Show POLITICS IN GREAT BRITAIN GLAD STONES declination to receive a delegation of workmen abo who proposed to induce him to pledge himself in favor of a an n eight hour law is being taken advantage of by the conserva tives tivee it is ie more than likely that salisbury will receive and listen to a delegation of the same fame character but will not commit himself hiwa elfon on the quei question tion at issue both parties are of opinion that england is not ready formich for auch a statute the only advantage that salisbury v ill III gain by receiving a workmen work mens Ps delegation on the subject will simply be on the ground of courtesy mr gladstone will not undertake to push any great popular question until the subject of home rule far ireland is disposed of he has set bet his bia heart upon the irish question and be will not by step of hie bi allow any other formidable agitation to overshadow it or give it a bac backman kmat that would be the effect of pressing so go important a question ns as an eight hour law at the present time A pledge from a british statesman weans more as a rule than the same game thing from an american statesman the former has not yet reached the point when ho he will promise almost anything and everything on the eve of an election |