Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-29
GOOD AS AN ESCAPE PIPE.
America to Be Swooped Down Upon
by Both Factions, Who Come
TO GET HOLD OF NEEDED DOLLARS.
How Balfour Secured Such q Large Ma
jority for His Pet Bill.
EFFORTS TO PROVE GLADSTONE WRONG
CBY CABLE TO THE DISPATCH ]

United States has at length had some effect
upon the Irish factions on this side. The
leaders continue to bluster at each other in
public, but privately they are making ami
cable arrangements designed to prevent the
Tories winning any seats in Ireland at the
general election, now so near, at the e1-
pense of divided Nationalist. This will
not prevent Parnellites and anti -Parnellites
having good stand-up fight in every con-
stituency in which their dissensions cannot
possibly be utilized by the common enemy,
so that there will still be much wholesome
blowing off of steam, and possibly some
blood-letting, for the benefit of the plethoric
body polite.
This is as it should be, and nobody will
complain except those who are constitu-
tionally untitled to enjoy good rousing
fight, or some others who, having strain
Of sluggish English blood in their Irish
veins, regard the proposed arrangement as
q sinful waste of good money which could
be more proftably spent.
How BaIfour SwelIed Majority.
The anti-Parnellites have appointed an
election committee upon which they have
wisely given Michael Davitt a seat, and the
Parnellites are busily engaged in complet-
ing their work of organization. Both sides,
in truth, were so engrossed in this business,
laudable enough in itself, that 80 Irish
members STAYED away from the division on
the local government bill, with the result
that Mr. Balfour carried the second reading
of that remarkable measure by majority of
90 instead of about 40, which would have
been the number had the attendance been
normal.
Simple-minded Tories, who credited the
Government with a desire to pass the bill,
were so elated over the result that they
talked loudly of placing the measure on the
statute book this session despite Liberal
obstruction, but Mr.. Balfour and other we'll
informed gentlemen on the ministerial
bench looked anything but pleased at their
unexpected triumph The cry of obstruction
which is to be shouted by every Tory
fighter in the coming struggle will lose
much of its effect in the circumstances
because electors will be unable to under
stand why q strong Government, which car
ried the second reading of the bill by
majority of nearly 100, was unable to pass
it into law, nor will it be so easy to find
decent excuse for dropping the bill, but it
Will have to be done, and the official an
nOuncement of the sacrifice will probably
be made next week.
Efforts to Prove Gladstone Wrong.
Upon the eve of a struggle in which Ire
lands dearest interests are involved Mr..
John II. Parnell, gentleman who is begin
ming TO presume over much on his pa
tronymic, has considered it seemly and
timely to deliver lecture in the citv of
Cork for the purpose of proving that Mr..
Gladstone is s knave, fool and liar. Mr.
John Redmond is going to New York
shortly with the avowed view of
demonstrating q similar proposition. In
H. o1s 81
Irishmen in America that black is white,
and that minority is really a majority
He hopes to return with not less than
$50. 600, with which to propagate his pecu-
liar propaganda. The other party think of
sending an envoy to warn their fellow
countrymen and friends in New York
against the wicked wiles of Mr.. John Red
mond, who, it will be shown, is no better
than Tory in disguise, prepared to sell
ireland for British gold.
If American friends of ireland be desir-
Gus of helping the home rule cause they
will adhere TO their wise resolve not to sub
scribe a cent TO either faction until the
leaders have composed their differences,
which are due almost entirely to contend
ing personal ambitions.
The Orangemen are doing their best to
make great show at Belfast on June IL.
when the Unionists' Convention is held.
They are spending money on it, and already
so, 600 have been collected to boom the |
demonstration.
Balfour Won't Talk to orangemen. |
The efforts of the party to secure Balfour |
TO address the convention have failed, SO |
that, though the Duke of Abercorn pre-
sides, the speakers will probably be of the |
caliber of Colonel Saunderson and 7. w. |
Russell The object of the convention is to |
coerce the nervous English voter by hold |
ing up to him the mighty things the Ulster |
men will do if home rule is conceded to the |
Irish Nationalist party, while the religious |
scruples Of the non-contormists will be |
worked upon by prophetic examples of |
what will befall Irish Protestants If priests |
get the upper hand.
A month or two ago the Foreign Office |
was engaged in a lively controversy with
members of Chambers of Commerce who |
complained that British traders are always
placed at a disadvantage with their competi- |
tors, especially in remote countries, owing
to the laziness and indifference of Ministers |
and Consuls who will not move an inch to
help fellow countryman in securing con-
tract for getting access to a market. The |
Foreign Office maintained that the COM
plants were not well founded, but promised |
to inquire as to whether anything further
could be done. The row since brought |
about by the Persian tobacco concession is
not calculated to encourage the Foreign
Ohce to excessive effort on behalf of British
traders.
The Tobacco Monopoly in Persia.
Early last year gentleman named Tai
bot obtained from the Shah for a considers
tion, the concession of monopoly of trad
ing In tobacco throughout Persia. The Per-
SLAMS, generally so docile, kicked with un-
precedented vigor against the monopoly,
and, encouraged by their religious teachers,
even resorted to Western methods of riot
ing and boycotting. Finally the Shah was
compelled TO cancel the concession, and the
Foreign Office, laudably as one would think,
set to work to obtain compensation for the
concessionaires The Shah offered
43Oo, OOO but ultimately had to paw half
million sterling.
Inc phenomenal activity of the Foreign
Office In this matter aroused susnicion.
with the result that certain inouisitiye
Radicals discovered that Mr.. Talbot is a
relative OF Lord Salisbury, EngIand's For
elgn Minister as well as Premier. His
lordshlp was forthwith accused of nepotism.
and be and the Foreign Office people gen,
orally were Indignantly denounced in the
newspapers and in Parliament. The Under
for Foreign Affairs blandlv ex-
plains that the British Government merely
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