The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-11-29
AFFAIRS ABROAD.

1t now looks as if the turmoil in South
America might come to close if no fresh
complications set in.
The prosecution of an archbishop in
France augurs i'll for the tranquility of the
republic. The incident itself may not JUS
tify any such fear, but the history of that
country has been that whenever popular
disturbance is on hand the church
dignitaries are first made the scapegoats.
In the United States the expulsion of a
religious order or any society would be
revolutionary; in France it IS the first
move Of ''liberal'' government
In several European capitals Thanksgiv-
ing day was observed with considerable
ceremony
England.
The English Liberals have not yet ceased
30 congratulate themselves over the vic
tory at South Dorset, where the Conserva-
tive majority OF LOCO was tnrned into q
minority of 200. The Liberals regard it
as an indication of the feeling in agricnl-
tural districts throughout England. The
Conservatives blame their defeat on the
mechanics and claim that the agriculturists
are still soundly Conservative.
Mr.. Smalley says:
1.-THE one thing clear about the whole
matter seems to be that Home Rule had
little to do with the result. Mr. Lambert,
who wins, is a tenant farmer, who has
nursed this constituency with care for
some years. His opponent, Mr.. Butler,
was a good candidate, but came on the
scene at the eleventh hour. An archangel
would have poor chance in such circum-
stances. The nursing of constituencies is
now reckoned the true secret of electoral
success. The other secret is TO appeal to
class interests and to local interests. This
was done with success in Devonshire
where few electors know or care much
about Home Rule. The government has
done much for the agricultural laborer, but
the Gladstonlans promise to do great deal
more when they come in, and promise is
more than performance with the English
voter. He knows that what he has got
out OF this ministry cannot be taken from
him. he believes that another ministry
would do still more if it got the chance,
and in politics gratitude is lively sense of
favors to come. Hence that Gladstonian
victory, which is but one more step toward
the general Generalization of politics now
The Standard, of course, uses South
Motion as an argument for dropping Irish
Legislation next session and rushing
through measure for which the English
voter really cares. There is much to be
said for that view from an electioneering
point OF view, but neither the Conservative
press in general nor Conservative orators
on the platform are disposed to adopt it.
There are many signs that the GLADSTONE
ans, with one eminent exception, thiuk
tnat Home Rule is played out tor electoral
purposes. They keep it on the bill of fare,
but the dishes they really recommend to
the voter are of different sort. The emf
nent exception is Mr.. Gladstone himself.
TO him Home Rule is everything, as it has
been ever since he recognized the fact that
Parliamentary majority was not to be
had on other terms. He discourses at times
on other TOPICS but from the lips outward
his heart is on disunion. If he comes in,
he must try once more to pass a Home
Rule DILL Nearly all his followers would
drop tiff they could. Nearly all are likely
to be elected on local issues or as advocates
OF local issues or as advocates of socia
reform.
$50 weary are the English of the Irish
question that the leading Tory organ cries
out in anguish that its own governments
seems smltten with blindness almost re-
sembhng the blindness of the Stuarts to
facts so patent that any child would IN
derstand them. The whole duty of the
political man, and especially of the minis
ter, is, in its view, to trump the Gladston-
ian trick. Hodge has got the power to turn
this ministry out or keep it in, and Hodge
must be made to see that it will pay him
better to keep Lord Salisbury in than to
bring Mr.. Gladstone back Such are the
high practices which are now advocated in
the highest quarters. The appeal TO selfish
ness is as strong on one side as on the
othern