The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-06-18
THE PREMlERs APPEAL.

THE PREMlERS APPEAL.
Gladstone Issues an Address to His Com
stituents in MidIothian-The Issues OF
the Coming British Campaign Clearly
Set Forth.
LONDON. June 14.-Mr. Gladstone has
issued the following manifesto to the
electors OF Midlothian:
GENTLEMEN: In consequence of the de-
feat of the bill for the better government
of Ireland the Ministry advised, and her
Majesty was pleased to sanction,
the dissolution of Parliament for a
decision by the nation of the gravest
and likewise the simplest issue
that has been submitted to it for half a
century. 1t is only sense of the gravity
of this issue which induces me, at period
of life when nature cries aloud for repose,
to seek, after sitting in thirteen Parlia-
ments, a seat in the fourteenth, and with
this view to solicit, for the fifth time, the
honor of your confidence.
AT the last election endeayored in my
addresses and speeches to impress upon
you that great crisis had arrived in the
affairs of Ireland. Weak as the late Gov
eminent was for ordinary purposes, it had
great advantages for dealing with that
crisis. A comprehensive measure pro-
C06uiuS lTUu5 bHdb sOOV6Tnul6ubt WOulu
have received warm and extensive
support from within the Liberal
party, and would probably have closed the
Irish controversy within the present ses-
sion and have left the Parliament of 1885
free to prosecute the now stagnant work OF
ordinary leg islation, with the multitude of
questions it includes. My earnest hope was
to support the late Cabinet in such a course
of policy. On the Doth of last January the
opposite policy of coercion was declared to
have been the choice of the Government,
the Earl of Carnaryon alone refusing to
share in it. The Irish question was thus
placed in the foreground to the exclusion
of every other. The hour, as all felt, was
come. The only point remaining to deter
mine was the manner in which it was to be
dealt with.
I'm my Judgment the proposal of co.
ercion was not justified by facts and was
doomed to certain and disgraceful failure.
Some method of governing Ireland other
than coercion ought as | thought, to be
sought for and to be found. !" i 3s1 ls-.
Continuing with an allusion to his un-
dertaking the task of obtaining for Ireland
a.domestic Legislature and a reminder of
the front place which that question had
held in the legislation OF previous Parlia-
ments, Mr.. Gladstone asks:
''Will you govern Ireland by coercion,
or will you let her manage her own affairs!
To debate in this address this and that de-
tail of the lately defeated bill would be
only to disguise this ISSUE, and would be as
futile as to discuss the hating, Stun
bling ever-shifting, ever-vanishing pro-
Jects OF al intermediate class which have
proceeded from the seeding Lib
tive and Ineligible plans be-
fore the world. There is the plan of the
Government, and there is the plan of Lord
AlIJ Etrv llrp ,f.x.1 T-.~
should, under well-considered conditions
transact her own affairs. Lord Salisbury's
plan is to ask Parliament to renew the re-
presslve laws for twenty years, by the end
of which time, he assures us, Ireland will
be tit to accept any government in theway
Of local government or repeal of the CO.
erclon laws you may wish to give her.
Ileaye the Tory subject to speak for it.
self in it's unadorned simplicity, and turn
to the proposed policy of the Government.
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, but the union they refuse to modi-
fy is in its present shape a paper
union obtained by force and fraud
and never sanctioned or accepted
by the Irish nation. They are not
union is to be tested by the sentiments of
the human beings united. Tried by this
criterion we have less union between
Great Britain and Ireland now than we
had under the settlement of 1852. En-
franchised Ireland, gentlemen, asks
through her lawful representatives for the
revival of her domestic Legislature-not.
on the face of it, an innovating, but a
restorative proposal. She urges with
truth that the Capitalization of Parlia-
ments has been the division of peoples, but
she recognized the fact that the union,
lawlessly as it was obtained, can not and
ought not to be repealed She is content
to receive her Legislature in form
Invested of prerogatives which might
have impaired her imperial interests
and better adapted than the settle
ment of 1852 to secure to her regular
control of her own affairs. She has
not repealed, but has welcomed the stipu-
Iatlons for the protection of the minority.
To such provisions we have given and shall
give careful heed, but trust Scotland will
condemn the attempts SO singularly made
to import into the controversy venomous
element of religious bigotry. Let her take
warning by the deplorable riots in Belfast
and other places in the north
"Among the benefits gentlemen, Iantici-
pate from your acceptance of our policy
are these: The consolidation of the united
empire and great addition to its strength;
the stoppage of the heavy, constant and
d fras waste Of the public
ual extinction of ignoblo feuds in
Ireland and that development of
her resources which experience shows to
be a natural consequence of free and ORDER
ly government; the redemption of the
honor of Great Britain from the stigma
fastened upon her almost from time imme-
mortal in respect to Ireland by the iudg-
mont of the whole civilized world; and,
lastly, the restoration of Parliament to its
dignity and efficiency and the regular
progress of the business of the country.
well, gentlemen, the first question I
now put to you is, How shall Ireland be
governed? There is another question be-
hind it and involved in it, How are En-
gland and Scotland to be governed? You
know how, for the last six years especially,
the affairs of England and Scotland have
been impeded and your imperial Parlia-
ment discredited and disabled All this hap
pened while the Nationalist were but "a
small minority of the Irish members with
out support from SO much as a handful of
members not Irish. Now they approach nine
ty, and are entitled to say: We are speak
ing the views of the Irish nation It Is inn
possible to deal with this subject by half
measures, They are strong in their num-
bers, strong in British support, which
brought 313 members to vote for thcir
country; strongestof all in the sense of be-
ing right. But, gentlemen, we have done
our part; the rest remains for you Elect
orS of the country, may you be enabled to
see through and cast away all delusions
refuse evil and choose good. I have the
honor to be, gentlemen, your faithful and
grateful servant,
WILLIAM E. GLADSTONE"