Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1886-10-27
DR.. AUBREY'S LECTURE.
The Home Rule Question Discussed by
an English Liberal at Inde-
pendence Hall.
How the Dublin Legislature Was
Bribed Into Voting IFS Own
Extinction.
Important Events in the History Of
Ireland-HOW the Liberals Lost
the July Election.

ject of Home Rule for Ireland.
The Doctor began at once upon his sub
ject and kept close to it during the entire
lecture, everything he said being to the
point and more or less effectual.
He first spoke of
THE WRONGS OF IRELAND
Told how her people had been kept down
for centuries past; how they were robbed
of their lands; how their manufactures
were destroyed, and how, when the
religious differences arose, the atrocious
penal code was enacted, imposing the
most savage penalties upon those who
dared to practice the old religion. The
Doctor gave a touching picture OF the
sufferings of this people, and showed
clearly how they had been left with no
rights whatever, except the right to pay
! taxes.
! During ali the years prior to 1900, the
/ Irish had made repeated attempts to
shake off these expressions, but they were
beaten down and held as conquered
and subiugated people Prior to the date
last mentioned, there had existed q legis-
lature in Dublin. It was a Protestant
legislature, elected by the minority, and
was therefore not very great benefit to
the Irish people. but they did not care to
give it up. After repeated efforts to get |
the body to vote its own extinction, Sir |
William Pitt finally succeeded in the |
year 1900 in getting the body to pass
THE ACT OF UNION.
The bill was passed by bribery, false /
hood and corruption. A rebellion was |
tod 10 no
sent million and half pounds sterling
to buy off the members. To some OF
them money was no object, but these
were given rank, and in this way, the
last of them were conquered. For years
the Irish people was for the repeal of the
Union. In his time, Daniel O'Connell
was working for this repeal. The act of
Union was carried by fraud, and a curse
has seemed to hang over it from that day
been aptly termed by Mr.. Gladstone, "a
paper union"
COERCION ACTS,
We're thought necessary, and it is an as
founding fact, that in the eighty-six
years since the Union, Ireland has been
only fourteen years without coercion
act. A powerful army was found neces-
sary to keep them in subsection, and
there is to-day standing army of 10000
men, besides $1,000 armed constables.
who are soldiers in everything but name.
The lecturer then spoke in justly strong
terms of the accursed dynamite and an
archial factions, and showed how their
actions did them more harm than good
eve in England said the Doctor,
''mean to do the right, and we will not j
do it one hour sooner for all the dynamite ,
they can scrape together"
CATHOLIC EMANCIPATION.
Until the last year the Irish people
could not express their views articulately.
At the time of the Union they were {
Catholic Emancipation. They 1
did not get it until 1929, and they got it r
then because the Duke of Wellington de- r
clared that the Government must choose
between that and civil war. But the act >
which opened Parliament, the Bench, |.
and Civil Service to the Catholics, de-
Drived the forty-shilling free-holders of L
heir votes; and from that time until Mr. Z
Gladstone introduced his Franchise Bill Il
here were but 60. 000electors in all Ire n
and. The majority OF these could u
scarcely be called independent. Dr. Au-
)reY described the difficulties Mr.. Glad G.
tone had to encounter whenhe proposed &c
o extend the Franchise in Ireland which Ia
lad been excepted from the operation of N
PREVIOUS measures enlarging the Fran
hise. As soon as they had the right to
peak articulately, the Irish people
lected eighty-five of their one hundred NJ
nd three representatives TO demand .
lone Rule. He showed how absurd it is I'd
D pretend that the people were coerced in M
nat case. MIR. Gladstone, the whole to
'end of whose mind for several years or
reviOus was towards Home Rule as the ey
leans OF establishing permanent peace w
nd amlty between the two countries, ma
lit that the voice of the Irish nation n
Mould not be disregarded, and he intro Re
uced his two great measures-one for of
he better government of Ireland, the 10,
her to settle the land question perma- Of
emily on the principles of Justice and 90
ght. ~
But the country at large was not pre- ar,
ared to receive them. As Tom Carlisle he
US in his own peculiar way: ''The pop So
alton OF Great Britain consists of 81 of
1000 people-mostly FOOLS" For nv Al,
If, think it would have been better Po
I'd Mr.. Gladstone introduced his bill in
little different way; for though it was
riectly clear to him with all its minute In
tails, it was not clear to the people. !
d many OF them ran away with wrong =
"a of it. GOV
THE CARDINAL PRINCIPLES We
hich Mr.. Gladstone laid down for the n mn,
ming of these bills were: b bL.
st. The Imperial unity of the Empire. be
q. The political equality of the three ma infs
MS -
d, The establishment of basis of equal. e eIe
of taxation. eies
tn. That the right of the minority should oe
protected. nee
tn. That the proposed measures were IN the
a complete and final solution of the yexed con
,stions. Milo
The bill was lost on its second reading sea
The House by coalition of parties. abe
majority being 1871 of whom were tnel
'erals, and some of whom were Radi- cine
;. cept
lie then spoke of the great difference that
Iladstone'S majority at the November as c;
July elections, and attributed if thro
ply to the false election cry raised bv a DO
Tories. Gan
THE CHURCH IN DANGER"
S one OF their cries, and the Doctor
wed how utterly absurd this was. He Hav
ke of the threats that had been made brat
The Orangemen and of how they had prom
out also, of the threats that they Won
now making in their bitter enmitv to
and showed how these must IN
out without bloodshed best.
more potent cry was that of separa- cite
Mr.. Gladstone's measure did not Burt
n separation or even repeal of the
On. 1t would give the Irish Legisla- Til
power to deal only with affairs exclu- inau!
y Irish. No rational being could of in
in it anything that would make sep
on more easy RI,t tho CRY, of sanor- q.