New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-02-26
o.,v,ion,; 1898. BY The Tribune A"oetauon
my CABLE TO THK TRIBUSEJ

c..,,,ohf. 1898: BY The Tribune hssoetdtfon.
,.rdon Feb. 25-Among the three or four
~ ncrplexitics created by the Home Rule
Pr, lister. perhaps. stands first. Imperial SUI
macy is. il YOU like, an abstraction the veto
question of machinery the land is a ques-
.,.n Al property. Ulster is a question of flesh
I'D blood, of human lives and liberties. and Of
~ that makes life dear TO million of people
o5estIon also of peace war. in which many
.,bsr millions may presently find themselves con-
..rn.d Mr. Gladstone, nevertheless, has done his
49,, ~ forget Ulster and to make others for
~. 1. His record on Home Rule since 1886 is
,;dlv becoming record Of forgotten promises.
:. ,acanted pledges of untitled obligations Of
S..rtons. and of betrayas. if Lord Randolph
rhu,chll's word must be used; and Ulster is
A.. greatest betrayal Of all He once recognized
~. right OF Ulster to protection, to safeguards
.rsinst oppression by numerical majority of
h.r enemies. He now finds it convenient to
,,nore her existence. Ulster is fact which does
nj AZ into his new piece Of political mosaic;
.vav with her. IT, is sometimes alleged.
American opinion be for Home Rule. ii takes no
..count of the fact that Home Rule for the
J,;sh majority means oppression of the Irish
minority. II it does not mean that. it means
assistance by the minority.
The Gladstonans profess to make light of the
.,,,.st OF Ulster Professor Bryce derided it as
:, much buster and rant. He ought to know,
.or be is himself an fisherman. At the last
.roral election nc went over to Ulster and
st.,,ed FIVE Home Rule candidates against five
I,nionists in five separate divisions of Ulster.
Fiery one of his five candidates was beaten, and
Ia seems not 10 have liked it. Even a professor
&c human ! mean by Ulster what he means, the
Protestant. Unionist, Loyalist, prosperous, In
tellirent part of the Province to the whole of
rbioh. geographically speaking the name of Ulster
belongs 1t is the same Ulster which Lord Ran
aoph Churchill had in mind when he said, Ulster
will fight and Ulster will be right
Whether Ulster would be right to fight is
matter Of opinion. Whether she Will hght, II
lie has 10 choose between fighting and sub
mission. is also matter of opinion, but one as
10 which evidence is obtainable, if the mind OF
The inquirer be open to evidence Lord Randolph
Churchill repeated in the House OF Commons last
week Thursday what he had before declared in
Belfast Everything said then reiterate now,
avery word take nothing back. modify moth
Ing ! used these words in the planest English
ense which could be put upon them. l meant
the Ulster people TO take them in that sense.
say them again now" Those are very serious
words, words of deep and far-reaching import.
MIR. Gadstone's theory is that the authentic
expression Of public opinion in given poil'icai
area is 10 be sought from its representatives IN
Parliament Did he consult the Cnionist mem
bers from Ulster? Did he ask Colonel Saun-
derson. Mr. RUSSELL or any OF the others? Not
one of them lie knows too well what the
answer would be. lie heard 1t last year Ill
W. more authentic still by the voice of the
great convention which assembled to declare the
unrelenting and unqualified hostility of Ulster
TO Home Rule in any shape or form. Never
was the win of any people on any question more
uneouiyocally announced. But neither to that
did Nr Gladstone pay any attention any more
than he did to the signed remonstrance of the
Protestant ministers Of Ireland. thousand
strong, including none OF the 800 clergy OF
the Irish Protestant Episcopal Church, who are
10 man of the same mind as are their 100000
parishioners There are no known means by
Fhich fact unpalatable 10 Mr.. Gladstone, or
politically incenvenient to him, can be brought
10 his NOTICE Meetings have since been held
al over the Province: sermons have been
preached in hundred pupits; the press OF
Ulster speaks out daily; her representatives in
Parliament have said plainly since the new
Home Rule bin was introduced what they think
Of it, and TO what eXtremitics they Will he
driven should il be passed. Agitation has re-
commenced on great scale in Belfast, in Ar
MACH, throughout Antrim and elsewhere.
neat demonstration is preparing for Easter
Lord Salisbury himself has been invited to go
over and speak. and lie is going.
Everybody knows, everybody except Mr.. Glad
stone WHY he is going AID what this demonstration
will signify. II is nothing less than an appeal by
The Ulster Cnionists 10 the Cnionists of England
for an assurance Of that protection which Mr..
Glad,tonc's Home Rule bill denies them. Lord
Salisbury goes to Belfast 10 pledge himself his
party his allies his supporters, and the majority
of the people Of ENGLAND, TO whom Home Rule
Is admittedly hateful, not TO desert Protestant
and LOYAL Ulster in the hour of her peril. lie
has 10 Goubt that Ulster is in earnest when she
says she will not submit 10 a Dublin Parllansnt'
will not he governed by the priests, Will not pay
Dublin taxes will not see her landlords plundered,
her industries opprcss,.d her rights as Protestant
community tramplcd under foot by CathoHc
Parliament with Archbishop Walsh pulling the
strings
II all this evidence be not enough Mr.. Gladstone
might easily have asked the three or four leading
Clsier,nen in the House Of Commons whether they
meant business or not. lie might object, not
unfairly, that they could not he expected 10 con-
fdc their political plans 10 a political opponent,
nor he himself to accept all they might lay before
him. ] admit that but add that neither he nor
anybody else could talk five minutes with any VI
these gentlemen and remain in the least doubt as
to what their real purposes and real feelings are.
They are in dead earnest They DO III TACT look
upon it not rs a political game bnt as a queS-
ton Of life or death for themselves and their
fellow citizens
l do not mean to say that ! think they cx-
pect in any event to lose either lands or for
tunes or liberties, whether political or religious
They will use all means to defeat Home Kuie,
to prevent the passage of this bill. Inc Dill
once passed, they will all means 10 defend
themselves against the tyranny-it will then be the
legal tyranny-which the Imperial Parliament oil
Tie United Kingdom Of Great Britain ana Ire
hd will have imposed on the only loyal part
Of tho Irish nonulation There also one is in