The Bystander - 1881 Author:Unknown Author Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: No legislation can in a moment conjure away the barbarism of Irish agriculture, or raise the character of the Irish peasant. Ulster Tenant Right you may extend t... more »o Munster and Con- iiaught if you please, but there are other things in Ulster which ,are not so easily extended. The British Government cannot be too quick in putting out a fire which, if allowed to blaze much longer, may spread to the houses of the neighbours. If a landlord House of Lords chooses, at the instigation of Lord Beaconsfield and Lord Salisbury, to help the fire against the firemen, it will illustrate the madness of faction at serious cost to itself. The Liberal Government has inherited a rich legacy of trouble from its Jingo predecessors, whose violent annexation of the Transvaal is bearing its natural fruit just at the moment ,when all the forces of England are employed at home. Lords Beaconsfield and Salisbury evidently are on the alert, and hope to profit by the embarrassment of their rivals. But the elections go for the Government, and the nation has sense enough to see that a return to Jingoism and wars for scientific frontiers would not be the best mode of extricating itself from the difficulties of the situation. What would the condition of England be if the quarrel with Russia were still on her hands ! Lord Beaconsfield, lucky in everything, was lucky in the timeliness of his fall. —The wild project of re-imposing political disabilities on the Jews has been rejected by the good sense of the German people. Not only was it a violation of all modern principle; it was practically foolish, and would only have made bad worse. But it is not likely that the agitation against Semitic ascendency will die out; certainly it will not if the growth of Jewish influence in Europe continues as formidable as at p...« less