New-York tribune., 1891-05-24

macy he defined 10 be, not party hoStnlty, DuJ
publicity. When l conclude treaty." said the
English Foreign Minister. of course desire that
my fellow-subiects shall approve it. But desire
| no less ardenty that they shall abstain from
saving so' The reason is that exultation at home
4 means distrust and resentment abroad. and con-
| versey I'VE must do our utmost that our ex-
preston of opinion on foreign affairs should be
little as possible tainted with party prepossesions,
I because words that are uttered with but slight
| effect at home have intense effect abroad"
! Icommend that sentence the testimony of one OF
the first of living experts, TO the purveyos of SLAM
ders on American statesmen and libels on American
policy for consumption in Europe. Their attacks
on Mr. Blaine continue, but with difference.
Last week Mr. Dalziel assured his English readers
that Mr. Blaine was physically wreck. This week
he tells them that he has all along been shammng
illness The bewildered Briton asks anxiously
which story he is to believe, and whether the Mr..
Dalzel of Monday is worthy of credence
! than the Mr. Dalzel of Saturday, whom he contra
! diets But his perpeXities do not end here. The
| Mr. Dalzie of Monday who denies the Mr.. Dalzel
of Saturday is the same Mr.. Daziel who on Tues
day set aoat another Blaine story, which fourth,
yet still the same, Mr. Dalziel refutes Thursday.
| On Tuesday Mr.. Blaine malngering because his
! ambitious plans had been subjected to the biting
frost of President Harrison's cold calculations Be-
tween him and the President everything seemed to
be at an end. and he had with difficulty been pre-
vented from resigning his office. On Thursday,
though they still differed about the close time to
seals, the delay of the President in taking action
the matter is undoubtedly due to the illness of
Mr.. Blaine" Finally, this morning Mr.. Dalziel
sends long rigmarole purporting to be Wash
ington dispatch TO q New-York paper, announcing
the collapse of Mr.. Blaine's faculties with q
denial which enthusiastically precedes the asser
ton. All these Kaleidoscope pictures of men and
things appear in THE Times" They have ceased
TO be offensive They have become ridiculous.
But their effect, far they have an effect. on
| public and official opinion in England is hardly
less mischievOus How ask English diplomat lists,
is business to be done with country whose Presi-
dent and Prime Minister are proclaimed to be at
croSspurposes with reference to the very business
most urgently requiring to be done? Great Off
of State in other countries disagree, but they
settle their differences in private and the policy
and interests of the country are not sacrificed.
They have no Mr. Dalziel to magnify their trou
bles, if troubles there be, before all the world,
and especially in the ears of the very Power
whom these questions concern.
The same agency sent on Tuesday another bud
get of Behring Sea gossip, alleging that Mr.. Blaine
had made certain proposals three months ago to
| Lord Salisbury, that Lord Salisbury had delayed
his answer two months, and that to this answer
Mr.. Blaine sent an immediate reply which remains
unacknowledged This called forth a peremptory
denial from the Foreign Office No letter from
Mr. Blaine had been received till last Thursday.
You perceive that when Mr.. Dalziel omits to con-
tradict himself, he is forthwith contradicted by
others.
Mr. Curtis Bonds letter to you touching the &C
cusations against Mr.. Blaine entirely misses the
point He assumes responsibility for Mr.. Dai-
ziels statement that Mr. Blaine delayed action
about Behring Sea because he had partner who
wished delay This. Mr.. Bond thinks, is criticism
which reflects slightly" on Mr. Blaine II is in
his view a slight thing to alege of Secretary of
State that he subordinates his public duty to his
private interests that he is partner in the Alaska
Company, and that he sacrifices the interests of
the State to his own In the view Of honorable
men. whatever their nationality, no accusation
could be more dissracefu If it were true it
wouia be disgraceful to Mr.. Blaine. Being false,
| IL is discraceful to Mr. Bond TO Mr.. Daziel and
70 "The Times" all Of whom are responsible for
IL in different degrees True false, 1t is an un
patriotic and injurious act to send such story to
England From no other country than America
do calumnies 30 forth in regular succession dis
crediting the Minister charged with delicate nego-
tatons and directly tending to prevent the success
of those negotiations
! Parties in the House Of Commons have seldom
snlit into so many fragments or voted in such odd
combinations as on Mr. Balfour's new clause to the
Land bill This is the clause which Mr.. Parnel
sunported having for its aim that the money ad-
vanced in each county by the Government Tor
the purchase of land should be divided between the
large and small farmers in proportion to the num-
her of each class. 1t was hotly opposed by The
Ant -parnelltes because Mr. Parnell approved it,
and not less hotly by the Ulster sections because
T1stsr is q province Of large holdings. The Glad
stonians on the Front Bench, represented by Mr.
Shawl efevre, supported it on the ground that
| +oron+s having over 81 80 year aristOcrats
| entitled to no relief. Mr. Pcton, spokesman
~ tho Radicals. upheld it as ruinous to the bill,
| which he and his comrades avow themselves de-
sirous TO make as bad as possible. The Tories
themselves were divided, but Mr. Balfour carried his
! clause by a ma jority OF four TO one, ana then
| suddenly agreed to raise the limit from Sl5O to
soKo a wear Last night the bill passed through
! the Committee II is one of the most complicated
measures ever enacted, and to have carried 1t at
all is no mean legislative performance.
With the Land bill out of the way-or nearly
money votes and other routine business must
largely OCCUPY the remainder of the session; for
education must be dealt with in some shape There
is tall, Of debate on Manipur and other questions
nav cron I'D but the House is ill, weary and
idle. and Ministers do not expect to Keep the
Members together after July. There is no question
of dissolving this year. There never has been
Lord Salisbury's remarks at Glasgow on Home
prIo ,vere so far as Ireland is concerned. purely
academic. He believes. as all Englishmen do
in widening the area of local government and en-
IIarono municipal powers wherever the people are
IIoyal. He does not believe, nor do many serious
nolitcians believe in setting up rival ParlamentS
all over the Kingdom, be the people loyal or not
If such an experiment were to be made Dublin
would seem to offer less chance OF success than
- oonitol "fn said the Prime Minister