New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-05-08
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London, May 1T is not too much 10 say 'ha'
with Lord Salisburys speech yesterday the q"es-
ton of Home Rule for Ireland has entered upon
a new phase. If protests from lister may ha>c
no effect on Gladstone they have made a ueep
impression on Lord Salisbury. lie said yesterday
81 know no event more important, no symptom
more menacing than the opinions which have Deeh
lately put forward by Ulster leaders, apparently
with deep sincerity and full conviction OF 'he
responsibility they involve" Mr.. Morley asks
what they dread. They dread, answers loro
Salisbury, being put under the 1eet OF ,he'r
hereditary and rreconcilabe enemies. is there
O worse fate TO he given to any man Iheh h''
goes on: Remember that everything the Ulster
man holds dear will he in the hands of Dr. Walsh
and his political friends Everything the
wealth which they produce, all their commerce.
all their fourishng agriculture, all the clrcum-
stances which distinguish them from the rest Oh
Ireland will he at the mercy of the majority over
whom no check will exist. Is that not Ter
rible fate TO which TO condemn any
man?, The Prime Minister of England
justiies the threatened resistance OF uis.ei
70 the threatened dominion of the priests lie
scouts the dogma of passive obedience
Lord Salisbury denies the right even OF Imperiai
Parliament to violate the fundamentai uhuers''i"
ing of the Constitution by virtue oil whi1h ~
rules Il do not believe in the unres'ric''"
power of Parliament any more than 90 III '!'o
unrestricted power of kings" lie neihes i'
limitation in q sentence which will ring thro"sh
the North of Ireland. parliament has 'is"'
to govern the people of ulster' " '"1
not a right 10 sell them INTO e'"'V''
Like the Duke Of Devonshire, ne recahS
the Revolution Of 1858, ard the resls''i,e
Of lister to James H. and he says, WIN ss'i,''-
cance impossible to be missed ii 'i'''''
ohuss If mower. be it on the part of Parliament
or on the part of a king, shouiu ever o'o"' 90
.n,- t,,uro time do not believe that the people
~,,1s.or have lost their sturdy love of freedom
or their detestation of arbitrary power. lie
!, % I'lster 10 decide shopld the case ARISE
whether she will resist and in what way nut 'heh
sauou.s ,h. most momcntous declaration OF all
" Ru, cannot help seeing in the language OF those
who herald this approaching change the bclief tat
,ha military force of England will he employed
IN subject the people of Ulster 10 Dr
y.Isb and his political friends. Political prophecy
;s .Iuavs uncertain but think | may venture
IN prophesy that any attempt on the part OF any
Government TO pcrpetrate such an outrage az '"is
would rend society in two" That Dlnds. al any
rate. one great party in this klngdom. 'he parry
which now governs it. and Is CERTAIN aV SUN.
6av to govern il again. 1t pledges TO the support
of lister half the people OF England Az VIZ"
draws from the priests OF Ireland all nope Oh oeis
able TO use British troops to reduce Cls'er 10 SUI
;.ction save when and for 50 long as the uiau
stonians are in power In other worGs . .',''a
Wishes TO resist she has only to bide her .ii''c
crch ia ,be prospect Home Rule ana. ilollc
p,l.rs ENGLISH and Irish, have now to 1ace. IL
hos lang threatened civil war in Ireland ~ ho"
.brcateps civil war in England also
Nine hundred aud rinety-nine PROTESTANT 'oH
oonformist ministers Of Ireland have addresseu u
Mr.. Gladstone an appeal against an lrisi' p'iii'
rnent and the subjcctiOn of great fro.es'ah, ooi-
munities 10 Roman Catholic rule. Ills '"'"'i
was that he derived no new Information iioin 'i,i
do.nmen, II was suggested TO him that this might
to ,bought con,emptuous. He replied that his ell
caoements were numerous. His NINA may "
onen on other questions, 1t is not open on i'
Rule and the prospect of religious persecution,
legislative oppression OF the minority, or oi CIV"
uar as an escaue from persecution and oppression
leaves him unmOVed .
I, is long since the Gladstonians have been IN
srh GOOD shirts as they were in the middle OF the
week They had somehow got rid OF Mr. biahe
and his terrible Home Rule notion. For weeks
they had been in Great alarm Mr.. Banes reso
luton was q motion expressly affirming the cN-
pedency of a particular kind of Home KuIe. No
body could say what debate might bring for'h'
The House would be called on 10 say Aye or NO
20 the resolution, and there was no doup' "iaV
the House would say. II would negative inc
resolution, by large majority, but what wonid
English Home Rulers say? What would Clad
stone say? Anything would he better thah 10
depart from the policy of secrecy on which he
believes his success depends. To refuse to say
anything would be to depart from the traditions
OF the House, some OF which the old parliamentary
hand still respects 1t would be tantaInount to a
confession that he dare not put before the country
the scheme which he asks the country to sanction.
The dilemma was so difficult that tremendous eff
forts were made TO suppress Mr.. Blame and his
motion. They have succeeded. Their success
shows how amenablc the most irrcc0ncilabc Irish
politician may he to reason. The Par
nellites are the most irrcconcablc Of
all, yet even them the appeal
to reason and TO practical politics is not thrown
away. They have been made to see that mystery
is essential 10 Home Rule, that preparations for
IL can best be carried OH behind veil, and that
Mr. Blame was likely u tear of the veil IL is
probable that his motion was meant 10 embarrass
the anti-Parneites. No doubt il would have EN-
barrassed them, but it would have embarrassed
tho Gadstonians far more, and, therefore, it has
been dropped Its failure is, taken BY itself
OF good omen for the cause Of Home Rule An
immediate difficulty has been got rid Of, far
gravor difficulty Of the future may disappear with
equal facility when the time comes. If the Irish
will listen to what they have called reason now
50 may they then the question Of the indepen
dence of the Dublin Parliament They may
acquiesce in some compromise; they may accept q
measure which shall give them prctcXt for de
scnbng it in Ireland as independent and leave
the Gadstonans excuse for arguing in Eng
land that it is strictly dependent and subordinate
to the Imperial Parliament. No wonder the
Gladstonians are rejoicing II there were ne
Ulster they might be quite happy.
The Popc's new brief to the French Cardinals
gives him another claim on the goodwill Of Frencf
Republicans and OF other Republicans. lie re-
afims the doctrines OF his Encyclical which hao
been challenged he enjoins in explicit terms the