Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-06-08
CABLEGRAMS.
BalfOur's Coercion Measure So
Successful i'm Ireland
That the Time Has Now Ar
rived for Its Relaxation

Tho Act Did Not Produce the Crop OF
Dynamite and other Outrages as Was
Predicted by Its Opposers-- Gladstone
Declares the Irish Crisis as Acute as
Ever-Other Foreign News.
LONDON, June 8.-Mr. Balfour's pro-
posal to relax the coercion act will not
be explicitly announced in the house of
commons for few days, but enough is
known as to what the government in
tend to propose to justify the Conserva-
tives in feeling some little pride over the
results of Mr.. Balfour's policy. All the
provisions of the crimes act directed
against criminal conspiracy will be
withdrawn, whilst other provisions.
notably the secret inquiry section, will
be retained.
Mr.. Balfour's first statement that
while there are 3,019 prisoners in Ireland
who were sentenced under the ordinary
law, there are only twenty-one who We're
sentenced under the crimes act, has been
the occasion in the Unionist press Of
telling contrasts with the coercion poll
cy under Mr.. Gladstone, when the pris-
ons were chock full. In the face of
prison statistics, and in the face also of
the fact Of absolute peace in every dis
trict of Ireland is the cessation in the
press and on tine platform of expressions
of discomfort, the Gladstonians will find
it difficult to respond to the Unionist
plans.
The accepted Liberal explanation is
that the pacification of Ireland is due az
much to the Gladstone policy of concili-
alton as to Mr.. Balfours coercion, and,
further, that the Dublin executive has
long been playing with coercion, and
when the cOercive screw is to put in
hand crime has run up, and when the
screw is loosened crime has run down.
These explanations ignore the Glad
stOnian predictions, when the crimes bill
was under discussion in parliament, that
such an awful piece of brutal despotism,
from which the czar or the sultan might
well shrink, would produce crop of
dynamite and other outrages that would
appal the civilized world.
Doubtless a number of causes operate
to associate the Balfour regime with the
steady cessation of disorder. but the
blindest partisanship can not refuse Mr.
Balfour the credit of attaining the re-
suits which his persistent policy aimed
at. His administration has seen the
National League broken to pieces, the
plan of campaign collapse, and coercion
suspended after four years of operation.
Considers the Crisis Still Acute.
Mr.. Gladstone's latest utterancas on
Home Rule is his writing to the
Women's Liberal Federation that the
Irish crisis is as acute as ever, and that
Home Rule as fixed plank of the Lib
eral platform is as certain as ever, but
that Irish questions are asleep as far as
electoral interest goes, with quiescent
Ireland.
The land bill is still likely to occupy
the house for week. Mr. Balfour has
sent message of peace and good will to
evicted tenants in accepting the clause
enabling a landlord to sell holding over
the head of man i'll possession to an
evicted tenant or his predecessor. Evict-
ed tenants can claim pre-emption
right, and will only be able to benefit by
the clause within six months after the
act passes, but the provision saves from
ruin many victim of the plan of cam
paign.