New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-12-11

sion; but if you consider what the landed inter
est or this country means and represents. it is
! hardly an extravagant expression.
There is, at any rate, no question Of party, or
of party politics, in this present movement
1t is too serious for politics 1t is the effort
| of half-ruined and half-desperatc men who have
long appealed for help to others. and are now
trying to help themselves Their real difficulty
is far more serious than the hostility of doc
trinaires. The farmers would make short work
of the dOctrnaires If they had nobody behind
them. Their difficulty is that In this country
Protection means two things-one thing to the
farmer and another to the artisan. The farmer
can only he saved by a tax on food. and TO
tax food the artisan will never consent. un-
less he gets an equivalent In some form OF pro-
lection that would raise his wages. If they could
agree they would soon the Free-Iradc
engine.
The resolution Of this Conference makes an at
tempt to meet this difficulty. II begins with
the assertion that the unfair competition of un-
taxed foreign imports with home produce an!
manufactures" adversely affects every trade and
industry in this country. 1t is plausibly put
but the artisan at thirty shillings week wants
to know what it would mean in the price of the
loaf The farmers, moreover, have weakened
their case and arrayed almost the whole financial
world against them by their adoption Of bimctal-
lism The double load is too heavy. Protection
in England, remote as it may he, is conceivapie
thing. Bimetalsm is not. But who could en-
pcct body Of plain farmers TO resist the sonorous
eloquence and captivating manners of Mr.. Henry
Chaplin? No more affecting spectacle has ever
been seen in public life than that Of Mr.. Chaplin,
Lord Salisbury's Minister of Agriculture, publcly
embracing Archbishop Wa sh and commencing him
TO an English assembly an authority In finance
l,tnh
Chaplin's eyes atones for his political heresies-
to have discovered that the true cause OF Ire
lands woes is the increase in tn" value OF gold,
and the true remedy for them bimetalsm
The proceedings of the second day fell Hat after
this They were, however, at least as practical
The farmers have resolved to ask Parliament to
free the land from rates and taxes, and - amend
the law of land tenure. They have formed a
trade union, moreover, and resolved on a con-
tnuous agitation That compcates the political
situation still further and English parties may
vet split into groups. French fashion, and with
French results.
Mr.. Morley's Newcastle speech. made after his
conference with Lord Rosebery, is interesting
from several points Of view; most interesting OF
all as a forecast of the true nature of the com
ing Home Ruls bill. If anybody except Mr.
Gladstone knows the truth about that still
embryonic if not nebulOus measure, il is Mr.
Morley He has the full confidence of his chef
1t might be more pertinent TO Say that Mr. Glad
stone has Mr. Morley's full confidence. The
Prime Minister is this subject the pupil OF
his present subordinate. Mr. Morley Is the iiome
Rule Gamaliel, at whose feet the Old Parla-
mentary Hand sat. Every word that falls from
the Irish Secretary has. therefore. every clam 20
| careful attention; the more so as there are few
OF them, and those few all in the most guarded
! tone
| But Mr.. Morley is too emotional politician 20
keep secrets well Something slips ont when he
| is most reserved HIS speech has made marked
| impression, and two conclusions are pretty
| generally irawn from it, First, that moderate
| hill is 70 be brought in; second that it will not
| be passed. He speaks of an adjustment between
what Great Britain is willing 10 concede and what
Ireland is willing TO accept He says the Gov
ernment will face the House of Commons with
scheme which Ireland ought TO accept. He re-
fers soemny 70 the heavy responsibility which
will rest upon IrIshmen who shall make difficult
tics or interpose Obstacles Twice over he repeats
! that il is scheme which Ireland ought not 10
refuse.
| All this points to moderate bill and confirms
| the account sent you last week. 50 does Mr..
Morlcys dismal view of what is likely to happen,
/
bodinc of failure lie tells his constituents and
the country that he sees no reason to despair.
That is the es', Mr. Morley say to nspirit his
allies II is like that message which Napoleon
sent after the first defeat Of the French in 1870;
| "Tout peut Sc retabr." The world rightly IN
terpreted il as Il message OF disaster MI. morley
deprecates the spirit Of faction, well knowing tha'
il is the factous rivalry between the two sections
Of Irish Home Rulers which threatens to enhance
rho demands of each and that each will force
the other 70 reject moderate measure. III VIII
Ina a crievous and fatal thing, cries Mt. MOT
low with tears in his voice. if the fabric Of self
Government for Ireland is undermined ana over
thrown nv any section OF Irelands own children.
w. dorbt il will: and no doubt such melancholy
rnirge uicht wisely be addressed 70 Ireland
o,,.n children in private TO proclaim them from
,ha bousctons is what no prudent Home Knlc
,..;ion ,,ould do He has all unwittlnSiy
,;,.o, much aid and comfort 70 his Cniohlst
opponents.
An Mor,ovs defence Of the Eviction Com
,;.oio, docs little credit 10 his ingenuity, ana
,.a. to his candor. His defence of the priests
ond % nriestlv intimidation in South Mca'h
,,o,,o0 ono wonder whether it is really Mr. Johh
Morley who is speaking, or whether prlc'uS
intimidation is, perchancc, making itseli iciC III
DnbIin Castle also He IL, neverthccss' iihpa-
ticnt and angry at the disclosure OF "hac Is
coinr on in Ireland. lie has 10 iieeV !" '',n0-
how His way of meeting it is to assert that
,ho Irish intelligence published in journals clrcn-
lating among the cultivated classes is Tor tle
,os, narto n collection of distortions and eXag-
rora,ions "and of good, broad unaduteratcd
lies The word "le" in the mouth OF
philosophical politician seems to indica'e .ilaO
politics and political passion have got the oc''cr
of philosophy.
Lord Rosebcry returned on Monday from ire
,,nd His conference with Mr.. Morley lasted
.'.,a oavs Whether he saw Archbishop Walsh