New-York tribune., 1892-12-04
CABINET COUNCILS.
IRISH DIFFICULTIES-A FORECAST OF MIN
ISTERIAL DISASTER-MR. GLAD
Try CABLg TO THE TRIBUNE.


Lnro in tho forecasts for the coming scSeioh
Irsb difficulties are among the causes OIL oo'n'
trt are not the sole cause. Out oil deleienoo "
Mr. Depews thirteen millions of adult male A,,ie,i
ran Home Rulers l will begin with Home nun
II is however, hardly necessary 10 waste
on the scheme published this week Ill Ht.
cabed hither, and promptly coh'rauicV" ~ a.
Herbert Gladstone, on whom IT was iaiSciS =.
cred. and by more than one Cabinet Mlnis"i'
needed no contradiction. 1t Is neVer'iioTe9
.,1 as . measure Of American knowledge OF hohe
Rule Two respectable American Journals eo'ni
to have accepted it. AZ least they 'hous"'
worth nri,ting and worth submitting to irish Ie'''-
ers for their opinion. There is not III an N'o
land or all Ireland one serious poh'lcian' ''"
anv one journal of importance, VINO u'u VI 49,
regard this story as anything put a '"n'P"
imposture 1t was an experiment upo' H'"s ,'I;...
ereduity in respect TO lrlSn hna''eIs' q" ,I;
.. Uhic6 therc seem 10 be limits. An irish poll
..o,a., - iceland or in England who should set
his hand 10 such scheme, or assent 10 i.r c,o"
.I on instalment. would not remain polillclah
&C. minutes IL was met with as much rlulcuc
~ Jrpionis as in Home Rule quarters ana IN soiho
cases with the silence of contempt Inc ll'hcs
neither printcd the story nor made an almsloh 'o
IT, "The Standard which sometimes mas el'E
of bumor remarked that the lrIsh tenant Woulu
almost as soon pay rent as find the money lor
such an enterprise. The DalW News oisiilsNc"
il as absurd 1t would satisfy no Irish asplra-
lion except the Office seekers.
Uovino said this much / must add that the
satisfaction of Irish aspirations looks even less
nrobab'e than il did when Mr. Gladstone assumeu
Office Cabinet dscCssions are now believed 10 nave
taken an unexpected shape. l repeat what nave
said before, that l think most accounts OF Whao
Ia hon wi
serve There are. however. scvcnte n Cabinet Minis
ters and seventeen men do not always keep all thc
secrets which come TO their knowledge. III de-
tails are not known, the outline Of what has
nassed NAV be known. I will not go fnrther
than 10 say that there is good authority for the
narrative l offer you.
Mr.. Gladstone's first Home Rule proposal to his
nresent colleagues was in the nature of pretty com
petc surrender to the most extreme lrlsh uehlahus'
/ mean not the Fenian demands, but the most eA-
+reme demands Of either section OF the lrlsh paria
mentary party. There is a distinction between
the two; it may he slight, but 1t Is distinction.
This proposal may not have been made known 70
the whole Cabinet, but TO the inner CABINET, which
usually comes to know first about all lmpor'ah,
business 1t was of such character that IL WIS
thought certain TO ALLEVIATE great BODY oil EnghSn
snnnorters Even the Radicals would not stand
it
berment without disguise, or with little disguise
Tonc debate followed. Three or four Cabinet
meetings were chiefly occupied with the discussion
A. least one of Mr. GadstOnc's most lniu"htiai
colleagues declared plumply against It, Some OF
,boso who would agree to anything Mr. Gladstone
wanted felt Obliged 10 po mt oit that the production
of such a bill as he sketchcd would lneVl'apN
wreck the party in the House of Commons, ana
would array the country once for all against HOMO
Rule in any form. The Prime Minister hau 10
oive ,vav The lukewarm Home Rulers saw their
oprortunity and seiz d it, Trey turned an extreme
measure into q measure something more than mod
crate from an Irish point OF view. II Is now i'll
the hands of the parliamentary draughtsman. Nheh
it leaves his hands and Is introduced III tne Ioiin
of a bill, only one result is anticipated Inc lrlsh
,,u rc;oct il They will turn against the Gov
orrr,e,t and tur1 it out. Mr.. Gladstone, seeing
that his hopes OF carving Home Rule are baihcd,
will not only resign but will retire from political
,;fa That is matter of opinion. His MinStry
NAV resign or may dissolve and appeal 10 inc
country. ~,
IT, NAV be thought that such an appeal Will
be homeless, and so perhaps, IT would, were IL
an appeal based on Home Rule pollcy ohiN' OF
mainly: but the programme Is lar o'her"Ise'
ENGLAND. not Ireland is then to have the hrs'
place. The English will be told that whiie the
Liberals still desire 10 do justice TO Irelahn' Ifc
land has blocked the way long enough pro-
gramme Of English reforms Will ma HrGc
nIoca in the Oueen's speech, which Mr. Gladstone
himself will frame, and larger place IN thc
future rolicy of a radicaized Liberal party Inc
,.dicalsm Of the near future threatens to be
q socialistic radcalism. The politics OF the
ronr, are the politics OF the near future. The
ioho,irc man whether he labor in the mill or
IN +bo Nnlds is 10 he the arbtcr Of party politics
A now Reform bill is to increase his numbers,
and bids for his vote will take the shape ol
eirht-hours legislation, OF greater powers Ior
municipal councils of heavier taxation on 'he
rich OF attempts 10 deal with many sor's ol
labor nroblems. including the problem OF the un-
or,n,ovcd and of the social regulation OF labor
in the interests Of the laborcr The Newcaste
programme was thought large when hrst pro-
pounded 1t will not be large enough Wh"i
once tie leadership of the rarty. which VIII nave
ccased :, be merely Liberal shall have passed
out of Mr. Gladstones comparatively CONSERVATIVE
hands. 1t is known that the labor leaders care
little for Irish concerns, or little relatively 70
their own interests The last election was carried
bv shelving Home Rule in "a great many con-
stituencies, both rural ard urban, and bringing
local questions 10 the front The same tactics are
10 he far more generally employed in the next.
Instca,, Of the dismcmbcrmcnt of the Empire, the
reconstruction of socia,y is 60 be pr0poscd-n0t
all a: oncr, hut piecenca.
Such. at any rate is the forecast OF men who
are in a position to know what i Intended
Whether any, and how much, of these rather
sweeping suggestions will be formally adopted,
frs. by tho leaders and then by the party, is a
matter of prophecy Mr.. John Morley no very
long time since stigmatizcd those who indulge
in such visions as drcamcrs Of dreams; bat there
are those who think that Mr.. John Morley HIM
self, few years ago a Radical Of the Radicals
now belongs in the rcarguard. Mr. Gladstone
excepted, Mr.. Morley is the one Cabinet Minister
OF authority before the country who can be called
convinced Home Ruler. II he has had 10
acquicsce in a Home Rule bill doomed before
hand IN rejection by the Irish. il may be guessed