The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-10-27
DIR. AUBREY'S LECTURE,
An Interesting Lecture on d POpu-
lar subject.

Rule question in Ireland. DR.. Aubrey
Is a minister of the Congregations
Church in London. and during the late
election campaign was a candidate for
Parliament on the Gladstone ticket.
He is model Englishman in appear
ance with large, full frame, and fine
physique ightish complexion, full
flu shed face and open countenance, re-
minding one at a distance of the late
President Brigham Young, though be
is rather larger man. His voice is
soft, but full and musical with the ideal
accent of an English gentleman; his
delivery easy, fluent and impressive
without affectation, and his general
bearing is such as to impress one that
be is we'll and deeply Informed on a
wide field OF information and research.
at the time appointed for the lecture
to begin, DR.. Aubrey mounted the ro>--
trum and, without bein- introduced at
once made himself az home with his at
tentive audience.
He was particularly grati6ed, he said,
note il all his travels in America a
deep feeling OF interest in the political
affairs IF Oh England and that AmerI-
cans were especially in sympathy
with the noble mmdet views and
earnest endesvors of the gent
ex- Premier William E Gladstone.
1t is not too much to say that
England has never met a question so
intricate, so difficult of solution and yet
so important as that before that country
to-day in relation to the government
of the Irish people. The English
government in its efforts to deal
with the Irish question has
heretofore ALWAYS been confronted
by the representatives of Ireland her
struction known to the English Parlia-
ment This is now a fact of the past
and the measures now proposed for the
ameloration of the Irish people are
stimulated to-day by the interest taken
by Irish statesmen
The story of Ireland is one which
the speaker could not read without
feelings of blood sickening ave.. Ire
land was made to feel the conquering
hand of a dominant race. She was
made to pay an undue proportion of
the taxes of the nation without voice
in the enactment OF the measures for
their distribution. She was made. 70
feel that her people were aliens and
that they were kept down by a foreign
power stronger than their own.
By acts of fraud and chicanery
under the famous William Pitt, Eng
lish po]itians succeeded in inducing
the Irish people to vote their own
political ruin in the passage of the
Union Bill. For this end, money,
treachery and intrigue were employed,
and dishonest Or Indifferent Irishmen
were made Peers that their couDtrymen
might be reduced to sGrvitude. There
are to-day GA 600 houses in ireland,
go 600 of these are mansions 4S0 900 are
described as farm buildings; 425,0OO, or
nearly One-half, consist of mere mud
cabins, so rude that the majority of the
population of this country would scorn
to occupy them, 10000 of them con-
ia lining but one room each.
Mr.. Gladstone has been charged
with introducing his measures for the
relief of Ireland, with a view to gain
The deep and impartial
thinkers among the English people were
satisfied this was not the case. The
measure introduced by Mr.. Gladstone
last March was evolved by the exercise
of the most extensive experience and
observation with the most humane con-
sciencious and just motives for the good
of the Irish people.
Mr.. Gladstone maintained that 9
measure which would do Justice 20 the
Irish should provide, First, for unity
of the government of the two
England and Ireland. |
Second, 1t should insure the pol
teal equality OF the two nariOns; I
third, it should guarantee an equitable /
of all public burdens, as
taxation; fourth, it should provide thar !
the rights OF the minority should re
protected. Mr.. Gladstone's measure
was defeated by msjority constituted |
Of a considerable number OF his own /
party. within few months round ma
jOrity supporting Ar- Gladstone was re-
1uced to considerable min
)ri'y. Various crying appeals were
raised by the false party cries
If opposing parties, which con
.ributed to the Cefeat of Mr.. Glad
stones government and the home rule
policy. One of these was that Protest
lntism would be in danger: that the
Catholics in Ireland, being so much in
he majority. would gain the ascend,
Incy and carry the entire. goVernfaent
md rule to the detrlment of all Pro
Another was that the Eng \
ish people would be taxed to buy out
he Irish landlords.
The Liberals in England do not fear
be ascendancy of Roman Catholics.
here are enough Protestants in Eng
and TO see that all shall have their
lights, and the speaker and his party
cit to say, Free rights and citizenship
o all" The outbreaks in the majority {
I cases have arisen among boycotted {
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Most of the opponents of Mr.. Glad
tones policy took it for granted that ;;
be home rule policy tor Ire
and would disintegrate the en-
ire. Many of the minimizing in Eng
mo were led into the belief that
reland would be entirely cut adrift 4
rom England, in case the home rule
leasure was passed. The Liberal
arty in England meant no such thing
5 this, but only to make what before
-ss mock and false union a real and
ue one. The lecturer described at
me length the land faceof the Irish
u-stion. One thousand nine hundred I
nd twenty-iour individuals TO day
loSt of them foreigners to the country
own two-thirds of the entire acreage
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