Telegram-herald., 1886-06-14
GLADSTONE. S APPEAL
he Asks the Voters TO Send
HIM Back 10 Parliament.
8ELlsD MUST AND SHALL Be fREE
fne PoHcg ot Coercion Toward ireland
noi Justih O re ~il Undertake
tEe Task OF 0iang ths Green
Sod a Goes Gov fantnt
SaHsburys Plaa

Ieans, jane l3 Mr Gladstone bas
isslIoi a manifesto addnsssed 90 fae electors
ef Midlothian. niica Is as follaRs
OEsriEeEN -Conse8 8uent llFan fhe defeat
oi lhe Ola ioT tAe better government ~
Ireland the Ministry has advised aud lier
AaIe,iy has 8ees pleased 20 sanction. the
dissolution oi Parliament ior a decision bk
/ tne nation Qu tle sraYe-t aud ike y ise thf
simplest issue taat bias been submitted Go
/ 30 for ha. centery. lt is only the sense
/ 90 tae gravity of ihis issue which compeis
me 40 tlis period II my lie wLen nature
cries aloud for repese. 90 seek. after
siiahe ln thirteen fariiamenfs, seat in
tlc innr.eenth, aud Wltn lhis view 60 solicit
lef -eiiil llme iLe honor of yuar ColE-
dence.
'At the iast election ! endeavorea Co. Ia
iny address and speeches to impress upon
fuu iue great crisis which bad arrived in
the affairs ~ lre'aBd Weak as the late
Government was Tor ordinary purposes 10
bad great advantages tor deatng With the
crisis. comprehensive meas ure proceed.
iug from them would have received warm
ana extensive support. from within the
Liberal party, and would probably have
closed the Irish controversy within the pres
ent session. and have left The Parliament Of
leso Tree % prosecute thc bow stag
M.
with the multitude OF questions II
inclndes my earnest hope was TO support
thS ia.e cabinet lu such a course and policy.
On the -ftu 81 last January, the opposite
policy -cOercion-wa declared 90 have been
the choice of The government. Earl
tarnaIyan alone refusing 10 share ia H.
The Irish question was then placed in the
foreground 10 the exclusion OF every other
The hour for the settlement of the claims
Nn
only point remaining to determine
was the manner ia which The question was
10 boz dealt with. In my Judgment a pro-
pOsal 20 govern Ireland by policy of cOer-
ci0n was not justified by the facts and was
doomed 20 certain and disgraceful failure
and some method of governing Ireland
other than by coercion, / thought, ought to
be found
Continuing with an illusion TO his under
taking the task of obtaining for Ireland a
domestic Legislature, and a reminder of the
tronl place which that question bad held i'm
the legislation OF previous Parliaments, Mr.
Gladstone asks. VIII You govern Ireland
by coercion. or viii you let her manage her
own ailairs?' To debate i'm this address this
and that detail of the lately defeated bill
would be only to disguise this issue, and
would he as futile as 10 discuss
the halung stumbling ever shifting
class which have proceeded from the seced-
ing Liberals. There are two clear. positive
and Ineligible plans before the world.
There is the plan of the government and
there is the plan Of Lord Salisbury. our
plan ID that Ireland should under well CON
sdered conditions transact her own affairs.
Lord Sallsburys S plan is 10 ask Parliament
10 renew the represslye laws for twenty
years, bv the end OF which time, he assures
2 L..
amy government in The way OF local govern.
ment, or repeal OF the coercion laws YOU
may wish 20 give her. / leave this Tory
project in its unadOrncd simplicity and ]
turn 10 The proposed policy OF the govern
ment. our opponents. gentlemen. whether
Tories or Seceders. have assumed the name
of Cnionists. / deny them thc title to 10
I'm intention, we indeed. are all Unionists
alike but the union they refuse 10 modify
III i'm its present shape q paper union, obtain
cd by force and fraud. and never sanctioned
or accepted by the Irish nation.
They are not Unionists but only
paper L UniOnists. True union is % be
tested bv the sentiments of human beings,
united and tired by this criterion. We have
less union between Great Britain and Ire
land now than we had under the settlement
of l7o2. Ireland Is content 10 receive her
legislature is a form divested of prerogatives
which might have impaired her imperial
interests and better adapted than the settle
ments of l-S2 To secure To her The regular
control of her own affairs
sir. Gladstone trusts that Scotland viii
condemn the attempts SO singularly made
20 import into the controversy the veno-
nous element oi religious bgotry. Let her
take warning from the deplorabie riots at
Belfast, and az other places Ia the North Ol
Ireland. Concluding, Mr. Gladstone writes.
well gentlemen, the first question now
put 10 yon U.s. How shall Ireland be gov
erneuY There Is another question behind
IT, and involved in d. How are England
and Scotland to be governed N0u know
how f0r the last six wears especially. the
affairs of England and Scotland have been
impeded and how your imperial
Parliament has been disCredited
and disabled. All this happened
while the Nauunalists were bat a small mi-
noritv. and the Irish members were with
ont the support from So much as handful
of members not Irish. NOW they approach
ninety and they are entitled 20 saw. We
are speaking the views Of the Irish nation.
10 IS impossible To- deai with Tins subject by
/ half measures They are strong in their
numbers. strong in British support. which
brought 3i3 members to vote for their
country. bat strongest of all in TIE
senses of their being right But, gentlemen.
We have done 0ur part The rest remains
vith you. the electors ol fhe county. Nav
you he enabled to see through and oast
away ell deIusion refuse THAT which is evil
and choose that which IS good.
have The honor. gentlemen. 20 be
Your faithil and grateful servant