Washington sentinel., 1901-02-02
FOREIGN NEWS
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lie TEMPS.
Whe Gladstone was dead, and even
before this, from the time he left the
political arena, and Lord Rosebtry. his
heir but not his disciple, abandoning
the struggle b tween the iou-e Of
Lords and Home Rule, threw Liberal.
ism into the path Of Imperialism, the
Unionists flattered themselves they had
laid the Irish ghost On one side, the
Liberal opposition, which had only
taken up the cause OF Home Rule under
the pressure Of an sudacious genus and
attributed to this leap IN the dark all its
mislortunes from the year 1886 begin.
ming with the detection Of Mr.. Cham
berlain, the Duke Of Devoushire, and
large masses OF voters, showed an
increasing coldness towards a revolu,
uouary solution Of the question, and an
| increasing mistrust of its allies of day,
the Irish Nationalists. On the other
side. the IRISH see med 10 wish to dis
credit the Liberal policy They affected
to be entirely independent Of the Lib
erals, while all the time claiming to keep
them in thraldom to a onesided agree.
ment.
Meanwhile they attacked each other
tooth and nail. Every ones hand was
against his neighb r. Between the
Parnelltes, under SIR (sic) John Red
mond, aDd II e majority OF the Psrliamen
tary party, led by Sir tsic) John Dillon,
the war was incessant. Among the
ranks OF the latter faction, Mr. T Healy,
sardonc, bitter, disagreeable, and a
severe critic, as difficult to live with as
hard TO replace, made himself with the
help Of some Of the Irish clergy, infn
itelS more feared by his brothers IN
arms than by the common enemy. In
the face OF this chaos the Ministry
offered Ireland its famous educational
system: jam and the whip, a state Of
Siege tempered by grants Of money.
To carry out this policy, Lord Salisbury,
who does not willingly look outside his
own family, had chosen. to replace his
elder nephew, Mr.. Arthur BalfouT, made
First Lord OF the Treasury, and leader
OF the House of Commons, his younger
nephew, MIR. Gerald Ba!our, the man
who, according to his brother, knows
more Greek than any one in England,
Perhaps what was more useful was
the 6udIr & of an assistant 10 the eminent
scholar, Mr. Gerald Blllour, in ?ur~
blOOded lrlshman, A sincere Uniouist,
firm Conservative, but also a patriot
through and through, devoted to the
moral and material interests Of his
country and capable OF suOordinatirg
class or sectarian pr, JUDGES and party
iPts[eSts g i75R the qati9gall g2od 63 4E
Three new events aggrayate the situ
alton.
First, there IS unity in the ranks Of
the Nationalist party. Parnelites and
anti Parnellit-s have mad= an alliance.
MIR. Redmond is the more or less rom
nal leader of the new party, and has
under his command more than eighty
members, This is a contingent which
II will not always be possible to treat as
a n eligible quantity, especially when,
at a future time, less distant than is
imagined, the balance Of parties will
make the smalles. majority important,
And further, the Nationalist party has
taken measures to restore discipline in
its ranks, It has solemnly excommuui.
Gated Mr., Healy; and perhaps the step
was necessary, for it is impossible to
| allow one oflts members to insult, mock
and ie.r at it. 1t remains to be seen
what Mr.. Healy will do. He does not
| practise forgiveness OF injuries, and has
| promised to repay a hundrediold the
| man he accuses as the cause Of his ban
| shment, Mr., w. O'Buen. now back 10
| Parliamentary life. This return Of Mr.
w. O'Brien IS the second new factor in
the situation. A purely po itiCal move
| ment has always been weak in Ireland
ParDeli's stroke OF genius was the
| bringing together Of Nationalism, the
| demand for Home Rule, and the Land
! question. A league has been
started on the model of that Of $50 Il
processes to do for the Irish farmer what
trade Unions have done for the laboTiae
classes Of England: to organize iola
responsibility, war Strikes or boycott
tiug), sc
Thirdly, the agrarian question is no
only taken up by Celts and Catholics
In Ulster, Presbyterian and AnglC
Saxon farmers are rising en- masse
Although Unionists, they have haC
enough of their landlords. who belong
to the aristocratic garrison They ha,,
a leader IN Mr.. 7. w, Russell wht
resigned his post as under Secretary o
State to throw himself into the n-ise
There is no graver symptom than thu
spontaneous alliance Of two races aDt
two religions.