The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1886-05-11 00:00:00

Cortrsponbrnre.

/10ME RULE IS COMINU
To tAc Editor.

Sir,—Allow 100 to eddrees • few plain words,
through pear whatnot,, eepecially to the large num
her of working men in South Genet who read your
lalwr. In the first place, I %amid advise them not
to be et the try the Tones anti weak-
kneel Whigs that the Empire will be in danger if we
give the Irish people a Parliunent in Dublin it
manage their own affairs. That is only the 44.1 cry
which they always ratite whenever any greet flieleflee
01 reform in proposed which will give Melee 1.00•.• r tit
the people. It WSW only a year of two agt; that We
gave this great mass of the Irish, as well as the En dish,
people the vote, end there was no ineiniug oi our
dung that. unless the Irish p.442p1e are to have •
voice in governing themiolves. They expressed that
voice at the last relefill eleetloll, when thy r.iurnod
$i out of 103 member, to l'iudiunirsit plodded to vote
for Ilene Rule, that is, for the eataidishmeng of a
l'iirlianwnt in Dublin to 414,1 with all ptirely Irish
Affairs. 'Choy have not demand., .14.14r..u..n Iron
this country, because they know perfectly wit th it
it is inipowsible. They know they could not separate
without war with Great Britain, and they are not
such fools as to think that heir mill iii, of
people, without any army, His y, mild try,
or even Volunteem, sviiiild lIAVe the ghost of
a chance of mimes against 32 titilliona with an army
.41 halfamillion of nien and the not powerful 11.vt
111 the world. Besides, if we give them a Patli.O.V.ll.l,
our army will still rem tin in Indaint aqil vr iron-
clad* will continue to •vattli nod myril her c sods. in
col 1111 l .m Lew Etigkind. It is nu insult to
siMplest cumi 111111 l ,sene• .1 any working nem hi
, tell hie that if we give the Irish a INOV•lisent of
their min they will demand aelsitasion. There is
certainly no real union it,s.; there in little eh. hut
bitterness, heart looming, and hatred hetwern the two
natiole. Awl' is it not re.leol.lliii• 1.0 10110,0• • 111:1%
they will Imotiett• 10•0••• I. ‘00,1103 to Ile vi tie yova
allowed to taalinge their own local adaira I At any
rate, if they slimild ever le fisileh enough to attenipt
hi separate frus. E,ugin,nuL wu amid easily crush them
in a week. Then, we should not (eget that Ireland
had a Ibrliamient for 1/I years, from 1782 to 11100, and
althomth it was only the Parliament of the rich and
powerful Protestant minority it produced, in Grattan,
one of the greatest orators who ever lived, and helped
to give considersble prosperity to the country,
There was no danger of separation then, and why
should there he now? If workinG menu would only
mad the history 41 the Posimment, and of the foul
corruption t‘,At wen:Won the part of this country in
, ob., h. destroy it and bring about its union with our
English Parliament, they would be ashamed that
such things had ever been done, and would nih object
to the Irish having a real Parliament, inch ea filr.
Gladstone proposes. When wear, arlesi to believe
that Mr. Gladstone is going ty,tliseiscriber the empire
and uo,'iiuiiit at, ""aereefei of act infamy, let its
think f..1,1000.011i; WIIO Mr. Gladstone iv. Let Ile
remember that he less pawned more_great melanin.s of
justice and reform than all the Tory Governments
that ever exiated ; that it was he and Ms Governments
whit' repealed the duty on paper, abolishect ranches.:
in the army, panned the Ifiducatein
Act of 1870, disestabli-,,•14µ4 Its. Inn). Church,
reformed the Irieiti 11.00- Laws, abolished the
paynierit Umireh rates, pared the
I%alll4"Act, the Burials Act, the Corrupt Practices
Am, 'lei Euiphiyers' Liability Act, and last, thought
by no 11101.11.1 least, the great Acts fur extencliare the
County Francine and establishing sointabiag like
equal electoral districta. These ere a few of tiu.
beneficent achievement* rj the greatest stateenum this
country. And Potaltity the world, haa ever known.
And 11,111 be said hereafter, Sir, by the English
historian, that when this truly grand and god-like old
man, with the eloquence of Itennetbenes and the vest
knowledge of an admirable Crichton, was deserted by 1
the working men .4 England when engagel in a
supreme and wonderful eff.urtt., reconoik. ,wo Christ ion
nations who have been onfrafticl in a painful and dis-
graceful quarrel for crutithe I, for one, will not
believe ',eh v. thing to he possible. The Great
4:,iater f iey be dawned by able and honest
..11:
tempt", who beim no sympathy with opt
nationaletee or with the toiling millions of this
sounuy ; he may be seeerely criticised by one who
was regarded as the coming powerful leader of the
British democracy; nay, he may even have to with
stand the eloquent and determined assault of his
former odleague and friend, who has been the People's
Tribune for 11 ate&Watitill —Johu Bright; but I am
ouririrlent that the logic* of his muse and the majesty
of his eloquent* wdl triumph even over three almost
insuperable °heelers, and add one more bright laurel
to the many which already adorn his noble brow.—
our.,
A ilbanalKirrlAN.