The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1881-01-11
ireland fer the Irish.

81 duiNS VA NeoASiotSN baiS iihNA
pie that Ireland ought TO be gov
erned by Irish ideas. His views
on the subject were set forth in
one of his speeches in parliament
in the following language:
I would have the Irish govern
ment regulated by Irish notions
and Irish prejudices, and 1 firmly
believe, according to the Irish ex-
preston; that the more she Is un-
der Irish government, the more
she will be bound to English IN
terests.
As the champion of Irish ideas,
Fox was denounced in England
and adored in Ireland. 1t was
nearly three-qusrters Of a century
after Fox enunciated his Irish gov
ernmeEt principle before any Brit
ish premier ventured to put 1t into
practical shape. William Ewart
Gladstone was the first to attempt
its practical realization. Much Of
his first term a. first lord OF the
treasury was devoted to refor;na-
ton Of the government OF Ireland
in accordance with Irish ideas.
Strange to say, it resulted IN the
overthrow of his administration.
and that by the vote OF the Irish
members, who, as representatives
ef the Irish idea of lrclands gov
eminent, ought to have given him
their cordial support. There were
three reform measures relating to
ireland which ur. Gladstone dur
ing that term Of Office introduced,
namely: The disestablishment of
the state church In ireland, modi-
fcation of the Irish tenure OF land
system, and proposition for the
settlement Of the vexed question
Of University education in ireland.
The state church was successfully
disestablished, and Il became there
after merely free Episcopal
church. 1t caused more irritation
to certain Bishops who were de-
prives of sests IN the house OF
lords than asy other class. The
land-tenure system was also re-
formed by the adoption Of bill,
which embraced what was known
as the Ulster tesant-rIght. Justin
Mccarthy, in his History Of Our
Own TiMes, SAYS:
The principle of tensRt-right
was that man should be allowed
TO remain in UnGisturbed pos
session of his holding as long
as he paid his rent; that he
shesld be entitled, in giving up the
land, to compensation for uneK-
haUsted improvements, and that he
should be at liberty to sell the
good will OF his farm for what II
would fetch in the market.
The same authority says the
Irish land-tenure bill, which be-
came law, was of IRestinsble value
to Ireland;
As it completely upset the funda-
mental principles on which legis-
lation had always previously dealt
with Irish land-tenure. IL recog-
nized a certain ownership ou the
part Of the tenant a. well as that
of the landlord.
The rock upon which Glad
stones ship of state struck was
his attempt to reform university
education in Ireland. The Irish
university educational bill, which
Mr.. McCarty describes as "a gal
liant and well meant effort to recon,
cile the conflicting claims" Of the
representatives of the Protestant
and Roman Catholic universities
was for the establishment of a cen,
tral university, which was to have
no chairs for theology, moral phi
losophy or modern history. The Uni
rersity of Dublin, Protestant in,
stitution; was to become this cen
tral university, and existing col
leges of either creed were to be
come members of it. Provision
was made for the support of the
university in which disestablisheC