New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-10-25

stone get the majority he desires, and that he
should he allowed once more 10 show what an
awful mess he would make of our affairs The
phrase, though expressive, is hardly elegant. Then
he proceeds after this fashion
Il venture to say that SIX months would be
enough. Six months would once more involve
us in foreign complications Six months would
plunge Ireland back again into disorder and an
archy. Six months would let loose all those petty
jealousies and all the contending creeds, policies
and falacies now repressed in the Opposition.
Oh! gentlemen, the spectacle Of Gladsonian
Cabincc: Fancy them engaged in the effort TO
satisfy the Rsman Catholic priests in Ireland and
the NOnconformists of England Imagine them
trying to harmonic the political economy of Mr..
Tom Manns and Mr.. john Morley Fancy them
endcavoring to satisfy in their foreign policy at
once Mr. LabOuchere and Lord Rosebery Then
fancy them in their leisure time repeating the
Union. abolishing the House of Lords, disestab-
fishing the English Church, and shutting up every
public house"
He comments not less plainly on Mr.. Glad
stones hostility to the Triple Alliance. his readi-
ness sacrifice the friendship of the three great
Powers now leagued for peace, and to give
Afghanistan and Constantinople TO Russia as the
price of her goodwill, and Egypt to France as the
price of hers He tells him, and it cannot he
denied, that if he had had his way and had been
allowed TO set up a Parliament in Dublin, its
proceedings would now be controlled by the
Roman Catholic hierarchy lie asks again, What
does Home Rule HOW mean? a question asked
q thousand times, but still unanswered All that
is known is that Ireland stands first on Mr.. Glad
tones programme and that is why the rest of
the Newcastle programme is not serious. for
nobody believes that Ireland can he cleared out
.l,. ho ipH
or will be attempted by the Gladstonian party
while Mr. Gladstone lives and Home Rule remains
a cry.
The Parnellites have thought better of it. and
not Mr. Pierce Mahony, but Mr.. John Redmond, is
to be their leader. The change marks very
clearly the temper of this band. Mr.. Alahony Is
an amiable gentleman, who looks as if he had
walked out of Vandyke picture, and Is one Of
the few in either faction who does not come out
Of the gutter. But if he has a force Of fighting
qualities, they have heretofore remained con-
cealed. Mr.. John Redmond is man of different
stamp. who shows himself ready to risk something
for his cause and comrades lie resigns his seat
for Wexford and plunges into the contest for Mr.
Pernells seat at Cork. which not few of his
own party think desperate business.
The Anti Parnellites do not like it, and have
turned their guns on Mr.. Redmond. loaded with
missiles of the kind we know. 1T WAS matter
of nOtorety says Mr.. Dillon, that Mr. Redmond
was about to desert Mr.. Parnell" He was one
of those men who now talked Of the deserton
of Mr. Parnell, who were hiding in holes and cor
nered in Dublin when Mr.. Parnell went to Creggs.
where he contracted his fatal illness" This last
alluson s one which Mr. Dillon might wisely
have left unmade. 1t reminds people too vividly
of g. i'm
streets of Dublin and in the Parncllite press. The
cries are foolish enough, but sufficiently damaging
to Mr. Dillon with multitudes of lrishmen mad
dened by the loss Of their leader and eager IN
search of victim TO offer up on his altar Nobody
doubts that Mr. Parnell would have been alive
to-day could be have kept out Of the deadly
conflict forced on him by the priests, Of whom
Mr. Dillon is the tool. Mr.. Redmond or some
body else reterts that Mr.. Dillon is q wriggline
reptile" and so the game goes on, each wing
of the Irish party reviling the other not less
venomousy than they once revned NJ Gladstone.
Lord Spencer, and more latterly' Mr.. Balfour and
all Mr.. Dalfours agents.
Mr.. Dillon in this same speech speaks of the
acts Of the Land COmmissOn-the Land Commits
sion is court duly constituted by law-as "A
vianous injustice" and the court itself now
controlled by Trench and other scoundrels. =
when he comes into power, and to put men in their
places who will judge not Justly, but in the inter
estS Of tenants and 10 the detrment of landlords.
Of all these things the English take note.
They never credited the caumnies against the
set of these chartered calumnators turns States
evidence against the other. "why ask the English.
perhaps rather cynically, should We not believe
them ? They know each other better than we
can know them"
The blockade of Carron wharf has at last been
abandoned That is another way of saying that
the latest strike has collapsed in the face Of tn
resolve of the police that men willing to work
should not he intimdated by those unwilling to
work.
The papers continue to publish long letters on
social questions especially the legal eight
hour day Much the most remarkable contribution
to this debate comes from Mr.. John Burns, who
boldly announces that he ara his comrades care
nothing for the interests of the community, and
are concerned only to protect their own. whether
the eight-hOur day is commercially possible or
economically eXpedient does not concern the work
men," says Mr.. John Burns. The present agita-
tion," adds he, will confirm the determination
Of workers os class 70 use the State for their
own Interest. ISTndpS nv goes "a llllIP DtyOHn
his last when he defines politics as only the art
Of bribing the highest" Mr.. Burns is the gentle
man who lately announced that eight hours wss
only step to six, or four, or even less.
The Progressves of the London County Council
have once mere or twice mora, given the public
fresh means Of Judging of their fitness for their
duties. They renewed their attacks on Captain
Shaw when the question of his pension came up,
only 10 discover TO their chagrin that he was
legally entitled to retiring pension and that the
Council had 10 power TO refuse il Next came
the question of licensing music halls The pru-
rient party have got the upper hand in the IL
censing committee but with that they are not
content They now act in a double capacity as