Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1886-01-22
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GLADSTONE SWAPS THE COMMONS.
Telling Effect Of Ills Speech Last Night.
A MURDERER LYNCHED IN TEXAS.
SENSATIONAL TRAGEDY IN CHICAGO
Cinnamon Made Desperate by Starvation
GLADSTONE HIMSELF AGAIN.
A Great speech I'm which He Discen.
certs the Tories aud MOllifes the

certs the Tories and MOllieies the
Irish.
Special Cable Dispatch to THE EVENING STAR
LONDON, Jan. 22.-Gladstone's speech made
yesterday evening was a historic occasion I'm
the house of commons. He was hoarse at first,
frequently hardly audible, but rose every few
minutes to heights of splendid oratory. He de-
hgnted the house with his humor. Even the
tory ministers laughed at his exposure OF Lord
Saiisbury's change of attitude. Then he
thrilled it with the solemnity of his personal
pledges and appeals. He treated the whole sit
nation with such tact and power that he COM
pletely disconnected the tories won over the
Irish, and pulled the liberals together. Only a
solitary whig voice was raised in protest. Glad
stone declared that his opinion expressed in his
Midlothian manifesto was his opinion now, and
had been for fifteen years. He showed
amid laughter, what grounds he had for sup
posing, until just lately, that Lord Salisbury
''was not very far from being i'm the same posi-
ton as himself" The following Characteristic
sentence was delivered with the solemn en-
phasis OF a personal pledge while the house was
perfectly silent. Gladstone's voice was like a
great bell, and could be heard In the long lobby.
'From the first my highest ambition has been
and 1t continues to be, and rebuke myself by
anticipation If 1 deviate by a hairs breadth
from the principle, not to say one word of any
man mingling i'm this question that can bring
the elements of wrath and passion into a de-
bate and a consideration which nothing but
patience, nothing but self-restraint, nothing
but the casting aside ofmuch prejudice and pre-
possession, and nothing but a determined dis
position to look alone at what candor and JUS
tice demand, will afford us the smallest hope of
solving" He urged the government to do what
ever it is going to do with the utmost prompti-
tude and frankness. AS to the unity OF the en-
pire he said, addressing the ministers with as
founding effect upon the Irish members, "It is
an excellent thing to say that you will main-
tain the unity of the empire. In heavens
name maintain IL with all Your might, but we
have been maintaining it for So years, and
not only for So years since the union,
but for six hundred years before" The
effect of this upon the Irish that they
appreciated instantly the argument and the
subtle distinction in the reference to the exist
ament, which had never fallen from the lips of
an English minister before. Their faces flushed
with pleasure, and they cheered madly. After
wards several said TO me: He has taken all the
venom out OF the struggle" This was shown by
Parnell, who concluded his dignified and wise
speech by saying that for his party they saw i'm
the present position desire and a wish on the
part of EngliShmen to study and understand
with view to Its final settlement, this great
Irish question, and they were resolved that no
extravaganza on their part, OF action or laD-
guage, should mar the chance which their
country possessed tor the firsttim in history.
were those prophets who talked about Glad
stones influence being on the wane.
Perhaps he will let his followers stray alone
for awhile, but like the man i'm Goldsmith's
poem, he knew that when he pleased he could
whistle them back.