Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-07-08
OUTLOOK FOR IRELAND,
The Fate of Home-Rule tobe Decided.
Contests at the Polls to be Begin in
Many Districts.
Gladstone Addresses a Powerful Let
ter TO the Voters Of London on the
Irish Question: Speech by
Parnell.

exciting intense interest. OF the seventy
four contests, the Gladstonians are hone
full that the Irish voters will wrest eiph-
teen seats from the Conservatives. The
result will reveal how the English prov
incial boroughs are affected. Gladston-
ian agents report probable gains in Bris-
toll, Norwich and Southampton. If these
expectations are realized they will give
an impulse to Liberal victories through
out the country. The Pail Mall Gazette
fears that many Liberals will abstain
from voting and urges the party to con
centrate its whole effort on Fridays cleo
tiOns, as ''the battle may be won or lost
on that Hateful day"
Mr.. Gladstone writes that he will be un
able to address the electors of London,
and therefore ventures to offer them a
few words IN summing up the question
before them. "A century ago" he says,
1--WE gave Ireland a free parliament with
which she was satisfied. Although the
constitution was faulty, it was being
gradually reformed when the tories, to
the horror of every liberal statesman,
stopped the work by recalling Fitzwill-
lam. This tyranny begot discomfort, re-
sistance and frightful bloodshed These
mischiefs, of which the cory government
were the authors, were made the pretext
for the union, in which ireland was en-
trapped and coerced by shameful means.
Promises that were made were disgrace
fully broken. The sufferiugs of the peo-
pie, which, according to the Devon com
mission. were greater than in any other
Christian country, were shamefully neg
lected Coercive laws were passed to en-
rich the landlords at the expense of the
people; an alien church was maintained
Catholics were not admitted to parlia.
ment until they became too strong~to be
resisted, and emancipation was granted
by Wellington to avoid civil war Mean
while, when in 1920, Dublin wished to
peacefully demonstrate, soldiers we're sent
TO break up the meeting. This is re-
voting record, but it is only a small part
Of the truth. Can you wonder at the cry,
long and loud, against a union so foully
obtained? But, like many bad laws, it
was difficult to change
SUPREMACY or PARLIAMENT.
1T did one good thing, namely, it es-
tablished the supremacy of parliament
Ireland now declares that she is content
with supremacy. She leaves you what is
Is y
what is bad She asks you. further. to do
what you did with such advantage for
Frenchmen in Canada, for Dutchmen in
the Cape Colony, and for the children of
convicts in TASMANIA, to give her man
agement, not of English nor of Scotch
nor of Imperial, but simply of Irish af-
fairs. Ii is long record of disgraceful
deeds against US. The question is that of
wiping it away. The deeds were done
mostly before the passage of the first Re
form act, since which time matters have
improved. Good has been done almost
wholly in defiance Of the tories. But evil
has also been done, and the good that
ought TO have been done has largely been
left undoue. A long course of evil be-
longs to the time before the nation was
enfraEcLised, and only partial good has
been accomplished since. Now. for the
first time, the question is put wholly and
clear to the franchised nation. The peo-
pie Of England and Scotland have either
to purge out the old shame of their coun-
try by listening to reason, or, by refusing
to listen, TO make her shame their own
with all the wretched consequences it will
increasingly entail l tell the people Of
London that this is the question with
which they have to deal, and for his own
share in dealing with it each voter will be
responsible
PARNELL SPEAKS.
Mr. Parnell address ed large meeting
at Wrexham to-day. He said it was al
legged that two great dangers would result
from conceding Home Rule to Ireland
the separation of Ireland from Great
Britain and the persecution OF the Prot
estant minority by the Irish
Catholic majority in Ireland. There
were no grounds for experimenting either
Mr.. Parnell then devoted himself to an
analysis of what he called the Marquis of
Salisl ury's pretended denials of his par
nell'sl charge that the Tories promised
TO support Home-rule in return for Irish
support at the polls and in parliament.
Mr.. Parnell called attention to the fact
that Lord Salisbury shielded
himself in these denials behind his cab
met, when he declared that neither the
government nor any person connected
with the government ever indicated that
he favored a statutory parliament for
Ireland. "When ] parted with Earl Car
narvon, then lord lieutenant of Ireland, !
said Mr.. Parnell, II left the conference
feeling that he favored the Irish cause
and that a Home-rule bill and a land
purchase act would be passed by the Con
seryatives with the Irish votes before the
end of the session, with the obnoxious
clauses Cancelled, but in the shape l de-
mauded on behalf of the Irish party. l
had besides this the strongest reasons to
believe that the Tories would have given
Ireland Home-rule if they had been sue
cessful at the polls. If coercion Is to be
continued in Ireland the national senti-
meut will be increased among the Irish
until it becomes uncrushable. Home
rule. on the other hand, viii unite the
two countries in bonds of love and
anity."
ELECTION DoDGEs.
Joseph Chamberlain told a reporter of
the Birmingham Mail that well-informed
friends had informed him that there was
in existence an Irish plot TO murder him.
This information Mr.. Chamberlain
added, "has been corroborated by the
London police, who warned me of the
plot. and informed me that the assassins
meant to kill Lord Harrington also Mr..
Chamberlain said both himself and Lord
Harrington. in consequence. permitted
themselves to- be placed under police pro