The Portland daily press., 1896-01-01
An Irishman's Estimate of Lord Sails
bury.
Chicago Tribune.

Chicago Tribune.
Michael Dayitt is the founder of the
Irish Land League, home -ruler, and a
leader in the Irish cause. He has been
touring Australia, and came to Chicago
from San Francisco He is on his way
home, and expects to be in his seat when
Parliament assem- bles.
When asked about the position of the
Irish on the Venezuelan controversy, he
said that he did not think there was the
slightest possibility of any actual conf1i, t
between the United States and Great
Britain on that question. He said:
Lord Salisbury is known in Great
Britain and Ireland as bully, whose
policy, when he has been at the head of
the government, has been to try to intimi-
da,e little nations and powers throughout
tne world. He has been able to do this
W til impunity heretofore, but now he
finds that behind little Venezuela stard
america, and he Will discover that Q
will not be allowed to carry on tho same
policy toward this small state in South
America that he and otherEnglish sta es-
men have carr ed out toward weak Peep e
and small governm ents in other parts of
the world.
For myself, can only repeat that am
glad that such stand has been taken by
the United States. 1t a was about time,
anu the upshotA of Il will be that the
reasonable demand made by the Presi-
dent, to have the whole trouble submit
ted to arbitration, will be accepted by
England and then the seat of operations
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to diplomacy. believe that war is SO far
away that 1t is outside the realm OF
probablllty, because, sfter all, look at it
In this light: The commercial relations
between this country and Great Britain
are SO enormous that the people of the
United States, on she one hand, and of
Great Britain, on the other. would prac-
tically be insane if they jeopardizod trade
relatlons on account of a small affair like
this IN Venezuela-a little 10000 square
miles OF worthless country. This is par
tlcularly plain when 1t is taken into CON
sideration that the President Of II 9 Unit
ed States makes SO favora' lie q PROPOSE
ton as to have the whole matter submit
ted to arbitration.
In speaking of the home rule cause, be
considered that they were gaining friends
He said:
In this connection there Is something
worth considering. At the last general
election, though the opponents Of our
cause returned strong majority in the
House of Commons, they only polled
100, COO more votes. IN total poll of S,
Oo0,0 600 in the United Kingdom, than we
are recorded for the cause Of home rule.
All we have got to do between now and
the next general election is TO convince
the Judgmemnt of these l00 600 voters that
our cause is fair and just In other
words, whereas some few years ago we
had the people of Great Britain a unit
of opposition on this question of home
rule. now we have over 1000, 900 voters fin
England, Wales, and Scotland supporting
this causee Of Ireland at the polls
Mr.. Davitt left his home in Ballybrack
near Dublin, last March, on a trip to the
seven Australian COLONIES, to look after
Nationalist matters and to deliver lee
lures. He delivered seventy addresses
during his stas in Australia, and was
able to send $40, GOO from frieuos of home
rule inlthe colonies, 10 Justin MCCARTHY
Tor the Nationalist cause.