Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-19
will be Fully Discussed by Gladstone in
Another of His Great 0ratorical
Campaigns.
0BRIEN AND DILLON LlONlzED
Paris Treats Them Royalty, whls the Report that
Inglsnd Hss Asked for Their Extra
dition d Denied
BRToNs LOSING THEIR LOYAL sfIkF
rsr CABLE TO THE DIsPATcHI

Balfour addressed the Tories at Newcastle
last evening in speech which lasted 30
minutes and might, with much advantage,
have been considerably eartailed, for al
though good debater, the Irish Secretary
is not an orator.
The speech had she merit of being to some
extent apologetic, and Balfour actually con-
descended to reply to one or two minor
charges which have been brought against
his administration of Ireland, but he was
clearly unable to justify his prolonged ab-
sence from his post and could think of moth
ing better than the good old rhetorical de-
vice of falling on mis- dignity.
During the most troubled weeks of this
year the Chief Secretary, Lord Lieutenant,
Lord Chancellor and the Permanent Under
Secretary were all absent from ireland, and
the administration was left in virtually ir-
responsible hands, guided by an occasional
telegram from Balfour, who was playing
golf in Scotland.
Balfour's Explanation.
But, according to the Tory view of duties
and responsibilities, there is nothing repre-
hensible in such state of things, and Bal
four last night declared that 1t was beneath
his dignity to explain how or where he
spends his time. He gives certain orders
which are executed by officers who can do
4ha hn
$4,000 year must take his word that they
get tull value for the money. That is Bal
four's argument in brief, and his dignity
will not permit him to elaborate it.
1t IS c. mforung to know that this new
theory of political morality will be sub
jected to analysis next week by Mr.. Glad
stone, who has to-day started on another of
his great oratorical campaigns. He will
remain in Liverpool over Sunday and start
for Scotland Monday morning. His
speeches are looked forward to with extraor-
dinary interest and are expected to have
important results.
Gladstone on the Tariff.
Gladstones remarks will be more varied
than usual, as, in addition to questions of
purely home policy, they will include an
impeachment of the Turkish Government
for its cruelty to the Armenians and de-
fense and exposition of free trade principles
apropos of the Mckinley tariff. The Grand
Old Man has been of late bombarded with
pamphlets and letters from economic here
tics, and has been reused to scornful indig-
nation by speeches by obscure Tory men,
bers Of Parliament and by editorials in the
Tory newspapers, all predicting England's
ruin unless it be averted by retaliatory
measures against the United States.
Mr.. Gladstone, the friend of Golden, has
no sympathy with or tolerance of such
"damnable heresies," and as he will GER
tainly speak out his mind next week, the
speeches should be particularly interesting
to Americans. Balfour's speech at New
castle put his Tory auditors into frenzy of
enthusiasm, being iull Of jibes and sneers at
his political opponents in general and Glad
stone and Morley in particular. The Irish
magistrates and police were paraded as just
men, doing honorable duty, courageously
and Loyalty, while the Right Honorable
John Morley was accused of consorting
with criminals and inciting to lawlessness
and violence.
O'Brien and Dillon Lionized,
The election for the Eecles division of
Lancashire will take place next Wednesday.
The seat is Tory one. and the home rule
question had no effect one way or the other
in sc. By the rules of political mathe-
matics the Tory ought to win now by
slightly increased majority. 1t will be a
striking phenomenon indeed should the
Liberal candidate be elected and the Tory
majority be considerably reduced.
Messrs. O'Brien and Dillon are being
lionized in Paris and the report that the
British Government had asked for their ex-
tradition is an absurd invention. They
will sail from Havre in the Champagne
next Saturday in company with other men,
bers of the mission. Mr.. J. luke, the good
old Quaker who helped to administer the
famine funds in ireland in 1861 and
1890, has communicated to the Times the
results of his recent inquiries. He is conf
dent that there is no danger of a general
famine and is apprehensive that evil may
follow the indiscriminate distribution of
money from America or England. But in
certain districts of Donegal, Mayo, Galway,
Kerry and Cork the Government will have
to interfere actively to provide work for the
people and use every means in its power to
avert or minimize the distress.
No Government Help.
But this is precisely what is not being
doue Not one oF the much-vaunted nnblio
works promised by the Government has yet
been commenced, and some of the districts
by Mr.. luke has not been in
cluded In the official schemes. Mr.. Balfour
says be has received many exhaustive re-
ports, but be has not yet acted upon them,