, 1886-06-23
Gladstone at Glasgow.

; Thousands of people had awaited at tn,
station IN greet Them and when tho,
aliebted from the train and entered ,bei,
carriage they were cbeered and cbeeret
again by the enthusiastic multitude
Hengler's circus. in which Gladstone wa,
announced to sneak. was hacked from the
floor to the ceiling. Gilbert Berth. NJ. p.
for Central Glasgow. was chairman of the
meeting.
When the premier and his wife and
Lady Aberdeen entered the building they
met with a hurricane of applause. The
Audience sa,te AUD Lang Syne'' and
Hes n .Jollv Good Fellow
Mr.. Gladstone unon rising said he was
confident that Glaspow would do true and
solid Liberal worx in ,be Gaming eloc,;ons
He would today deal with a norton Of
the great Irish Question which had b;tb.
erto been untouched namely. fiat NOR.
ton which peculiar!y affected Scotland
He would take his text from the famous
DR.. Chalmers, who in 1918 referred to
the impossibilitv of crushing the Irish
people. and added that the almivbtv
arm of Kindness would be irresistible"
ICbeersl Those words the sneotor
said were words of b;yb Christian w;s.
dow He asked his auditors IN an,roocb
the question Insured with sucb sert;.
mcnts He wished IN deal with ,bree
points. the securitv of Protes,ants in
Ulster. deducted from the
union of Scotland and Encl,nd and tho
ouestion of home rule FIR Scotland
TCheers1 He denied that under ,be
home rule hill. Ireland would be an in.
dependent countrv There wero c,ouses
that forbad. ireland IN lepislate far the
establishment or endorsement, If INV ro-
lipion Psrnellites iovfullv accented ,beso
clauses. and thew had always moved ,bo,
thew were in favor of roll y;o,s freedom
Besides the royal veto would rema;n
therefore sucb alarms were oroundless
Lord Harrington comnlained that be
made no odvance an the Irlstar nronosol
in the ORIGINAL scbeme WolI I.,rd
harrington made M etfort IN holm 70 do
so. Again n Major Sanderson in hebaIf
of Orangemen. advanced the view that n
majority of the Irish should h., comnelled
to ADOPT the will of \ small minoritv Mr.
Parnell wanted assistance from every
Irishman in the work of governing Ire.
land The government was men IN con.
slider every seasonable nronosal il sucb
could be devised. for the purpose of Civ
ing separate satisfaction to that ,%,ortion of
Ulster in which Protestanism greatly
prevails, but the fears that the Catholics
would prosecute the North. where the
Protestants were strong enough TO protect
themselves were ba~seless. The union of
England Scotland was essentially different
from that of England and Ireland. The
fundamental difference WAS that Scotland
was always able to hold her own
Scotland met England on A footing of
equality. and the union. with the lapse of
time, commended itself to the minds and
hearts Of Scotchmen. whilst the entire
Irish nation was against the union of that
country with England. Now. he had
said that Scotland had become gradually
satisfied with the union, but if a great
majority of the people of Scotland wished
to manage her local affairs within her own
borders, did they think. if they arrived at
a clear conclusion to that effect. that if of
tie seventy.two Scotch members of the
house of sixty united in a de-
mand for a change. that England dare or
would wish to refuse them? TCries of
"No."1 He ridiculed the proposals of n
national radical union to leave undealt
with the question of Irish local self GOV
eminent n subject which was rine for dis
c%ussion, while the country dealt with n
local government for ENGLAND and SCOT
land = oros,;on nil nns 49,, H. T.
ANU fu WIN" was no' ripe ioi
discussion
Mr.. Gladstone thought that this pro
posed cast iron uniformity of institutions
eor Eugl,rd Scotland Iroland and Woloo
W ~ u ""e'
dealing with the subject IF local pov-
eminent the snecial wants of tho different