, ircland's c%onti.uity is con-
flf 10 great Britain, and the inicrna-
tisl Interests of The two countries
u3d De identical if they were %ncighbors
atnot landlord and tenant"
but" went on the minister. ait must
Admitted hat British parties, as re-
fNed in Parliament, represent the COM
,rt .ai and land interests rather than
sSc Of the ~pcasantry, although the en-
ICED franchise will undoubtedly change
J. eventually. The land interest Of
nsiand thoroughly s~ympathizes with
r,t of Ireland, partly from affinity and
$50 because the majority OF the Irish
tndlortlS arc En"lishm"n, resident In
treat Britain. Bat the land interest OF
;rcat Britain, the greatest after its COM
interest, has nothing like a cor
idea of how insignificant a minority
ne landowners of Ireland are OF its
whole population, nor Of thc really for
i'm nature of their proprietary. They
la.e become convinced that N~aiionalism
"a Ireland is identical with what COM
nunism would be in England, and of
curse they are easily aroused to fight il
s.Tl.c Irish Tories understand how to
this English hostility alive, and they
naua"c 10 make nearly all the ordinary
of the law ia Ireland appear To
;u.iisiuncn as crimes against properly.
~ il happens that, while the number oi
,rrcsts Ia Ireland. where the police are
numerous and alert, averages much great
II than in England. where the officers OF
he law are not SO plentiful nor so enter
,risina. il appears to the En"iishman
hat the Irish people spend most al their
altackin. the vested rights. and he
$ thus kept p~crpeiuaily disposed To rule
hem with an iron hand"
When asked if there were no statesmen
n the Conservative party who knew bet
rr the minister replied: "Ycs, Lord
salisbury is lust rs well Informed on this
yllole business as Mr.. Gladstone Is. and,
n my opinion, just rs well disposed
..Well. then, why don't he settle ity"
ssHrcauSc he can't. His party COM
,riscs the bulk of the British land inter-
.st. Ia this case that means thcb bulk Oh
he ignorance and prejudice which stand
i.ainSt a fair settlement of the question,
,nl aS the ignorant and prciudiced con-
the majority of the English arts
the most enlightened and liberal
i'm the world, and the potent
element If the Conservatory party. Lord
Salisbury, i'm an attempt to pass 4 liberal
would simply be left without a
MIR. Gladstone, however, does not
the arist0cracy, hut the bust
ness men and %praSantry of the nation. II
Ilt Ni~i'N w NV NN'A'' VA WV
Irish question. in my opinion he can DO
IL. and will attempt il when the govern
men, ahsndons the work"
Every phase of the situation hears out
the prospect suggested by the above in
formant. Lord Salisbury wrote the
Queens speech. IL did not oppose home
.u;S. hut opposed separation. The Irish
hav. not as yet asked for the latter or
even minated that they ever would ask
for Il. OF course. the majority of the
believe that home rule and separa-
are identical. hence that paragraph
WAS simply a political play upon their
Mr.. GladStonc'S address
during the evening of the Queens
speech was studiedly vague on
most things. but it was very
direct in reply In the Queens plea for the
maintenance Of the integrity Of the En-
pire. and this integrity had been just as
great durin. the six hundred years which
preceded the legislative union As it has
been the ci.hiy-tl,e years which have
elapsed since. The Parncllitcs quickly
the subtle meaning in the sentence.
They accepted it As a prefer ON the part
of the grand old man IL c>pouSe 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 discontinued with Salisbury. They
accuse him of everything bad politi.
cally, but principally of want of
i'm delaying 10 offer coercion
proposals. The upshot of the develop
ments resulting from the Queens speech
viii probably be the proposal of measures
to secure defeat of the Govern
ment. II the Government Is defeated
may than either resign or re-
in power, and order a new
election, or ''appeal To :hc country"
II he resigns, Of curse Mr.. Gladstone
will be called upon TO form a cahi-
net. 1t has been urged ~ the Tories thai
should i'm the event OF
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