Omaha daily bee., 1890-01-04
OTHER THAN OURS.

pCnuS on tue lives OF Individual SVatesnlen
far advanced in years. The death OF Mr..
Gladstone, Of Prince Bismarck, OF SiVnor
Crispi, and of Senior Sagasta would be the
signal for Il reconstruction of parties, II not
OF political programmes. in their respective
countries. Should MIR. Gladstone's health
permit him to remain for another twelve
month tho leader of the opposition, the pro
cess of welding all sections of his following
into a radical party will have been well.nigh
completed, and tho Irish movement for home
rule will have been brought nearer triumph
by being merged into a prospectus of reforms
urgently demanded by all the friends of
progress in Great Britain. 1t is not, indeed,
to he expected that so long as Mr..
Gladstone lives Lord Salisbury will
dissolve parliament, until he Is compelled
to do so by the approaching close of its stat
utory term. Meanwhile MIR. Balfour will
end eavor to create differences of interest be-
tween the Irish nationalist leaders and their
principal supporters by gratifying the desire
of the Irish hierarchy for the state endow-
mcnt Of a Catholic college, and by introduc.
ing a land purchase scheme calculated to
transform a large part of the Irish tenantry
into peasant proprietors. On the other
hand, should the advocates of Irish self
government have the misfortune TO lose Mr..
Gladstone, while the fusion of old wings like
Lord Granville. of liberals like Sir G.. o.
Trevelyan. aud of radicals like Mr.. Brad
laugh is still imperfect, Lord Salisbury
would doubtless seize the occasion to invite
the verdict of the country in the hopes of Sc
curing a renewed lease of power. When we
bear in mind that neither Lord Rosebery,
nor Mr.. Morley, nor Sir William Harccurt
would be cheerfu!ly accepted as u leader by
all factions of the Gladstonian party: aud
That Mr.. Labouchcre and MIR. Bradlaugh are
more distinctly out of the question:; we per-
ceive how profoundly Mr., Gladstone's disap-
pearapce from the public stage must modify
the whole political situation IN Great Britain.
~
The question Of home rule for Scotland is
likely to be among the. most important that
will be agitated at the approaching session
of the British parliament. There can be no
doubt that today, outside of the ecclesias-
teal system of patronage, Scotland is su fer
ing from great abuses which aft Jct her both
industrially aud commercially. The S.ots'
law differs materially from the English, and
the appellate jurisdiction of the house Of
lords is, therefore, an anomaly, the unwise
decisions of which bear far reaching results.
National education in Scotland has been of q
high order ever since the days OF John
Knox. Every taxpayer considers himself
responsible for the maintenance of the par.
ish school and the s~choolmaster; but with a
Scottish educational board sitting in Lon
don, under the thumbs of the English min.
listers, so many restrictions now surround
education that there is not the same hunger
for it among the Scottish people. The uni
versities OF Scotland have always been IN
close touch with liberal thought and popular
~feelinu. hut ehoy haya never henn able To
secure the smallest grant from the barlla'
ment at Westminster, and have had to rely
upon the bounty OF patriotic Scotsmen. A
these things. and many others that affect in
dustrial and social conditions, are pressing
for a settlements; and the enterprising spirit
the prudence, indomitable perseverance, the
keen intelligence and liberal culture of the
Scottish people entitle their grievances t.
that hearing which has been so long de
layed.
The Spanish ministry has resigned, an,
, Sagasta will endeavor to form a new min
istry. This is the outcome of a scheme t
run Sagasta into a corner by ambitious o
; rather rebellious lieutenants. These SINAI
+ men, taking advantage Of the unsettled feel
Abb " Nah"BS " ~ -
r turn of the throneless Dom Pedro, are sulk
: ing IN their tents. The policy of the priin'
minister is sound, ana he is carrying out hi
programme with all the courage and dash o
, a radical. He stands, above all, for universe
: suffrage, which his liberal supporters hav'
j adopted. They, however, confuse the issu
+ by their military and other reforms. TIL
avowed republicans of Spain, or as they ca
n themselves the democratic progressist RI
: publicans, are watching an opportunity t
, call Gorilla from his Punishment at Paris t
head a revolutionary movement. II will nc
enter Spain,'' says Gorilla, until nationi
sovereignty is established, that is, until
Q republic Is proclaimed or AT least such demo
Q cratic reforms are introduced by the MOI
l archy as will make the advent Of a republi
n a mere question of time and opportunity.
4 The republican sentiment has grown sin(
>. these words were spoken, but it Is difficult
tell whether the sentiment OF popular go
eminent by revolution or by slow stages
. development is gaining the more rapid,
u The conservative republlcanism of the OLE
o quent and far sighted CASTELAR, still holds /,
place in Spanish politics.
r ~
q The curious persistence of France in couI
ling the conversion of Egypt's debt vii
!, the military occupation of the country /
= England has already cost the khedive
- government a large sum and is likely to co
u much more. The compromise she now su
q gests is that instead of demanding Engli:
n evacuation of Egypt as the price of her col
l. sent to the financial scheme, she will slmp
l. ask that any money saved by paying | p
# cent less interest on the part of the de
a converted shall be expended upon the Egy
tiau army, with a view to its being subst
:. tuted for British troops as far as possibl
~ Tho English government might reply tn
u long ago it proposed to withdraw the
a troops at specified future times, and tn
France then refused IN the singular groui
that she would thereby be asserting TO Il
wrong of Engiand's past occupation
Egypt. Yet taal that arrangement be-
m made a large part pr the prescribed intery
-, would already have elapsed. Frances !
10 fusal turned QUITO be fortunate, since II
VI Arab attacks at Saukin and on the Nj
l. have shown how incompetent Egypt is
TO get along for the present without Britt
IN military assistance. This assistance, Il
must obviously be rendered, not as Fran
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