St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-09-18
The OLD MAN IS AROUSED
GLADSTONE WILL BEGIN HIS BATTLE
AGAINST THE LCRDS.
POLICY WILL SOON BE OUTLINE


nounced at Edinburgh Sep
TENDER 81 - Disestablishmeht
OF the Church in Scotland,
Electoral Reforms and Relief.
From the SUNpiY GLoBE.]
LONDON, Sept. 16.-The Marquis Of
Salisbury's great rally of peers against
the home rule bill has accomplished
what the Unionists least intended. In
stead of discouraging Mr.. Gladstone,
the action of the lords has aroused all
the old mans pugnaeity. He has acTT
copied the gage of battle thrown down
by the upper house, and he is now de!
termined to make the fight all along the
line. They have invited a life and death
struggle, and he has shown his readi.
ness to meet them on their own grounds.
In the first place, Mr.. Gladstone had de-
cided not to dissolve parliament after
passing two or three measures from the
Newcastle programme. His purpose
now is to carry out a series of
sweeping radical reforms on a
new line of policy which he
will announce in his address to the
Midlothian committee in Edinburgh ON
Sept. %. The Unionists have been ex-
pecting that Mr.. Gladstone would ap-
pear some time this week in the house
of commons to unburden his mind of a
speech against the action of the lords.
Ever since he went on his holidays to
Blackcrag castle he has been studying
the situation and consulting by letter
with his lieutenants. On Thursday the
Liberals thought he had resolved to
come back at once to the house and de-
clare his policy. This was his original
plan, but at the last moment he received
from his agents III the Midlothian dis
trict several reports which implOred
him to decide III favor of making his
statement to a limited number of his
constituents. This statement will be
the programme of the government unit
the
NEXT GENERAL ELECTION.
Definite information as to the items
was spread among the Liberal and Rad
ical memberS yesterday. The most i'm
portant measures to which Mr.. Glad
stone will commit himself in his Edin-
burgh address will be the parish council
bills, the diSestablishmento of the church
inWales and Scotland, the electoral reg
ISlIdllOH ISIOJIii anu ODC-ildu OiIt-NOle
bills and proposals for lettering the re-
lations of landlords and tenants in Lon
don. The Welsh say that MIR. Gladstone
has promised to make their disestablish-
ment bill the principal measure of the
autumn session. but only hearsay evil
dence of such a pledge can be found.
Ali the measures indicated in the above
list will be pushed forward will all pos
sible dispatch In the house oil commons
and until they be disposed of there
will be no appeal TO the coun-
thy if the cabinet can prevent
it. Such mass of legislation can hardly
be finished before 1895. In other words
MIR. Gladstone plans to leave the home
rule bill on the shelf for at least two
years more. Most Liberals and Radicals
think he has chosen the best course that
the government can follow. They say
that the lords will not assent to one of
these bills as it will be sent to them
from the house of commons. Every one
OF the reform measures, despite the
strong public demand behind 1t, will Dg
either rejected or distorted III the upper
house. The recent record OF peers
begun with the Salisbury rally against
home rule will then be sufficiently DAM
aging for all campaign purposes. The
Tories will be more generally dlScredited
han ever before and tie Liberals will
be enormously strengthened Among the
electors. A general eiecrIom thus pre-
pared must result III greaI Liberal and
RADICAL VICTORY.
1t is not expected that DIr. Gladstone
will state at Edinburg tue ultimate OBJ
ject of his prOgr NINE. He will not
proclaim the Immediate necessity OF
altering the constitution, and betterlng
OF abOlishing the house of lords. He
will merely Indicate new policy, whose
object it is TO emDroil the peers so hope
IessIy in Il quarrel with the people that
the electors Will give him sweeping
British majority two years hence. With
such majority at his command he
could deal with the upper house as he
might please. The whole plan is re-
garded as astute and bold, but weak at
several points. Its success would de-
pend ON the constant support of all the
Irish members. The amount of patience
required by such a waiting policy has
not been manifested often by the Nation
alistS, and not few Liberals think it out
o. the question. There are several
Liberals moreover, who look aSkance at
the diSestablishment part OF the Glad
stonian programme. Mir. Gladstone will
pass the parliamentary recess at Ha-
warden. The Irish estimates were
voted this week with unprecedented
celebrity. The UnioniStS tried to start a
prOtracted debate, but the Irish men,
beers held their peace deteTminedly. Not
before in the last twelve years have the
Nationalist declined the challenges
given regularly by the Conservatives
during part of the debate on supply.
their self-reStraiEt is regarded as the
.,tyih of iST0 4,
John Morley's regime, as well as of their
confidence that they are nearing home
rule. The sO-called purity politicians"
are responsible for the present existence
of THEE commissions whose business is
to examine and report on Indian GUS
toms. Every one of the three has
aroused the wrath and scUrn Of the In
dian officials.
THE COMMISSION
appointed to Investigate the opium
trade took much interesting evidence
here this week. Rev. Joseph Adams, of
the Baptist church in the United States,
and several other missionaries, told the
commission that the drug was morally
and physically DIES ructive, and cited
their experiences in India TO prove their
points. Their evidence has been rather
fatty cOntradicted, however. by the
StdIPU0UlS vi lIl6 ulRuCSL OIlCldI ana
medical authorities. Sir John Strachey,
Sir George Birdwood and Sir William
Wade. as we'll as Sir William Moore,
surgeon general in India, agree that
the moderate use of opium is beneficial,
and that its abuse in India is very rare
All say that the use of alcohol causes
more bodily and mental ills than does
the use of opium. The evidence adj
duced so far effectively debars the
government from interfering with the
opium trade in India. Another
commission appointed to investigate
ganka smoking in India has had little
better luck. The members went di-
rectiy to the dens in Calcutta where
the horrible effects of the vice were
supposed TO be apparent. They made
experiments on habItual ganka smok-
ers, who seemed to enjoy the dose of
drug given them, and showed no evil
effects on either mind or body.
The third commission investigated
horrible stories concerning native
women kept in the environments of the
army in India. The members report
that these stories, started by we'll
meaning missionaries, grossly eXagger-
ate the evils of the present system.
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