New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-11-29
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Mr.. BALFoUR AT GLASGOW.
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,,,, 1881 By 7As Tribune Assoetdton
~s IT, Nov. 2s.-The scene at Birmingham
~Ir * remarkable for more reasons than
hS rord Salisbury's presence there is remark
ew '. is the seal TO his new alliance with
soN' .,,hcrlain. for now the alliance undoubt-
NJ e. tho sense that the bonds between them
sop ,.,.lv been drawn closer and the political
%" which mites them has bean strengthened
S,..1 concessions The Town Hall, where
s.r and the plebeian fell on each others
!. the very spot whence the plebcian once
,.m,ched his curse against the peer as ono "ho
Na.' - ~, neither does he spin 1t is the scene
~. week of Tory caucus which almost mutlhies
;,s leaders in its eagerness for social reform
"a for some kind of protection; OF great meet
49, IN which the chief of the party reouKes the
~ ~ ;n,emperate zeal Of his followers OF oah-
~ w., IN which Mr. Chamberlain solemnly reads
s,mself out Of that remnant of a once Lioerai
80 which has renounced its Lioeransin
= favor Of socialistic Radicaiism, ana
'..,iscsd it's traditions and its principles
!. tho ambitions caprice of the cratic leader oy
~,.se name il is now known. when IN 1850
=. Gladstone broke up the Liberal party ana
a.. nearly every one of his ablest, best ana
-, eminent colleagues into the Opposition, ooth
:. .,S they believed that the breach would DE
...,orarv. His pertinacity in the policy OF
s..r;on his ever widening concessions TO the
-. rdenine demands of Home Rule, his sue
-. snrrenders TO the socialistic demands OF MS
p.S,al supporters, who made surrender the price
!, ,brir support, his liberation of Parliamentary
~.,toJs which led straight to Inc degradation Oh
p.,li.m,nt-these and other causes tended, as the
- ,o,lsS on 10 make the breach broader and to
-, lasting. Nobody now expects to see Loru
w..;.s,on Mr. Goshen, the Duke of Argyll, Sir
u.,r lanes. Mr.. Chamberlain, or any other ieaaer
.-,,, the Liberal Unionists. resume his polltical
..l.sonx either with Mr.. Gladstone or with the
c,dsopian party during Mr.. Gladstone's life.
p,t Mr. Chamberlain for the first time has
r.as formal declaration of his final aiienatioh
aom his old associates. The passage Will long
IA memorable in the political history OF thiS
,oup,rv After explaining that it was for no
,usbt cause. for nothing less than the security OF
,bs Fmnre that rupture could have occurred.
be says
aFven after the rupture had taken place, there
were many of us-I was one OF them-who hoped 10
u,ould he only temporary. who believed that the
Gadstonians would speedily abandon the path
unon which we knew, and they had good
csnss for knowing they had most reluctantly
.n,.red We lock forward, therefore, to speedy
,anrion II refer TO that now, it is to say that
since then the gulf has widened and deepened.
Now 7 neither look for nor desire reunion" lie
noes on: The Gadstonians have accepted the
nolicv of the Parnetes. Yes. But they have
accepted something more. They have accepted
their principles, their methods and even their
manners Meanwhile the branches of the Union
ist party have baen brought into closer and more
eoniial relations
It is no common occasion which elicits such an
announcement as this. Mr.. Chamberlain had pre-
tared the way for il, wheu-it was only last week
be explained away that insane doctrine of ransom
which stood between him and the confidence. not
ony of his new comrades, but Of all the better
potion of England. Between the Socialist who
would have confiscated' property in land ard a
usrty 10 which belongs the majority of landowners
In England, no real cooperation was possible, ex-
rent for specific, strictly limited purpose. The
Socialist has recanted his gospel of plunder, ana
the party in their turn have consented to borrow
from him not q few of those principles and IDEAS
which are within the limits of sane social reform
Mr. Chamberlain was once the IDOL oil 'ne
Radicals They are now as eager to burn as 'hey
then were to adore him. No man in public LIE
h 50 hated vet, if they cared more for the cause
they profess than for party successes, they ou2h'
TO adore him again. He it is who has taken up
Lord Beaconsfelds task Of educating the Tory
party and of educating it in very different sense
To him they owe free education. To him they
will owe local government in Ireland, when theN
get that. To him they owe more or less directly
much of the legislation in the interests OF the
laborng classes which this Ministry has carried
through Other influences have conceded with
lis, and if Mr.. Chamberlain has liberallzed the
Tory party. so. in return, have his associations
with Conservative statesmen sobered him. strength
ened him. and given him balance, Judgment ana
broad views But neither him nor any man do
these last commend 10 Radical sympathes in
England
Birmingham is the scene also of a protest by a
eeat party leader against the perversion of party
government and warning that the systematic
obstruction which his opponents have pract!sed
may lead TO the destruction of the system which
they have turned to baser uses than English politi-
cal history in the past can match. This is not a
party criticism 1t is Characteristic of Lord Sails
Bury that he can take broad views. He thinks
mines out and sees causes and consequences lie
seems often enough almost Indifferent to party
matter lie let's his mind work freely, and freely
sla'es his eonelusors, be they for or against him
Mf william Hareourt has lately been laying down
we law Of party after his maDner. party IS
az sfmy, its leader a general, and the members OF
We pfty are soldiers, who have nothing to do but
70 obey orders. A party replied Lord Salisbury,
exists to enforce principles, and principles do not
eNist to make the fortune of partisan. When
you are dealing with the deepest matters which
concern the foundations of the Empire, you have
90 hight to allow past tradition. or personal
friendship, or prepossession, TO blind you TO con-
''cuon" Sir William Harcourt, In 1882 used
" taunt the Tories with stewing in Parneilite
a'ce Who stews in it now ask the Tories IN thcl
"rn, and with considerably more truth ana apt"
hess
Lord Salisbury's counsels Of moderation In
serlcultural reform fell on deaf ears at BlrmlhS'