The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-05-31

representative Of The people Of Great
Bsisair. Nevertheless be mas as busally
treated BY this assembly Of presumpssve
gentlemen By birth and breeding As he
had been if:een years before by the mob
OF the streets. How bitter must be the
Tory hssred Of Gladstone when q vast
assembly Of Torydon's best society hisses
and eroans . grea. statesman In his s4sh
year.
At 5 recent Tory meeting. held on the
day when the attempt On G~isdssone's life
WAS made, a Mr.. Sinnock said:
Nj aladssoue vss . lie lncarnase; n. was .
disgrace 20 tie British parliament sad IL wss .
dssgrces 70 the people Of Eaxiand 70 continue 10
allow his1 20 remain N power. loud applause
Mr.. Giaes.ore had no longer any de-
sire to 10 goot--iAppiause,-snd he thought IL
tae duty OF the people o! England 20 prevent
hsa. cfaHg harm. 81. Giadsfcne was m old
rasn. So yesrs Of age. ana that Was the only
ssxunnest tnst could be addsccd Ia his favor
III be were act 90 old he would be shot. aad he
thought the man who did The deed would BOT
NJ a.ssistooe Wa . great traitor. and traitors
should Re shos. although be would - sorry TO
see that occur lLoud spPlansel
This is worse language than the ~craziest
orator Of the sand.Iots in San Francisco
ever used regarding the buga5oo OF "the
goidb1gs." The strongest proof Of Tory
bitterness is found in the public exhorta-
tons 30 rebellion agains, home rule which
have fallen from the lips Of Balfour, the
Duke OF Devonshirc, Lord Randolph
Churchill. Sir Henry James and even
Lord salisbury himself.
According to London Truth. Lord Sails
bury said:
"Tks Ulster people are . very poor people IL
they cannot beat down the Nationalist police"
NJ. Baifour declared: al will not say, and I do
not thSnk. that any rstiona. or sober man VIII
cay that what Is justi5asie against a tyrannical
king nasy not under certain circumstances DO
tnstsisbse against q fyrsnnical majority" And
again: Ulster will at all events fight" LORD
Randc'ph Churchill chimcd in. "If the hons
rale b:if Il nasscd into law. Ulster. leading all
the i~o.sslssts o! Ireland. will figh, against the
dom.Da,i0n OF The Irish parliament" The
Daks 81 Deyonssire asked: "Hho can say that
they tsae people Of Ulster) have not = right IL
they think 1T to resist, II they think they have
the powes, the imposition o. n government put
on iaela by fosceg' Sir Henry James solemniy
deeisrsa: IL tell you that the responsibility
for eyesy drop OF blood that shall be shed shall
- so"ptG Vh Wv ts8A ta kkG a40h thot -
shed IL. and you will be blamed more than they
for the civil! war you can avert. and viii not
You are treating them In q manner
which would rouse every cur TO turn round on
you"
The notable thing is that Balfour, Sails
bury and Devonshire have all in the past
arrested or urged the arrest of the leaders
OF the Irish Nationalists on the charge
that their public utterances we're calcu-
lated to provoke acts Of violence. Michael
Davitt shrewdiy said the other day that
he thought he fought to sue the British
government for damages, inasmuch IS
Tory and Unionist speakers were permit
ted to encourage rebellion, whereas he had
been imprisoned on the ground that q
Of his letters could be construed as as In
element to crime" There is no sort of
question that the opponents of home
rule have tried to excite the Ulster
Protestants to rebellion. Had an Irish
Nationalist used tho language We have
quoted from Balfour, when Balfour. ~
Irish secretary. was enforcing the last
coercion act. Balfour would have sent
him 20 jail. Tho doctrine recently
preached by the Duke of Devonshire, JUS
tifying the resistance Of the small minor
itv CT Ulster to home rule, in Ease il was
in lss0-S5 when he denied the right of a
large majority Of the Irish people to resist
the government imposed On them through
q coercion act.
Lord Randolph Churchill and Lord Sails
bury we're both willing once to treat with
Parnell on the ground that it was better
TO give Ireland self-government than
zee the Tories dislodged from power. 1t
Is an interesting fact that the instrument
which alone makes IL possible for Glad
stona to pass the home rule bill over the
Tory policy Of obstruction Is the ''clos-
urc," or our previous question" which
was sirst adopted when Parnell resor.ed
to tie policy Of obstruction to block the
passage of the Irish coercion act in lss1-Ss.
This closure. introduced TO overcome
The obstructive tactics Of Parne,I, now
enahles Gladstone 10 pass the home rule
bill, so that the weapon, forged by the
Tories TO eircumvent the Irish party six
Nsht5 a~'s ! = " uSN1 &c bcat UOWn the
obstructive tactics Of the very Tories that
devised IL.
The extraordinary bitterness OF the Tory
opposition to Irish home rule is due to
the fact thai; once enacted il means uiti-
mate home rule for Scotland. Wales and
England: it means leisure for the English
Radicals tn attack, undermine and upset
the whole system of ~aristocratic rights
and privileges III government. The Tories
and ar!stoera,ic classes are not So deeply
concerned about home rule as they are
about what IL certain TO follow when the
decks Of English politics are swept clean
OF the hurdensome load OF the Irish
question.
PkK CArITA DELUsION.