St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-06-10
F0NDEST HOPES FADE
Liberal-UniOniSts Dissatisfied
With Patchwork Gov
eminent.
ToryiSm Is Dominant and
Ireland'S Yoke Grows
Heavier.
Glllig's American Exchange
to be Wound Up at Once
by Law.
The Heather Chinee Is Worry
ing Lord Salisbury and
His Aides.
special cable to the Globe.

Special Cable to the Globe
LONDON, June Am able and zeal
BUS Liberal-UnioniStm member of parlia-
ment,in an interview to-day, said: 1.-The
greatest dissatisfaction is setting in
among our ranks at the undisguised
domination of Tory principles in the
government. The fond hope INDUCED
in by so many, that with a leaven of lib
Rralism the whole mass would be trans
formed, has not been realized in the re-
suit. So far from being so we have
given up all hopes of doing more than
merely curling the Tories now and
then: for as to the possibility of getting
Liberal programme adopted, or even
looked at, the thing is out of all proba-
bility. Since Lord Randolph Church
tlPs secession this aScendancy of the
party of stagnation has been manifest;
and if one seeks a representative of
progress in the cabinet he might look
far more hopefully to Mr.. Balfour than
to Mr.. Goschen. What enables this
state of things to continue is the readi-
ness of q little over a score of So-called
Liberal-U nioniStS to out-Tory Lord Sal
isbury himself With their help the
cabinet can count, with absolutely GER
tainty, upon small working majority,
be the TOryiSm ever so fierce and inso-
lent. The struggle under these altered
conditions gradually becomes one of
class privilege against popular rights
and aspirations; so that Mr.. Glad
stones phrase about ''classes and
masses" is likely to be sharpened in its
meaning very soon, and to be, indeed,
the best weapon of Liberal warfare.
Only" added he, every unguarded out
burst against property, every attack
upon the police and ministers of JUS
tice
ADDS WEIGHT AND FORCE
to English Toryism by attracting to it
the middle classes, who dread an over
turn as deeply and as naturally as the
property holders themselves. TO any
man who desires the continuance of the
legislative union this outlook is very
discOuraging, and Liberal-Uniolists are
now becoming painfully conscious that
their choice lies between hon r lie and
the maintenance of Tory SUP macy.
This sketch of what a reSolute and
clear and seeing man thinks of the
present condition of politics is entirely
confirmed by the experiences of several
English wOrkingmen who are sent over
to Ireland ly thei organizations to
view things there or themselves. They
state that the astle in Dublin is the
cabinet in miniature. In the Dublin
administration the faintest trace of
Liberal influence or modification does
not show itself under the strongest
microscope. There is courageous
and consistent carrying out of
higher aims and objects of states
manship; for the smallest effort to meet
the needs of the country or to i'm
prove its condition, they report that
they looked in vain. The collection of
rent is the sole subject. Other things
are not even thought of. And even in
this main point of policy the Irish
rulers have failed and are failing. In
the dissolution of all societies which
comes in the
WAKE OF A GREAT STRUGGLE,
friend and foe suffer equally, and just
now it is hard to say who have the more
reason to eXecrate Mr.. Balfour-his
friends, the landlords, or the people
whom he is gOading on to madness.
Mr.. Balfour, by making Ireland eX-
ternally quiet, will completely answer
the requirements of the average British
voter who cares little for Irish COM
plants. A few years hence these con-
tented creatures will find themselves
culties, the seed of which their
own hands are industriously sowing.
Either Mr.. Balfour ard landlordism
must go, or the whole Irish tenantry
must quit Ireland. This is the real
issue, and one need not doubt as to
which it will be. Leaving the large
question and turning to matters of de-
tail, the same state of things exists.
Every measure of any promise for Ire
land introduced during the session of
parliament has been dropped. The re-
form of the judicial bench will not be
attempted. The land commission will
be left as it is; while as to Mr.. Barbour
and his colleagues, they jauntily ignore
all such matters. Here, again. Liberal
Unionism is pOwerless. Lord Randolph
Churchill Is backed up by every real
Liberal, whether ''Unionist" or not,
when he claims for Ireland the same
measure of local government which the
government is extending to the other
parts of the United Kingdom. On Lord
harrington rests mainly the RESPONSE
bility for the exclusion of Ireland from
the advantages of the local government
bill.