New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-04-30
THE NEWS OF EUROPE.
IRISH VOICES RAISED IN LONDON AGAINST
HOME RULE
c,r.,E OF THE INCOME TAx-MR' BRYCE
,.xC,sTER MAGISTRATES THE
HULL srRIKE-MR' BALfook On LII
ERArURE-rHE ROYAL ACADEMY
Mr.. LINCOLN
inv CABLE 10 THF TGlBvYE.I


10 1Iif TEiBtNEi
r...,,i,s, 1898, byth Tribune Assoeioto
son Anril 29-Thc Home Ru" recofh OF
Aon A.o,- s bappily shorter than usual
tne - 81 Commons has brief respite from
A." nexv coercion The two attempts to ran the
- ynlo fame which is at best but fckcrinS
O.. hoye had no success There was moment
=, Thursday wlNn the accidental discharge oil d
-.y.lvsr in Downing-st. the night before offered
.ome prospect of rousng popular 1eeiing' Inc
.aning napcrs announced in their largest type
on attempt to shoot Mr.. Gladstone ana MI
Sexton in the House of Commons put question:
n the Home Secretary in his largest Hahhei D"'
nothing has yet come OF 1t.
There were hopes in Home Rule breasts that 'he
disturbances in Belfast might be turned u ''eir
purpose The man who dIenched these hoPcs Ill
The cold water of pure fact was Mr.. Jo'h NUT
lev He tecgraphed the Home 'cor''"'
that ample protection had been ohe'cd 10 Na'"o
lcs supnosed 10 be in danger of Protestant attack
nj or on leaving the slipyards, tha' 'o'ouS
ayailed himself Of this protection. that the H.
,r-,.. inflicted consisted of a few blows and kicks,
that work was going on as usual, that fro'estah'
vo,kmen escorted their Catholic fellow workers
home: in short that there was littl" founda'loh
for IN, exaggerated accounts current IN Loh"oh
and retailed with further eNaggcratoh 10 '"0
House of Commons by those interested IN ou'ideeS
On the other hand it is clear that large NUMBERS
% workman in Uarland & VOLTS shipyard re-
sented the presence not of Roman Catholics, but
of Home Rulers There and elsewhere ehor's
were made to elbow them out. Mr. Woii wiieu
his men If you have any sense, drop II.
They had sense and dropped it, and there IS oluer
in Belfast Mr. Wolff, not content WIN 'niS'
went to Belfast ard read his men lecture oller
Unionist employers seconded his EFFORTS bi'
imagine, If YOU can, Home Rule Parliament III
Dublin, with Mr. Iealy and Mr.. O'Brien coercng
Belfast. What do yon suppose the result
would De?
The impression made by the Albert HAIL meet
ing last SATURDAY is a deep one. The 200 Irish
delegates who came to tell London what one Ire
land thinks of Home Rule were half from Ulster
falf from the southern counties. Ten thousand
Londoncrs assembled in Albert Hall 70 welcome
tlem and to listen 10 them. 1t was an eXtraor-
dinary sccnc and not the least extraordinary
incident of il was the speech by the Bishop of
Derry. Seldom is such painness o. speech heard
from prelatc lie adopted Lord Randolph
Churchill's name for the bill, a great betrayal,
and declared that Home Rule would make slaves
of the minority, land since when have ensavcd
freemen been denied the right of resistance
asked the Bishop.
1t was demonstration the like of which Lon
don, the home of demonstrations, has never seen
Others followed it, There were dinners, recep-
tions. speeches, and garden party AT Hatfield.
The Duke of Devonshire one of the most sa sacious
and prudent of men, and Lord Salisbury, one OF
the most energetic agreed in their assurances to
these Irish delegates that England would never
desert them and that Home Rule against the will
of England is the merest chimera. The Lord
Mayor an ardent Catholic received them also, and
declared his entire sympathy with the Loyalists
Of Ireland That sympathy is all but universal
in the City Of London. where true Liberalism has
long been and still is the prevailing force. A
Parliamentary expression Of II may be read in the
thirty pages of amendments to the Home Rule
bill about 500 altogether, which but the fore
taste of what is 10 come in Committee. Parlia-
mentary experts now calculate that the committee
stage of the bill may last three months.
Sir William IIarcourt las achieved the disinc-
ton of producing budget which everybody dis
likes except himself. He had TO face deficit for
the coming year of million and half sterling
lie fills it by adding a penny to the income tan
the penny being estimated to produce that sun
and quarter of a million more. He admits that
this is mere makcshift finance. II is not fair
of the income tax, and it leaves untouched
those very anomalies and inequalities of taxation
which most disquiet the radical mind. Sir Will
iam's excuse j. that there is no time to deal with
the death duties or with any other financial lues
tions which would involve large rcadustmen'
of the incidence of taxation Home Rule block,
the way. Ii is from one point Of view a sufficient
excuse; but nothing can Justify his resort TO an
Increase of the income tax. Even hnanclerS lik'
Mr.. Goschen, whose view of such questions is
purely technical, cry ont against IT, The income
tax, said the late ChalIccllor OF the EXchcqner
10 rl,-f hn fed
emergencies Sir Williams use of it merely t'
cover deficit is in Mr.. GOschcn's opinion, unjust
and il Is not finance at all.
But there are two much broader oolec'io"'
II is party move. and it presses with eN.i'"'' -,
severity on a class which cannot d"i"hh hs'i'
The political power Of the GladstOn!ahs rests J"
far az England is concerned, on 'h' "o'N'''
classes. Their contributions to the puplc rc'e""'
are almost wholly indirect. They pay a A'ti'
tobacco. tea, whiskcy, on hcei. ih'
income tax docs not reach them, iecaus" t"el
incomes do not reach tie limit az when II fc@ihs
Therefore il is that party winch fcl'S on th'i
votes puts portion of this new burden on thc'i
Sir William IIarcourt has. in fact adopted "a
the principle OF lis budget the maxim Of MIR. Bei
Tillett with which last year he wooed the suf
fragcs OF orl ltord. tat tANes should he eViet
by tire poor AID paid " ne :i:h. There is cn'
qualification they are TO be paid in this cas'
not Ey the rich nut mostly by those of INC Cderat'
income derived from TIE professions an1 iron
small trades. The bulk of the income tax l
derived fl)m incomes not exceeding $4,000
yearly. II is a tax, not on property but oI
brains but since IL is the middle CLASSES wh
nav il. and since the middle classes longe
4 majority. Gladstonian Chancellor of the Ex
cheouer is content 10 eXtort an niquitous trbut
from victims who neither resist nor resen
his action.
The Ministry has paid of part of its debt 4
the labor vote by carrying the second reading o
the Employers Liability bill. There was a debate
but no division. and the party gain will there
fore be less than if this measure could be repre-
entcd 20 the suffering artisans as party triumph
over the wicked Tory. 1t was, however, opposes
By Mr. Forwood on behalf of the employers an
by Mr.. Mathews, late Home Secretary. on behal