Guardian (Newspaper) - August 15, 1894, London, Middlesex No. 2541.-Two AUGUST 15, 1804. Under 6 1 Thin Under 4o. J 6$. By principal The 1241 Foreign 1342 Colonial and 1242 1248 1244 1245 Thb Report op the Committee of the Lower House of thb Yobs Convocation on 1248 Salisbury on 1249 Employment and Wages of 1249 Horns 1260 Important Judgment on 1251 Home Reunion 1251 Bangor Diocesan 1251 In Lancaster Gough 1252 1252 1257 ' and the GOVERNMENT 1258 1258 of National 1259 The Drama of the The Goal of the Human Letters addressed to a College A Short Memoir of Emily Minet 1260 History of Songs without 1261 Now Editions and Note 1262 The Validity of Anglican 1262 The British 1263 and Mexico; 1265 w Mr. Gladstone's London Board English Services on the 1266 Systematic and Proportional A Degree in la A Glass A Correction 1267 1254,1267 THE If we were in want of a concise argument against the Evicted Tenants we should find it in a single sentence in yesterday's Daily The opponents of the are there described as hating and despising the entire code of legislation which made the Irish tenant a legal with bis established courts the recognition and enforcement of his and established every possible bar against wanton or unjust But it is this very code that the Evicted Tenants The Irish tenant has been made with his the seeks to excuse him for haying disregarded the terms of the Courts been established for the recognition and enforcement of his the ignores these and sets up a new tribunal to go over the whole question Every possible bar has been established against wanton or unjust the assumes that every disturbance was wanton or in total disregard of the probability that if it was so it would hardly have surmounted every one of these legal The speeches of the Nationalist members take no note of the Irish legislation of the past twelve They assume that a tenant who has been evicted because his case is not met by any one of the special laws made in his favour has just the same claim on our compassion as the tenant of thirty years back who was absolutely at the mercy of his At the same we do not say that among the thousands of tenants who have been evicted since 1879-the date fixed in the are not some who may fairly be helped if help can possibly be given Lord in moving the second reading of the mentioned four classes of tenants who are in this exceptional They are the men who left their farms before the Act of 1881, which established a tribunal for the fixing of fair the men who left their farms before the Act of 1887, which included leaseholders within the operation of the the men who left their farms after the and the men who left their farms after the starting of the Plan of are people whom the designs to help there have been no difficulty in making its purpose does it not specify the four classes to which Lord Spencer If there be any tenants who through no fault of their failed to benefit by the Act of 1881; if there be any leaseholders who through no fault of their own failed to benefit by the Act of 1887; if there be by their misfortune as much as by their were misled by framers of the manifesto or by the authors of the Plan of means let us see what can be done to reinstate them consistently with justice alike to their former landlords and to the tenants who have stepped into their farms and now hold them with an unimpeachable legal and moral Instead of this the draws no distinctions and makes no It is applicable to every tenant in Ireland who once had a farm and now has It takes no account of the causes which led to his leaving it limits itself to the single consideration how he is to be got It question indeed - to the decision of but as it provides them with no principles on which to found their decisions it makes them judges of law as well as of Such a measure as this is nothing less than a defiance of common honesty and common Still we regret that the Lords should have met the by a simple When every speaker admits that there are cases of eviction with which it would be well to and when the body to which the speakers belong has full power to make the what it thinks we can see no reason for the refusal to go into is with much show of that the Government and the members would accept a remodelled as at least better than and even if they did the responsibility for the rejection of the would at Feast rest on the right It is that they would have accepted it only as an and it is very possible that Mr. Morley would have said But to reject any further measure of the same supposing Ministers to introduce one next would have been just as easy as to reject the present and the Lords would have been in a stronger position if they had borne this in It is a matter of very great for we doubt whether an appreciable section of the English or Scottish public cares one farthing about the and whatever means Mr. Balfour has for maintaining peace and order in Mr. Morley still But it is a pity that an admitted grievance should be suffered to when all parties are agreed up to a certain point as to the direction in which a remedy is to be sought The has been singled out by the Government for an exhibition of favour which is seldom vouchsafed to a private member's least of all to a on the merits of which neither Ministers themselves nor the miners it is intended to benefit are of one .As the stands it has two great It is unjust in it is predestined to failure in It is a high-handed interference with one of the most elementary of individual right to and it is sought to impose this disability on a trade a large section of which is resolutely opposed to it. Our conviction is that if the passes the miners of Northumberland and Durham will go on as though it did not If they who is to who is to collect the who is to convict the prisoners P The unreality of the demand is shown by the unwillingness of its advocates to accept the local option If the is as popular with the mining population as they why are they so determined not to give the mining population in each county the choice whether the shall be made operative in their case P Nor have we any more respect for the amateurs who have made this question their If Mr. is so anxious to shorten the hours of why does not he begin with one of the many trades in which men and women work for twelve hours a day and for seven days in the week P There is not a single great city in which there are not omnibus and tramcar men who would think the largest tale of hours worked in an English colliery in a week almost a omnibus and tramcar men are neither so numerous nor so well organised as the members of the and the compassion the modem philanthropist is attracted not by the sufferings of the objects of but by their voting The naval manoeuvres have ended but not some valuable lessons have been provided for the Admiralty and eventually for the Racing two couples of fleets in order to see which will first effect a junction is only pleasantly exciting where manoeuvres are but it would be a great deal too exciting if our existence as a Greai Power depended England navy enough to positions essential to her safety in asi result iof superior speed or And if Ware to Mediterranean it refitting without coming home for the At present have ill Gibraltar the place for a great repairing dock but not We trust that both will be remembered in the naval programme of next We have spoken of Lord Salisbury's address to the British Association in another Readers it will wish that there were more amateurs of his calibre to to the post he has so worthily filled this Professional scientists are commonly too occupied with the advances made in their own region of knowledge to thought to spare for the immensity 61 human by the side of which these wonderful as they are in appear so infinitely ' The trial of the thirty Anarchists in Paris has ended in the acquittal of all but three of It is difficult to know what evidence a jury will demand in what is really a case of first and perhaps the Government are not to be blamed for trying to determine the point by a It must be that in several of the cases the evidence produced was extremely and the jury were not predisposed towards a conviction by the treatment of Anarchism and burglary as allied The failure will not be without its use if it teaches the French Government to rely for the defeat of Anarchism rather on the improvement of their police service than on the multiplication of omnibus A competent will commonly succeed in one of two Either he will leave an Anarchist no time to or he will get together a body that will leave no reasonable doubt what that vacation is. In the former case trials will not be in the latter they will not break V. Meanwhile the United States Senate has passed an and it is generally expected that it will be accepted by the House of Its object is to prevent the landing of Anarchists in the United All passengers for American ports will be examined before a ship sails by inspectors appointed by the and if the inspectors are in any doubt as to the character of the they are to send home whatever information they have about him that he may again be examined before leaving the It certainly looks as though England would soon be the only country to which an can come with the prospect of remaining here so long as he chooses to behave To some of our foreign critics this seems a shocking state of but provided that our police arrangements are there is unbiassed testimony forthcoming to their excellence in every may be on the whole convenient that there should be one country in which an can live peacefully provided that he will live In this way he is not driven to use violence out of sheer while if he uses it for any other reason he Will speedily make acquaintance with a The Liberal party in Belgium its best to heal its but with a very slender of The elections are near at yet it is three parties instead of The League cannot come to terms with the the Association cannot come to terms with the Labour The conditions of the contest are not as to make this display of independence at all The Catholic no has its own difficulties in this If there are Conservatives among them there are also Christian Democrats where property is is hardly distinguishable from that of the But the for a are wiser in their generation than the If they agree upon principles they can agree upon the division of unless the Liberals mend they seem likely to repeat the experience of 1884, and to see party once more annihilated as a political Apparently tUe of is as active in Belgium as it Probably the fact that the country has been very well governed for years by a Clerical Ministry has deprived the term of some of its And as the hatred of the common enemy grows weaker the points of difference between Doctrinaires and and between both and the Labour in Belgium is frankly
