Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-24
A HOME RULE BILL
Bound to Be Urged by Mr..
Gladstone With the Least
Possible Delay.
DISTRUST ALREADY RIFE
In the Minds of Many Who Are
Being Imposed on by Liberals.
FEW DOUBT GLADSTONE'S HONOR,
But the Same Blind Trust Is Not Placed
in His Colleagues.
PROSPECTS OF BRITISH POLITICS
DISTRUST ALREADY RIFE
FEW DOUBT GLADSTONE'S HONOR,
But the Same Blind Trust Is Not Placed
in His Colleagues.
PROSPECTS OF BRITISH POLITICS
rBY CABLE TO THE DISPATCH. !

LONDON, July 23.-[ Copyright THE at
tempt to SOW distrust between the Liberals
and their Irish allies has been vigorously
continued this week by Tory and Liberal
Unionist newspapers and orators So far
it has not met with much of success, be-
cause sensible people prefer to wait until
Mr.. Gladstone, from his place in Parlia-
ment shall have taken the country into his
confidence as to his intentions
But suspicion does not take long to root
in the minds of the Irish Nationalists, who
know from history and experience how
often their country's cause has been be-
trayed by British statesmen, and ii he is to
receive the loyal support of the Irish men,
bers it will be necessary for Mr.. Gladstone
to speak without ambiguity at the earliest
convenient moment. This is the more de-
sirable, inasmuch as remarks in some
Liberal newspapers are calculated to i'm
plant distrust In the Irish mind. 1t has
been urged in some of these organs of ad-
vanced opinion that ireland should be
persuaded to agree to a postponement of
home rule until, by various popular elect
oral and social reforms, or their rejection
by the House of Lords, the Liberal party
shall have been so strengthened as to insure
its return TO power after the next general
election by an overwhelming majority.
That of course affords a most alluring
prospect for British Liberals, but it is not
one which the Irish Nationalists can regard
with satisfaction.
Not Many People Doubt Gladstone.
Few people doubt Mr. Gladstone's good
faith, but the same trust is not placed in
his colleagues, who, with perhaps the soli-
tarv exception of John Morley, adopted
home rule as mere political e1pediency,
and require the application of the Irish
spur to keep them going in the right path.
Ii these men had the handling of the Lib
eral majority, independent of the Irish
vote, they could not be trusted to give Ire
land full measure of Justice, should Mr..
Gladstone be cut of the way, and thus it is
the obvious duty of the Nationalists to in
Sist that no delav shall now be allowed in
pressing forward a home rule bill
Information obtained by DISPATCH re-
porters leaves no room for doubt that Mr.
Gladstone is most earnestly resolved to pro-
ceed with a home rule bill with the least
possible delay. A vote of want of conf
dence in the present Government will be
moved and pressed TO a division as quickly
as the forms of Parliament permit, and as
Parliament will be prorogued in order that
the Liberal members may have a much
needed holiday previous to commencing,
probably in November the hard work of
passing home rule bill in the face of the
determined and unscrupulous opposition
and obstruction of the Tories and Mug
wumps.
The Grand Old Mans Movements.
Contrary to expectation, Mr.. Gladstone
proceeded direct to Hawarden from Scot
land, and according to present arrangements
he will not come to London before the
middle of next week. There is really no
need for him to come to town earlier, now
that the Government has determined to
wait until the assembling of Parliament be-
fore resigning. He does not presumably
share the general curiosity as to the mean
ing of the frequent ministerial confer
ences which have taken place in
London this week, and of the long in
terview which the Duke of Devonshire
had with Lord Salisbury yesterday. Some
people connect these movements with the
monstrous suggestion to which the inspired
Morning Post gave great prominence, yes
terday, that the ministers should hold on
to Office at least until next February. After
pointing out that there is really no business
for the new Parliament to do because, before
the necessary supplies for carrying on the
business of the country, the Post proceeds:
In view of the fact that the Government
now have not to deal with a homogeneous
united opposition, but only with a dis
iointed horde of factions in little or no sym-
pathy with each other, what justification
for a resignation of Office can be found in
the haphazard action of these iactionSon
can Lord Salisbury and HIS colleagues con-
scientiously reconcile with their duty to
their sovereign, their party and their cause,
the precipitate abandonment of their offices
and OF their power in consequence of the
action OF the horde which now disfiyures the
character and degrades the traditions OF
Parliamentary opposition.
Advice to Lord Salisbury.
Advice which may well be offered to Lord
Salisbury and his colleagues, in the event of
a resolution of want of confidence being ar
rived at by the present House of Commons
during the next few days, is to take on it no
ministerial action beyond that of advising
the sovereign to prorogue Parliament till
the normal period for its assemblage ar
rives. Then the ministerial programme will
be submitted. Then the ministers will in
vite Parliament to proceed with the
ordinary business of the year. Then and
then only, should Parliament reject their
proposals, will be the time for them to de-
eide upon the resignation OF office.
This was the very danger that Mr. Glad
stone foresaw when the Commons was asked
to grant full supply instead of giving the
customary vote on account and it was under
stood at the time that be received from Mr..
Balfour assurances that the Ministers would
not attempt to do that which their organ in
the press is now urging them to do. 1t 10
not likely, therefore, that the Government
will follow the dishonorsble advice ten
dered by the Morning Post even though it
has been indorsed by Tory newspaper of
less note.
The Arbeiter Zeit,ng, the chief labor organ
in Austria, yesterday remarked that more
significant than the turning of the Con-
servstive majority into a Liberal one is the
fact ''that for the first time in England the
organized working classes, during the re-
cent general election, figured as an indie
pendent party, under the flag of socialism,
and gained victories"
Prevalent Mfsconception.
A similar misconception prevails in other
European countries, and distorted view of
the so-called labor party may have been
taken in America. As matter of fact of
10 members who constitute the misnamed
"labor" party in the new House of Com |
Commons, only one, viz John Burns, stood |
for election as a labor candidate, pure and
simple. !
Mr.. William Austin was successful in |
West Limerick because he was the nominee |
of the Nationalist party, and the other IS |
men described themselves and were elected as |
Liberal and labor candidates. Every one |