The Irish standard., 1893-11-11
TEE IRISH STANDARD: SATURDAY, 'NONEMBER IL

TEE I'd
The speeches delivered by Mr.. Red
nond in Dublin, Waterford, Cork and
other places, indicate that the Liberal
party need not expect any assistance
from bimsslf and his eight parliament
colleagues on any British measures If the
evicted tenants question is hung up until
1894. Mr.. Redmond has gone go far as
to say that his little party refuses any
longer to be part and parcel OF the Lib
eral party and will only attend in the
House when purely Irish matters are
under discussion. His independent at
tituae has caused alarm in the cabinet,
and Mr.. Morley, Chief Secretary for Ire
land, and Mr.. Aequith, the Home Score
tary, are said to be in disagreement upon
the policy to be pursued on Iri>h affairs
Mr.. Morley favors the introduction be-
fore Christmas of bill for fhe relief OF
the Irish evicted tenantry and the release
of several more of the political prisoners,
while Asquith and the majority OF the
members Of the ministry are strongly op.
posed to any such action. William
O'Brien and John Dillon believe that the
government will reinstate the evlcted
tenants this session, but the Gladstonian
ministers privately deny that they have
given any pledges to that effect.
Though we deprecate the conduct OF
the Parnel!ites in several respects, we
cannot but admire the position they
have taken on the questions of the
evicted tenantry and the political prison
ers. When Mr.. Asquith, one of the FORE
most members of Gladstones cabinet,
refuses to release any of The prisoners
until they have served their full terms of
penal servitude, and absolutely refuses
to admit Miss Maud Come and other
philanthropic persons from visiting them
to inquire into their mental and physical
condition, it is about time for Irishmen
to question his sincerity as an advocate
of Irish Home Rule.
+. If Gladstone passes away before the
Home Rule bill becomes law, Sir VIM.
Harcourt will likely succeed him as the
leader of the Liberal party, and if that
patty by passing British measures will
increase it's majority at the next election
to the extent of being able to conduct
the business of the House without any
aid from the Irish members we fear
that Home Rule will be indefinitely
pigeon. holed.
We are beginning to think that the
McCarthyite members are allowing too
much leverage to the Liberal party and
that they may have cause to regret it.
Under these circumstances we cannot
blame Redmond and his followers for
their present opposition to the govern
n1ent. The Tories, of course, are iubi-
lapt over the recalcitranoy of the Par
nellites, and Lord Randolph Churchill
rec, ntly eulogized Redmond, though tho
latter had declared that he disliked to
vote with the Tory party against the
Gladstonians.
To keep both sections of the Irish
party in a conciliatory mood and pre-
vent the breaking-up of the alliance ex-
listing between the Irish and the Liberal
parties, the Gladstone ministry may be-
compelled to pass Irish measures
currently with British measures during
the present session instead OF devot'ng
the entire term to British measures
alone. The friends of Ireland in this
country are Interested in the pro.
ceedings Of the British parliament, and
though they believe that the British
democracy are entitled to remedial legis-
lation, they also believe that the great
question of Irish Home Rule and other
pressing Irish questions should not be
entirely neglected by the administration