Washington sentinel., 1901-02-02
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the struggle b tween the lou e @
Lords and Home Rule, threw Liberal
ism into the path OF Imperialism, IN,
Unionists 1attered themselves they haC
laid the Irish ghost On one side, tn,
Liberal opposition. which had only
taken up the cause OF Home Rule under
the pressure Of an audacious genus, anc
attributed to this leap IN the dark all it:
misortunes from the year 1886 begin
nIng with the detection Of Mr., Cham
berlain, the Duke Of Devonshire, and
large masses of voters, showed an
increasing coldness towards a revolu
tlOuary solution Of the question, and an
increasing mistrust of ats allies of a day
the Irish Natonalists On the other
side, the Irish seemed TO 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
Parnellites, under SIR (sic) John Red
moud, aDd II majority ofthe Pariamen
tary party, led by Sir tsiC) John Dillon,
The war was incsssant. Among the
ranks OF the latter faction, Mr. T Healy,
saTdonic, bitter, disagreeabe, and
severe critic, as difficult to live with as
hard to replace, made himself with the
help Of some Of the Irish clergy. inhn
itell more feared by his brothers IN
aims than by the common enemy. In
the face OF this chaos the Ministry
offered Ireland its famous educational
system: jam and the whip, 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 BalfouE, 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 6ndIr g OF an assistant 10 the eminent
scholar, Mr., Gerald Blliour, IN a pure
blOOded lrIshman, 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 pre- JUDGES and party
i97tSsEssts I7Sf e 5he pati99a g22d y83 Ne
Three new events aggrayate the stu
alton.
First, there is unity in the ranks of
the Nationalist party. Parnellites and
anti PaTnsllit have made an alliance.
Mr.. Redmond is the more or less ON.
NAL leader OF the new party, and has
under his command more than eighty
members. This is a contingent which
It will not always be possible to treat as
a nsgligible 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
It's ranks, It has solennly exCommuni.
Gated Mr., Healy; and perhaps the step
was necessary, for it is impossible to
allow one oflts members to insult, mock
and e-r at it. Il remains to be seen
what Mr.. HeaIy will do. He does not
practise forgiveness Of injuries, and has
promised to repay a hundredlold the
man he accuses as the cause Of his ban
ishment, Mr., w, O'Buen, now back TO
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,
ParDelPs 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 1880. Il
PROCESSES TO do for the Irish farmer what
trade Unions have done for the Iaboriag
classes Of England: to organize ioint
responsibilitY-war (strikes or boycott
ting) sc
Thirdly, the agrarian question is not
only taken up by Celts and Catholics
In Ulster, Presbyterian and Anglo
Saxon farmers are rising en- masse
Although Unionists. they have had
enough Of their landlords, who belong
10 the aristocratic garrison They have
a leader IN Mr.. T. w, Russell, who
resigned his post as under Secretary Of
State TO throw himself into the ~ lee,
There is no graver symptom than this
| spontaneous alliance Of two races aDd
two religion