The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-11-11 00:00:00

SPEECHES our OF PARLIAMENT.

Ir rJuiw, and pion, as if the floods ot the 'great
deep were brokeo up, and the %kiss ha I nothing ,
tin speeches in them. Three Minister,, at a time
spoke at Birmingham ; two great Liberal leaders
at Alancheeter ; and sin,* then we have Sir Heuty
James, Mr. Fewce a Mr. irevelvan, L crd Caringtain,
Mr. Breisey. Mr. Rowland Winn, and ao many
heser luminaries thot it is imp +sib's to recall them.
1,0 review alt toes., speeches is imp amble; t attempt
any datailial citouw of them would be ri•dcolou•.
; But they have in common one characteristic which
wi unlversaLy commend them. They are without
exception ergnuustitatire in etyle, reasonable in
tone, and as regard* the future, t say the least,
seusible. Sir Henry James is complimented even by
ilia opponents. In his main oonteliti•ins Mr. Fawcett
ha. conciliated oppoaition, end Mr. Bram. y and Lord
Caringtou are not likely to eir on the sloe of excess.
Sir iienry James'a speech is an exc..eedingly valua'ile
review of thenituatiou, &dame itwill slot repel by its lan-
Luare imheiean,,wihtorricteinataeximcletadatoatconiavionce,w;. tamitdatil.,la,
us.' interveioiou • n bnhf 1 the
. urkiah rule in Armenia. Oa .teteuel I, at Arm mien
inearr:ctioli, are c intrarie to al •-ur koowledge on
that aubjet.e. Mr. I,..woett's speech, on the o.her
timid, cies& with two littler's' which have yet bee un-
considered with a inluese to which we have born
uodtantoom -d-th partneut.f.e the Akita's W. rail
Lb. noose Ride ques.i.m. His views on Ude au..ject
all have the more power when it is seen that he
accept* the inevhable. To men who are so
advising an immeliate departure from Afghanistan we
0 immend especially Thuile whoa arid weighty words in
which he expresses his opinion that our ri cent history
is now the mat ar ot our policy. "I: v ill not improb-
ably be taio tnat those ilea myself, objected from
tee °oust .1., a al, lance being n,a le into rtfebaniatan
will now, as a matter of c .uige, recommend that We
should at once noire within the limits of tor old
Nuthili:, however, would be m ra unfa r
Usti to It-some tLa lute Would of necaeity be th,s
cour e whidi would be pure ted by the Liberal arty
if they cosine into pow r. I bite. Sir sly laid stress
upon the fact that by rev- rsing a i ardou'ar canna ‘4
policy it is imp...Dile ti restore thinirs to the data in
which they intginally were. If for no other r, a on,
we are bound. having inturred t is responsibility of
destroying the government ot Aighataistai, not
suddenly to turn our hack upon flat c middy, having
everything thee in • elite of tut moil ad era thy.
We eh old be fatly ch•-pd wi h eouletliinK wore.
than an &Intim if, rega dies. of evety c ,nsidelation
except itat which sat -upposed to proinOle our own
Interest, we now left tato Afghan pen, to to extricate
themeelret in the beet say they could fr.-in the
difficulties of • situalon eh ch a. had ourselves
created." It is when hey. e that Radicals like Mr.
Fawcett really have some appreciation of the pact cal
difficulty nf the future a. well at righteous detestatios
id the c iurse which has laide,l tie upon those
difficulties, that the m 're modeiate critics of s
recent amoeba-e will find confidence restored as well as
enthusiasm aroused. so oucceeiful wai Mr. Tie-
eel) a i at Ila Nick in showing Hi it he fon-
yaw the neemitire of the position. The outlook in
foreign affa,rs was to him so hopeless Watt,' practicyl
mug-esti-.us he was helpless, and his progrimme was
wh 'illy domestic. But he also displayed mote sense of
the dangers ahead than to propose, or even to hint at,
the settlement of ever) thing by a• 11. ide coup, and the
complete caseation of our responsibilities by immedi-
ately disowning them.
Mr. Fawcett di well to deal with the second sub.
ject, and to tied with it so decidedly. There has been
sotnething too much of tenderness for the Horne Rule
h- my growing up lathe country, due bi the main, as
I we believe, to the mistaken policy which refine* an
inquiry into the practical grievances of the people.
What Home Rule means is not clearly apprehended
by Englishmen. The trishmen Cotne ti the,. mud Say.
" have granted Canada Hume Rule and Austra-
lia -even the Cape. Y.,tt let then, e govern
thematlves, and even make commercial war upon
England. But to us, mora closely hound to you, to
whom the cent urine ot your deep injustice •••ould make
you wren generous, you refuse the bum that every?
colony possesses." Al first the argument seems un.
answe able, and the eye* u which acts for Canada,
for Australia, and for the Cape. seem. ti have its due
development in Hume Hale for Ireland. But what is
the corollary of Home Rule in Canada, Australia, and
the Cape? That th es colonise have only to de.nactd
independence to obtain It; that we hold them .0 us
only so long as they ogres with us in regarding
memberebili in the Sinpire as good for them as well as
1.-r us. Can we take that tone towards Ireland
There is no Irishman who would dare to ray that it is
within our power to concede anything of the sort, and
if we cannot concede that liberty we ought not to
tempt Ireland to evil by ofrallui her what would end
only in bloo !shed and disaster._ .

-1.6.-Faircett's views on the Irish !and propoaals of
Mr. Parnell are a's° woo th sou lying. They are hose
of a professor of political economy, who is one of the
highest lir nor an horities on the subject, and we have
ohs more asticfoction iu presenting them, as they run
almost on the caina lines se our own comtneuta ma I. •
few flays hack. tfet asked us to think what it would
the .-tt o,e to buy I delt lavis fr the peasant,
I" The Government I. fr-quently spoken of as if it was
a o in-tittrion ettetonct fr ,m ohe riai on 'APO if it were
the woes "nor of great fonds which could be drown
upon without aoyone being the poorer. But every
shilling which is a 'canoed by the State represents
(allowing for the out of collection) at loot fitcHDD
pence talon from the general taxpayer. If five on Mons
wore empl .yed by the Gournm at is enabling bleb
farmers to purchase their holdings, the mon-y would
not he the money of the Government; it would be
taken from you and the other taxi-avers of the coop
inanity. Suppose gee maltose had been tboa em-
ployed. A period o-f agricultural depeueion like the
present mines; the v due of land mimes;•• the Irish
I .rtners are now being told at a hundred public meet.
ngs by thou who &come to be their ode nu and
their guide., that it is their moral duty Lot Wino the
rant which they have undertaken t pay. W. tell
they not be told it was at lout as much their moral
duty not to pay the interest on the money they had
borrowed from the Government? Is it likely that the
State would be mot• tenderly dealt with than private
proprietors? What would then be the value ..f 'he
five milli -us that had been olvanced ? W.uld it base
a ma, ket value of fire million pence? Woo woold
have to make goo the deficit? Why, it would have
to be made good by a contribution enforced from
every man and woman throughout the kingdom who
has to contribute to the general taxotiou of the
country." It comes, as we have sail, to lea propoul
on the pert of the I ishmen that Kngleshmen should
tasks them the present of a farm to each. Expecta-
tions of much a kind at such a moment as the ',remota
ought to be quickly and unmistakably declared by all
political speakers to be vain if uot stupid—Poole
7 elegraut.