St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-11-29

The integrity, number and independ-
ence of the Irish party will be a matter
of no Importance. But until this ideal
is reached it is your duty and niue to
hold fast to every safeguard. | need
not say that the question, the vital
question, of the retention of the Irish
members on one hand and indefinite de-
lay in granting full powers to an Irish
legislature on the other, gave me great
concern. The absence of anv provision
for the settlement of the agraran ques-
tlon-of any pOlicy-on the part OF the
leaders, filled me with concern and ap-
prehenSion. On the introduction OF the
land purchase bill by the government at
the commencement of the last session,
Mr.. Morley communicated with me as to
the course to be adopted. Having regard
to the avOyed absence of any policy
on the part of the Liberal Leaders and
party with regard to the matter of the
land bill, l strongly advised MI. Nor
ley against any direct challenge of the
| principle of state-aided land purchase,
and finding that the fears and alarm of
the English taxpayers as to state aid by
hypOthecation Of grants for local pur-
poses in Ireland as counter guarantee
had been asSuaged, that the hopeless
struggle against the principle of the
measure should not be maintained, and
that we should direct our sole efforts, on
the second reading of the bill, to the as
Sertion of the principle of local control.
In this, am bound to say, Mr.. Morley
entirely agreed with me, but he was at
the same time much hampered, and eX-
pressed his sense of his position i'll that
direction by the attitude of the extreme
section of his party. led by
MIR. LabOuchere
and in q subsequent interview he I'M
pressed upon me the necessity of meet
Ing the second reading of the bill with
a direct negative, and asked me to un-
dertake the motion. l agreed to this,
but simply OH condition that was not
to attack the principle of the measure,
but to cOnfine myself to criticism of the
details. / think his was false strategy,
but it was the strategy adopted out of
regard to English peculiaritieS. I did
the best possible under the circum-
stances, and the several days debate on
the second reading contrasts favorably
with Mr.. LabOuchere'S recent abortive
attempt to interpose direct negative to
the first reading of similar bill
yesterday. Time went on, the gov
ernment allowed its attention
to be distracted from the question of
land purchase by bill compensating
English publicans, and the agrarlan
difficulty in Ireland was again relegated
TO the future of another session. Just
before the commencement of this seS-
sion | was again favored with another
interview with Mr.. Morley. impressed
upon him the policy of an oblque
method of procedure with reference to
land Purchase, and the necessity and
Importance Of providing for the ques-
tion of local control and of limitation in
the application of funds. He agreed
with me. and | offered TO move on the
first reading of the bill an amendment
in favor OF this local control, advising
that if this were rejected it might be
left TO the Radicals on the second read
ing to oppose the principle of the meas
ure. This appeared TO be
The Proper Course,
and L left Mr.. Morly under the i'm
preston that this would fall to my
duty, but i'll addition he made me re-
markable proposal. Referring to the
probable approaching victory of the
Liberal party at the polls, he suggested
some considerations as to the future of
the Irish party, and he asked me
whether l would be willing to assume
the Office of chief secretary for Ireland,
or whether l would allow another mem
Der OF my party to take the position. He
also put before me the deSirabilty of
filling one of the law Offices of the crown
in Ireland by a legal member of my
party. told him, amazed as | was at
the proposal. that l could not agree to
forfeit in any way the independence
of the party or any of its mem
bers; that the Irish people had
irst9a BECAUSE s of the deciaraion T 0Ve@eat teat
| had made to them in Cork in 1880 was
a true one. and represented my con-
viction, and that would on no account
depart from it. / considered that after
the declaration we had repeatedly
made, the proposal of Mr.. Morley that
we should allow ourselves to be ab-
sorbed into
English Politics
was one based upon an entire miscon-
ception of our position with regard to
our Irish constituencies, and of the
pledges we had given. In conclusion
he directed my attention to the plan of
campaign estates. He said that it
would be impossible for the Liberal
party when it attained power 10 do any
thing for these cvicted tenants by direct
action, and that it would also be impos-
sible for the Irish parliament un-
der the powers conferred to
do anything for them, and,
f1inging up his hands with gesture of
despair. he exclaimed: Having been
in Tipperary. do not know what to
propose in regard to the matter" told
him this question was a limited one;
that l did not see that he need allow
himself to be hampered by it's future
consider alton; that funds would he
available from America and elsewhere
for the support of those tenants as
long as might be necessary; that, of
I hot
Guilty, but that it was limited one and
shonld not be allowed to interfere with
the general interests of the country. |
allude to this matter only because within
the last few days strong argument in
many minds for my expulsion has been
that unless the Liberals come into power
at the next general election, the plan of
campaign tenants will suffer. AS have
| shown,
The Liberals
propose to do nothing for the plan of
campaign tenants by direct action when
| they come into power, but am entitled
| to ask that the existence of these ten
| ants, WnOm l have supported IN eyerY
way i'll the past, and whom shall con-
tinue 10 support in the future, shall not
constitute reason for my expulsion
| from Irish politics. | have repeatedly
pledged my self to stand bv these evicted
tenants and that they shall not be al
lowed to suffer, and l believe that the
Irish people throughout the world will
support me in this policy. Sixteen years
ago L conceived the idea of an Irish par
liamentary party, independent of all
l was elected leader of the
| independent Irish parliamentary
party. During these ten years this
| party has remained independent, and
because of its independence it has
forced upon the English people the
necessity of granting home rule to Ire
land. l believe that the party will OBJ
tain home rule only provided that it re-
mains independent of any English
party. do not believe that any action
of the Irish people in supporting me
will endanger the home rule cause OF
postpone the establishment of an irish
| parliament. But even if the danger