St. Paul daily globe., 1888-05-06
FORCED TO A FAILURE.
English Politics Beginning to
Get Into Somewhat of a
MIDDLE.
No Prospects Of a Satisfactory
Settlement Of the Irish
Question.
Revolutionary Circulars Are
Widely Distributed in
Bulgaria.
The True Condition of Empe-
ror Frederick Eeing Care
fully Concealed.
Copyright Cable to the Globe.

Copyright Cable to the Globe.
LONDON, May 5.-The dissentient
Liberals profess to believe that the gov
ernment will, in due time, announce
their intention to propose what they
term hOme-rule legislation for Ireland;
that Mr.. Gladstone will be obliged, if
the government should refuse to adopt
any other policy than that of coercion,
to propose compromise such as they
can accept, and to which the Irish men,
bers will be forced to give way. The
very success of the government promises
to be their difficulty when the legisla-
tion of this session is disposed of, and
no doubt it is felt that substantial
part of the local government bill is al
ready sure of passing. Everything
points to the whitsun recess as a period
OF great interest and possibly of new
formations among political parties. Mr..
Gladstone, who has seen much ebb and
flow of political life, is obviously much
less impressed than some of the younger
of his followers by the apparent success
of the government, and it is notable
that other politicians of great expert
ence regard the facts of the session as
arguments in favor of the view that the
| government will be forced on to fail
ure, either by proposing an insufficient
measure for Ireland or by making no
proposal at all, and so alternating many
of those by whom they are now sup
| ported. 1t is curious circumstance
| that the success of the local government
bill has caused the belief to spread,
| even in conservative London, that it is
the duty of the government, and that it
will not be difficult for them to make
| satisfactory
PROPOSALS FOR IRELAND.
Lord HartingtOn'S reference to the
| present bill as a measure of home rule
| has greatly caught the fancy of such as
make up the majority in London. and it
! is difficult to understand how it will be
possible for the government to per-
severe in the practical denial which has
| been the last word of Lord Salisbury
and Mr.. Smith. Mr.. William O'Brien
| has been once more sentenced to i'm
prisOnment. The charge was that he
addressed an unlawful meeting at
Loughrea. Even if it be granted that,
as the law in Ireland at present stands,
the meeting was unlawful, it must be
said that Mr.. Balfour does not seem, to
fair-minded persons, to play his game
fairly. He made a provocative boast
and threw down challenge; the Irish
| leaders took up the challenge and dis
proved his boast, and Mr.. Balfour's
retort is to clap them into jail. This is
| playing with loaded dice. The condi-
tions of the game are not fair, and for a
man who has the powers which have
been entrusted to the Irish secretary, to
utter such provOcation strikes the
majority of Englishmen as unworthy.
/ If he wants to out-argue and pooh-poOh
his opponents, he should stick to argu-
ment and not call in the resident
magistrate when he has got the worst
| of it. The consolation is that it is not
| to the interest of the government to
make martyrs, and that Mr.. O'Brien will
| be as great power in prison as outside of
it. The same intolerance of any shadow
| of opposition is shown by the ridiculous
prosecutions of the past week. Several
men were fined for shouting "down
with evictiOns;" twelve were sentenced
for cheering, shouting and groaning:
four others were ordered to find security
for their good behavior for six months or
go to jail for groaning at the police, and
two were fined for calling constable "a
buck-Shot warrior" If such persecu-
tions are continued it will eXtinguish
Mr.. BalfOur in universal ridicuIe, and
more he gives of it the better.
THE SITUATION IN THE EAST
grows more OminouS every day. Though
the peace is not officially broken be-
tween Russia and Austria, many
agencies are at work which seem to
make preparations for coming catas-
trophe. Everywhere systematic, albeit
as yet apparently desultory, attempts
are going on to create disturbance in all
pnIl ntr1no
Roumania. There is a strange activity
of Russian agents among leading men
of the Servian SkuptSchina. The en-
deavor is to ply the latter in favor
| of secret convention which would set
tie things to the advantage of Russia if
hoStilities should break out. For this
purpose the army is being worked upon.
King Milan has become alarmed in con-
sequence of these intrigues, and is not
Over-eager to receive back Queen
Natalie. His own life may not have
been very exemplary, but the queens
political leanings are such that the
monarch fears he would only add to the
internal complications and to the
strength of hostile cabals, with which
his own tenancy of the throne is threat
ened if she returned just now. Recently
it has been bruited about that in place
of the Russian envoy, Persiani, the con-
sui VI. 10
to be appointed. He is of the HitroYo
and Kaulbars school, and there is not
unnatural fear lest, at his instigation,
scenes might be enacted one day in Bel
grade similar to those which formerly
occurred at Sofia and quite recently at
Bucharest. King Milan is an easy-going
man, rather cOrpulent and not over
famed for personal courage. The queen
is of more active temperament, and is
supposed to be capable of an unpleasant
energy if an opportunity to exert it pre-
Sented itself.
REVOLUTIONARY CIRCULARS
continue to be widely distributed
throughout Bulgaria, Servia and Rou-
mania, despite the efforts of the authori-
ties of those states to suppress them.
The style of writing employed by the
Pan-Slavist agitators may be seen from
the following circular, which was again
this week widely distributed through
out Bulgaria, notwithstanding the eX-
traordinary efforts made to discover the
authors and prevent their distribution.
ITO the army:u A handful of
traitors have forced upon you as COM
mander-in-chief heather who de-
ceived you, and led you to the massacre
| of your brethren and kinsmen. May
the vengence of heaven fall upon you if
you do not make reparation for that
misdeed. But no, soldiers, it is not
you who are guilty, for you have been
imposed upon: but you would be guilty
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