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oopvrioht: 1889 : By The Ne'0 York Irio',s
London. Nov. 23.-The heather in Scotland is
once more on fire. There was held yesterday IN
Glasgow a conference OF Scotch Loerai assocla-
tjons. Lord Rosebery presiding, ana the mrs. lhshg
they did was TO pass resolution IN favor oil Home
Pnle for Scotland. Lord Rosebery himself clearly
does NOT like il. He did his best TO put Hform
of the House of Lords in the van; and when this
device had failed he declared himself, like Ensign
Robbins on the Maine Liquor law, for the law
but agin' its enforcement" He is for Scotch Home
Rule in principle, not in practice. If there be
an Opportunist in English politics it
is Lord Rosebery, and he looks
on with dismay as he sees his beloved compatsots
building stone wall to run their heads against.
He knows well that Mr.. Gladstone has sown the
wind and must reap the whirlwlnd.
The Scotch unlike the English, logical,
but their logic has in 1t a twist of dcgmatic
theology. They suffer no important grievances
under the present system; but they saw that
logically, if Ireland was TO have Home Rule, there
was no reason why Scotland should not have it too
They thought TO strengthen Mr.. Gladstone hands
Lord Rosebery tells them that they Have only weak
ened him in England. The English hate logic,
hate it above all in politics. He said the other
day at Bristol that people who thought the Glad
stonlans we're taking the Constitution TO pieces
were people of ignorant minds. Well, here Is the
whole Liberal party OF Scotland declaring by
solemn resolution in favor OF the destruction or
reconstruction of the Constitution of this Empire
They are not content with demanding Home Rule
for Ireland and Scotland; they would force 1t on
England. This is their resolution, verbatim
g" That this National Conference is of opinion that
Home Rule should be granted to Scotland, so that
the Scottish people could have the sole
control and management of their own National
Hair md fhat bp ru q
question may be found in granting Home Rule
legislatures on a federal basis TO Scotland, Eng
land, Ireland and Wales; but in respect OF the
urgency of the claim of Ireland declares that that
country must have first consideration on the part of
the Executive The men who drew and passed
that resolution know nothing of England. Lord
Rosebery knows it well. He accepted Home Rule
and federalism in principle Nobody IN England
is distressed by the assertion OF a principle
He tells his too fervid friends in Glasgow that
they may carry Scotland, but that their
real difficulties lie in England You want.
he says, to force local Parliament on England
which England does not desire and is determined
not TO have. How q dozen Scotch peers
in one House and seventy Scotch members in the
other, even with the help of 90 Irish. to over
turn the solid reluctance and opposition of 500
English members?
Lord Rosebery what these Scotch pro-
facts of the case He is well aware or the enor-
nous difficulties they are wantonly creating. lie
NAV deride as much as he likes those who say
openly what he sees and will not openly confess
But here are his own friends, countrymen, enthu-
siastic supporters refusing TO be guided Dy MS
counsels making mock of his discretion, and
publicly proposing to break up this Umpire, 10
abolish the existing Parliament, TO create announcer
Empire on a purely federal basis, and TO organize
another Parliament, imperial in name but limited
in jurisdiction, and brand new both in its COM
position and in its powers.
The Socialist movement has now found leader
who may prove able to guide as well as to lead
Mr. John Morley His speech TO the Eighty Cluo
ON Tuesday is a weighty manifesto. Unluciuly
for his prospects of leadership, Mr. Morley reJectS
and condemns, either expressly or implicitly, some
Of the crotchetS most in favor at the moment lie
announces himself Radical That name lac
declares is good enough for him As for Socialism,
if it means CommlNsln, abolition of private
property land naturalization. assumption by the
State of all capital equal distribution of products
that. he thinks is against human nature, and IS
certain TO produce convulsOn and disaster. His
own Socialism he defines as wise of the forces
Of all for the good Of each, legal protection OF the
weak against the strong, and State performance
Of duties to which individuals are unequal. His
programme even with these limitations is large
enough TO alarm men more Versed than he in
practical affairs. 1t includes a free breakfast
table free education, with free meals, for poor
children, local control of gas, water and other
such monopoles, the power of acquiring land for
municipal purposes at the buyers price,
wholesale revision of the existing system of tax.
alton in the interest of the poorer classes, and
wholesale land reform with the view Of replacing,
as he says, the people on the land, which he well
calls tremendous task. He uses language in
advocating some of these schemes which points
TO that very coniscation which he processes TO
oppose Do not, says Mr.. Morley, tax the
people TO DEATH you will not need
TO tax them TO death, if only you tax the right
people. And he talks of landowners who retain
land wanted for public for selfish pur-
poses of their own, and object TO sacrifice 0 per
cent of its value for public objects
Why a single individual should pay for one.
tenth Of the whole cost of public improvement
he omits TO explain His sympathy with labor
acknowledgement euphemism-carres him far
Wages are to his mind the great master-key of
social improvement; but at this point he parts
company with his radical friends. and once more
stouty condemns the Eight Hours law, against
which he argues with ingenuity and force. Either,
he says you mean 10 allow working overtime or
you do not If you do, your Eight Hours bill
is only wages bill You enact that extra pay
menu ior overtime shall begin at the
hihlh hour instead Of at the tenth.
you DO not, you either compel
employers 10 pay nine hours wages for eight
hours WORK. OF you peremptorily knock of eleven
per oenV IRON 1ne artisans pay. Don't you think
he Will be grateful for it? That question will,
however, In his view, have to be settled ultimately
as the artisans Wish But whatever they wish, he
win vote against compulsory Eight Hours legs-
laton. The courage Of all this is admirable
Mr. Morley has set himself against a great body
Of his Newcastle constituents: AGAINST the Radical