The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-09-26
Mr.. Gladstone's Troubles Beginning.

Mr.. GLADSTONE has scarcely had time to
set his administration in working order,
yet already there are signs Of ~insubordina-
ton among some OF the groups whose COM
bination enabled him to defeat Lord SAILS
BURY by the narrow majority Of forty.
These indications OF a restless and refrac-
tory temper appear not only in the Par
~ncllites. and in the knot Of English Radi-
calls who find a spokesman in Mr.. La
BoUCHERE. but also in the Scotch Radicals.
who constitute more than half OF all the
members OF Parliament returned from
Scotland. There arc. moreover. two or
three representatives OF labor who re-
pudiate the notion that they are bound to
support the Liberal chief through thick and
thin. and there are certain Welshmen who
have said that their adherence would de-
pend on their obtaining definite pledges
with respect to disestablishment which
Mr.. GLADSTONE may decline to give. We
pass over such minor sources OF annoyance
and Of weakness. although. as every vote
lost counts two on a division. even sporadic
detection may bring a majority OF forty
dangerously near the vanishing point.
The attitude Of the Parnellites.. whose
Parliamentary leader is Mr.. JOHN E. RED
MoND. is undoubtedly becoming ominous.
At several public meetings held in Ireland
during the last few weeks their spokesman
have declared that they will oppose the
GLADSTONE Government unless 1t liberates
the Irish prisoners who were convicted Of
completely In the criminal use Of dynamite.
and unless all evicted tenants are restored
to their former holdings. There is no doubt
that the new Home Secretary will review
the cases OF the prisoners referred to. and
that where. as is acknowledged to have
been the fact in many instances. the evil
dence was glaringly inadequate. the con-
victs will be released. 1t is equally
certain that Mr.. MORLEY is deter.
mined to afford the largest practical
Die measure OF relief to the evicted
tenants. and it is said that he will make
known his project as early as October.
There is a section. however, OF the evicted
tenants for whom it will be difficult to
legislate; we mean those whose former
holdings have passed into the hands OF new
occupants. who. taking advantage of the
AsHBOURNE act or its extension. have bOr-
rowed Government money and purchased
the lands they till. Those particular lands
cannot DO recovered, and tho question Is
whether the Government will undertake to
give the evicted tenants an equivalent In
or In money for their lost tenant
rights. II Mr.. MORLEY does not do this:
II his relief measure stops short Of restitu-
ton to the whole body Of sufferers from
eviction. it is probable that the nine Par
nellite votes in Parliament will be cast
the GLADSTONE Government. That
the attitude Of Mr.. REDMoNp's friends Is
one of suspicion. fnot of open hos.
tility. is shown by the refusal OF the Dublin
Municipal Council. in which they have a
majority, to welcome Lord HoUGHToN. the
new Lord Lieutenant OF Ireland.
Mr.. GLADSTONE has assumed the entire
responsibility for the exclusion Of Mr.. La
from his Ministry. 1t remains
to be seen whether the exclusion was not IL
mistake. While protesting the
admiration for the veteran leader
Of the Liberals, Mr.. L~ABoUcHERE. in the
lntest number of Truth. has signifled an in
Of composing the Home Rule bill. II II
provides for the retention OF Irish members
at Westminster. Mr.. LABOUCIIEKE Is per-
fectly aware that the bill of 1886 was re-
jected because of its failure to provide for
such retention. and that n change OF pro-
grammc in this respect was exacted by the
old %fashioned Liberals. who constitute a
fraction Of Mr.. GLADsToNE's follow
crs. They probably could not be prevailed
upon to vote for n bill which did not keep
repr 'scntat'vrs of Ireland IN tho imperial
assembly. Mr.. L~ABoUcHERE knows this.
aud when he says that le will not submit to
a provision of that tenor. he seems to
reveal an Intention OF killing the bill. II
Ilislhmen, he says, are to manage their
affairs at Dublin they have no business to
image English affairs ut Westminster.
That is the Tory argument. and it does not
sound we'll in n Radicals mouth. No doubt
some practical difficulty will be encountered
in discriminating between imperial ques-
tions upon which Irish members would
nave a right to vote. and English or Scotch
questions with which Irishmen could
scarcely with propriety interfere. With q
little patience and sagacity. however. .
mode Of discrimination can probably DO de-