New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-09-07

twenty OF the thirty-three new councils were
represented. and measures were taken to secure
common lines OF action in the maintenance or
roads the promotion OF public health. the sup
mort OF paupers and lunatics. and the issue OF
council stocks The main drawback upon the
work ~ the councils is the lack Of financial TO
sources for initiating relief measures for i'm
poverished tenant farmers lahorers and arti-
sans. but the practical intelligence with which
local questions have been taken up and the IN
,erest with which the proceedings are followed
IN every county good signs for the future
Of Ireland Local government is in the hands
o. the people and although every farmer and
lahorer is a politician and a wire puller. there
+, no indication that administrative power Will
abused.
40 Nationalist leader will admit that any
d sh question except local government has been
eatiled The Irish members Of Parliament have
4 rough and ready way OF cataloguing the work
hat remains 20 be done The National question.
they will say. cannot be settled without Home
Rule Parliament IN College Green: nor tho land
question without the abolition Of landlordism
ana the dual system nor the labor question
until the new councils can build a cottage on
an acre of ground for every laborer and artisan;
nor the religious question until Roman Catho-
Nc university is adequately endowed. nor the
evicted tenant question until every tiller who
has been dispossessed of his land is put back
where he belongs. An endless vista Of agita-
ton and unrest opens before the eyes OF specta-
TOYS who attend meeting Of the United irish
League. yet when they read the comments OF
;he Nationalist press on the following morning
they are reassured FOR they find all these
controversial questions discussed with reason
ab!eness and good temper. There is. indeed no
better indication or the Improvement OF public
conditions In the island than the moderation
and thoughtfulness Of the Irish press. 1t is a
we'll conducted press that powerfully influences
uhhc opinion.
It is seventeen years since the dastardy muir
Ger Of Lord Frederick Cavendsh and Mr..
urke Irish heggsrs now stand during day
l'eht on the spot where the Victims fell IN
Phoenix Park and an ingenious pedler sells
10 credulous visitors pipes made Of the tree
under which they were assassinated. while the
earrulous driver points out the opening in the
hedge through which the Lord Lieutenant saw
tho fatal scufle from the windows Of the vice
regal lodge This week the last pair ot IN
vincihles' concerned in those crimes have heeh
released from jail and allowed ~ return 20
Dublin During the interval Of seventeen years
a great pacific change has been wrought 'h
Ireland and 1t is mainly the result Of Mr.. CLAD
stones unselfsh work The Local Government
act was the inevitable substitute for the re-
4ected Home Rule bill. and the spirit IN Which
that reform measure has been received by all
classes In the island attests the good feellng
INSPIRED by his championship Of the IRISH cause
Even the driver Of the car I'm which the IN
yincible' rnurderers drove 30 Phoenix Park can
now be released from prison without protest
from English croakers or a pean Of triumph
.ror, Tho Nationalist press It is new Ireland.
,nnoverished Sun and with many unsettled
questions but less resentful more hopeful, more
reaceable. than the Ireland Of the last decade
J. y. F.