New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-05-30
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Soy Nav 2e-The issue between the rope
... Nationalist leaders has now been drawn
sau 'ls .. n well could be. Sundays meetings
U,,dare Limerick, Bray, Waterford and else
~. hrsathed one and all spirit of dehance
" milan Mr. o. Brien, Mr. Healy and Mr.. Davitt
"a sroke all attacked the Bishop OF Limerick
sna All agreed that the Plan of Campaign ana
roreoftaug must be persevered with. MI. Dliion
s.r,oued text from Jefferson Davis and appealed
A Rome TO let Ireland alone Mr. OBrlen' as
n.ual the most fiery of ALL proclaimed the Bishops
,s.t.r the most disgracefu that ever came from the
..r of an Irish eccesiastic, full of caumny, intm-
s..on libeh and falsehoods He glorled in the
ipI.n ~ Campaign and Boycotting. :" 1 want"
cy,ed Mr. O'Brien, no lectures in fidelity to the
Tolv Father from Lord Emily from the rest of
Tho silken. canting Catholic raclxrenters who are
,en;nr with Joy in Dr. O'Dwyer's trail to-day.
.Istte the faith of Ireland to their fathers or
to their fathers sons and little it owes to the
s,c,esiastics who instead of taking part with the
suffering people dangle about the drawing-rooms
M the create Mr.. Healy went a step further and
charged the Pope himself with boycotting. Mr..
psvitt went furthest of all, denying the authority
of the Pope over laymen outside of dOctrnal mat
,tsrs Il never" said Mr.. Davitt, intended for
one moment to obey the rescrpt myself, and L
renresent ninety-nine out of every one hundred
Law Nationalist Catholics in Ireland We owe IL
NJ Ireland and to our Protestant countTymen to
protest and to withstand political dictation. We
are not going to exchange the servitude OF west
minister for that of the Inquistion, or the coercion
of Mr.. Balfour for that of DR.. O'Dwyer"
II these bold counscls be followed, but one
conclusion is possible. The National League, al
ready hard pressed by Mr. Balfour, is about to
enter on a life or death struggle with the Pope
Two things, meanwhile, are noticeable IN these
Sunday demonstrations. First, no priest was
present at any Of them. Second, both Mr. Dluon
and Mr.. O'Brien regard murder as the tenants S
onlv resource if the Pan of Campaign and
Boycottinp be suppressed Mr.. Dillon more eau
nously referred to murder in the past. MI
OBrien said this: They are the only weapons
OF a wronged and disarmed people. If you strip
the Irish people Of these weapons, l DEFY any
practical man who knows Ireland to point out
to us what other resource except murder would
be left to tens of thousands OF Irish tenants
from the horrors Of eviction
Once more Mr. Gladstone thinks that he sees
q chance of shaking this Ministry on a slde-ssue
Accepting Southampton as victory won on the
licensing question, he takes that question as the
basis of hE next attack in the House of Commons
and in the country. He failed to break up the
Tory-Unionist alliance ON the Budget, and he
expects TO fail again; but with each successive
attack he believes that he will make an impress
sion on the public. The Ministry, no doubt, are
perplexed by this licensing business. Their hope
of squaring the Temperance party by offering
them local option has been disappointed. They
would like to drop these licensing clauses, but
cannot What Mr.. Gladstone hopes is to reduce
the majority by which they will be carried.
Mr. Chamberlain however, has come to the
rescue. His speech yesterday at Birmingham is
a perfectly explicit declaration of confidence in
the present Ministry. Not only with reference to
Ireland, but on other subjects, they come nearer
70 adopting his views than any Ministry that he
has ever known He is even able to remind Mr..
Gladstone that Lord Salisbury has accepted GER
tain radical proposals which Mr. Gladstone him
self three years since rejected. He restates with
his usual lucid energy his own views about Ire
land and Irish policy, discusses briefly the pro-
gramme which he or his friends have again lately
put forward, and challenges the Gladstonlans to
produce a better if they do not like his. Re
move aerarian difficulty says Mr. Chamberlain,
"give State aid for internal improvements, and
then, when discomfort has disappeared, enlarge
their local government powers" Beyond that
he will not Co.
Mr. Bright's illness is fear. serious. The
earliest reports described 1t as feverlsh cold
To-days accounts speak Of congestion OF the lungs
Nothing could be more dangerous to a man of Mr.
Bright's physique and age. He to have
exposed himself to cold on a night journey last
week Until Sunday he expected to speak yes
terday at Birmingham. This afternoons reports
are comparatively favorable No worse" is the
substance of the doctors bulletin.
The chief Conservative organ publishes to-day
an article on General Sheridan, which is both
heartily eulogistic and singularly accurate sum-
mary Of his services and career. " The Standard
recognizes his determination, readiness of Device
personal courage, sympathetic power, strategic
sbility and brilliancy. This last in the writer's
view, was his leading characteristic. Justice is
done, also, to those solid qualities which, as was
said of Hannibal, from the very first drew the
eyes of the whole army upon him, and secured to
him to the end the confidence Of the country.
There is probably no subject on which English
men are more deeply relg gous than cricket. Their
religion has lattery assumed the form of earnest
prayer to be saved from overthrow by the Aus
tralian team, who, till last week. carried all be-
fore them But last week Lancashire, with fate
and a greasy wicket to help them, stayed the
Australian march. This week the Gentlemen Of
England have come to the rescue. Dr. Grace
their champion, has rolled up a score of l65
against all the demon bowling Australia could
produce. Lords was the scene of such excitement
yesterday and to-day as rarely is witnessed even
on the cricket ground or in the Salvation Army
barracks. The score of 400. for which the Gen
temen terminated their innings, against the 70 Of
the Australians, will long be memorable.
G. WE
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