One hundred years ago
LORD SALISBURY held that the next General Election would not finally set- tle the Hothe-rule Question. If, as he expected, the Conservatives carried the day, he looked forward to the Gladsto- nians still persisting in their advocacy of Irish Home-rule; and if the Gladsto- nians carried the day, he looked for- ward to the Conservatives offering the most steady resistance to Irish Home- rule. He held that the "object-lesson" we had had in Irish Home-rule had gone a good way towards disgusting England with the Irish means of political war- fare. "They are not the means of political warfare we adopt in this coun- try. I have no sympathy with the man who plasters lime in Mr. Parnell's eyes, but neither have I any sympathy with the man who drives spectacle-glasses into Mr. Tim Healy's eyes." Again, "If I wished to describe the character of Mr. Parnell, I should use the language of Mr. Timothy Healy. If I wished to describe the character of Mr. Timothy Healy, I should use the language of Mr. Parnell."
The Spectator, 25 April 1891
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