The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1891-06-13
POLICY.
A Comparison Instituted with That of
Gladstone-The Religious World

Charlottesville Religious World
Excited.
copyright 1891 by New York Associated Press
LONDON, June 5.-Balfour's proposal
to relax the coercion act will not be en-
plicitly announced in the house of com
mons until next week, put enough is now
known as to what the government in
tends to propose to justify the conserya-
tives in feeling some little pride over the
results of Balfour's policy. All the pro-
visions of the crimes act directed against
criminal conspiracy will be withdrawn
whilst other provisions, notably the Sc
cret inquiry system, will be retained.
Balfour's first statement that while there
are 3,O19 prisoners in Ireland who were
sentenced under ordinary law. there are
only 81 who were sentenced under the
crimes act. has been the occasion in the
unionist press of telling contrasts with
the coercion policy under Gladstone
when the prisons were chock full.
In the face of prison statistics and in
the face, also, of the fact of absolute
peace in every district in Ireland, and
the cessation in the press ON the platform
of =: prcssions of discomfort Gladston-
ians will find it difficult to respond to
the unionist plans. The accepted liberal
explanation is that the pacilication of
ireland is due as much to the Gladstone
policy as to Balfour's coercion, and fur
ther that the Dublin eXecu-
tive has long been playing with
coercion. and when the cOercive
screw is put in hand crime has run up
and when the screw is loosened it has
run down. Their explanations ignore
the GladstOnian predictions when the
crimes bill was under discussion in par
Lament that such an awful piece of
brutal ~dcspotism from which the czar or
the sultan might well shrink would pro-
duce a crop of dynamite and other out
RACES that would appal the civilized
world. Doubtless a number of causes
operated to associate the Balfour regime
with the steady cessation of disorder,
but the blindcst craftsmanship cannot re
fuse Balfour the credit of attaining the
results which his persistent policy aimed
at. His administration has seen the
plan of campaign collapsed and coercion
SuSItINt'ts NiiutSloltC ldttSl 1 tliNN
on his rule is his writing to the women's
liberal federation that the Irish crisis is
acute as ever and that home rule as t
fixed plank of the liberal platform is as
certain as ever but the Irish questions
are asleep as far as the electoral interest
goes with a quiesant Ireland.
The land bill is still likely to occupy
the house a week. Balfour has sent {
message of peace and good will to the
evicted tenants in accepting the clause
enabling the landlord to set his holding
over the head of the man in possession
to an evicted tenant or his predecessor
Evicted tenants can claim pre- emptiof
right and will only be able to the benefi'
, by the clause within six months aftel
eviction, but the provision saves from
ruin many a victim of the plan.
The baccarat revelations have stirred
to the deepest depths the whole reli
/, gious world. henewst that the prince wa'
a habitual gambler. taking cards ant
!. counters wherever he goes. has BLASTED
every chance of the nations grantin!
him relief for his debts. The leadin.
: Baptist organ compares the prince
, tastes for the race course and gamblin;
with the noble example Of his father
, who. if living. would share the intens
grief of the thousands OF ~Englishmen.
, Newfoundland delegates have arrived
at a satisfactory agreement with the GOV
ernment for a permanent act to replac
the three-years' measure passed by tn
=. local legislature. MunrOe will leave fo
J st. Johns next Tuesday.