St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-07-17
FROM FOREIGN LANDS,
Return of a st. Paul Tourist
From a Continental
Trip.
Birdseye View of Affairs in
the Tight Little
Isle.
Fpenchmen Who Live Outside
of Paris Are Enthusiastic
Republicans.
Coming Nearer Home, Events
Which TRANSFERRED About
the City Yesterday.

Henry S. Falrchild, of Summit ave-
hue, has just returned from an extended
, tour on the European continent, accom-
panied by his two daughters. Mr.. Fair
child sailed from New York in the Gu
harder Umbria, arriving within seven
days on the shores of Ireland. A brief
visit was made in Cork, and after the
south of the ''green isle' had been ex-
plored, the journey northward COM
menced by way of Dublin, direct to the
Giants Causeway, back to Belfast.
where the great fax industries were OBJ
jects of considerable interest. About
Ireland and Irishmen generally, Mr..
Fairchild said: Zone trip, only of
few weeks. through a country like Ire
land stopping to visit places of interest,
does not give one an opportunity of OBJ
tanning as full information as is neceS-
sary to form an opinion that would be
satisfactory. But the general impress
that l received was that there was
about as much suffering among the
landlords as there was among the tenant
farmers, and as much feeling, almost,
between the laboring classes and the
tenant farmers as there was between
the tenant farmers and the landlords.
The labOrers complained that the tenant
farmers had almost abandoned agricult-
ure, turning their land over to pasture
and stOck-graZlng, and thus supporting
no labor. From some of the gentry L
heard most pathetic stories of their suf-
ferings through failure to collect rents:
but so far as l could see. the tenant
farmers, who were complaining most
and not paying their rents, seemed
to be
THE MOST PROSPEROUS CLASS.
"My observation leads me to believe
that the difficulties in Ireland are in
herent in the conditions of the country.
and not in the forms of government.
The English government may at one
time have unjuStly legislated against
their manufacturing interests, but at
the present time it is not so much
question of government as a question
of population. The cheap lands of
America, with improved agricultural
implements and means of transporta-
ton, had made it impossible for the
farmers of Ireland. and not only the
farmers of Ireland, but of Europe gener-
ally, to compete successfully. So it has
come to pass that the soil of ireland is
Incapable of supporting the population
on it. 1t once supported larger popu-
lation when it had less competition in
agriculture and stock raising from
America, but now even its diminished
population is too great for the capacity
of the SOIL"
Mr.. Fairchild spent three very pleas
ant weeks, and thence crossed the chan
mel to Glasgow, which he describes as
IAN active, houriShing, rushing, roar
ing city. like one of the representative
American cities" Edinburgh, the cap
ital city, was taken in, and the close of
the tourist season compelled the party
to take a hurried journey through the
heart of England to London, where
month was enioyably frittered
away. Mr.. Fairchild was an
eye witness of that monstrosity, the
Lord Mayors show, and viewed with
dismay the terrible rioting which oc-
Cured in Trafalgar square OF that
memorable Sunday afternoon in Jan
uary last, Mr.. Fairchild reports: 81
was very much struck with the GOODNESS
and Judgment and fOrbearance mani
tested by the police and those who con-
trolled in the management Of so large
and threatening mob. l watched their
movements from an upper window of
the National Liberal club, and was close
enough to see the faces of the men and
the scores of battles fought between
1HE MOB AND The E..
Mr.. Fairchiid is lifelong admirer of
the Grand Old Man, but he laments the
extreme bitterness now existing be-
tween the Radicals and Irish National
lists on the one side, and the Tories and
Liberal UnioniStS on the other.
1.-The Radicals and Nationalist" said
Mr.. Fairchild. ''charge the Tory party
and their UDionist allies with blood
thirstiness and cruelty to the last de-
gree: and the Unionist party, Oh the
other hand, charge their oppo-
nents with being unpatriotic and
really aiming at the ACKNOWLEDGMENT
of the empire. TO me it looks as though
they did injustice to each other. I
ultimate purpose through different
methods. 1t struck me that Gladstone
and his friends had the hope that by
forming an alliance with Parnell and
the Irish National party the latter
would be thoroughly committed to ac-
cepta an Irish parliament-home rule-un-
der restrictions sufficient to maintain the
integrity of the empire. Failing thereby
to pacify the Irish people and unity the
government, the English government
could proceed then in their method of
coercion with the approval of English
public opinion and the world. Lord
other hand, believe absolutely if home
rule is granted now it would not be ac-
cepted as a. finally, and that the de-
fiance of governmental authority would
continue in the effort for separation.
This being so, their opinion is that the
first and most important thing is to en-
force
OBEDIENCE TO THE LAW.
81 am satisfied that the union of the
| Liberal UniOnists and the Tories is
compact, and do not feel that there is
any possibility of Gladstone regaining
| power So0n."
From London Mr.. Fairchild visited
Paris, and was there during the dis
turbed state of French politics, when
men," he says, ''Were going to bed every
| night and on awakening in the morning
| inquiring what kind of government they
| had. The difficulty is that Paris is
France, and in France there is body,
| probably embracing some hundred of
thousands of men, who are professional
| agitatOrs. They look on revolution as
| kind of picnic. The great body of the
peasantry of France is patriotic and sat-
isfied with the republican government"
Mr.. Fairchild continued his tour
through France into Spain. visited AL
| gierS, recrOsSed to the rock of Gibraltar.
and next toured the Mediterranean, Wis
| iting every city of note on the coast:
then passing through Italy and Switzer-
land, into Germany. Denmark. Sweden.
| Holland, Belgium were visited, and
with one more glimpse at Germany and
the snow-capped mountains of Switzer-
land Mr.. Fairchild turned to the west,
passed through France, touched AL