The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-04-16
GLADSToNE's EFFORT.
He Unfolds His Plan for Home
Rule in Ireland.


Kingdom over the Irish proposals Of Mr..
Gladstone. Great crowds assembled in the
neighborhood Of Parliament. Irishmen and
their sympathizers being especially con-
spicuous.
Before going to the House of Commons
Gladstone took a drive through St James
Park, going away from the crowd by the
west end of Downing street. He desired
to be awhile in the fresh air before going to
Parliament. He returned to his residence
and in a few moments emerged on his way
to the House of Commons.
The police had opened the way for him
to Parliament street, down that across
Bridge stree; to the House. They had to
work hard to make a passage and harder
yet TO keep 1t open. Gladstone went in an
open carriage aud his appearance was
greeted with deafening cheers. The
enthusiasm of the people all the way FROM
the door of his house to the Commons en-
trance was spontaneous and vented it.
self at the beginning of the journey I'm a
roar of applause loud and great enough to
make the statesman dizzy, and when the
whole immense crowd caught one tremen-
dOus long, old fashioned cheer was sent up
the like of which was never before heard
i'm London and which was plan audible
in the House. The cheering continued UNI
til long after Gladstone had entered the
Parliament; building.
IN THE HOUSE.
Within the building the Prime Minister'S
reception, though less jemonstrative, was
equally enthusiastic with that he had with
out lie was apparently i'm the best spirits
and bowed right and left to ac4uaintances
as he passed them. When the usual
iormaIities attending the opening of Parlia-
ment were over, it was voted to postpone
reading and answering questions on
the notice paper. Hardly had
this been done when at 4:30
Gladstone entered the house. His entrance
was followed by loud and prolonged cheers,
which continued for several minutes.
Among the Liberals and Pamellites great
enthusiasm prevailed. and it is safe to say
10 such scene was ever witnessed before
i'm the House of Common. As soon as
the cheering subsidized Gladstone arose and
moved for permission to introduce a bill
10 amend the previous legislation and make
provision for the future government of Ire
land.
GLApSToNE'S SPEECH.
On making the motion Gladstone said ::
81 could wish that it had been possible to
expound to the House the whole policy and
Intentions of the Government with refer
ence to Ireland. Although the questions
of reform in the tenure of land and Irish
government are SO closely and inseparably
connected, it is yet impossible to under
take the task of calculating both questions
together.
Il do not know of any previous task laid
upon me involving so-diverSifed an EXPOSE
ton. In contemplating the magnitude of
the task am filed with painful mistrust.
bet that Eistrust is absorbed i'm feeling Of
he responsibility that will be upon me il
Should fail to bring home to the public
mind the magnitude and the various aspects
of the question. We should no longer fence
or skirmish with this question. Loud
cheers. We should come to close quarters
with it Cheers. We should get at tie
root of ii. We should take means not merely
intended for to-day or tomorrow. but
should look into the distant future. We
have arrived at stage in our political
transactions with Ireland when the two
roads part one from the other, not soon
probably 10 meet again. The time is come
when ii is incumbent upon the duty and the
honor of Parliament to come to some de-
cisive resolution on this matter. OuI>inten-
ton is therefore to propose to the Commons
that which, if happily accepted. will. we
think, liberate Parliament from the re-
straints under which of late years it has III
effectually struggled to perform the busi-
ness of the country, and will restore British
legislation 10 its natural, ancient. unim.
peded course, and, above all, establish har-
moniOuS relations between Great Britain
and Ireland Hear. hear! Oh footing of
those free Institutions To which English
men, Scotchmen and Irishmen alike are I'M
alterably attached. Loud cheers, pro-
longed by Home Rule members
After reviewing the condition and crime
existing in Ireland since 1888, Mr.. Gladstone
described the cOercive legislation enforced
during the same period as not exceptional
but habitusi. He compared Ireland during
all this period to man trying TO find susie
nance in medicine only meant for cure.
Coercion never had" he said, proved
cure, and serious disaffection continued 10
prevail in Ireland. and if England and
Scotland had suffered similar hardship. he
believed the people of those countries
would resort 20 means similar TO those the
Irish had employed, TO ventilate their griev-
ances." Panellite cheers. Coercion was
admitted 10 have been failure for the past
fifty-three years. only two of which had
been wholly free from repressive legislation.
Coercion, unless stern and unbending and
under an autocratic government, must al
ways fail. Such coercion England should
never resort to until every other means had
failed.
what was the basis of the whole mis-
chief was the fact that the law was dis
credited in Ireland. 1t came to the Irish
people with foreign aspect and their al
Tentative to coercion was 10 strip the law
of its foreign character and invest it with
domestic character. Loud Irish cheers.
Ireland. though represented i'm Parliament
numerically equal with England or Scot
land, was really not in the same position
politically. England made her own laws
as effectually as if she had six times her
present representation. The consequence
was that the main spring of the law in En-
gland and Scotland was felt to be the En-
eIish or Scotch. The main spring of the
Law in Ireland was not felt by the people tn
be Irish. He therefore deemed it little less
than mockery TO hold that the state of law
which he had described conduced To the
real unity Of this great, noble, worldwide
empire.
something must be DONE continued
Mr.. Gladstone. something is imperatively
demanded from US TO restore in Ireland the
first conditions of civil lite, the free course
Of law, the liberty of every individual in the
exerci-e of every legal right, their confidence
in their law and their sympathy with the
law, apart from which no country can be
called civilized country.
what then was the problem before
him? Il was this: How TO reconcile i'm
ppriaI unity with diversity of legislature