Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-02
The Irish Land Question and the
Locsl Government Bill Cannot
Both be Settled Now.
one OF TIE Tws MUST BE DROPPED.
RSlisar Rssarrs Aissr Hs Lightning Tour Thrcugh
fGnt1s strickN Payts Of Ireland
IMPRESSED With
A pEsRI 70 RusH TIE WORK or RELIEF
rzI CABLE TO THE DIsPATcH.I


The lesson taught by the great home rule
victory at Eccles has evidently been taken
TO heart both by the Tories and the Lib
ersl Unionlsts. The former have become
more cautious in their public utterances.
and the dependency of the latter is fast
degenerating into despair.
Lord Harrington, speaking a! Edinburgh
to-day, expressed the opinion unless the
Unionists put more yigor into their work
their cause would be lost at the next general
election, and the value of this admission
may be estimated by the undeniable fact
that at Eccles the Tories and their mug
Sump allies labored with the energy of
desperation.
Harrington Restive.
harrington is apparently becoming restiv e
in the Tory harness. Perhaps he has been
struck by the personal applicability Of
Lord Beacon1eld's remark quoted in the
Liberal press about the Wings playing a
Tory game. AT any rate be has practically
called upon the Government to bring in a
Government bill for Ireland the next ses-
sion, measure which was promised in 1886
as a Tory-Unionist alternative for home
rule and coercion. But the Government is
solemnlv pledged to settle the Irish land
question first, and only this afternoon in
Dublin BaIfour renewed the pledge to n
depuIation OF land owners.
The Government is in tight place. Both
measures cannot possibly be passed in one
session, and decision will soon have to be
taken as to which one shall be dropped.
Sacrifices for Peace.
The Irish land owners are so used to being
kicked, and have SO few friends that it is
not improbable that they may be sacrificed
at the eleventh hour in order to appease the
Unionist discomfort.
Another Unionist leader, Mr.. Courtney,
Deputy Speaker OF the House of Commons,
has been kicking over the traces. His view
is that the land bills should be passed first
and that a modified form of home rule
should follow tne settlement of the Agrarian
question. Courtney, however, is pro fes-
uonal politician, whose utterances just now
are interesting, chiefly because they indicate
what carpetbaggers think of the political
prospects. He. clearly sees that the days of
the Government are numbered, and is hard
at work getting his sails into proper trim
for a change in the wind. He has been
among his constituents in Cornwall this
week bewailing the Tipperary prosecution
and limiting at full penitence for his
political sins.
Opposition to Courtney.
T,,4 Al o. ,.,,l,, l..
% absolve him, and last night, after listen
ing TO a long speech in which Courtney
soGght to explain and defend his conduct,
they passed q vote of want of confidence In
the Right Honorable renegade,
Unfortunately the vote has no legal effect
and Courtney will retain his seat until the
general election. he is no more likely to
resign voluntarily than Mr.. De Lisle, Tory
member Of Leicestershire, who within the
past week has addressed five meetings OF
electors in five different districts in his con-
Etituency, at each of which a resolution of
confidence in him was rejected and an
amendment carried calling upon him to re-
Eign, and expressing disgust and abhor-
renee of the present Tory Government and
its coercion of Ireland and of her patriot
Hons and daughters"
Tories After Churchill
What the Tories think of their prospects
Is clearly shown by the facts that they are
already approaching Lord Randolph
Churchill with a view to Offering him the
leadership OF the party In the opposition,
and that Sir William Marriott, member of
the Government has publicly asked why it
should commit suicide by dissolving Par
lisment and appealing to the country
Mr.. Balfour has returned to Dublin after
his lightning tour in the west of Ireland,
impressed with the urgent necessity of
hurrylng on the promised relief works. He
did not go near some of the most distressed
districts, but he saw enough to convince him
that an enormous responsibility rests upon
him to avert, ii not the famine Che refuses
to admit iD, at least widespread suffering.
After the first two days, finding the poor
people were peaceful peasants instead of
numbering mooulghters, Mr.. BaIiour left
his police officers behind him and went
about unprotected.
Praises for Balfour.
Now that he is back in Dublin the Tory
newspapers are nraising his unexamplei
bravery, and are seeking to make political
capital out of the courteous behavior of the
people, on the assumption apparently that
because he was not shot at or pelted with
ofsl. the Connemara farmers had abiured
home rule.
The suggestion first appeared in all its i'm
pudent nakedress the day Balfour left Gal
yav on his return to Dublin, and the towns
people promptly responded to it by as.
senbline at the railway station and cheer
ing Justify and continuously for o'Brien,
Dillon and Morley until the train steamed
away.
Work on the relief railways has not yet