Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-21
A LIBERAL MOVE.
A Tenants-Rights Act to Be Adj
vocated by the Party.
THE TORIES ARE ON THE RUN.
Salisbury to Talk at a Caucus While Glad
stone Has an Open Mind - To Look
Into Emigration-What Eos
ter Says On 1t.
copyrighted 1891, by the New York Associ-


Copyrighted, 1891, by the New York Associ-
ated Press.I
LONDON, Nov. 2O.-Liberal leaders have
decided to incorporate in the platform ap-
proved at the Newcastle conference an
English tenants rights bill. This decision
is one of the most important steps that re.
sponsible chiefs of the party have ever
taken. The question of amelioratlng
the position of British farmers by giving
them greater security for their capital and
freedom from haraSSing covenants I'M
posed by landlords has long been
recognized as ripening towards Liberal
legislation. The magnitude OF the
Liberal victory in South Moulton and the
conviction that the capture OF the rural
vote by the Liberals Will lead to
overwhelming success in the general
elections has lifted the measure
in favor of tenant farmers
into the front rank of politics. This move
ment on the part of the Liberals has been
FASTENED by the movement Of the Con-
servatives in the same erection.
The history of the Conservative party
presents no more surprising or more
sudden change than that which has oc-
Cured on the English land question under
dread of what would happen to the land
lords interest, thorugh an uprising OF la
bOrers and farmers to the Liberal ban
ners. Since the South Moulton
lll6 1OIy SAOOO i4do ~.
10 advocating the adoption in England of
the principles of the Irish land purch ase
act. Labor must have power to acquire
small plots OF land cheaply and through
simple methods, and must assist the farmers
to become owners after certain number OF
years without paying mora than customary
rent 1t is expected that Lord Salisbury
will allay the anxiety of his supporters
by giving some inkling of his
intentions in a speech at Conservative
caucus on Monday next. In the meantime
it is uncertain to what length the Liberal
leaders will go in shaping tenant farmers
bill. The drift of opinion at
the National Liberal club is in favor
of giving farmers judicial rents fired rs
in ireland for q definite period and pur-
chasing powers similar to those granted
by the Ashbourne act. Gladstone retains
an open mind on this subject, on which he
will speak at the agricultural conference to
be held at the National Liberal club, De-
cember 10.
The British government will send dele
gate to the international conference of i'm
migration, which opens in Paris on
Wednesday next. The delegate Is
charged simply to watch the proceedings
of the conference. Mayor Frederick
Bracket special foreign agent of the
United States, will attend the conference
under orders from the treasury department
at Washington. jules simon Will
preside. and the conference will last
four days. Delegates will go to Havre to
inspect a vessel engaged in carrying immi-
grants and the general arrangements for
the accommodation of immigrants. Secre-
tary Fosters instructions to Mai. Bracket
in defining the position of the Ameri-
can government state that the
conference is composed of delegates from
European countries where the
chief problem is emigration,
whereas the United States problem is
exclusively immigration. The secretary
adds that the government and the people OF
the United States are not ayerse to immi-
grafton of meritorieus, self-sustaining per-
sons, but that public opinion and the
laws of the country are crystalizirg
definitely in opposition to further immigra-
ton of persons belonging to the helpless,
defective and criminal classes. The En-
g!ish trades councils have taken definite
position on the necessity of the elevation OF
the immigration of aliens. The committee
of the London trades councils have drafted
a measure for excluding aliens not possess
ing individually .e3, in case of family IS
between parents and 30s. for each child.
Idiots, lUnatics and persons affected with
contagious diseases are prohibited by the
measure The committee further favcrs the
promotion of bill on the lines OF the
United States labor contract law.