New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-04-12

,yos his answer in court. lie had put IL noie
picturcsquey in his speech at ST. heien wv
DAVIS after the occurrence. Then nc w"
Lancashire audience that he went TO iipPi"s
IN see the first blow of the hammer on 'i'o i'''V
nail Of the Governments coffin. 1t was ano'''i
,riecalculation. The Government Is no "oie
IN its coffin than "The Times" is in its gIa'e,
Ue was asked whether he did not go as poi'ic',
ma rtisan He answered, "NO, but of course uiu
mot teave nv politics at the railway s'atlon
The distinction may seem TO Mr.. Morley WIN !"
accustomed TO subteties, important. others
,Lopoht then. and think now, that politics hau
moro IA do with the matter than anything elSe
7. ,yould do Mr. Morley harm to admit that
no wont rs q partisan. That would be far SNORT
of saving. as NJ. Clemenceau said the other uaS'
tbot iustice has nothing TO do with politics, OF
nol,tics with Justice lie was asked whether ne
looked NJ these events through the spectacies OF
Cha .lstonian or o Parnellite, OF McCarthyl'e
yyoll = answered Mr.. Morley-grimly enough
iraoine-" we all looked through the same glasses
at that time. -, - ,oroon
h,e vision hind him to the things he does not
won, 20 coo or which do not fit in with his pre-
oo,ooi,,od theory or which are damaging TO his
Marty Mr. Gladstone is the prc-eminent example
Mr.. Morley. too. can sometimes shut his eS''
He went 10 the trial as TO great historic e'eno'
IT, might be supposed he would nave louhu ouO
beforehand what IL was all about. In connection
with that ouestion of his travelling companions
he was pressed little. ~.
did Won know the charge made against MT.
Dillon and Mr. Sheehy, with whom you traveiled
"I lney generally it was charge Of conspiracy
to induce tenants not TO pay their rent
"Did YOU know it was charge OF conspiracy
carried out by. boycotting, assaults, ana violence
used acainst those who refused obedience 70 'nis
conspiracy ,r
"No. had not gone into the details
The answer is so astonishing in MI Morley
mouth that have looked at several reports Oh
the trial but they all agree. Again ne was "sneu
whether. if he had known these men were RunC I,
p no would have travelled with them lie "o"lu
not he responded, If he had known they were
found guilty by constitutional court lie was
pressed on this point and answered again
could not have known they were guilty unless
they had been found guilty BY who' l 1"
gard as constitutional trioulai, "A
witness under cross-examnation is not 10 oc
JUDGED too harshly. Some latitude some Ireeuoni
of movement, may be allowed o man WHO ID
fencing with o lawyer. But what KIM VI r"
moralist is he to whom charges OF OoycoV'ihs'
assaults and violence in the prosecution Oh q
criminal conspiracy seem unimportant ue'aiis
Perbaps a political moralist; for the time Delng'
And what kind of q statesman OF citizen IS hc ~
whom no guilt has any moral stain. unless alrl
by court the constitution OF when ne apProN'o'
Never has the claim of private Indignant III solemn
affairs been pushed further IL each man 10 ~
be at liberty to reject the Jurlsdlcuoh Vi ~o
courts unless he thinks well of the statute uhuer
which they are organized, the social laorlc Will
not last long ...eoa
7 doubt whether Mr.. Morley was well satisfied
with these gymnastics when he came 10 reao oTei
in cold blood the account of his share IN TINS
trial. If there ever comes to him a leeiing vi
regret at having quilted literature for poilncs
it may have come then He bore himself 80 la
nc one can INDIE. with composure He proved
himself match for Mr. Carson VINO croSs-eN-
omined him. His readiness of mind, his acute
ross his self-possession; did not desert him. Bu'
70 one who reads the reports the uncalcciannS
fron,kness Of Mr.. Dillon is more admirable than
tho intellectual adroitness of Mr.. Morley. Ihere
,roe q question as to the number of the victims
who suffered that day in Tipperary from the
a tru+olit,,r of the police, Of which Mr.. Morley
made co much Can you give me the names
Of twenty who were hit ?" asked Mr.. Carson
believe there were FOUR" answered Mr. Dillon
stoutlv -Four men hunt none seriously, by the
notice. whom at ST. Helen's and Newcastle ana III
the House of Commons Mr.. Morley ana his COM
rades have denounced to the people OF England Of
brutal, and even murderous.
In his letter to-day Mr.. Morley, triumphng, as
he rightly may, in the refusal OF the jury to con-
Wet his comrades accused of riot, still speaks OF
the acts of the police as wanton, unprovoked
outrageous. The jury seem to have thought q
great deal too much fuss had been made on DOTH
sides that neither the rioting nor the repression
Of il by the police called for serious notice Ihey
disagreed about two of the defcndants-rumoi
saws they stood IL TO l for convictng Dalton
and Gill-and acquitted the rest. II does moi
matter much either way. l venture TO say thai
even after reading Mr. Morley's passionate out
burst of this morning. and in face of his assertion
that nobody whose mind is not poisoned by
faction, will take such view. U. w. ).