The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-03-05
TORY BLUFF.
THE "IRISH W0RLDv rs TO BE
INVESTIGATED.
England Wants to Grab Hundred Miles
of Valuable Gold Mines in Alaska
Talk About Harrison's Address.

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by Gable to the United Press]
LONDON, March 5, 1s89.-From some of
the rumors now in circulation having their
origin in Tory circles it is to be inferred
that the Government intends to take a firm
attitude and adopt the motto, "Deny every
thing and trust to a revulsion of feeling"
Some persons who have been most con-
spicuous in the crusade against Parnell
may be quietly shelved, but the method of
combating the prevailing sentiment which
will undoubtedly be adopted is to depend
upon audacity.
Even Tories cannot deny that the Times
deserved to be punished for not having ex-
amined more closely the documents upon
which it relied to ruin Parnell, and if the
Times were the only sufferer, nobody
would feel bad over the affair; but there
are others who must be hard hit if some
effort is not made to divert the rapidly ap
preaching cyclone of retribution from its
course.
With that object in view, it is believed
that a programme will be outlined upon
the contention that Pigott was such a
conSummate liar that even his confession
of forgery and perjury cannot be believed.
Another trump card is to apply counter
irritant to occupy the British imagination.
The r1mor of a prospective difficulty with
a foreign power will be relied upon to
rouse national patriotism and cause the
Irish question to appear trifiing beside it.
1t is to this end that the enormous votes
for the increase of the navy will be granted
by a subservient majority.
To the long standing ill feeling concern
ing the fisheries question can now be
added a perplexing dispute of real inter
national Importance. The boundary line
between Alaska and the Dominion of
fyonodo xxraQ rp Haf1rifolxy TyI,i N ia
said, and Mr. Ogilvie, who was sent by
the Dominion Parliament to survey it
anew has happily found that 1t should be
defined nearly q hundred miles above
where it is placed on the United States
maps. This, of course, will give to the
Dominion the most valuable mine on the
Yukon river, if the Government at Wash
ington is of a corresponding opinion.
The question here arises as to why Her
Majesty'S Government was content with
the line wheh the territory belonged to
Russia and has only discovered it's incor-
rectness when the discovery of rich placers
and quartz veins which promise to prove
immensely valuable drew a swarm of
prospectors there. The gold diggers will
not be driven away without struggle,
for the British laws regulating and taxing
such persons are very strict.
1t is stated that O letter has come to
light in Madrid addressed to Ponsonby,
promise to pay the informer money. The
letter is said to contain important evil
dence concerning the responsibility for
Pigott's escape. 1t is remarked ominously
that Pigott committed suicide on Friday
in room No. Is.
of Mr.. Blaine's foreign policy in the Presi-
dents inaugural address, but doesn't
think the financial views expressed are
very clear.
The Standard regards the address as
disappointing, and evidently not written to
please the Anglo-Saxons on this side of the
Atlantic.
The Telegraph finds nothing alarming
in the address, but on the contrary a dis
position on the part of the new admins
tration to deal fairly with foreign nations
The Chronicle remarks that there is
nothing in it to enlist the sympathies of
Englishmen.
The Parnen Commission reassembled
this morning Sir Richard Wbster, the
Attorney General narrated the facts,
which have already been made bnown
about Pigott's communications to Lolicitor
Soames office from Madrid. The Attorney
General said that he now desired to
which related to the Irish World. Presid;
ing Justice Harmon decided that the fact
that the irish World raised money for the
Irish cause did not make the recipient of
the money responsible for the papers
articles, but it afforded an important
link of evidence regarding the distri-
button of newspapers melting to outrage.
The evidence submitted proved that be-
tween the years 1880 and 1881 copies of the
Irish World were sent out either directly
or indirectly from the offices of the Ma
tiona1 League in Dublin, and were found
in tbe possession of League officers. Evi-
dence on this point, therefore, was admis-
sible.
Upon application from the Parnellite
Counsel, the Court gave permission to Mr.
John Dillon to go to Australia.
Attorney General Webster then resumed
his reading from the irish World, articles
in reference to Mr. Michael Davitt, also
speech os Mr.. Dillon's urging the destruc-
tion of the police engaged in protecting
landlords.