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HAWAII.

more than a surprise. It is an augury. It so shall he smite this monstrous Juggernaut | When other countries have seriously considforeshadows in some degree the policy of that sits serene, clothed in innocuous desuetude ered the situation, they will, probably, be the new Administration. The independent to prate of justice, civil rights, and the dignity thankful for American interference, just as element is in the ascendency. Senator Hill of public trust, and still destroys them all." their representatives in the Sandwich Islands continue his pungent declaration, "I When the Judge sits at the head of the Cabinet appear to have been for the temporary interam a Democrat," but Mr. Cleveland proclaims table beside the " monstrous Juggernaut," the ference of American officials. The responsi his intention to be something more than a young orator from Minnesota will regret the bility is a grave one, but, as we cannot afford Democrat. Those near him in counsel have parallel he used only four years ago. to allow the islands to pass into other hands, already intimated that the new President has we should meet the crisis with firmness and in store some surprises for his own party, of decision. which the selection of Judge Gresham is the first installment. That it will not have the approval of the radical Democrats is to be expected, but it will strike the country at large rather favorably. Judge Gresham at least brings to the new Administration personal qualities that will impart a healthful tone of independence and a vigorous purpose to administer the affairs of Government on a higher plane than would have been dictated by Tammany influences if opportunity had been given. There is something in that fact for the country to rejoice in.

On Feb. 1 John L. Stevens, United States Minister at Honolulu, issued the following proclamation:

To the Hawaiian People:

ernment. This action is taken pending and
subject to negotiations at Washington.

(Signed) JOHN L. STEVENS.
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipo-
tentiary of the United States.
'UNITED STATES LEGATION, Feb. 1, 1893.

"At the request of the Provisional Government of the Hawaiian Islands, I hereby, in the name of the United States of America, assume protection of the Hawaiian Islands for the protection of the life and property and occupation of public buildings and Hawaiian soil, so far as may be necessary for the purposes speciRochester Post-Express (Ind.), Feb. II.fied, but not interfering with the administraThough he supported Mr. Cleveland last sum-tion of public affairs by the Provisional Govmer, he has not broken with his own party openly. His acceptance of office would look like a matter of bargain and sale. Moreover, it would be not only dishonorable but foolish. Judge Gresham could not become Secretary of State without renouncing some share of the authority that naturally belongs to the head of that department. He would be out of place in a Democratic Cabinet, and open to constant suspicion from the Democratic party. And he would be at Mr. Cleveland's mercy as no other member of the Cabinet would be. He would go into office under a cloud, and the chances are that he would come out of it with very little reputation left. We have had a high opinion of Judge Gresham's character, respecting him not only as a brave soldier, but as an upright Judge and an able politician. Should he accept a Cabinet office from Mr. Cleveland, we should be compelled to acknowledge that there is a flabby spot in his composition that has escaped critical observation hitherto.

Approved and executed by G. C. Wiltz, Capt. U. S. N., commanding the U. S.S. Boston."

It is announced that the Secretary of State has sent a communication to Minister Stevens formally approving his action.

The deposed Queen has sent commissioners to the United States to represent her interests. It is understood that the Queen proposes to relinquish all her claims, on condition that suitable pecuniary provision shall be made for her and her family.

Washington Evening Star (Ind.), Feb. 11.Now that the action of Minister Stevens is understood and has been discussed there is nothing but commendation of his promptness and activity in the interest of law and order.

Boston Christian Register (Unitarian), Feb. 9.-In the Pacific Ocean a new day is coming. England, France, Germany, and the United States are to control the political destinies of numerous sunny islands inhabited by people who must for their own good be governed. They are not wise enough to hold their own against the baser elements of civilization. They are nolonger ignorant savages. They are not civilized and fit for self-government. These islands have had a strange history. In the early days there flocked to them the restless criminals who sought safety and a sensual paradise. Then came the missionaries with strange doctrines and good lives. Now are coming steamships, electric cables, commerce. plantation life, manufactures, the perils, plagues, and responsibilities of civilization. The great nations. cannot go there as conquerors merely. What will they do about it?

ment is confirmed from Washington that MinChicago Herald (Dem.), Feb. 11.-The state

ister Stevens acted at Honolulu without authority. It is also declared in the State Department that his action, unauthorized before it was taken, remains unapproved. The course of the Minister should be the subject of prompt and impartial investigation. The precedent which is observed in all like cases he infringed without any apparent justification. He had no right to act aggressively or intrusively except for one purpose, namely to prevent bloodshed, to maintain peace and proter.t the life and property of non-combatants. Diplomatic usage everywhere approves the humane and logical course of a union of foreign representatives in such emergencies for the common weal. Minister Stevens did not ask the concurrence of any other foreign representative in Hawaii, but so acted as to involve us with Great Britian if not with other foreign

Indianapolis News (Ind.-Rep.), Feb. 11.-Of late years we have been living in a time of the disintegration of parties, greater or less, as the case may be, similar to the time thirty old years ago when out of the disintegration the It is evident that the Provisional Government Powers in a way not likely to result to our Republican party was finally crystallized. Ow- could not enforce its decrees without raising credit. If we are ever going to fight a foreign ing to Mr. Cleveland it is the Democratic party such a disturbance as would make bloodshed an that has been pushed a neck ahead, and possi- easy probability, and while that condition pre-Power let us at least have a good reason for bly more than a neck, in the race for the vailed business could not but be unsettled and fighting, be ready to fight, be determined to future. The party which can take up new the people dangerously uneasy. A few cautious fight, and be bound to win. In this instance we have no motive for fighting, we have no justiideas and recognize new men is the party ones-over-cautious probably-are inclined to which plays strongly for place to adminis- the belief that Minister Stevens should have fication for fighting, and if the issue should be ter affairs. What will come of this effort stood aside and let the Provisional Government pressed upon us we shall have to abandon the Certainly no more inter-fight it out with those who have probably, position Minister Stevens has recklessly taken, esting political crisis was ever afforded the almost surely, been plotting against it. Had if it shall be proved that recklessness be the only fault to be found in his conduct.

remains to be seen.

the same

political student than is given to him now.
that been done the President would in all prob-
Personally there is great reason why Mr. ability have had in the light of subsequent
Cleveland should choose Judge Gresham for a
events resulting from this inaction reason for
position of this kind. They are men of much recalling in disgrace the man who would be so
character, full, warm-blooded, careless of American interests. Mr. Stevens
courageous men,-men capable of chivalric ac- does not interfere with the administration of
tion, and of the strength of assertion that in- Hawaiian affairs, nor has he put the United
creases in proportion to the opposition it States in a position from which it may not, if
meets, which is the quality of the rising courage it so wills, withdraw with dignity. At this
of all brave men. Judge Gresham is a dem-time public sentiment and administrative prob-
ocrat, using the word with a little d, in his
views of life and government. So, personally,
there is great reason why Mr. Cleveland should
choose him. Politically we believe it is an
act that may have great and far-reaching con-
sequences. It will test the quality of the
Democratic party as Mr. Cleveland's act six
years ago tested its quality. If it shall respond
quicker, keep closer alongside, instead of
straggling into line six years after, so much
the better for it.

abilities seem to favor the maintenance of the
American flag in Hawaii either through an
nexation or a protectorate, but whether the
ex-kingdom of Hawaii becomes a part of this
country or not, it is not at all likely that any
apology will be required by the American peo-
ple from Minister Stevens.

Cincinnati Times-Star (Rep.), Feb. 10. Minister Stevens undoubtedly knew what he was about. He saw the inevitable, and proposed to have a hand in fetching it along at a swift pace. Whether he acted upon instructions or not, he acted like a loyal American, a patriotic man of affairs. Good judgment in emergencies tests the quality of statesmen and diplomats. The Kennebec editor who represents this Republic in Hawaii was put to a test unprecedented in the records of our diplomacy, and he has won popular applause. He has fixed the course of negotiations. The step taken Feb. I will not be retraced if public opinion in this country has any weight at Washington. The stars and stripes should Baltimore American (Rep.), Feb. 10.-The forever float above Aliuolani Hall. interests at stake are too serious to admit of San Francisco Argonaut (Ind.-Dem.), Feb. 6. mawkish sentiment about the rights of a queen-It does not seem that there is any alternawho does not know how to govern, or a peo- tive but annexation. It is said by many ple who do not want to govern, but prefer to that the English have far too much sense be governed by the United States. The Queen to interfere in the annexation question at the can be pensioned or paid a lump sum, which-risk of-at the very least-strained relations ever may be deemed the more expedient; but with the United States. But the English have she should not be suffered longer to oppose done many foolish things in their day. It is her opera bouffe dignity to the interests of the hard to set a limit to the fool possibilities of a enlightened world, for the United States in as-nation which could engage in the Crimean War, suming a protectorate must be responsible for or insist on bringing up Egypt on the bottle. all foreign interests in the Sandwich Islands. Mr. Gladstone will be gathered to his fathers

one of these days, and then no one can tell what kind of Jingo Briton we might have in his place, nor what uses he might not find for the islands as a half-way house for a cable between Vancouver and Brisbane. As a territory of the United States, the islands might work out their destiny, whatever it is. Some day the sugar duty will be restored, and, if the Hawaiians can make cane-sngar as cheaply as Californians can make beet-sugar, plantations may again be property. A fortified Coaling-station in Pearl Harbor is an absolute necessity. Such a station can never be secure, so long as the station flies one flag and the

islands another.

San Francisco News-Letter (Ind.-Dem.), Feb. 4.-The wisest and best policy in regard to these interesting Islands is to continue to treat them with benevolent consideration, keep a keen eye upon them, see that they fall into the hands of no other Power, and, for the rest, leave them alone for the present to settle their little lottery bills and other domestic concerns to suit themselves. Some day, perhaps not far distant, the trend of events may render annexation inevitable, but that is not yet. When it comes there will not be a legitimate sovereign to overthrow, nor an unwilling majority of the people to first coerce and then hold in subjection, and above all, there will be no sugar bounties to continue paying as the price of anybody's loyalty. In the fullness of time the islands will be ours, if we want them. For the present we should be content with a well-defined policy. A note to other Powers to keep their hands off, an intimation to the native Government that the lives and property of resident Americans will be protected at all hazards, an ocean cable and a fitting expenditure upon Pearl Harbor as a rendezvous for our ships of war, constitute a safe and sufficient policy for the present. Time will develop the rest.

ment was inevitable; it has always been the sion of the weak; and in the present instance it ignominiously fails. The depravity of the natives" is additional proof that their country ought to be taken from them, and their wickedness is thus described: "The 'Kanakas' are a

excuse of strong governments for the oppres

THE CENSOR OF THE PRESIDENT.

CONCERNING MR. J. S. CLARKSON.

bill of 1886. The Irish Parliamentary party, at a meeting specially summoned after the delivery of Mr. Gladstone's great speech, cordially accepted the new Home Rule constitution as a satisfactory scheme of Irish National self-government, subject to endeavors in Committee to in prove the proposed financial arrangements, and to have the time shortened wherein the land question is to be withheld from the purview of the Irish National Legislature. We are authorized by the party to transmit this resolution to the friends and supporters of Irish liberty in the United States and Canada."

As a comprehensive and critical analysis of the provisions of the bill will have more interest or our readers at present than would be afforded by miscellaneous opinions, we copy the editorial of the New York Sun—a paper whose comments on Irish affairs are always regarded as particularly able and intelligent from the Home Rule point of view.

Cedar Rapid Gazette (Rep.), Feb. 8.-Clarkson has just procured the services of a reporter to interview him, and in the course of a lengthy talk says: "Harrison's lack of strength came from his failure as a President to keep his party as strong ne he found it or to gain the affection or inspire the enthusiasm of the masses of the party." To" keep his party as strong as he found it" is good, very good. That one sentence is enough to reveal the animus of J. S. Clarkson's attack, a man, by the way, so little, with such a thirst for fame and with such a poor conception of the eternal fit ness of things that he masquerades under the assumed military title of "General" in times of peace, like some young boy with a rooster feather in his hat and a wooden gun on his shoulder, reproducing in his father's back yard the daring deeds of Daniel Boone. Clarkson, as is well known, demanded of President Harrison a place in the Cabinet. Not in honor of Iowa, for he prevented Senator Allison acceptNew York Sun, Feb. 15.-The text of the ing a portfolio that could have been his with- Home Rule Bill has not yet been submitted to out the asking. Not for the good of the party, end of the week. Nor did Mr. Gladstone in Parliament, and perhaps will not be before the but for the gratification of his personal ambition and as a salve to dress the bruises he col- the great speech which he delivered on Monlected about his person when he was undergo-day touch on all the important features of the ing the process of being kicked out of Iowa measure, but confined himself to a few salient politics, as, a matter of self-preservation on served until the whole project is made known points. Final judgment must, therefore, be rethe part of the Republican party who thought it better to us; but we can see already that the scheme to sacrifice a Jonali than lose a vessel and their own is materially different from the alleged draft lives. of it which was cabled to us a week or two ago. Proceding with what has now become more a confession of his own guilt than an accusa-instance, is quite distinct from that proposed in The composition of the Irish legislature, for tion of the President, he again says: 'In selecting his Cabinet he secured at once un1886, or from anything predicted by those doubted personal ability and yet chilled the professing to be cognizant of Mr. Gladstone's spirit and rebuked the enthusiasm of the party Swiss Federal Parliament, is to consist of a intentions. The Dublin Parliament, like the in a manner from which the party has not even to this day recovered.' "Undoubted personal As there is nothing in Ireland, however, corlegislative council and a legislative assembly. ability is calculated to chill and alienate a man of Clarkson's disposition, who practices responding to the Swiss cantons or the States politics for spoils and loves his country most of our Union, the forty-eight members of the when it is most easily robbed. The fact that legislative council are to be chosen by about Harrison chose his advisers for "undoubted 170,000 electors, each of whom shall own or personal ability," is the very thing that kept occupy real estate of the ratable value of at least $100 a year. Such a higher property qualificathe Iowa exile from realizing his ambition of becoming the head and chief corruptionist of tion for the electors of the upper House existed, the Postoffice department. The time has come for some forty years after the adoption of as we formerly pointed out, in New York when this man should be known. mentary evidence exists of his own reck- our State Constitution. It is intended to be a safeguard for the minority; but a precauless assault on anti-corporation legislation, tion against a deadlock is borrowed from the because such laws would prevent the moneyed French process of constitutional revision. That concerns contributing to his campaign fund. is to say, when a measure has been twice He now boasts of Republican loyalty in Iowa. adopted by the popular branch of the Irish State official declaring that the Republican legislature, and either an interval of two years party in the State would go to defeat unless or a dissolution of Parliament has taken place between the two adoptions, the legislative aslaws favorable to the corporations were passed sembly and the legislative council are to meet by the Legislature? The "Herr Most spiracy, in which Governor Larrabee was of the bill is to be decided by a majority of in joint session, and the passage or rejection classed as an anarchist, had its head and centheir joint votes. We should add that members tre in J. S. Clarkson, and the details of the plot have been partly revealed. What is known proves that Iowa had rested under a rule as

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Did he or did he not ever write a letter to a

con

tach the charge of perfidy and moral crime to
the President of the United States was the
chief power and instigator of the combine.

of the legislative council are elected for eight years, and we infer, although Mr. Gladstone does not expressly say so in the cabled abstract

a dissolution of the Parliament. Without some

clever, interesting, gentle people. They are not lazy exactly, but act as though the earth belonged to them by right, and that others lived on it by sufferance." The latter part of this description applies more correctly to some/detrimental as the power of Tammany in the of his speech, that they do not lose their seats on other people than to the Kanakas," for those days of Tweed, and the one who seeks to atpoor natives have never claimed that any part of the earth except the Sandwich Islands" belonged to them by right," and certainly that much of their claim is good. If we take their country from them, that bit of the earth will belong to us by wrong. Another reason for abolishing their nationality is this: "If they think you want something very much, they will charge extravagant prices for it." This weakness has a strong resemblance to the English and the American way of doing business, and it is excellent evidence that the

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"Kanakas" are not "incapable of self-government. "But," says the moralist, "if you admire that self-same thing and comment on its beauty, they will give it to you." This courtesy never was learned from the English or the Americans, but it suggests a plan worth trying. Instead of stealing the country or buying it, let us admire it and " comment on its beauty." Then, perhaps, those "clever, gentle, interesting people" will give it to us for nothing.

FOREIGN MATTERS.

THE HOME RULE BILL.
The Home Rule Bill was introduced in the
English House of Commons by Mr. Gladstone
last Monday.

The following statement in behalf of the
Irish Nationalists has been issued by John

Dillon and Michael Davitt:

such guarantee of the rights of minorities as is afforded by this legislative council, it is not probable that Mr. Gladstone could carry any Home Rule bill through the present House of Commons. Those who object to a property qualification of any kind as the basis of the upper House of the Irish legislature, will observe that the guarantee is only temporary, and that the will of the popular majority can in no case be withstood longer than two years.

The Irish legislative assembly is to consist of 103 members, chosen by the present constituen

cies. The members will hold their seats for five years, unless the Parliament is in the meantime dissolved owing to a disagreement between the legislative assembly and the Irish executive. The method of electing members "The bill offers Ireland a Legislature, a free of this assembly, however, and their term of deal in all Irish affairs, and an executive Gov-service can be altered hereafter by the Irish ernment responsible to that Legislature. In Parliament. Money bills must originate in all the main principles, and in the political ma- the popular branch of the legislature; and to chinery, it is provided much better than the this body the Viceroy's Cabinet, or Executive

There are also constitutional restrictions intended to secure religious freedom, to safeguard public education, and to assure personal liberty. With reference to the judiciary, we note that from the outset the Dublin legislature is to fix the pay of Judges, though these for the period of six years are to be appointed by the imperial Government. After the expiration of that term all the members of the Irish bench, with the exception of two Exchequer Judges, will be appointed by the Irish executive responsible to the legislative assembly. The constabulary, also, during a transition period are to continue under the direct control of the Viceroy, but ultimately they are to be replaced by bodies of men owing existence to local Irish authorities. We should add that during the transition period a large part of the cost of the constabulary is to be borne by the imperial exchequer.

THE CONVICTION OF DE LESSEPS.

Committee of the Irish Privy Council, is evi- | position might move a vote of confidence, and, I could have achieved the triumph which was dently to be responsible. The Viceroy, it calling in the 80 Irish members, might turn peculiarly his own when the canal proved to be should be noted, is to be appointed for a fixed out the Government. Would not, in such a one of the greatest engineering works of the term of six years; not changeable, in other case, the Irish members be practically decid-age. Because M. de Lesseps had succeeded once words, with every change of Government at ing a purely British question? This instance with ail the famous engineers and the great Westminster. shows that the retention of Irish members at European capitalists and Governments against As regards the jurisdiction of the Irish Par- Westminster bristles with difficulties which him and only a credulous Eastern monarch liament, this covers all Irish affairs and inter- may pass the ingenuity of man to smooth and the savings of small French investors ests, except some which are temporarily ex- away, except by a sweeping application of the behind him, he thought that he could never cluded. What are imperial as distinguished Federal system, which Mr. Gladstone has no fail in anything or anywhere. When he ap. from Irish affairs is defined in the bill. The idea of making. pealed to the same class of investors to provide preamble asserts the supremacy of the imperial It should be remembered that neither Mr. the capital required for cutting the rock-ribbed Parliament, and the bill goes on, llke that of Gladstone nor the Irish Nationalists have de- Panama Isthmus, he had the enormous advant1886, to deny to the Irish legislature any power sired to keep representatives of Ireland at age of trading upon his previous success. of regulating the succession to the Crown, or Westminster. The demand for their reten- Their confidence in him was as profound as the conditions of a regency or of the vice- tion has been pressed by a wing of the British his faith in himself. It was enough for them royalty. Excluded also from its cognizance, Liberals. who see in such retention a salient to know that he staked his reputation upon as from that of our State Legislatures, are the and tangible proof of Ireland's acknowledg- the feasibility of the work. Year after year subjects of war and peace, of public defense, ment of the supremacy of the imperial Parlia- they poured their accumulated savings into the of treaties and foreign relations, of trade with ment. But in the new bill there are so many rocky defiles and shifting quicksands of the foreign nations, and the coinage. other safeguards of this supremacy, that per- Isthmus. It meant nothing either to him or haps all the Liberals may ultimately be pre-to them if conservative engineers condemned vailed upon to admit that the exclusion of such the project and sober-minded capitalists were members from Westminster would make the alarmed by the estimates of cost and the narHome Rule scheme more workable. It should row margin for returns upon the investment. be remembered that for the case of constitu- So had the failure of the Suez project been tional questions growing out of collisions be- forecast and triumphantly demonstrated in tween the London and Dublin Parliaments every European capital. He believed, and the Mr. Gladstone has provided a court of appeal investors also, that his new enterprise, while in the Judicial Committee of the imperial immeasurably more difficult than the first interPrivy Council, taking care to announce, how- oceanic canal, was safe, and that genius and ever, that the different nationalities should be good fortune-the Ferdinand de Lesseps luckproportionately represented on this committee. would carry it through. Even when the misWe have marked here the principal features managed company was on the verge of bankof the new measure as they are outlined in Mr. ruptcy he was still intoxicated with credulous Gladstone's speech. It will be observed that hopes and unable to perceive the impendabout the land question, a matter of capital ing collapse of the most reckless speculaimportance, not a word is said in our abstract tion since the South Sea bubble. If M. de of the Liberal leader's exposition. Lesseps succeeded at Suez it was because he was not an engineer. If he failed at Panama it was because he was only a speculative diplomatist and not a practical man of business. The very qualities which enabled him New York Tribune, Feb. 11.-The world's to overcome every obstacle at the Isthmus, working stock of genius never is so large where a tide-level canal was to be cut through that the downfall of a commanding person- desert levels and an ancient sea-bed, disqualiality like Ferdinand de Lesseps can be re-fied him for taking a sober view of the diffigarded with cynicism. There is nothing in culties of rock-ribbed Panama or for controlmodern annals more pathetic than the vicissi-ling the flood of reckless financial waste and tudes of fortune by which the picturesque and corruption which swept everything before it. heroic figure, alike the first citizen of the In the end he was like a drowning man catchEmpire and the Republic, has been transformed ing at straws, an Oriental fatalist, paralyzed into a sentenced convict. Not even the col- and disenchanted; but neither France nor the lapse of the Panama enterprise and the shock- world will ever believe that he was a common ing disclosures of financial mismanagement and swindler, or that he merited when dying in his legislative corruption have prepared either old age-the Grand Frenchman still at eightyFrance or the world for so tremendous a re- eight-the grotesque and horrible sentence versal of the conditions of mortal greatness. which has been pronounced against him. It is too long an arc for the swinging pendulum of human destiny. Imagination and intelli- MR. GOLDWIN SMITH'S OFFENSE.-What gence instinctively revolt against the ignomini- do the loyalists propose to do with the archous sentence to a convict's cell of the one man traitor, Goldwin Smith? Their organs are who has helped to make France really great shrieking out execrations and epithets against during a generation when statesmen and in- him because he has gone over to the United triguers have combined to belittle her reputa- States with the purpose; it is alleged, of intertion among nations. M. de Lesseps's misfor- viewing President elect Cleveland in the interWe come now to the representation of Ireland tunes may be attributed in large degree to his ests of the annexation movement. Of course, at Westminster. This is to be reduced from 103 extraordinary successes. At Suez he achieved it requires no argument to convince any truly members to 80-the latter uumber being pro- what statesmen, capitalists, and engineers patriotic person of the extreme depravity inportional to the Irish population. As to their throughout Europe had pronounced impossible volved in such a course-and indeed it is forvoting power this is indeed a question, as Mr. and chimerical. A trained diplomatist who tunate that it does not, as reason is a Gladstone said, beset with thorns and bram- had spent his life in the foreign service, he was commodity in which the loyalty-shriekbles. In principle they are to vote not on recalled from Rome by Napoleon the Little in ers and flag-flappers do not deal. But British but only on imperial matters. But disgrace because he had recognized in Mazzini's the question which naturally arises is how is the distinction to be drawn? Mr. Glad- revolution a patriotic uprising against foul mis--supposing Goldwin Smith to be in every stone has essayed to make one by excluding government, and had refused to falsify his con- respect a nefarious person, what do they the Irish members at St. Stephen's from vot-victions. Summoned to Cairo in 1854 by the propose to do about it? It is altogether likely ing on a bill or motion expressly confined to Khedive, he entered upon a fifteen years' that the professor will have the unspeakable Great Britain; from voting on a tax not levied struggle for an idea with all the world audacity to return to the Dominion just as if upon Ireland; from voting on an appropriation against him. If he had been an engineer he he hadn't been told a thousand times in the of money for other than imperial services, and would never have undertaken the Suez Ca- plainest language of his obvious superfluity lastly, from voting on any motion or resolu- nal. He was a diplomatist whose imagina- in this section. Again we ask what practical tion exclusively affecting Great Britain. But tion had been fascinated by the changes to method have the Loyalists in view for squelchwhat he thus takes away with one hand he be wrought in trade routes and international ing such treasonable proceedings? The only seems to give back with the other; for he affairs by the cutting of the Isthmus. He had specific remedy we have seen proposed so far pronounces it impossible to prohibit the also lived under the shadow of the pyramids is that people should quit supporting the Irish members from taking part in a vote of long enough to be convinced that anything Globe and Mail and transfer their patronage to confidence. Suppose, then, that the question could be done in Egypt, if only he had faith in the Empire. No more crucial test of patriotic at issue between a Ministry and the Oppostition himself. He was essentially a fatalist and be- devotion and willingness to incur loss and sufwere a British income tax, and that the Oppo-lieved that he could not fail. The Suez Canal fering for the Old Flag could well be devised sition were too weak, unaided by Irish mem- was preeminently the work of one man of geni--but even such a desperate measure would bers, to defeat the proposal. Before the tax us, inexhaustible force of character, and sublime hardly secure the obliteration of Prof. Goldhad been accepted by the Commons, the Op- faith in his own destiny. No other European win Smith.-Toronto Grip (Ind.), Feb. 11.

As regards the distribution of fiscal resources, Ireland will be better off, should Mr. Gladstone's bill become a law, that one of the States of our Union. The sole source of revenue reserved to the imperial exchequer is the customs duties levied in Irish ports. These are accepted in full payment of Ireland's share of the expenditures for imperial purposes, although they constitute only from four to five per cent. of the aggregate sum required. All other means of raising money in Ireland, including the excise, or what we call the Internal Revenue tax, the income tax, and the stamp tax are transferred to the Irish Government to be used for Irish purposes. The postal and telegraph rates are, indeed, fixed at Westminster in order that they may be uniform for the whole United Kingdom; but in Ireland they are to be collected by Irish officers and paid into the Irish treasury. Let Irish-Americans consider how well off we should think ourselves in New York, if the power of the Federal Government to raise money from the citizens of this State were limited to the collection of customs duties.