Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-15
TROUBLE FOR THE TORIES.
Broken Pledges Sure to Make Liberal
UnioniSts Revolt
AWFUL SCENES DURING STORMS.
The Difficulty Of Aiding the Famine
Stricken of Russia
TERRIBLE TALES NOT YET HALF TOLD
Tsr cABLE TO TIE pIsPATcH.l

brlelng OUT OF tne DIG burning Qutstiou oi
government for Ireland. The Tories are
pledged to the chin to bring in an Irish
local government bill next session, and if
the pledge should be broken many Liberal
Uniorists would in all probability revolt
against the Government On the other
hsnd, there is loud talk of mutiny in the
Tory rank should the bill be brought in.
snG for the moment, at any rate, the Gov
erdment is between satan and the deep sea-
Members of the Irish Tory party led by
the s~ash-bucklins Colonel Saunderson,
have never disguised their antipathy to the
proposed legislation, and most of them
openly declare they would rather haze home
rule and take chances in a Dublin Parlia-
menE than be in the min srity in the numer-
ous county councils which will be established
if the neT system of local Government in
England Ne applet to Ireland.
Acts OF Gross Oppression Too Easy.
This feeling is perfectly understandable.
IN homa rule Parliament the Tories and
Protestants generally would be represented
by compact body of members who would
exercise great if not paramount influence.
because il is assumed the Nationalists would
be split into several parties or factions on
most questions save the supreme one of con-
serving legislative independence, and there
would be the additional great advantage to
the minority of the inevitable publicity of
Parliamentary proceedings. But in nine
tenths of the county councils the Protest
tans, it is argued, would be at the mercy of
their local hereditary opponents, VINO could
and would perpetrate acts of gross oppres-
sion without fear of attracting more than
local attention, and undeterred by the
danger ofincurrsng national or international
reprobat.on.
Colonel Saunderson and his men will
therefore fight the local government bill,
and, in view of this determination, it is i'm
portsnt to note that it is approved by a
body of British Tories powerful enough to
command the support of the Standard, the
most influential OF conservative newspapers
English Tired OF the Irish Question.
Yesterday the Standard gave the place Of
honor to an editorial calling on the Gov.ss-
ment 20 abandon the idea of introducing Q
local Government bill for Ireland, not SO
much out Of regard for the interests Of the
Prote .tant minority, but on account of the
dissatisfaction which would be caused
among British electors by the spectacle of
another session given up to Irish affairs
while there are so many English grievances
wanting to be redressed
The Stdnlcrd does not worry its editorial
conscience about such things as broken
pledges. Surely" it says, ''the declaration
that certain course was contemplated in the
fifth year of Parliament cannot be construed
as q pledge which binds the Cabinet to fulfill
It without the slightest regard to other cir
cumstances in the following session, which
must be the last There is nothing in the
condition of Ireland to make the extension
Of local self-government urgent, but there
Is much to make its introduction inoppor-
tune"
The Light to be Turned On Soon.
Read between the lines the Standards
editorial amounts to an appeal to the Gov
ernment to devote the last session of this
Parliament to labor legislation designed to
catch votes, and the whole action of this
seni-oficial army organ proves either that
than has been supposed, or that it has been
inspired to ascertain how the country, and
particularly Liberal Unionists, would be
likely to treat a Government which delib-
erately broke promises repeatedly, publicly
and solemnly made
Light may be thrown upon the matter
next "Wednesday when Mr.. Chamberlain
will deliver his address to his constituents
at Birmingham If the Government has
dared to contemplate taking any step with
out previously consulting that astute gen.
tleman, the country is likely to be deprived
of touching spectacle arranged bv the
party managers for the oath inst. at Biz
minghau, when Lord Salisbury is to lunch
with the Liberal Unionists and have his
health proposed by Joseph Chamberlain.
Upon tie same interesting occasion Mrs.
Chamberlain, who has developed since
leaving Washington into quite the grande
dane, will have the felicity of hobnobbing
vitE tie Msrchioness of Salisbury, Lady
GwendOliD Cecil and Lady Windsor at a
meeting Of "Unionist ladies'"
Churchill and His Poss Ible Future.
Lord Randolph Churchill will be back in
London from the wilds of Africa about the
middle Of December. He will find Mr..
Balfour, his former friend and colleague
and subsequent rival. promoted to the
leadership of the House of Commons, and it
will not take him long to ascertain that the
fantastic twaddle which he has contributed
to the Graphic in his new character of
special correspondent" has done him an
immense amount of harm. His newspaper
correspondence has revealed Churchill as q
man OF narrow mind and shallow
character, full of petty jeal-
ousies and unreasonable prejudices,
and eaten up with personal vanity
and selfshness He has become
public laughing stock, and the Tories say
they 10 longer fear him 1t is not surpris-
ing to hear rumors of Chucrbill's intended \
retirement from political life. Salisbury's
hatred of him is as strong as ever, and
Churchill will never obtain Office in any
Government controlled by that noble Mar
quis or his nephew, Mr.. Balfour.
The prospects of tho Conservative party
are not cheering, so that Churchill will lose
little by retiring, at least for few yenrs
He may get another chance during the
temporary confusion Of parties which viii