The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-11-08

! LONDON, Nov 7.-(Special letter b,
cable to the United Associated Presses.
The everlasting Irish question is com
ing up in an acute form, through
!; the old and TOO familiar occurrence d
an Irish famine.
The bishop of Raphoe, in a recent ap
peal for subscriptions in aid of the Irisf
party fund, spoke of the bleak pros
Ikots before the agricultural popu-
lation as operating against the fund
The bishop hardly seems to have real
lied how desperate the situation is.
The correspondent of the Manchester
Guardian, enc of the most trustworthy
and least sensational papers in Eng
land, declares that no such appalling
prospect has presented itself during the
present generation. COncurring reports
show that The prolonged and continuous
rains of the autumn have ruined the
crops from north To south. The rich
lower lands have been flooded for weeks
at a time, when the harvest ought to
have been proceeding. Stocked corn
and hay stacks have been submerged
and potatoes are rOtting in the fields.
In the poorer hill lands. the small
farmer and coter population are again
forced to face one of those failures of
the potato crop which has too often
brought the uttermost horrors of
starvation and famine and disease
among them.
AS USUAL.
AS usual, the government is doing
nothing. The Irish secretary's tour in
| the west and northwest occurred before
the bad weather set in, and alta time
when little could be predicted of the
/ harvest. Since then he has obtained
reports from official sources-from land
| lord sourceS-walich can only be de-
scribed ds misleading. The farmers on
many of the large estates have APP
prised their landlord agents that no
rent can be paid this year. because no
rent has been earned; but the landlords
have entered into d combination for
wholesale pressure on the tenants. Us
ing their utmost privileges; under the
land act, they are applying for eject
ment DEGREES by the thousands, and an
eviction campaign such as rarely has
been witnessed, even in Ireland, is now
in progress in many districts. AS soon
as the rigorS of winter set in, the de-
mand for relief will be clamorous. With
this famine impending, it will be no
wonder if Irish discomfort assumes a
more active form than mere jabber over
legislation for home rule.
M'KINLEY ABROAD.
The leading weekly papers re-echo
the opinions expressed by the daily pa
pers on the election of Mr.. Mckinley
to the American presidency.
The st. James Budget, under the |
caption of "a Curious Allegation" pub |
fishes a letter from an American which |
declares that the true inwardnesS of |
the defeat Of Mr.. Bryan was the use of |
money to turn the farmer vote of the |
central west. The writer states that /
the insurance companies owning mort |
cages on farms in Iowa, Indiana, Illi-
nois and neighboring states directed
lands were mortgaged and to offer to
them, if Mckinley should be elected, a
five years extension of the mortgages
at a low rate of interest. This plan
succeeded, and Mr.. Bryan, who other
wise would have been elected, was
defeated. Continuing, the American
says that the loss of interest to the
companies will be great, but that they
expect to sell here mass of deprecated
don is benefting.
THE TURKISH QUESTION.
The negotiations for the holding of a
conference of the powers on the Turk
ish question progress on the lines be-
fore mentioned in this cable CORE
spondence; that is to say, the proposals
made by Lord Salisbury that thJ
clauses of the treaty of Paris giving the
porte power to refuse the passage of
the Dardanelles to warships shall be re-
that the administration of the
Turkish provinces shall be under the
of the European powers
and that the consideration by any con-
ference on these proposals shall not in
clude any reference to the British oc-
cupation of Egypt.
REGARDING EGYPT.
Judging from the best information
it is believed that the cars
influence has brought about an ar
of the Anglo-French differ
enceS regarding Egypt. This implies
4 prolongation of the British occupa-
ton of Egypt, with free hand TO eX-
tend it to the whole of the upper Nile
. Since DR.. Temples appointment as
of Canterbury, it has trans
pired that he is shaping the coming ed
Ication bill so as to aid increasingly
UNCONVENTIONAL schools from the ,
public rates. At one time con- .
;idered by the non-conformists l
churchman of extremely liberal |
news, with a distinct non-Sec- [
.arian bias, DR.. Temple, as he has {
grown towards power, has veered to-
ward conservatism and ohurchism. He
las gone over heart and soul to de-
was one of the au- I
.hors of the last education bill and ap-
'ears likely in preparing that for next
session to land the government in SER
Gus trouble, rather than accept any
with the dissenters.
A DENIAL.
The engagement of Sir Albert KAYE
1oliit to the dowager duchess of Suth-
rland was announced in this CORE
pondence some time ago and was de- =
led by request. of Sir Albert imme-
lately thereafter. The reasons for
he denial lay not in any prospect of
ne engagement being broken off. but
4 private family arrangements which
lade it desirable that nothing prema-
ure should be said about it, Sir Al
ert's only daughter has been engaged
II some time to Captain Ellison. She
as fortune of $4,000 per annum from
er mother, and there was d question
oil :.