New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-10-25
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.,.,,, 1891. BY The Tribune Association

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,so, Rv The Tribune AssseiGtton
Dot 24-The Mon7a interviews con-
IT, - he the topic of discussion OF Ia'neI VI
Wv. and all sorts OF queer stories are puu
rs o'ss The queercst of all Is ohe Soou' .,lln
liseo' nsr circulated in Rome among few
sA", containing what NJ. de Giers saio TO inc
Fr - Italy. There is no suncien' eNHenoo
hMs authenticity of this document puV IL
o. u M enough. and not at all lmprooaele' Ci'V
r'uS,Y nss.i.n Foreign Minister endeavored 10 ne
ne .hs impor,ance of the Franco-Russian am
HuH ' Tc.ore seems to he one Frenchman VINO mas
NV 49,. his head over that business, NJ baI-
not ~o' :, Uilaire. Thierss friend, who declares
DE- -StonaI shame that France should Piace hei-
- the wake Of an Aslauc POWER
Ns Is cast. Mr.. Balfour is to be FIRST Loru
~. Tr.asnry and Leader of the House of Com
1Ie will remain Irish Secretary fortnlen'
nOD0 Meantime his successors name Is hei"
- +berc seems little doubt that Mr..
T-.l,,on will he the man.
's'A'S- leading Cnionist why they were so
! NN. ss@'I .rsr this change. and why they looked
InO"su' ,icbt heart at the abandonment of Ire
% ~ - ,be one man who had shown that he could
ff
g. o., at is necessary, first of al" said me-
poiI's' .As nartv together in the House Of Com
"a Mr.. Balfour is the only man who can
nOe :. comnarison with that necessity, the
:" great policy and the pacitication OF n
n0Os1 &c nothing. Sir Edward Clark, the
General gave a rather crude expression
,,.,r saving that Mr. BalfOurs leadership
:, So Honse would he worth twenty seats TO the
..,+v in the next general election.
FI.,a Hsrtineton's letter TO the Bury meeting
-. A. tbe notion that the Liberal Unionists
,,'sroS Mr. Ralfour's appointment as Leader of
-. Hone of Commons. The Gladstonlans' VINO
.p always spying some rift in the alliance DE-
tween the Tories and Liberal Unlonlsts, nave
knitted that Lord Harrington wanted to De Leader
himself. or that his friends wanted him 70 De-
fnp notion is ludicrous TO anybody who knows
Lord Harrington, or knows what is going on IN
politics
Mr. Balfour,s speech at Bury was devoted
IN fact to Kidding once more the oft-rldoleo
Newcastle programme for most Of which, says
Mr. Baltour. Mr.. Gladstone evidently does not
carr one straw. But Mr.. Gladstone has now
reached a point when he is ready to open his
mind TO any proposal behind which Mr.. Schnad-
horst thinks there are votes. Mr.. Balf0ur's name
for the Newcastle list of political odds and enos
Is the variety programme lie has to 90 to the
music halls for suitable description of the Glao-
stonian platform Nevertheless. he discusses with
sufficient seriousness this heterogeneous collection
Of items.
There is something in one Of his speeches which
sounds as if the speaker felt that new Tesponsl-
bities had been laid on him 1t is his first public
deliverence since he became, or since it was set
tied that he is to become First Lord of the Treas
TRY.
A Gladstonian organ has made the remarkable
discovery that Lord Salisbury is Prime Minister
Dnly in name, and that henceforth Mr.. Ballour
will be Prime Minister in substance though not in
form. These are the humors which relieve the
,ridty of politics. They are the more humorous
because the humOr is unconscious, like Mr.. Lewis
lorris's, when he told constituency he has been
xoong that if they rejected him it could only
,e because they were below the intellectual aver
.Ce Mr. Lewis Morris long since persuaded him
elf that he was poet. and he is now not less
lmly convinced that he is a politician.
Mr.. Gladstone has az last been made TO see that
bis persistent indifference to the claims Of the
agricultural labOrer is political mistake. lie Is
coming 10 London next month TO take part IN
conference upon the condition Of this interesting
political factor, and to this tune his organ blows
me of its loudest blasts. The men who have
eally done something for HOdge--he is here called
Hodge without any slur-are Mr.. Joseph Arch,
who discovered him; Sir George Trevelyan who
toiled for years 10 put vote IN his hand,-Mr.
Gladstone locking cOldly on almost to the end;
Mr. Chamberlain, whose every programme had
place in it for the rural worker; and Mr.. Jesse
Ceilings, himself the grandson of an agricultural
hbOrer, who has given his life and fortune In his
service and who never. as Mr.. Chamberlain re-
marked this week at Sunderland, got anything
from Mr.. Gladstone but snubs and sneers for his
pains
Down to 1888 Hodge had no vote. The strength
H bis vote is now great nobody knows quite
Low great, certainly over million. lie becomes,
therefore, the pet Of the politician. Mr. Schnad-
horst long since reckOnc. him up. and at least
two bye-electons were won by lavish and most
Inscriptions promises TO him. which the Glad
sonlsn party neither will nor can fulfil And
row Mr.. Gladstone himself, who could give points
any day 10 Mr.. SchnadhOrst as an electioneering
agent, opens his arms TO him. He will have the
valuable aid of Sir Charles Dixie, whose hopes
u eentry into public life turn on rank Socialism
Ihe conference is TO consider, and presumably
" advocate first, the establishment of parish
c'anclIs the latest panacea Of the social reformer
ecOno- Increased powers 10 the social authorities
acquire land with public money, not for allot-
I'HH cpy, but for small holdings, village halls,
oaapel& hborers' dwellings and for other purposes
"I'A now the fashion 10 call public. Finally
81 quote now from the authorized texts to come
'''''n Of existing allotment acts by the removal
'S'fctions, and by giving g2curity Of tenure
.M .-S power TO erect buildings with the right Of
-1n comEeasation for all improvements Thus
G not otherwise is the millennium Of agricultural
=, ,Oof 70 arrive, and these are the points which Mr.
.tI4auS'ohe' to whom nearly all Socialism is really
''u0'rent is prepared 10 advocate.
=. VI, u, chamberlain made a speech at Sunderland
Va wednesday, which has reused the Gladstonian
''ssn 70 fury lie is told that he is. or was.
''"oical because he is not Lord, that his
.,iesnees TO Mr.. Gladstone are disgraceful, that
1i'Ie something worse Than meanncss and lack