St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-15
Lord Salisbury's Speech Char
acteriZed as a Mass of
Dreary Platitudes.
Fallacy Of Attempting to Rem
edy Erin's Evils by Whole
sale Emigration.
Lord Randy and the Russians
Mgr. PerSico's NOn-COm-
initial Report.
Copyright Cable to the Globe

Liverpool were cautiously reaSsuring.
But Lord Salisbury confined himself to
commonplaces. The gist of his re-
marks was that the foreign Office knew
no special ground for the alarm which
Is felt just now that war may come at
any time, and that it will come suddenly
when it does come. The moral which
lie draws from this is that England
must be ready for any emergency. But
Lord Salisbury is not sufficiently eX-
plIclt. 1t has been widely stated during
the last few weeks that the government
mas committed England to the support
or the triple alliance. If that is true.
then every event on the continent has
vital interest for England, for a war
which involves Germany and Austria
may also involve the English fleet in
the Mediterranean. The mere rumOr of
such policy is alarming. 1t implies
departure from the rule which prevents
English statesmen from interfering in
foreign affairs. except such as immedi-
ately concern the interests of England
or dependency of England.
1t may be quite untrue, but it
has remained long uncOntradicted,
and the premier said nothing on Thurs
day at the Liverpool banquet upon the
part which England was now playing in
foreign politics. When parliament re-
assemblies it will be among the first
questions forced upon the government.
The prime minister touched on the sub
Ject OF protection. 1t was a cautious
utterance, leaving a good many loop
holes, which do not altogether satisfy
the free traders. Still he declared finally
and emphatically against a return to
the system OF taxing foreign supplies.
Lord Salisbnry'S argument on the Irish
question is briefly that England'S diff
Guilty has ever been Ireland's Oppor-
tunlty, and that England has been COM
PEELED in Self-defenSe to assert and re-
assert her supremacy. Lord Salisbury
has an unfortunate habit of talking
about Ireland as if it were a rebellious
dependency instead OF an integral pOr-
ton OF the united kingdom, and his
appeals to the force used in centuries
gone by to justify the force used by the
government to-day leave an impression
which is by no means pleasant. The
UNPOPULARITY OF IMMIGRATION,
which he deplOred is very largely due to
the fact that it has been preached by one
class to another until it has come to look
like device of Dives for Kidding HIM
self of the uncomfortable presence of
Larazlls. Another reason is that emf
grafton has not been followed up by
other remedies. 1t has been relied upon
as an al-sufficing measure, both for the
people who go and for the people who
stay. The consequence is seen most
strikingly in Ireland. The population
has fallen in less than half century
from S,000,0O0 to 10000 and the result
ic that tbn i,n+ @l,o,
the 100000 were. A bad land system
and bad government have still done
their worst for the people who remained.
Ii the government wish to persuade
people of their honesty in recommend
ing emigration, they must see to
it that emigration is accOmpa-
MED by reform. Increasing inter-
est is taken in ministerial circles
in the movements of Lord Randolph
Churchill, and general impression eX-
lists that they will have sensational if
not particularly useful results. Lord
Randolph is reported to have expressed
i'll very strong terms before leaving
England his own conviction that the
war rumOrS were mere fictiOnS, invented
in Berlin, partly for financial purposes
and partly to help the German chan
cellOr in some new move in the diplO-
matte game. What Lord RandOlph's
views may have been as to the nature
of this move,
Is 4 MATTER OF SURMISE,
but it is certain that before leaving for
the continent he regarded the supposed
policy of Germany with suspicion and
even with dlSapprObatiOn. Unless the
statesmen of st. Petersburg have lost
their old deXterity, he is not likely to
learn anything in his intercourse with
them calculated to change the bent of
his SympathieS, and, to put the fact
briefly, there is strong apprehension
among official Conservatives who know
the curious mental fluctuations to
which the eX-chancellor of the ex-
chequer is liable, that he may
come back not only with prO-RuSSian
views as to the situation, but with a
disposition to give them utteraDce which
would be extremely incOnvenient for
the government. If the general suspicion
that Lord Salisbury's foreign policy has
been tending of late in the direction of
definitive cooperation with the Central
European powers be correct, and Lord
Randolph should satisfy himself on this
point, he will have a tempting oppor-
tunity when he returns of making a
sensation by a speech in public or by
intervening in the discussion on foreign
policy which is expected to takO place
on the address. At all events, an I'M
mistakable apprehension exists that he
will give his old friends bad quarter
of an hour somehow. MIR. Gladstone
appears to have been miSinfOrmed with
regard to the local government bill, as
there is no doubt now that the govern
ment still adheres to its original in
tentiOn of introducing this measure as
nearly as possible after the meeting of
parliament. That is to say, it will be
eedure rules are disposed of. stage
which, according to ministerial caIcu-
latiOnS, will be reached before the end
OF February. 1t is learned on verv good
authority that it is quite possible that
the bill may be in the hands of the pub
lie before even the discussion of the
new rules has made much progress.
/. The government place the
REFORM OF PROCEDURE
at the head of their programme, but if
there is prospect of the first reading of
the local government bill being taken
without opposition, which appears prob
able. Mr. Richie will easily secure a
very early night for his expository state
ment. The government has nothing to
gain by delay in placing the bill before
the house. and there is no reason why it
should not be in the hands of members
for consideration during the discussion
on procedure rules, which are not
likely to mOnOpolize anybOdy's atten-
ton. It's evidently the land purchase
bill of which Mr.. Gladstone was think
ing, and the most sanguine Conserva-
tives agree in placing the probable date
for the Introduction of this measure not
merely after Easter, but after Whitsun-
tide.
MGR. PERSICO
i'll his report to Leo has not made any
reference to the question of the estab-
lishment of diplomatic relations be-
tween England and the Vatican. He
has confined himself to simple report
of the evidence he has obtained from
lay Catholics of eminence and from the
highest ecclesiastics as to the condition
of Ireland and the position of the priest
hnnH in thn nnIifinaI