The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-06-15

issued the following manifesto TO the
electors of Midlothian:
Gentlemen:
! ain consequence of the defeat of the
bill for the better government OF Ireland
the ministry advised. and Her Majesty
was pleased to sanction, heldissolu ton
of Parliament for decision by the ma
ton of the grayest and likewise the
sim plest issue that has been submitted
TO il for half century. Ii is only n
sense of tee gravity of this issue which
induces me, at a period of life when
nature cries aloud for repose, to seek,
after sitting in thirteen Parlia.
ments, a seat in the fourteenth
and with this view to So
hcit for the fifth time the honor
of your confidence. At the last
election l endeavored in my addresses
and speeches to impress upon you the
fact that great crisis had arrived in the
affairs of ireland. Weak as the late
government was for ordinary purposes
il had great advantages for dealing
with that crisis. A comprehensive
measure proceeding from that govern
ment would have received warm and
Extensive support from within the Lib
eral party and would probably have
closed the IRISH controversy within the
present session and have left the Par
lament OF 1885 free 10 prosecute the
nov stagnant work of ordinary
questions it includes. My earnest
hope was to support the late
cabinet in such a course of pol
lev. On the 26th of last January the on
posite policy Of coercion was declared to
have been the choice OF government,
the Ea.l OF Carnarvon alone refusing to
share in il. The Irish question was
thus placed in the foreground to the ex-
cluslon OF every other. The hour. as all
felt, was come. The only point remain
ing to determine was the manner in
which IL was 10 be dealt with. In my
judgment, the proposal of coercion was
not justified by the facts, and was
doomed TO certain and disgraceful fail
ure Some method of governing
Ireland, other than coercion, ought,
as L thought, be sought for
and 10 be found. Therefore, viewed
with regret the fall of the late Cabinet.
and when summoned by Her Majesty to
form new one, / undertook il In the
basis of an anti-coercion policy with the
1
sought as colleagues. when proposed
to examine whether it might not be pos.
sible to grant Ireland a domestic legis-
lature and maintain the honor and con-
solidate the unity of the empire. A
goverDn ent was formed and the work
was at once put in hand, You will not,
gentlemen, understand how and why
1t is that the affair OF ireland, and
not for the first time, have thrust
aside every subject and adjourned
our hopes Of useful and progressive
legislation. AS a que ton Of the first
necessities of social order II forces itself
into the van. The late Cabinet, though
right in giving that a place, were, as we
thought, wrong in their manner of
treating it. 1t was our absolute duty on
taking government, il We did not adopt
their msthod to propose another. Thus,
gentlemen, 1t is that the great and
simple issue has come upon
you, and demands YOUR deer
sion. VIII you govern Ire
land by coercion. or will you
let Ireland manage her own affairs
70 debate in this address this and that
detail of the lately defeated bill would
only be 70 disguise this ssue, and would
be as futile as to discuss the hating.
stumbling, ever-shifting and eyer.ad-
yaneing projects of an immediate class
which proceeded from ceding Lib
erals. There are two clear, positive and
intelligentplans before the world. There
rs the plan OF government, and there Is
the plan OF Lord Salisbury. Our plan
rs that Ireland should, under well con-
sidered conditions, transact her own
affairs. His plan is TO ask Par
lament to renew the repressiye
laws and enforce them resolutely for
twenty years. by the end of which time
he assures us that Ireland Will be DC TO
accept any government in the vay of
local government, on the repeal of the
the coercion laws. you may wish to
Egive her. i leave this Tory project 10
speak for itself in its unacorned sim
plicity, and / turn to the proposed
policy OF government. Our Opponents.
gentlemen, whether Tories or seed.
ers, have assumed the name of
unionists. / deny them the title
10 1t, IN the intention, indeed, we are
all unionist alike, but the UNION
its present shape is uaper
Union obtained by force and fraud and
never sanctioned or accepted by the
Irish nation. They are not Uniouists.
but paper Unionists. True union is TO
be tested by the sentiments of human
beings united. Tried by this criterion.
We have less union between Great Brit
ain and Ireland now than we had under
the settlement of l7S2. Enfranchised
Ireland, gen lemen, asks through her
lawful representatives, for the revival of
her domestic legislature. not on the face
of it, an innovating, but a restor-
alive proposal. She urges with truth
that's centr .lization of parliaments nave
been adivision of the people, but she
recognizes the fact that the Union, law
lessly ct 1t was obtained, cannot and
ought not to be repealed. She is con-
tent 10 receive her legislation in q form
Invested Of the prerogatiyes which
might have impaired her imperial in
terests, and better adapted than the
settlement Of 1852 10 secure 10 her reg
ular control of her own affairs. She
has not repelled, but has Welcomed
stipulations for the protection Of the
ministry. To such provisions we
have given. and shall give. careful
heed. but trust Scotland
will condemn the attempts so
singulaTly made 10 import into the con-
] the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS