The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-08-28


the late administration" "Lo6 at
the question:" Mr.. Gladstone con.
tinues, "wsich way we wi |
the cause o. Irish self gov
eminent lives and moves, and
can hardly fail to receive more lie,
more propulsion from the banls OF
those who have been its successful
opponents in one Of its particular
forms. 1t will ariee So wounded
warrior sometimes arises on the field
OF battle and stabs TO the heart fome
soldier of the victorious army who
hsd been exulting over him"
Mr.. Gladstone then looks at the
elections from a geographical point.
He points out tuat even in the case
OF England what We have is
not really a refusal, but only
a slower acknowledgment, Til.
effect OF all this on Ireland hede-
scribes as follows: San the currents
OF the political atmosphere as between
the two islands have been clealsed
and sweetened, for Ireland now knows
what she never has Known before,
that even under her defeat deer riff
of division runs ell through the En-
glish nation in her favor; that there is
not throughout the land a 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 per
msnent establishment OF her claims to
national existence.
Under these happier circumstances
what is there, Mr.. Gladstone
goes on to ask, n separation that
would tend = to make it advan-
tageous 10 ireland as an island
with many hundreds Of miles OF coast,
with a weak marine and a people far
more military than nautical in their
habits, of small population and limitsd
in present resources, which, should
she expose herself to the risks of in
vasion and to the certainty OF an euor.
nous cost in the creation and mainte-
nance of a navy for defense, rather
than remain under the shield OF the
greatest mari ime power in the world,
bound by every consideration If honor
and interest TO guard her? Why
should she be supposed DESTROYS to
forego the advantage Of absolute com
munity OF trade with the greatest of
all commercial countries to become an
alien to the market which consum 8
say, nine-tenths OF her produce, and
instead OF using the broad and uni
versal path Of enterprise now open TO
her to carve out for herself new
and narrow ways as third rate Stats?
Mr. Gladstone next deals With the
purchase and sale of land in Ireland,
and at the outset ACKNOWLEDGES that
the mos powerful agent in bringing
about the defeat OF the government
was the aversion to the land bill, The
Siamese twinship OF the bills, put to
scorn by these for whose benefit 1t was
in great part designed, bayibg been
desdly to both, he thinks it his duty
explicitly to acknowledge thst,he SEN
tence which has gone forth fer the
sevsvr nrr - tsaatHo smeaeuYesis In
evitaole, ard that the twinship which
has been for the time disastrous to the
hopes Of Ireland exiets no longer. At
the same time he hopes The partnership
betwsen the enemies of home ruleaud
the enemies OF the land bill which
brought about this result, NAV rog be
The enemies of home rule
have ever been the keenest promoters
Of land purchase in the interest of
Irish landlorde, and the enemies of
the land purchase bill, instead Of stand
ing at their ease, will now have to use
all their vigilance for The purpose OF
preventing the adoption of schemes of
land purchase founded on PRINCIPLES
very different from, and, indeed, op-
posite to those of The bill lately con-
signed to limbo. Mr.. Gladstone next
discusses the Conservat We character
81 home rule for Ireland. Il NAV
reasonably lay claim, he holde, to
Conservative favor, for it is espec ally
founded in regard for history
and traditions, and it aims in
he main at restoring, not al
jering the Empire. An immediate
set between the central
power and the subject, he points out,
3 q COutIlNdDC6 IdVOfdDl6 10 Doth, and
t gives domestic aspect to com
hands, which, when proceeding from
remote source, want their hest psss-
port to acceptance. He then pro-
leeds 10 consider 10 which party the
work is reserved. He does not 20 be-
Iond the expression of an undoubted
belief that measure OF self govern
neut not lees extensive than the pro-
,osal OF 1866 will be- ultimately car
led. "Nor is it for me-" he says, ito
conjecture whether in this or in 60
many other cates the enemies of the
MEASURE are the persons designed
inally to guide its triumphal process
ion to the capital"
10 conclusion Mr.. Gladstone saws:
If / am not egregiously wrong in all
bat has been said, Ireland has now
ying before her bread aud even yay
n which to walk TO the consummatIon
# her wishes Before her eyes is
'pened that same path o. constitution.
j and peaceful action, of steady, free
nd peaceful discussion, which has led
England and Scotland to the achieve.
nent OF all their pacific triumphs."