The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1893-03-04

misery of the people. Placed against all
! this his policy of extending British dc
minioa seems inconsistent, thing that
| keeps the Conservatives IN perpetual
state of wonder when he goes further
than any Tory ever dared 60, how can he
consistently remain in the Liberal camp"
they ask. 1t dazzles them and they can
not but admire and praise him for his
effectual services in their cause. If
they went SO far he would promptly call
| halt, because the Liberals, not being
rooted in the policy, can offer check;
! but when a Liberal chooses to be an i'm
perialist what is there to prevent his
going to any l-ngth? He has explained
his reasons often, but, naturally enough,
Lord Dnudreary fails to comprehend
them since Lord Rosebery reasons from
g middle and low class standpoint. John
Bull understands him and Tommy At
| kins also.
1t g,es without saying that his posi-
tion on the Irish question is unequivo-
cally for Home Rule He frankly &C
cepted the policy and has given powerful
support to Mr., Gicfktone in the great
movement. He has bkrhaps best ex-
pressed himself upon this much agitated
subject in his life of William Pitt:
"There was curse upon the act
o: union. It drove it's very author from
Office ia the full plenitude of his power
and in the very moment of the triumph
of passing it. So all went wrong, as it
has gone ever since; and it is one of the
drawbacks of the ,nckless measure that
it left all the machinery of Independence
when it took away the parliament. 1t
was like cutting the face out Of a por-
trait and leaving the pic ure in frame
every characteristic of & separate es-
tate, everything to remind mon of what
had been remained. 1t was impossible
to destroy that Ionian colonnade, which
remains one of the g1ories of Dublin. So
the government transformed into the
Bank of Ireland the noble hall, which
had resounded with some Of the highest
fights of human eloqnence, which was
connected with such names as Flood,
Grattan and Charlemont and which was
1mper.shably imbued with the proud
memories of an ancient nationality!
Men as they passed murmured that that
was toe home of their parliament, which
nothing hid obliterated and nothing had
replaced"
Since 1871 Lord Rosebery has been
constantly before the public, and, al
though only in his forty sixth year,
brings to the conduct of the foreign Of
fec twenty one years of experience in
public affairs. He had long baen marked
out for office whea appointed under Sec
retary of the home office. He could
have had higher place with less work,
but preferred the experience to be gained
in the ranks. When he had got all he
wanted out of this office he retired and
returned in, '85 to become lord privy seal.
In 1886, with Gladstone's return to
power, Lord Rosebery attained to the
foreign office. Although he had but a
short time to prove his fitness for the
post, he won general approval and
throughout all the civilized world be-
came known as statesman of the first
rank. The highest tribute that could be
paid him is the fact that on his retire.
ment he was universally indicated for
the Office in any future Liberal govern
ment. To that position he has now re-
turned and after only a few months in
cumbency is freely spoken OF as Glad
stones successor following an interreg-
mum by Sir William Vernon Harcourt.
As if this were not enough for any man
to have achieved, Lord Rosebery got for
wife daughter Of Baron Rothschild,
of London. They live together very hap
PLY and unostentatiously; he busy with
public affairs and she with her children
and charity. Lady Rosebery died in
1890, leaving two sons and two daugh-
tecs, the oldest Of whom, Lord DalmeDy,
is now fourteen.
For time the earl retired to Dalmeny
Castle, Scotland, and it was feared he
would not return to public life In the
meantime he wrote his life of Pitt, and
his bereavement had time to grow less
keen before the general election of '92
again forced him into the arena Of poll
tics,where he has instantly been awarded
the highest honors.
Archbishop Ryan.