The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-05-07
The Issues in the Coming Elec-
tion in Great Britain.
GLADSTONE SNUsS THE UNIONS.
Lord Salisbury Tanning the Bigotry
of the 0rangemen Into Flame.
He Incites Them to Civil War, IL Need
Be-The italian Ministry Resigns
Very, Who Betrayed Ravachol, Dies
Russian Preparations for War.

! LONDON, May 6.-rAssociated Press,
| Copyrighted. 1892. l-GIadstone's refusal to
| receive delegates from workingmen's
/ conference who desired to present the
eight-hour question is felt by the rank and
| file or the Liberal party to have been tao
| teal mistake. Taking advantage of the
mistake, the London Conservative men,
| bers have decided TO influence the govern
ment to take an opposite course. At
meeting of Liberal members they hesitated
| to condemn the action OF Gladstone, and
therefore referred the matter TO a commit
| tee, with instructions to report Tuesday.
| The Conservatives stole march
| by inducing Salisbury and Balfour
| to receive a deputation of trades
| union representatives. They, however.
will not be duped into supposing
| the Conservatives more jealous in the
cause of labor than the Liberals, nor will
either Salisbury or Balfour commit him.
| self to the elght-hour movement. 1t is not
| doubted that the result of the conference
will be to place the labor question at the
| head Of the programme of both political
! parties. to the embarrassment of the Llo-
eral chief, who is pledged to home rule
! first. Giadstone's organ, the Speaker, will
| say tomorrow: "The enemies of home
rule, despairing of success by open attacks,
seek to divert the attention of the Liberal
masses from the Irish question and convert
certain victory into rout." Such express
sious coming from the Liberal press are
| suggestive of a strong alarm prevail
| ing lest the party be wrecked on the labor
| difficulty before Salisbury's trend is
| known. The Times upholds Gladstone's
r=n1t TO . hn a
nounces that the efforts of labor leaders
| to extort pledges at this stage of the
movement as an outrageous attempt to
overbear the judgment of parliament.
| This criticism does not affect the satisfac-
| tion of the Conservatives over the policy
OF the leaders, who are now obviously
| harrassing the Liberals and attracting to-
ward the government strong body of
workingmen. An official Unionist paper
| declares that the action of Gladstone has
chilled the hearts of workingmen to the
| core.
AT conference of Liberal election agents
! Schnadhorst calculated that the general
| election will give the Liberals n majority
of seventy-seven in the next house, and
| held that the labor complications would
exert only minority influence.
Sir William Vernon Harcourt, at the
| conference, stated that the elections were
| certain to tie held at the commencement of
| July, following the Ulster convention at
| Belfast and the Irish Unionist convention
in Dublin. Sir William asserted that the
| Orange lodges were privately subscribing
| money for the purchase of arms to carry
out the threats of the rebels, rather than
submit TO an Irish parliament.
Whether the Tories really believe an
armed conflict would follow the establish
ment of an Irish parliament, they assume
sincerity and cultivate belief that civil
war would be the outcome of home rule.
| Salisbury's private secretary has written
an Oxford clergyman to the end that "his
lordship is glad to see you impress upon
| the electors the probability that home
rule would produce the greatest of all
curses-a religious civil war" After this
! it is no wonder We hear of men drilling III
Ireland, and that rifles and munitions of
war are being stored in England.
Presiding today at meeting of the
Primrose League, Lord Salisbury said in
! part: Home rule would place hostile
| island on our flank and subject us to
| infinite damage and disgraceful aban-
! donment of those in Ireland who have
ever fought for our cause" Salisbury
claimed that his promise of six years ago
| that Ireland would be pacifed if given
! general consideration in regard to her ma
terial wants. and finn, impartial and con-
tinuous administration of law, had been
! fulfilled. The spirit of disorder had grad
ually cowed before the spirit of law. Peace
| had so restored Ireland that boycotting no
! longer exists. Still there are men in
Ireland who have resolved to undo this
| s.D Gar
"was much more formidable OPP
| ponens than any man he has
| left behind" Salisbury said he did not
| know of any symptom more menacing
| than the recent declarations of the Ulster
leaders that they dread being put under
the feet OF their hereditary enemies. The
! premier added that although he had not
| condemned the Catholic church he had
| condemned ard would always condemn
| those who. holding high spiritual author
| ity and heading great spiritual organiza-
| ton. used those weapons for purely secu-
| lar objects wherein no spiritual concern
/ exists. The Ulsterites, said Salisbury,
! have been taunted on their passive atti-
/ tude. He did not believe in unqualified
! doctrine of passive endurance. II believe"
/ said the premier, that the title OF both
/ kings and parliaments to obedience from
| their subjects depends upon those kings
| and upon pariaments observing the funda-
/ mental laws and understandings whereby
! they rule Parliament has right TO gov
| ern people with laws, but nOt right to
! sell them into slavery. Enthusiastic
/ cheering | do not believe in unlimited
and unrestricted power OF parhaments any
| more than in such power OF kings. Par
| liaments, like kings, may take course
which, while technically within legal
limits, is yet entirely at variance with the
Understandings of the constitution where
by they rule"
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