The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-09-09

wounded warrior sometimes ARISES on the
field of battle and stabs to the heart some
soldier of the victorious army who had
been exulting over him." Mr.. Gladstone
then looks Mt the elections from ageograph-
ical point Of view. He points out that even
in the case of England, what We have is not
really refusal, but is only q slower ac-
acknowledgement. The effect of all this on
Ireland he describes as follows:
All the currents of the political atmos-
phere between the two countries have been
cleansed and sweetened. For Ireland now
knows what she never has known before,
that even under her defeat deep rift of
division runs all through the English ma
ton in her favor; that there is not through
out the land parish or village where there
are not hearts beating in unison with her
heart; where there are not minds earnestly
bent on the acknowledgment and perma-
pent establishment of her claims to ma
tional existence. Under these happy cir
cumstances, what is there, Mr.. Gladstone
goes on to ask, in separation that would
tend to make it advantageous to lrelandr
As an island with many hundreds OF miles
of coast, with a weak marine and
people far more military than nautical
in its habits, of small population, and
limited in her present resources, why
should she expose herself to the risks of
invasion and to the certainty of an enor-
nous cost in the creation and maintenance
of a navy for defense, rather than remain
under the shield of the greatest maritime
power in the world. bound by every con-
sideraton of honor and intent to quad
her? Why should she be supposed DESTROYS
To forego the advantage of absolute COM
munity of trade with the greatest of all
a,al 10 oil
to the market which consumes, say, nine
tenths of her produce, and instead of using
the broad and universal paths of enter
prise now open to her to carve out for her.
self new and narrow ways as a third-rate
state?
Mr.. Gladstone next deals with the pur-
chase and sale of land in Ireland, and at
the outset acknowledges that the most
powerful agent in bringing about the de-
feat of the Government was the aversion
to the land bill. The Siamese-twinship of
the two bills, put to scorn by those for
whose benefit it was in n great part de-
signed, having been deadly to both, he
thinks it his duty explicitly to acknowl-
edge that the sentence which has gone forth
for the severance of the two measures is
irresistiable, and that the twinship, which
has been for the time disastrous to the
hopes of Ireland, exists no longer. At the
same time he hopes the partnership be-
tween the enemies of home rule and the
land bill, which brought about this result,
NAV now be dissolved.
Mr.. Gladstone next discusses the conserv-
alive character of home rule for Ireland.
1t may reasonably lay claim, he holds, to
conservative favor, for it is especially
founded on regard for history and traditions,
and it aims in the main at restoring, not
altering, the empire. An intermediate
authority set between the central power
and the subject, he points out, is a
continuance favorable to both, and it gives
domestic aspect to commands which,
when proceeding from a remote source,
want their best passport to acceptance. He
then proceeds to consider to which party
the work is reserved. He does not go be-
yond the expression of an undoubted belief
that measure of self government not less
extensive than the proposal of 1866 will be
ultimately carried. "Nor is it for me, he
says, "to conjecture whether in this, as in
so many other cases, the enemies of the
measure are the persons designed finally &c
guide Its triumphant procession to the
capital"
in conclusion Mr.. Gladstone says: of
am not egregiously wrong in all that has
been said, Ireland has now lying before her
a broad and even way in which to walk to
the contamination of her wishes. Before
her eyes is opened that same path of con-
stitutional and peaceful action, of steady,
free, and full discussion, which has led
England and Scotland to the achievement
of all their pacific triumphs."