Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-08-24
Lord Salisbury's Immense Majority
and the Probable Legislation.
A LEAF OUT OF BEACONSFIELDS BOOK
Reform of the House OF Lords and
Local SeIfGovernment.
DETECTION OF WIG NOBILITY

IoNDoN Aupnst II 1893
The arrival OF the election returns from
the Orkney and Shetland islands, off the
~ 49, ron,or,,ohIo ,,.r,;oroo,tor, a1o,-
.ne MS eiai nooie pa
eion OF the century ana dehnieeiy hAes the
numerical majority of the new administra-
ton The election will be memorable in the
political annals of the Tinted Kingdom
for A.. tr,,,o,,o .tox,.,. 60, IS a.
" " eSe iAio1oti'S sfeh " 'Ae
party IN power, Tor the fact that that ma
jority has been given exclusively by Eng
land dhe predominant partner. as the
untoniste de,,obt ~ COLI her, Scotland
- 80
lrelano ana wales all sending majority
of liberal or at least of anti-administra-
ton members and lastly for the fact that
tho pre.t u,bie nohi,,ty wbo boyo hoen
80 49, 40
among the most fedouoeapfe champions OF
liberalism during the last hundred years,
have with one or two exceptions, finally
cast In their lot with their herad;t.rv M
Iit;cei onnonents ~
Tha naeiorit;ss ,r,,o, o.. NJ cJa,o,o
T., 1855 nnJ $50 CIV ,, ~ MI .,ot aa oar
rs.a thronah - gnaa,est IF ~ 1a.is1.Si,,.
measures with which his name is identi-
fed, were us and ZIG, respectively. only
~ ioo'' wren Gieat PIl.aih was st e. Ion.s
w,ban tho annneaIo,,s conJJ,;on Of tnair 20
resentative government if such 1t could
then be called, together with the opposition
oi tne mousse OF iords 10 any aaequate meas
land to The wsrv vanga of rawoJ,tion baSe
larger maiorities been given than that
with which Lord Salisbury and his cabinet
find themselves sustained OF the 4G5 rem
I16. or barely one-fourth. are liberals. So
far therefore. as England alone is con-
cerned. Lord Salisbury has a majority of
233, sufficient to overcome the nationalist
majority of 81 sent by Ireland and the lin
eral maiorities of and IL sent nv Scot
land and Wales and still leave him the
largest net majority seen in parliament
during the fifty-eight years reign of the
present sovereign. England, however. is
naturally conservative. Even to Mr.. Glad
stones great majorities in 1868 and 1880
she contributed only Is and 81. Respectively.
and it is scarcely to be wondered at that
the unexampled activity Of the LIQUOR In
terest the zeal of the state church party,
the apathy Of a section of the Liberals
themselves and a diminished confidence in
the political capacity of the Irish, owing
to their .ncesssnt feuds and their readi-
ness to sacrifice national to personal con-
siderations, should have resulted in this
overwhelming liberal defeat
r-.,t uou. p.o ro
NO sympatnetic observer OF the nperahz-
ing of England can witness without gen
uine regret the CO nplete alienation from
the uhar., marty ~ tho eroa, h..,,sa, ~
- - "
nussem' Navehaish ai'o ri'1"iiiiam. me
Rossei iai'his' a. Inc neao u Which Is the
Duke of Bedford gave up one Of its most
lsunsulsneo sons as martyr 70 the
with the aycantion of NJ StadsInns bir,' I'M
self no English statesman of the present
century has, done more for the advance
ment of civil and religious equality than
me me Loso 'oi hussea VINO saisie ,s,, ,nIou sn
and tbs abnljtjon of the in;o,itons Laws
that excluded Jews and other non-adne-
rents of the established church from GER
tain important political rights. Similarly
the Cavendishes, although one of the
and owning the far-famed Chatsworth and
other princely domains, have, for more
than two hundred years, been found main-
ly on the side of the people in their strug-
ton of political and ecclesiastical abuses
The liberalism of the Fitzwilliams, too, has
been of the most acknowledging and pro-
gressive character, and the scions Of that
noble house have always been ready to
take up the standard OF the people and
wave it in the thickest of the fight. The
county of York has been the scene CT
many famous political struggles, but none
past generation than that in which the RI
val candidates were the eldest sons of the
Earls of Fitzwilliam and Hardwood, and
popular feeling found expression in the
lines:
Milton forever and Lascelles down tn river
With a knife in his heart and a fork in his
liveri
inc influence OF the NOBILITY.
At the recent election, however, the en-
tire influence of these and manv other
n..rs ~ liberal anteoedants ond bi+berto
VI Noe"A "i'u ,A.ne. ~
OF hperal svmpatnles was thrown INTO the
scale in favor of the conservatives. Amer
leans can hardly realize how great that
inf,uence can he even in the absence of
anv attemnt at coercion Excent whore
the land owner has forfeited the resnect If
his tenants nv unjust exactions or scan
dalous life fiat his grace or his lordsbin
rs the case NAV be. fayors a particuiar
Candidate 10 sufficient to insure for that
candidate fron * 70 on nar cont of ~
,,otinS strsnoth If IN ostata NOV ubinh
nossib,v thnSsanS. of neonIe raSida NJ
~ this tha rasnit of fapr ns toaSr,;s, W ~
s,,an - an anIiahtonaS s.,foin,ara.t T. " -,
rnara,S tho ontcoma If that axtranrd,nar,,
hnld ynon The resnect and In not e..
instonnas ,,non The affection of the -nra,
classes which has been acquired nv the
English nobility. Should the detection Of
the WING peers prove as permanent as now
s'otnrs nil 10 nc oa ~ tha ,nst d,eso,dt
tasks ever undertaken by a poIit;cal partv.
and a liberal majority in England itself
will come only as the result of some pow