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United States that reached a serious climax 

 a decade later. The feeling at first excited by 

 the seizure of the American fishermen was di 

 rected naturally against the Canadians. Later, 

 despite the unconcealed and eager efforts of 

 the British imperial government to bring about 

 a satisfactory accommodation, a truculent spirit 

 in respect to England became increasingly 

 manifest throughout the United States. It was 

 wide-spread rather than deep, and it received 

 nourishment from a number of casual circum 

 stances. 



The home politics of Great Britain contrib 

 uted something. It was in 1886 that Mr. 

 Gladstone s Irish policy wrecked the Liberal 

 Party and brought Lord Salisbury in for a long 

 tenure of the premiership. The Parnell move 

 ment for home rule had for years attracted 

 much sympathy in the United States, even out 

 side the circle of Irish-Americans from whom it 

 drew so much of its financial support. When 

 Gladstone gave way to the pressure of the 

 Irish and introduced his first Home Rule Bill, 

 the action presented itself to very many Amer 

 icans as another step in the democratic direc 

 tion which he had followed, notably in the 

 extension of the suffrage in 1884. The failure 



