| Show TROUBLED TORIES The Tories are again in much trouble trouble caused by their own success at times when they would have preferred that the Liberals End gone a little further into their sea of political discord where the waters were deeper and where they would have become scattered They were getting into deep water when the Tories began to jeer at them and like sensible men they waded back to the shore and told their advisers and critics to pilot the way themselves Having said what should be and having pointed out various vari-ous mistakes the Tories could not very well refuse to lead the nation through the Red Sea of their troubles but now they are in the sea they find that its waters no not part to let them pass to the promised prom-ised land beyond The Times still continues con-tinues to condemn the late Ministry for its conduct in resigning as it plainly sees that the Tories are hemmed in on all sides with difficulties while the Telegraph Tele-graph says that the Marquis of Salisbury will have the sympathy of the country and warns Mr Chamberlain Cham-berlain and Sir Charles Dilke not to make any mistakes by obstructing the elections in the Provinces The Telegraphs Tele-graphs warning is gratuitious to the above gentlemen as that paper is a Tory of the Tories and utters its warning more as a threat than anything else It seems that the Conservatives are so timorous tim-orous in their undertaking to conduct the Government that they are requiring guarantees of their opponents that they will not molest the new Cabinet It is a most excellent idea to get an opponent to make a promise that he will not criticise the actions of those who brought about his downfall Another thing that troubles the Tories is the fact that they do not know what line of policy Gladstone will pursue whether he will retire altogether from politics or still remain the leader of his party and their bitterest and most active opponent At the present time Gladstone seems to be buried beneath the ruins of his own party but it is only seemingly so He is like the Scotch lad to whose memory a tablet is placed in a certain street in Edinburgh The house in which the lad and his parents lived fell one night and buried in its ruins all the inmates in-mates It took the workmen several days to clear away the debris never once hoping to save any life but on the third day as the evening approached they thought they heard a faint cry and so redoubled their efforts to remove the debris In the place where the ruins had fallen thickest they heard the voice of the lad cry out Heave awa men Im no dead yet Nor was he and he came out from under the ruins uninjured and as well as when he was buried beneath them So it is with Gladstone hes no dead yet |
