Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-09
AnsExposure That Shows to What Extent
BalfOu. is Relieving the Dis
tress Of Thousands.
GLADsFOSYs GREAT CAMPAIGN CLOSED
4 Landlsay Who Has Bssn Pscunisrly Embarrassed
By the Corpse Of Young ohisasoaa
IN HG Eousa
ROYAL KISSES ToR TIE zARTvITCH
rsr CABLE TO THE D1srATcH.l


LONDON, November S.-[Copyright J.
Mr.. Balfour has reappeared this week in his
much applauded character of Daniel in the
lions den. he has been to Donegal and
has returned to Dublin unharmed and very
proud of his courage, and more than ever
convinced Of his omniscience. His pro-
ceedure in Donegal was very similar to that
followed in Connemara, except that he
made more speeches and that the people an
noyed him at many places by cheering for
Gladstone, Parnell, Dillon and O'Brien.
He was very profuse in promises and very
confident OF his ability to deal with the
threatened distress, but it has again to be
recorded that not a single sod of any of the
promised relief works has yet been turned.
No one, not even the most hardened Tory,
has dared to deny that dire distress already
prevails in Donegal. Yet, the landlords in
the Gweedore district in that county have,
with incredible brutality, decided to evict
next week no fewer than 200 persons.
A Scheme That VIII Fail.
There is a good reason to believe that this
inclement season OF the year has been de-
hberately selected in the hope that the work
may be done without the undesirable and
much-feared presence of English spectators;
but the coyardly plan has been detected
and will fail. Mr.. Morton, N. p, the En-
glish Secretary of the Home Rule Union,
has appealed to such of his countrymen who
have the leisure to paw a visit to Gweedore
next week, and the appeal is likely to be en-
tirely successful, as it deserves to be. Mr..
O'Brien and the other members of the Irish
mission, when this news reaches them, will
probably tell the American people some
thing Of the past scenes of terror and of
brutal and Illegal outrages upon the poor
peasants at Falcsrragh and Gweedore, re-
currence OF which, it is hoped, will be pre-
vented next week by the moral influence
exerted by the mere presence of British
spectators here.
1t is sufficient to place on record the in
disputable facts that whatever has been the
value of the tenants holdings, it has been
created by themselves or their predecessors,
the landlords having expended nothing
upon them, and that in the very district in
which these shameless evietions are to take
place. the potato crop has failed more COM
pletely than in any other part of Ireland.
GIadstone's Campaign Closed.
Mr.. Gladstone is at home again none
he worse for the labors OF his great
political campaign. The last speech of
the series delivered at the Carlisle
railway station was q passionate appeal for
the dissolution of Parliament, in the course
of which the Grand Old Man supported his
demand by singularly opposite quotation
from q speech made by Lord Salisbury in
1884, when the Liberals were in power and
the Tories fondly believed the country was
with them. The noble Marquis said:
The dissolution Of Parliament is the only ap-
peal which the people have against Prime
Minister who is not acting according to their
wish. A Prime Minister has no right TO oppose
his will and say the people may storm and OBJ
1ect and may think my course is wrong; but so
long as / can control the majority in House of
Commons elected under my auspices and con-
trolled by my machinery, SO long will not per-
INIT an appeal TO the people against myself.
TIE Grand Old Man assured the Tories that
he spoke for their good, because the longer
dissolution was DELAYED the more smashing
their defeat would be. But they show no
disposition to swallow his prescription.
There has even been talk this week of an in fall
lible method bv which the Tory Government
may be Kept in Office until 1898, and it is
known that at the Cabinet Council held
yesterday the Ministers approved of the new
scheme for gagging the Liberals during the
coming Parliamentary session