Telegram-herald., 1886-07-02
JOHN BRIGHT SPEAKS
he Explains His Reasons for
Deserving Gladstone.
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erighi's Own p an.
loNHos Bully l-ln Az address lo tle
electors of Birmingham tonlelt ar john
Bush. made "a exhaustive explanation oi
h's reasons for refusing to support Mf
Gladsloue.s Home Rale measures lie Vas
received wish the CREATES. enthusiasm HIS
address Is usual. was masterlv He said
that iho ish tAe the time of hi- retirement
from the arena of politics was near having
seen twenty nine years of service in Tie
House oi Commons. be must. in lhe present
crisis remain az tle iront Mr Bright said
tlAt While le had always been alongside af
Mr. Gladstone lu Bad. struggles. lc was n0f
follower ot the Premier. heclAmel thal
be had been Tie foremost llBre in npor-
tuning ihe successive governments o. deal
With Ireland IL was necause his 81 mpally
With Ireland Was undlmiuished that he could
not accept the Government proposals. Mr
Bright said ie would never have estrauged
himself from Nr Gladstone ID the Premier
bad len any way open Tor lim fo support
the Irish bills. The recitais by the Liberal
orators of Ireland ancient history, be said
We're lnconseq The history of
nearly every c4untry is replele with dismal
records. lie commented severely upon The
Premier proposition for a parliament at
Dublin and for The purchase uf the land
The first duiy Of A Government was 10
preserve property aud t0 secure public order
Air. Gladstone proposals did not point al
doing THIS bui, on the contrary. were Il step
forward ln ihe march of raplne 20 the de
molshment 0f the United kingdi m.
Anon the complaints of Ireland Mr
Bright said, was The great evil of landlord
absenteeIsm- II would probably be found
tnat when the landlords had gone that the
happy DAYS of conspiracy mad come, that
the garrison Of England had been
driven out and that the new Irish
nation, Lett 10 its growing oaiam-
iiies, would give the question of
paying rents bus little attention. The Par
nelhte theories for the past seven years have
posed the payment OF rent The British
Government, he said as a landlord. would
be a universal absentee Mr Bright agreed
with Mr. Gladstone that If the Govern
ment's bill had passed il would have been
absolutely impossible for the Parnellite
members 10 have remained al Westminster
The proposal 10 nave 300 members in
Dublin and 100 IL Westminster was
especially mOnstrous. Jnder this arrange
ment what would happen We know, he
said that half of the Irish members now BOD
Parliament are mainly paid from donations
across the Atlantic hlsses by avOwe1 enc
mics of England but with three hundred
members in Dublin and one hundred more
IN Westminster. viii IL not be neces sary for
the charitable donations fr0m Amer
lea % become perpetual Laugh
ter Mr. Gladstone idea of the
occasional presence OF the irish members in
Westminster suggested sort Of Intermittent
l-r..N d.. rr. Ff, f..,... D.
50 ludicrous. that the speaker said he was
compelled to think that the Premier had
lost his head We have heard much about
the Ddbln Parliament as compared with
Graltau's, which died from It's OGn C0rrup-
ton IN bOit0miess r0Jenness Graftan
Parliament was more free than Glad
stones which. when examined carefully
would be fOunt 10 be only a vestrv and
would be constantly beating against the
bars Of lis cage, striving o. become AN abso-
lutte parliament. Two millions of people
M Ireland were opposed to the Govern
ments plan. Should we consent 90 revO-
luton at the bidding Of one
twelfth of the population of the
Kingdom. submitting 81 0o90lo of
people TO the results of a great revolution
dry scheme under the dem aud ui their
milhOus2 England was equally interested
with Ireland no tuis matter and was bound
% protect those Irish subjects opposing
this scheme OF revolution. England could
never consent 20 the surrender of the IRISH
loyalists % the Irish Parliamentary party.
half of whose money was subscribed by
enemies of England in America
Concluding Mr. Bright suggested that in-
stead of Mr. Gladstone plaA, a permanent
cou4mittee composed exclusively Of Irish
members. be formed and thar blis affecting
Ireland, after having passed their first read
ing, be referred 20 this Irish
committee which wonld have
special place oi meeting
would appoint It's Own chairman and would
be empowered 90 decide upon the acccp,a
bllty Of bills. The House of Common.
would only have power 10 consider an IRISH
measure upon The report OF this committee
This was simple plan. and depended on
the honest working of the combined irish
party I'm the House uf Commons. bar az
sumiug moderate and lOval spirit for the
Irish party the plan would succeed. IL
lrshnen were not ioyal neither this nor
the plan proposed hv tie Government
would bee successful hut ii should at ieasr
Poe tried before cine country capifg'ato1 to
one OF the worst CbnspiraCies with which
any country was ever afflicted.