The Northern Guardian. — 1892-09-22 (Hartlepool, Cleveland, England)

NORTHERN GUARDIAN, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, ISO,  TENDERS.  ranged that the tranquility could not I last. It was the same with the Soudan, withl the Transvaal, with Afghanistan. was Lord BeaconsPeld's doing ; it was a lt-gacy from the Conservatives. Lord Salisbury, on taking office in 1336, put an end to all this turmoil, bloodshed, and money expenditure., We were soon at peace with all the world,. , and the Government turd energetically to the pacification of Ireland. This also was achieved, and when the Unionist Government expired in June last, without having the record of a single war in the whole period of its administration, England was again on good relations with foreign Powers, and Ireland was fast on the way to commercial prosperity. Mr Gladstone again comes on the scene, the same old trouble and distraction crops up, and once more we are asked to believe the old plaintive cry that it is the legacy of the Conservative a Surely the public must be getting weazy of this ancient excuse for mismanagement..  Let us take another view of the Gladstonian argument. They say Irish landlords have allowed rents to fall into arrear rather than embarrass Mr Balfour and in the hope of being bought out, and that now they are pressing for these arrears. As far as the buying out idea is concerned, the landlords have, never had such prospects from the Unionists as they have from the Gladstonians.l To prove this we need only point to Mr Gladstone's Purchase Scheme of 1386 ;. and as for allowing arrears to accumulate to a greater extent under Upionist than under. Gladstonian Government, that is not a little. absurd. The Daily News itself adinits; that the landlords who are now pressing for their rents are impoverished, indebted, and extravagant. Is it likely, therefore, that out of consideration for Mr Balfour's feelings these impecunious gentlemen would starve, Job-like, until the advent of a Gladstonian Government relieved them from their moral obligations ? We cannot see it. lAnd again, this advent of Gladstonism has been heralded by something more than evictions. The last figures published before the exodus of the Unionist Government showed Ireland to be entirely free from agrarian crime. What has happened since? We have had in the short interval crops burned, cattle mutilated, property destroyed, farmers murdered, others wounded, and an average sort of return to boycotting. Is this too, we should like to ask the Daily News, the work of the landlords? Do men murder one another because landlords allow rents to fall into arrears? Do they fire into houses, maim cattle, and burn crops because the landlords have let them down easily? No ; there is something more behind the present trouble than landlordism and its tyranny. As we pointed out yesterday, the Irish peasants have taken to heart the lesson consistently taught them -during the past six years_ They have been told that the application of the law was unjust and inhuman, and, quite naturally, the entrance of the Gladstonian Government is the signal for an outburst of lawlessness. They do not yet conceive that Mr Morley will punish them for acts which he formerly condoned or excused. That, in our opinion, is the real cause of the present disturbances. The Gladstonians are not suffering from a Unionist legacy; they have themselves sown the wind and are feaping the whirlwind.  Ear Telephone—No. 415 J. .9toi