New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-03-12
THE NEWS OF EUROPE.
-, c1ApSTONE'S REFUSAL TO RECEIVE
THE IRISH DEPUTATION.
srpvATIvE PARTY AFFARS-LoED RAN
,orpu CHURCHILL-GRIMsBY ELECTION
IRISH ToPICs-THE WELSH MuTINY-
English PRAISE OF MIR. CLEvE-
IAND-THE AMERICAN LINE.
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LAND-THE AMERICAN LINE.
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.,,vrioM 1898 By The Tribune Association.
,.rdon March ll.-Mr. Gladstone's refusal to
..;r. a deputation of Irishmen representing the
:.ss interests of the three southern prov
pa' n Ireland is very characteristic of him. The
S,.ss interests are against Home Rule away
-, ,hem suppress them, stifle their voice. The
IA n the great Home Ruler is made up. and
:, mt 10 be turned aside by such trifies as
Va. manufactures, or the general prosperity
:" a. country he is going to ruin.
ri. deputation is wholly outside of Ulster.
:. came in the name of neither politics nor relig-
- II included the real representatives OF
,., industry of Irish finance, of Irish railways,
- Irish trade and industry in general outside
:, rlster They asked to lay statement OF
..,. before the Prime Minister. lie would none
~ them. or their facts He refused curtly. The
aoor was shut in their faces. They went to
Io,d Salisbury. They told him that the proposed
pome Rule bill would unsettle the country, per-
,stuate discord, drive away capital and capital
-. II meant said the Governor of the Bank
=, Ireland ruin and destruction to the country
There were replies to these weighty representa-
,ons by Lord Salisbury, Mr.. BalfOur, Mr.. Goschen,
lord Randolph Churchill, the Duke of Devonshire,
u, chamberlain and Sir Henry James, the flower
Al the united Unionist party. They, too, were
,rerhty. but it is the presence and statements OF
the deputaton itself which must be regarded
"a far more significant than any responses can be-
You must now take account of still another
Ireland and of stiIl another broad division in that
.ysr-dyided country. 1t is not only that
Protestant parts from Catholic. that Loyalist holds
sloof from Nationalist that Ulster refuses To
link her fortunes or to subject her fate to the
DEGREES of Land League Parliament The
three provinces which are the home of the Land
League and OF the Nationalist movement split
runder. Munster, Leinster and Connaught are
divided against themselves, and all there is OF
property all that makes for the prosperity OF
these three Catholic provinces, pronounces pro-
test against Home Rule. Mr.. Gladstone may
close his ears and his mind to all this accumuatng
evidence that his scheme will create. in Ireland
herself, not union but disunion, not peace but
conflict, not sunshine but storm. Does he think
that England. TOO. will close her ears? Will
even America be deaf TO the voice of sense and
reason and truth. the united voice of the best
people in Ireland, with their fortunes al stake ?
The meeting of the Conservative party at the
Carlton Club has settled two or three points
Of Importance. Lord Salisbury summoned II and
took command. 1t was nominally meeting Tor
consultation. 1t was really held that Lord Sails
barry might impress his will on the party
section of the Unionists were disposed TO meet
the motion for a second reading OF the Home
h]e bill with motion embodying an alternative
p6cy. No. said Lord Salisbury: there is but
QUE way OF resisting a proposal for the dis
-ruution of the United Kingdom, and that is by
+ n direct negative He will have his way. The
entire party assented II was unanimously re-
solved that an amendment be proposed that the
bill he read a second time six months hence
That s the accepted parliamentary circumio-
cution for direct negative
II is only remarkable that any Cnionist should
ever have wished for anything else. Those VINO
did are not among the leaders Of the party
but perhaps among those who would IKE 10
be leaders Of the party They will have to try
again.
Hardly second in interest to this was the pub
tic reconciliation between Lord Randolph Churchill
and Mr. Balfour II was necessary that some
Ehinr should he settled Lord Randolphs re-
appearance in public life had been OF the most
decisive kind. He had taken his seat on 'he
front Opposition bench by Mr.. Balfours invitation.
The letters which passed between these two OIL
personal friends had been friepdly. Mr. Balfour'
In whom there is always a touch OF chlVaIry'
bad assured Lord Randolph that he would
be welcome among his former colleagues, ana
that his sitting with them would in way com
promise his independence The eX-lcader ac-
oepted the present leaders invitation cordially
Then came the period Of Unonist depression
and the series Of small mistakes in management,
which seemed 10 those who follow the moods OF
the House Omlnous of disaster 1t was Lord
Randolph Churchill who dspclled it, or who, TO
ny the least. put heart and fresh hopes into the
party BY his speech in defence Of the Welsh
Church. II was Lord Randolph again who put
The Unionist case against Home Rue into letter
Of twenty lines, as telling as ii was terse. liH
had once more the ear of the House and of the
country. There was doubt Of his position
toward Home Rule He meant fighting. There
was some doubt of his position towarl the Unipnst
party as a whole and of theirs toward him. Certain
rnionists; distressed and discontentcd by tho
course Of events, were ready to raise revolt,
Lord Randolph would lead it.
Those We're the circumstances in which he came
to the Carlton Club on Wednesday. lie came as
private member and took back seat He was
not expected 10 speak his name not on the
bt 1t was the general demand Of the party
which brought him out Of his modest retirement.
everybody is wiser than anybody, and the feeling
hst Lord Randolph was factor in the situation
expressed itself in general cry. He hcsltatch !;
'hen yielded, and spoke. lie gave In half dozen
clear sentences his complete adhesion to Lord
seilsourys programme. In the one sentence most
senihcant of all he announced that as against
nsue Rule his services were without reserve az
~ disposal of his friend and political cher, MT.
n''iaur. lie was loudly cheered. and the meeting
~'R up with the conviction that the party was
s00 more united and that il had recovered It's
aoa combative and elective champion in the
mouse Of Commons
Lord Randolph Churchill brings to the councils
" Ms party just the element that was lacking
neh born leader. lie has no superior, II any
%sa, in debate. He is at home IN opposition'
snhe Mr. Balfour's abilities are perhaps inos'