Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-06
THE COERCION ACT.
sALFoUR'S PROPOSAL TO BE
ANNOUNCED.
The Chances for the Prince of Wales to
Get Relief of His Debts by Action of
the Nation Forever Blasted.

| LONDON. June Mr.. Balfour's proposal
| TO relax the coercion act will not be eXplic
| lily announced in the house of commons IN.
| til next week, but enough is known as to
what the government intends to propose to
justify Conservatives in feeling some little
pride over the results of Mr. Bal
tours policy. All provisions of the
crimes act directed against criminal
conspiracy will be withdrawn, while the
other provisions. notably the secret inquiry
section, will be retained. Balfour'S first
statement that while there are 30l9 pris-
oners in ireland who are sentenced under
the ordinary law. there are only twenty-one
who were sentenced under the crimes act,
has been the occasion in the Unionlst press
OF telling contrasts with the coercion pol
icy under Gladstone. When prisons were
chock full, in the face of prison
statistics and in the face also
OF the fact Of absolute peace in every dis
tlict in Ireland, there is no coercion in the
press, aud on the platform of expressions of
discomfort Gladstonians will find it difficult
to respond to Unionist plans. The accepted
liberal explanation is that the pacification of
Ireland is due as much to the Gladstone pol
icy of Cancellation as to Balfour's coercion.
and further the Dublin executive has long
been playing with coercion, and when the
coercive screw was put in hand crime
has run up, and when the screw is looseued
crime has rup down. These explanations
were ignored in the GladStOdian prcdic-
tons when the crimes bill was under dis
cussion i'll parliament that such an awful
piece of brutal despotism, from which the
car or sultan might well shrink. would
produce crops OF dynamite and other out
RACES that would appeal 20 the civilized
world. Doubtless a number of causes
operated to associate Balfour's regime
with steady cessation of disorder, but the
bllndeSt partiSanship cannot refuse Balfour
credit for attaining the results which his
persistent policy aimed at. His admins
tration has seen IKE National league broken
to pieces. The plan of campaign COLLAPSED,
and coercion suspended after four years of
operation.
GladstOne'S latest utterances on home
rule in his writing to the woman's liberal
federation. is that the Irish crisis is as
acute as ever, and that home rule as fixed
plank of Liberal platforms is as certain as
ever, but that Irish questions are asleep as
far as electoral interest goes with acouies-
ence to Ireland.
The land bill is still likely to occupy the
house for j week
Balfour has sent message of peace and
good will TO the eyicted tenants in accepting
the clause enabling landlord to sell hold
ing over the head of any possession, to
an eylcted tenant or his predecessor
The evicted tenant can claim the Dre-
fit by the clause within six months after
the act passes. but the provision saves from
ruin many victims of the plan of campaign
The Baccarat revelations have stirred 10
its deepest depths the whole religious
world. The news that the prince is an
habitual gambler, taking supplies of cards
and counters wherever he goes, has
blasted every chance of the nations
granting him relief for his debts. A lead
ing Baptist organ compares the princes
lust for race course and gambling with the
noble example of his father who. if living.
would share the intense grief of thousands
Of Englishmen.
The Newfoundland delegates have ar
rived at a satisfactory agreement with the
government for a permanent act to replace
the three Years measure passed by the To- |
cal legislature. Resistance on the part of the |
French government is no longer expected.
Lord Salisbury has sent only verbal |
merely as a matter of courtesy |
ON Ribot, French foreign minister on |
the securing of action on the part of the |
colony which will assist in the work of ar |
oitration. The communication is under
stood to imply that the English foreign of
ice does not desire a response, and NJ. |
tIibot has tacitly accepted the position.