Daily Republican., 1886-06-11
PariiAment aud Gladstone.

Parliament and Gladstone.
To some people in this country such
q thing as dissolution OF Parliament
is not clearly understood and with that
idea 10 embraced the thought that ii
would be something like Congress in
this country breaking up before its time
expired, which sometimes would be al
act devoutly to be wished and prayed
for, and at the present time none the
less 30. A dissolution Of Parliament,
however, il no very serious affair, as II
only means fresh appeal to shs people
upon some important topic OF legisla-
agree. The same English Parliament
may last ten years or more, or 1t may
only last ten months or less, - In the
case OF the present Parliament. Less
than year ago England, Scotland and
Ireland were agitated over the question
OF Home Rule for Ireland, and there
were three parties In the field asking
the people to accept their tenets and
adopt their principles. Tho Conserva-
tive party was looked upon ss either
opposed to Home Rule for Ireland or in
favor Of moving very slow In the mat
ter. The Liberal party, ~ its name
implies, was ready to go to . greater
extent than the Conservatives In max
ing concessions to Ireland, and to the
most radical wing Of this party Mr..
Gladstone was allied. Tho third party
was the Home Rule party itself, and ex.
listed almost wholly in Ireland at the
time OF the election, and elected some
81 members Of Parliament, In fact all
that were elected in Ireland except
about three members in Ulster, where
the Orangemen, called Protestant Irish
men in this country, have broken out
in riots, resulting In loss OF both life and
property.
When the present Parliament met 1t
was demonstrated that the Liberals, to
whom the Home Rule members, under
the lead Of Charles Stewart PArnell,
had allied themselves, were in . ma.
jority and would eventually control
Parliament. Under these circumstances
leader acting with the majority Is
named by the Queen to be Premier, and
Is entrusted with the duty Of forming q
Ministry, or what In the United
States would be called . Cabinet.
Mr.. Gladstone was selected for
this purpose, mot so much that he was
the Queens real choice, but that the
people In the election OF q Parliament
indicated the choice for the Queen to
make.
The formation OF the ministry and
the gallant fight thAt Mr.. Gladstone has
made for Home Rule In Ireland are OF
such recent date and have been given
such prominence in English affairs that
nothing more Is required for us to say
upon this point than that Mr.. Glad
stone not being able to hold all the
Liberal support he started out with,
has been defeated in his scheme to
establish an Irish Parliament and thus
to secure Home Rule for Ireland. This
bsing the leading question before the
British Parlisment, and upon that
question Mr.. Gladstone being defeated,
&c now appeals to the people at large
for vindication or . condemnation Of
his course by the election OF q new
Parliament and upon the question of
Home Rule for Ireland. Should the
voters OF England, Ireland and SCOT
land, some &, 500, 900 in mum Der, elect a
Parliament in favor OF the Home Rule
bill, which has been defeated, Glad
stone will be vindicated and will no
doubt be designated by the Queen to
construct another ministry In accord
Ance with his own views, and folio wing
which will be the success of Home
Rule. Should the people beside other
wise, Home Rule for Ireland will be
postponed for an indefinite period,
and Mr.. Gladstone having already
nearly reached the fo1r-sc5re period of
life, will retire with the consciousness
OF having done his whole duty for an
oppressed people and with having
started reform that will in the end
triumph because 1t is right.
A dissolution of Parliament then
only means an appeal to the people for
vindication upon an important subject
of legislation. II our American Con-
gress were constructed upon the same
principles, we would no dontt have q
dissolution OF that body upon defeat
OF the Morrison tariff bill, civil service
reform, the finance question, and
indeed all the leading subjects of lezis-
lation. An adverse vote in Parliament
against the administration, upon how
ever trivial question, is considered
sufti cient cause for a dissolution q,
Parliament. We are not sure that thi,
la not plan more to be praised than
condemned. OF course 1t would not dc
to dissolve Congress and appeal to tn,
people for the election OF a new on,
every time the administration is de
feated under our present arrangement
but II this plan were in vogue the ad-
administration party would be careful
mot to 60 farther than the people would
support it.