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Love VERSUS COERCION.
Another Great Demonstration for
Irish Home Rule.
Premier Gladstone Addresses a Large
Audience at Liverpool.

Mr.. Gladstone the other afternoon I'D
dressed the Electors of Liverpool in Henglers S
Circus. He was received with boundless en-
thusiasm. The circus was crowded to its ut
most capacity, 5000 persons being present.
Hundreds of people, unable to gain admit
ance, crowded around outside. The Rev.
Henry Ward Beecher was on the platform
while Mr.. Gladstone was speaking.
Mr.. Gladstone said the enthusiasm in favor
of Home Rule surpassed anything he had
witnessed during his life. Despite the long
purses of his opponents he looked forward to
the result of the elections with confidence.
1t was true that he denounced the National
lists in 1881, but it was because he thought
they were in the wrong. Unsupported them
now because he thought and knew
they were in the right He now
iiament to ireland to deal exclusively
with Irish affairs. His opponents pretended
that such a grant would be the breaking
down of Irish allegiance to the Imperial Par
lament. But, said the Premier, their allegi-
heartedly heretofore, and sometimes it had
not been given at all The Liberals wished
to destroy that sort of allegiance and make
Irishmen revere the Imperial Parliament
like Scotchmen and Englishmen, from the
heart and mind.
He stoutly denied that they were refusing
Ulster privileges which they were giving
elsewhere. On the contrary, they were will:
ing to listen to any suggestion on Gehalf Of
Ulster. They were willing to make excep-
tional proposals if they were likely
to be adopted. Again, they were told
that the land purchase project meant
taking British taxpayers money. It meant
nothing of the kind 1t was one thing to
spend their money, and another thing to in
meant more than investment he would be no
party to the scheme. He denied, however.
that the Home Rule bill and the land pur-
chase bill were inseparable.
He reminded his auditors that Home Rule
was question of classes against the masses.
The Liberal party, he said, was, as rule, not
supported by dukes. squires, clergymen
of the Established Church, officers Of the
army, and SO forth. Wherever there
snsowsa hgn5g gg1dgessopp prvsSsS sm5t puss s1s4y
member of that profession was an auti-Lib:
eral. But from the legal and medical pro-
fessions, which were now open, the Liberals
received fair share of support. The ques-
ton was whether the masses were able con-
stitutionally to overbear the classes, be.
cause it had always. been s>Swn that
wherever truth, justice ana hSHanlty
were concerned the masses were in
the right and the classes in the wrong He
would show this by reference to Lord Ran
dolph Churchill, whose name he had me1-
toned before during the canvas and which
he did not suppose he would have occasion
to mention again He had been told that
Lord Randolph Churchill had had a coed
deal to say about him, but he (Mr. Glad
stone) had not taken the trouble to
INQUIRE. It was very difficult to describe
ChurchilI; but if he could cut out one-half
of his qu ualities he might make with the
other half valuable aud distinguished pub
lie servant. Churchill, however, admitted
that the classes might 60 wrong, that the
Pail Mall clubs might 60 wrong, but that the
people never erred. Mr.. Gladstone hoped
they would not err on this occasion.
Parliament, he said, had been paralyzed
because of the Irish question, and 1T would
remain paralyzed unless some measure of
Justice were passed. Ireland had struggled
to bring her case to the front, and
had succeeded She was now backed
not only by her own members,
but by vast number of English peo-
pie. He believed that the measures proposed
would tend to promote the growth of pros
perity in Ireland. The Liberals were told
that the result would be that England would
have to hold Ireland by force, but this she
was doing now. He hoped TO hold her in fu-
ture by love. [Cheers.]
Mr.. Gladstone concluded, amid loud cheers,
with vigorous denunciation Of the manner
in which the Act of Union was effected.