The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-06-16
GLADST0NE'S ADDRESS.
The Proposal Of Coercion Not justified by
Facts, and Doomed to Failure.
The Two Plans for Governing Ireland-The
Benefits of the Policy of the Liberal
Party-Fresh Rioting, This Time
at Sligo-Other Foreign News.

LONDON, June 13.-Mr. Gladstone has is
sued the following manifesto to the electors
of Midlothian:
GENTIEHEN-In consequence of the defeat OF the
bill for the better government ofIreland, the Min
istTy advised and Her Majesty pleased to
sanction the dissolution OF Parlia ment, for de-
eisiOn by the Nation OF the gravest and likewise
the simplest issue that has been submitted to il
for half century. 1t is only a of the grayi-
ty OF this issue which induces nae, at a period Of
life when nature cries aloud for repose, TO seek,
after sitting in thirteen Parliaments q seat in the
fourteenth, and, with this view to solicit for the
fifth time the honor OF your confidence. At the
last election endeavored in my addresses and
speeches to impress upon you the fact that great
crisis had arrived in the affairs of Ireland. Weak
as the late government was fer ordinary purposes,
it had great advantages for dealing with that cri-
sis. A comprehensive measure proceeding from
that government would have received warm and
extensive support from within the Liberal party,
and would probably have closed the Irish eontro-
yersy within the present session and have left the
Parliament OF 1883 free to prosecute the now stag
nant work OF ordinary legislation, with the null
titude of questions il includes. Ny earnest hope
was to support the late Cabinet in such course
On the 26th of last January the opposite policy
of coercion was declared 10 have been the choice
of the Government the Earl of Carnarvon alone
thus placed in the foreground to the exclusion of
every other. The hour, as oil felt, was come. The
only point remaining to determine was the man
ment the proposal of coercion was not justified by
facts, and was doomed to certain and disgraceful
failure. Some method of governing Ireland other
than coercion ought, as L thought, to be sought
and to be found.
Therefore viewed with regret the fail of the
late Cabinet, and when summoned by Her Majesty
70 form a new one i undertook IL on the basis OF
anti coercion policy, with the fullest explanation
to those whose aid / sought as colleagues when i
proposed to determine whether it might not be
possible 10 grant Ireland domestic legislature
and maintain the honor and consolidate the unity
OF the Empire. government was formed and
the work at once put in hand.
You will now, gentlemen, understand how and
why it is that the affairs of Ireland, and not foT
the first time, have thrust aside every other sub
ject and adjourned our hopes of useful and pro-
gressiye legislation As question % Of the fFst n
van. The late Cabinet though right in giving il
that place, were as we thought, wrong in their
ON taking the Government, if we did not adopt
their method. to propose another. Thus, gentle
men, it is that this great and simple issue has
come upon you and demands you decision. Will
you govern Ireland by coercion. will you let
Ireland manage her own affairs? To debate in
this address this and that detail of the lately de-
feated bill, would only be TO disguise this ISSUE
and would be as futile as TO discuss the halting,
stumbling, ever-shifting and sver-Yanishing pro-
jects of an intermediate class which have pro-
ceeded from the seeding Liberals.
There are two clear. positive and intelligent
Government, and there is the plan of Lord sails
bury. Our plan is that Ireland should, under
fairs His plan is, Parliament to renew the repres-
siye laws and enforce them resolutely for twenty
years, by the end OF which time he assures us Ire
way of local government on the repeal of the
coercion law you may wish to give her. I leave
this Tory project to speak for itself in its SIMPLE
ity and return TO the proposed policy of The Gov
ernment.
Our opponents, gentlemen, whether Tories or
seceders, have assumed the name of Unionists. /
deny them the title to it. In intention, indeed,
we are all UniOnists alike, bat the union they re-
union No oSaines by force snd rand i and hePer
sanctioned or accepted by the Irish nation. They
are not UniOntsts but paper Unionists True
union is to be tested by the sentiments of the hu-
man beings united. Judged by this criterion. we
have less union between Great Britain ana ire
land now than we had under the settlement of
1882 Enfranchised Ireland, gentlemen, asks
through her lawfni for the revival
an innovating but restorative policy. She urges
with truth the Capitalization of Parliaments has
been the division of peoples; but she recognizes
tained can not and ought not to be repealed.
She has not Tepelled but has welcomed the ktipu-
lations for the protection of the minority. To
such provisions we have given and shall give
careful heed, but trust Scotland will condemn
the attempt so singulsrly made TO import into the
otry. Let her take waning bT the depIorable r.
OTIS in Belfast and other places in the north.
Among the benefits, gentlemen: l anticipate
The consolidation of the united empire and great
additions to its strength; the stoppage OF the
heavy, constant and demoralizing waste of the
public treasury: the abatement and gradual ex-
tinction of ignoble feuds in Ireland, and that de-
shows TO be a natural consequent of free and or
derly government; the redemption of the honor
of Great Britain from the stigma fastened upon
her almost from time immsm0rial in respect te
Ireland by the judgment of the whole civilized
world and lastly the restoration Of Parliament
to its dignity and efficiency, and the regular pro-
gress of the business of the country.
Well. gentlemen, the first question now put to
you is, how shall Ireland be governed? There is
another question behind il, and involved in it:
How are England and Scotland TO be governed?
You know how, for the last six years especially,
the affairs of England and Scotland have been i'm
peded and your Imperial Parliament disabled.
All this happened while the NstoDalists were but
a small minority of the Irish members without
support from so much as handful of members
not Irish. Now they approach ninety and enti-
tied to say 1--WE are speaking the views Of the
Irish natien." 1t is impossible to deal with this
subject by half measures They are strong in their
numbers, strong in British support, which brought
313 members to vote for their country; strongest
of all in the sense of being right
But gentlemen, we have done our part; the rest
remains for you. Electors of the country, may
you be enabled to see through and cast away all
delusions, refuse evil and choose good.
have the honor TO be, gentlemen, your faithful
and grateful servant, w. +. GLADSTONE.