New-York tribune., 1890-04-06


will acauesce in that verdict and Home Rule will
disappear from the Gladstonian platform. Lord
Rosebery is commonly supposed to be as deep in
Mr. Gladstone's confidence as anybody 1t might
| be rash TO infer that he is speaking for Mr..
Gladstone; but he is at any tate speaking for
himself and he does in substance declare that he.
for his part will accept decision against Home
Rule as final if again pronounced by the country
| as whole. He goes further, for he bases on
this belief in the settlement of the Irish question
the further belief that after this election the Lib
| cral party is to be reunited Such opinion,
| expressed by man in Lord Rosebery's position.
high in the party councils and designated by Mr..
Gladstone as his successor, cannot be lightly
dismissed. The English Home Rule organs ac-
cordngy do not dismiss 1t. lightly or otherwise.
but they have thus far ignored it. They neither
affirm nor deny. nor has any voice been heard
from st. Jamess Square, where MIR. Gladstone
is immured, much engaged. say the faithful. in
| literary occupations.
But in Dear Old Scotland itself voices are
heard The chief Gladstonan organ in Edn-
burch-a paper started TO preach the pure ad-
stonian gospel-is The Scottish Leader" not u
very powerful sheet Such as il is it repudiates
Lord Rosebery, tells him that Liberalism is not
an empty name rcpels the idea of reuniting with
the Liberal Unionists, and declares that the aues-
| tion that divides tie two wings of the Liberal
party is a question of morals. by reason of CO.
ercion if nothing else The Liberal Unionst
Scotsman" on the other hand describes Lord
Roseberys speech as one irradiated with genius
1t appreciates its genuine feeling and accepts
his faith in reunion itself guarantee of the
essential unity of a party temporarily torn asun-
der. The whole incident is full Of suggestivcness.
The Scottish Leader represents. doubt. a
section of the Gladstonan party and expresses that
sentiment of sulen estanGcment from its old allies
which the section does cherish. But il need not
be believed that this section is majority, or
that Lord Roscbcrys view, founded on good sense
and good feeling. will not prevail at the end
Lord Randolph Churchill. from amid the clear
skies of the Parliamentary holidays. has launched
another thundcrbot at the Ministry The
Morning Post Of Thursday published n letter
two columns and half long. in which he attacks
the Land Purchase bill with his usual point and
vigor This is but the first of a series Of three.
He presses upon the party the danger Of measure
which proposes TO bring the great mass OF Irish
tenants in direct relation to the State as
debtors. You planning. he SAYS in substance.
TO thrust upon Ireland boon which Ireland does
not want, in the face Of warnings which WISE
Minister would neglect. He quotes Lord Ash
bourne. Lord George Hamilton. Mr. Goschcn and
Mr.. Balfour himself all Ministers against the
policy now proposed. He quotes Mr.. Chamber
lain also Mr. Gladstone and Mr.. Dillon. and finally
| Mr.. Parne who warned England only last De
cember that if she chose to advance money for
such purchase Ireland might accept it. but would.
when a convenient moment came. disown the
debt and have power to resist its payment. That
is Lord Randolph's justification for an argument
| based on the assumption that Irish tenants are
dishonest that public opinion in Ireland is ripe
| for reputation, and that no bargain can be
made which the Irish can be trusted 10 keep
| This view Lord Randolph enforces in his second
| letter, which appears this morning This second
e tier is partly devoted to setting forth the lusory
nature Of the contingent securities by which the
| Ministry expect TO secure the Exchequer against
loss, should the thirty-three millions advanced not
be repaid. In event" says Lord Randolph, " Of
some 10000 tenant State debtors successfully
| re repudiating payment 10 the State Of eight and
half million dollars yearly, National education in
Ireland is TO be arrested local government is 10 be
impeded and impaired TO the extent Of half million
sterling yearly, paupers are neither TO be housed
nor fed asylums are to he closed salaries OF local
officials are 10 be unpaid. making and repair Of
roads and bridges 10 he stopped and all
other local purposes are 70 be interfercd with
The State would have 10 carry out three opera
tions simultaneously: recover It's debts enforce
|
and exact and collect from great districts direct
tax in reimbursement Of It's loss OF reni-thrce
impossibiiics, says Lord Randolph. But be has
land scheme Of his own, which he Will set out
next week The Unionist press Of London mus
far takes little or no notice Of these powerful
letters.
For what port Lord Randolph is now making
it is not easy 10 see clearly. He has renouhced
all hope of rc-cntcring the present Ministry ana
so far as they are concerned he nines away
the scabbard He contcnted himself when The
Parncll Commission was proposed with private
written protest 10 the First Lord OF the Treasury
They paid no attention 10 that. II he speaks IN
the House he has 10 rely on cheers from the up
position benches; nor can he speak for some 'linc
10 come on this subject. so, he evidently be-
licves this Land Purchase bill fraught with mis-
chief TO the party and the country, hc appeals 10
the party and the country through the press.
The IIomc-Rucrs look on happily as signs Of
disscnsion in the Tory ranks become visible
They quote "Thc Dublin Express landlord
organ, against the bill. if the hostility Of that
paper decisive, crying out: Neither ten
ants landlords want your bill, and there
is no public opinion in Ireland in favor OF the
measure But one Of their organs has
shrewdly pointed ont that the interests of The
Express" and the landlords are not identical. II
is for the interest Of the landlords to get out OF
Ireland with as much money as they can. II Is
not for the interest of the organ they support that
they should 20.
After Ayr, Windsor: marking still more clearly |
the melancholy fact that Mr.. Gadstonc's howins |
tide" is on the cbb Well. the tide cannot always |
be flowing tide. The Liberals did not really |
expect to win Windsor, though some OF them said |
things that sounded dangerously like It, What |
they did expect was 10 reduce the Tory majority. |
They had an ideal candidate in Mr.. GTcniell, while
Mr.. Barry, who carried the Tory flag. was not |
above the average. The end Of il all is that |
the Tory majority has gone up from 400 to 800.
The sole consolation Of the Gladstonlan organ |
is TO hint that the Tories bribed a thing the |
virtuous Liberals could not do
Mr. Gladstone. finding that his attacks on the |