The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-03
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Weekly London Cable.]
London, Jan. 2.-London has been
specially blessed in holiday weather
this season. Yesterday the weather
was singularly mild and spring like,
and there was a noteworthy absence
of the usual dullness and depression Of
London winter weather.
The newspapers of today generally
review the events of the past year,
dwelling at length on the more pTomi-
nent of them. and all join in q chorus
of congratulations over the prospects
of peace that everywhere prevails.
Special stress is laid upon the rela-
tons existing between Great Britain
and the United States, and compari-
sons are made between the situation
now and that existing year ago,
when there was much anxiety on both
sides of the Atlantic regarding the out
come of the dispute between England
and America in relation to the Vene-
Zuela boundary.
IRISH QUESTION.
The vitality and intensity of the pop
uiar interest in the dominant question
in ireland, that of securing financial
justice for the country, has been fully
eVinced by the grea- meetings held in
the holiday season, the meetings at
tracted a stronglT influential attend
ance, composed of men of all shades
Of political and religious faith, all
eager TO impress upon the British gov
eminent their demand for the redress
OF their financial grievance.
On Tuesday night, as was then an
nounced in the dispatches Of the Unit
ed Associated Presses. an important
meeting was held at Limerick presid-
ed oveC by Lord DunTaven, who sits
il the house of lords as Baron Kerry.
He IS a Conservative. and has. here
tOfOre, been a Staunch supporter OF
the government but his appearance as
chairman at the Limerick meeting is
proof that he will be found opposing
the cabinet on the question of Irish
taxation unless the government makes
concessions that will avert an open
fight one of the most prominent
speakers at the meeting was the Most
Rev. Edward T O'Dwyer. Roman
Catholic bishop of Limerick who made
a strong speech. setting forth the
wrongs under which ireland suffered
in respect to taxation and urging irish
men. no mater what their politics. to
stand together to obtain a lessening of
the financial burdens under which the
country labored.
DALEY. THE DYNAMITER.
John Daley, the recently released
dynamiter, also spoke. His presence
on the platform with Lord DunraVen
shows how community Of interest has
caused political animOsities 20 he laid
aside. Daley elected cheers by eX-
pressing the hope that if Lord Castle
ton Of Upper oSSOry remained true TO
himself and Ireland. history would
proclaim him as the successor OF
Washington. Lord CastetOn. who is a
I 81 a a1-r
in the present agitation. It was he
who. q short time age, made a speech
at Cork in which he denounced the
government for its 0bstinacy in the
matter Of Irish taxation. adding that
he hoped that history might not re-
peat itself and the people OF Cork fol-
low the example set by the colOnistS
in Boston, when they threw the tea
overheard in 1713
Thursday night a meeting was held
in Belfast under the auspices Of the
chamber of commerce. The purpose OF
the meeting was to instruct the people
on the taxation question and politics
had no place in the proceedings.
ANOTHER COMMISSION.
Since last week it has been decided
10 recommend the appointment of an
other royal commission to investigate /
the taxation question instead of a
committee of the house of commons !
as was at first proposed. This win
enable the government to obtain a
commission having a majority free of |
the alleged home rule bias of the for |
,ner commission, whose report il favor
of Ireland has afforded ground for the !
agitation now going on. This proceed /
ing viii delay any legislative action /
on the question for the next two ses- !
sions, and until the time arrives for I
the cabinet to make a grand coup de- /
signed 10 settle the demand for auto !
nony for Ireland and to reduce the |
irish representation at Westminster |
under regulation of seats scheme.
1t cannot be denied that the last |
commission left some important points ;
unsettled, bat the leading witness who /
appeared before that commission and
who will Teappear before the next COM
mission has told representative of +
the United Associated Presses that it
VIII be impossible TO disprove the con-
tention thai Ireland pays an annual
excess of Of e2,500OOO.
MAKE THE MOST OF IT"
The Dublin Daily Press. the chief
organ OF conservative opinion in Ire
land, in recent article on the taxa
ton question said: If il be rebellious.
seditious and dislo.-al 10 demand what /
commission appointed by the i'm
perial parliament avows is justly due
US, then we are al, Protestants and
Roman Catholics Unionists and home
rulers-Tebels and disloyal men,
This correctly represents the feel
ing that everywhere exists in Ireland
The letter of Chief Justice Good
ridge. published last week. in the
Englishman OF Calcutta pointing out
that the means adopted by the gov
eminent of India to check the famine
in that country were entirely made
quate and declaring that thousands
of persons are dying of starvation,
calls attention to the general apathy
on the subject thus far displayed in
England. The queen. some time ago,
sent telegram TO the viceroy of In
dia, expressing sympathy for the suf-
fegers and promising that they would