Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-29

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be matters Of 10 I'm kortance; but until
| this
IDEAL Is REACHED
It is your duty AMI mine 10 hold fast to
every safeguard. / need not say that
the question, the vitul and important
! question, of the retention of Irish MEM
! beers on the one hand and indefi-
| mite delay in granting full powers
| 10 an Irish legislature on the other
gave me great concern. The absence OF
| any provision for the settlement OF
| the agrarian question, of any policy on
| the part of the Liberal LEADERS, filled me
| with concern and apprehe nsion. On the
| Introduction OF the land purchase bill
| by the government at the commence
rnent of the last session, n orley Commune
| nirated with me as 10 the course to bd
adopted. Having regard to the avowee
absence Of any policy on the part of tn
| Liberal leaders and party with re-
gard to tine matter of the land bill !,
strongly advised Morley against any
| direct challenge of the principle of state
aided land purchase, holding that
hopeless struggle against the principal
measures should not be main tanned, that
We should
DIRECT OUR SOLE EFFORTS
in the second reading of the bill to settle
the principle of the local coutrOl. In
this, l am bound to say Morley entirely
| agreed with me, but he was at the same
time much hampered, and expressed his
sense of his position in that direction by
the attitude OF the extreme section
Of his party, led by MIR. La
bouchere. In subsequent IN
teryiew he impressed upon
me the necessity Of meeting the sec nd
reading of the bill with a direct negative
and asked me to undertake the notion.
agreed to this, but ouly on condition
that ! was not TO attack the principle OF
the measure, but to confine myself to
criticism of its details. l think this was
false strategy adopted out of regard to
English prejudices and radical peculiar
tiles. l did the best possible under
the circumstances and the several days
debate on the second reading contrasts
fnvorably with Labouchers's recent
abortive attempt to intersperse q d rect
negative to the first reading of q similar
bill yesterday. Time went on The gov
ernment allowed their attention to be dis
tracted from the question of land Dur-
chase by the till compromising English
publishers, and the agraran difficulty IN
Ireland was again
RELOCATED TO THE FUTURE
OF another session. Just before the COM
mencement of the session | was again
favored with another interview with
Morley. ! impressed upon him the folly
of this oblivIous method of procedure
with reference to the land bill and the
necessity and Importance of providing
for the question Of local control
and of limitation in the appli-
cation of funds. he agreed
with me and I offered to move on the
first reading of the bill an amendment in
favor of this local control, advising that
il this were rejected it might be left TO
the Radicals on second reading to oppose
the principle of the measure. This ap-
peared to be the proper course, and left
Morley under the impression that this
would fell to my duty, but in addition
he made me
A REMARKABLE PROPOSAL.
Referring TO the probable approaching
Victory of the Liberal party at the polls,
he suggested some con siderations as to
the future of the Irish party, and he
asked me whether l would be
willing TO assume the office
of thisf secretary for Ireland, or
whether l would allow another member
of my party to take the position. He
also put before me the desirability of
filling one of the law offices of
the crown in Ireland by a
legal number of my party.
| told him, amazed as I was at the pro-
posal, that could not agree to forfeit in
any way the independence of my party,
or any Of Its members; that the Irish
people had trusted me in this
movement. because they believed that
the declaration l had made
to them at Cork in 1880, was a true one,
REPRESENTED MY CONVICTION,
and that l would on no account depart
from 1t. ! considered that after the
declaration we had repeatedly made, the
proposal of Mr.. Morley that we woald
allow ourselves TO be absorbed into
English politics was one based upon
an entire misconception OF our
positian with regard to our Irish con- |
stltuencies aud of the pledges we had |
given. III conclusion he directed my at |
tention to the plan of campaign. He |
said that 1t would be impossible for the |
Liberal party, when is attained power,
to do anything for those evicted I
tenants by direct action and that it |
would also be impossible for an Irish !
parliament, under the powers conferred,
TO do anything for them, aud fiinging up |
his hands with q gesture Of despair he |
exclaimed, rHaving been i'll Tipperary, |
l do not know hat to propose in regard |
to the matter
told him this question was limited !
one. l did not see that he need
allow himself to be hampered by its
future consideration; that funds
would be available from America
and elsewhere for the support of those
tenants as long as might be necessary;
that of course l understood that it was a
but that it was limited one
and should not be allowed to interfere
with the
INTERESTS OF THE COUNTRY.
] alude TO this matter only because
within the last few days strong argu-
meut has been used to show that unless
fhe Liberals come in power at the next
election the plan oi-campnich tenants
will suffer. Sixteen years ago l con-
ceved the idea of an Irish parliamentary
party independent of all English parties.
Ten years ago l was elected leader of the
Irish parliamentary party.
During these ten years this party has re-
NAMED independent, and because
Of its independence, it has
forced upon the English people
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