The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-04-09

which, of late ysars, it has Intellectually
struggled 10 perform the business OF thf
country, and will restore British legislA
ton 10 itB natural, ancient, unimpeded
course, and above all established harmo,
nious relations bstween Great Britain and
Ireland [Ories Of hear hear on a loot
ing Of those free institutions to which
Englishmen, ScotChmen and Irishme1
alike, are unalterably attached. Loud
cheers, prolonged by Home Rule mem
beB.l
FAILURE OF COERCION,
Coercion was admitted to have been 9
failure for the past fiity.thres years, only
two Of which had been wholly free from
repressiye legislation. Coercion, unless
stern and unbending and under an auto
cratic government must always fail, Such
coercion England should never resort to
until every other means had failed. What
was the basis Of the whole mischief was
the fact that the law was dlsCrsdited in
Ireland, 1t came IN the Irish people
with q foreign aspect and their alterna-
tive to coercion was to strip the law
OF its foreign character and invest It
with domestic character, Loud cheers.
Ireland, though represented in ParliA-
ment numerically equal with England or
Scotland, was really not In the same posi-
tion politically. England made. her own
laws, Scotland had bean encouraged to
make her own laws as etfeCIuRlly as II she
had six times her present representation.
The consequence was that the main spring
Of the law in England and Scotland was
felt to be English or Scotch, The main
spring OF the law in Ireland was not felt
by the people to be Irish, He therefore
deemed 1t futile, less than moCkery,to hold
that the state Of law which he described
connuCiye To the real amity Of this great,
noble, worldwide empire.
Something must be DONE" continued
Mr., Gladstone, something isimperatiyely
demanded from US TO restore in Ireland
the tirst conditions Of civil life, the free
course OF law, the libaty OF every indiyid-
ual in the exercise Of every legal right,
their confidence Ia the law and their SYM
pathy with the law, apart from which no
country can be called civilized country"
TuE PROBLEM TO BB SOLVED.
What then was the problem before
him? II was this; How to reconcile i'm
psrRl unity WITH a diversity OF Legislatures.
Mr., Grafton held that those propositions
were reConCilable.more than that he de.
mAnded O aseverenCeo eofthe Parliamenfs with
q view to the continuity and everlasting
unity with the Empire, Was that an
| a anJaoiaua t,a araIayp . nIhaH nnunknina l,nI
solved the problem and under much more
different circumstances, We ourselves
might be said to have solved 1t with re.
spect TO Ireland during the time that Ire
land had separate Parliament. Did It
destroy the unity Of the British Emplre2
Cheers,
The claim OF Ireland to make laws for
henelf was never denied until the
reign Of George II. The Parliamentot
Grattan was as independent In point Of
authority aa 1t couldhe. They (the gov.
ernment) were not about to propose the
repeal Of the Union. II was impossible to
propose the repeal OF the Union until they
had settled what was the essence OF the
Union. He defined the essence Of union
10 be q fact that whereas before the Union
there were two separate aud independent
PaFliaments, after the Union there was
but one. To speak OF the dismemb mberment
OF the! Empire was, In this century, mis-.
nomer and an absurdity.
h. AN IRISH PARLIAMENT PRoPosRp.
The fault of the administrative system
OF Ireland was that It's spring and source
of action was English. (oheers) The
government, therefore, felt that the set
Element Of the question was to be found
by establishing q Parliament In Dublin
| Irish cheers for the conduct Of business
Of both a legislative and administrative
nature. The political economy OF the
three countries must be reConciled. There
should DO an equitable distribution Of the
Imperial burdens. Next, there must
be reasonable Bateguards for the
minority, and why could not this
minority In Ireland take care
Of itself1 He had no dpubt about It's
ability TO do that when we have passed
through the present critical period and
been disarmed Of the jealousies with
which any change was approached. But
for the present there were three classes
Il Vi bu6 pbOpl6 Huulu buby M6Ie uuuHu W
consider. Firat, the GLASS connected with
the lands. Second, the civil servants and
officers OF the government. Third, the
Protestant minority.
The speaker could not admit the claim
Of the Protestant minority in Ulster or
elsewhere 10 rule on questions which
were for the whole Of Ireland. Several
sChOmeS fol the separate government Of
4 UlAter had been submitted 10 him, One
was that Ulster as q province should be
excluded from the operations Of the pres.
ent bill, another was that separate autono-
my should be provided for Ulster, and q
third suggested that certain rights should
be reserved and PLACED under a provincial
council, No one Of these proposals had
appeared To the government to be 80 com,
. pletely Justified by its merits or by the
weight Of public opinion In It's favor as tc
warrant the government In including 1t ID
their bill.
lRElANp's eoyRkNNEET,
The speaker said be would now pass K
the plan how to give Ireland Legislature
to deal with the Irish as distinguished
from Imperial affairs. II Irish members
ware mt Ia ait in the HoHae of Comnoni