Omaha daily bee., 1888-06-23

Once more Mr.. Gladstone has scored a
point, this time in Scotland, which perhaps
gives it greater significance than if it had
been made almost anywhere else The dist
rct of Ayr at the previous election returned
Richard Campbell, liberal unionist by ma
jority of LII. Upon the death of Mr.. Camp
bell another liberal unionist, Evelyn Ashley
was put up, while Captain St. Clair, who
ran against Campbell, was renomnated. ST
Clair was elected Friday by majority of SO
in a total of 1900 The GladstOnians made a
gain of l,23S while the liberal unonist loss is
4O5, The special significance of this defeat
of the government is that the tories cannot
say, as they did at their Southampton defeat
the other day, that the compensation clause
of the local government bill did 1t. The gov
ernment, Immediately after the Southampton
election, withdrew the liquor license clauses
OF their bIll and thus the home rule issue
was the only one considered at AYR. Mr.
Gladstone wrote. letter to Lord
Harrington, arragnng the liberal union
lists for not keeping their pledges,
and Mr.. Chamberlain took it upon
himself to reply. These two letters gave the
speakers in the various towns of the AYR
burghs a text, and the result will make a
sensation in England. The coercion ministry
is constantly losing. Less is heard of the in
vasion scare in England, due, perhaps, to a
discovery of Lord George Hamilton, made
public through the house of lords. This is
that the landing of an army of 100000 men
has never been attempted in England, and
that an army of that size with all its para,
phernalia, would involve so much prepara-
tion in the way of transports, etc, that Eng
land could not help finding it out in time to
make ready to reft four times that force,
either by land on water Moreover, that the
transporting of 900 men is feat never
accomplished over body of water as wide
as the English channel. Lord Georges dis
covery seemed so simple that the only won
der about it was that it did not occur to
everybody at the start. No sooner was this
soothing assurance advanced however, than
leading soldiers at home and on the continent
have been questioned, whose verdict seems
to agree that past precedents cannot settle
the question Of landing troops to-day, with all
modern facilities for transportation.
-.
The orders of the new German emperor to
the army and navy were not entirely reas-
surIng, but in view of his subsequent utter
ances it does not seem entirely fair to i'm
pute to him a war-like purpose. In address,
lll5 lNt army anu navy nc SllbNtu llldb NC
stands by the famous speech of Prince Bis
march, which was the bodest manifesto, all
things considered, of the present generation.
Not only was Russia notified that her policy
was offensive 10 Germany, but that if con-
tinued, it would lead to war; nor that alone,
but she was informed Just how Germany
would go to work to let loose the full force
of the empire upon the cars domains. The
young emperor stands by all this, which IS,
in fact, the Bismarckian notion of preserv-
ing peace. Emperor Williams proclamation
to the Prussian people gave more
distinctly the other side of the
picture. ~ have assumed the government
looking up to the King of Kings, and nave
vowed to God that after the example of my
fathers | will be a Just and clement prince TO
my people, that / will foster piety and fear
Of God; that l will protect peace and pro
mote the welfare of the country, and that
viii be a helper Of the poor and distressed
and true guardian Of the right This Ger
| tainly does not read like the language of an
| insiucere man, and he begins his reign by an
act Of reparati0n. The differences between