Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-06-25
THE PREMtER's APPEAL.

LONDON, June 14.-Mr. Gladstone has
issued the following manifesto to the
electors OF Midlothian:
~"GEN1LEMEN: In consequence of the de-
feat of the bill for the better government
of Ireland tire Ministry advised, and her
Majesty was pleased to sanctlon,
the dissolution of Parliament for u
decision by the nation of the gravest
and like wise the simplest issue
THAT has been submitted to 1T for half a
century. 1t is only a sense of the gravity,
OF thisi issue which induces me. at a period
of life when nature cries aloud for repose,
to seek, after sitting in thirteen Parlla-
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 l endeavored IN my
addresses and speeches to impress upon
you that a great crisis had arrived in the
affairs of Ireland. Weak as the late Gov,
ernment was for ordinary purposes, IL haa
great advantages for dealing with that
crisis. A comprehensive measure pro.
ceeding from that Government would
lave received warm and extensive
support from within the Liberal
party, and would probably have closed the
irish controversy within the present ses-
sion and ave left the Parliament of 1888
| free to prosecute the now stagnant work os
ordinary legislation, with the multitude OF
questions it includes. My earnest hope was
/ 10 SuDJOlU liz luUS SuullCU III bhNu Il IouIo0
of policy. On the 26th of last January the
opposite policy of coercion was declared to
have been the choice of the Government,
the Earl of Carnarvon 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 i'll which it was to be
| dealt with.
I'm my Judgment, the proposal of CO.
erclon 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"
Continuing, with an ~allusion to his un-
dertaking the task OF obtaining for Ireland
I a domestic Legislature and u reminder OF
the front place which hat question had
held in the legislation OF previous Purlia-
%tncnts, Mr.. Gladstone asks:
"Will you govern Ireland by coercion,
Or will you let her manage herown affairs:
10 debate i'll this address this and that de-
till of the lately defeated bill would be
only TO disguise this issue, and would be as
bling, .e~ver-shifting, evcr-vanishlng pro-
JsctS of an intermediate class which have
Proceeded from the seeding Lib
erals. There are two clear, pos
FIRE the world. There is the plan of the
Government, and there is the plan of Lord
salisbury. Our opinion is that Ireland
should, under well-considered conditions,
transact her own affairs. Lord Salisbury's
plan is to ask Parliament to renew the re-
pressive laws for twenty years, by the end
bf which time, he assures us, Ireland will
be fit to accept any government in the way
of local government or repeal. of the CO.
ercion laws you may wisi to give her:
self in its 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 it's present shape a paper
union obtained by force and fraud
by. the Irish nation. They are not
unionists, but paper unionists. True
union is to be tested by the sentiments of
the human beings united. Tried by this
criterion we have less union between
Great Britain n Ireland o 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,
Oh 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,
lawlcssly as it was obtained, can not AMI
" w SpooASu. kCAC La COAtCIU
to receive her Legislature in a form
Invested of prerogatives which might
have impaired her imperial interests
and better adapted than the settle
control of her own affairs. She has
not repealed, but has welcomed the stipu-
lations for the protection of the minority.
To such provisions we have given and shall
give careful heed, but l trust Scotland will
condemn the attempts SO slngularly made
to import into the controversy a venomous
element of religious bigotry. Let her take
warning by the deplorable riots in Belfast
end 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
t asmSi"s;z'nf Che waste absteme OF t hoa p sra5:
Ireland and that development of
her resources which experience shows to
be a natural consequence of free and order
honor of Great Britain from the stigma
fastened upon her almost from time imme-
mortal in respect to Ireland by the iudg-
ment 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. Allthis hap
pened while the Nationalist were but u
small minority of the Irish members with
out support from SO much as a handful OF
membersno o Irish. Now they approach nine
ty, and are entitled to say: we are speak
ing the views of the Irish nation 1t is i'm
possible to deal with this subject by half
measures. They are strong in their num-
bcrs, strong in British support, which
brought 3E3 members to vote for their
country strongestof all in the sense of be-
ing right. But, gentlemen, we AVE done
our part; the rest remains for you. Elect
ors OF the country, MAJ you be enabled to
see through and cast away all delusions,
refuse evil and choose good. l nave the
honor to be, gentlemen, your faithful and
grateful %ervant.
WILLIAM E. GLADSTONE
~ "
Lucky Mrs. Winning.
ST.. LOUIS, June 14.-Mrs. Samuel T..
Nlnlng OF this city has received from Secre-
tary Bayard information that she is about