The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-17
YESTERDAYS SECOND EDITION.
THE following items of news appeared in our
Second Edition of Sunday:]
Lord Salisbury on Home Rule.

LONDON, May ia great meeting of the OPP
ponents of home rule was held in St James Hall
tonight. Mr. E. Ashmead Bartlett presided.
The hall was profusely draped with the national
colors. and scrolls bearing the names of Con-
sentative leaders, past and present. were dis
played Lords Salisbury, George Hamilton,
Lewis, Hammock, BURY, Sidmouth, and many
members of the House of Commons were on the
platform. The chairman announced that new
scheme of organization had been ratified to-day,
making the Conservative party more party OF
the people than it had heretofore been.
Mr.. A B. Forward, member for Lancashire,
introduced a series of resolutions to the effect
that the meeting represented the Conservative
association of the kingdom, and that it had con-
idence in the ability of Lord Salisbury to main
tain Great Britain and Ireland as one united
kingdom and to guard safely the union and the
greatness of the empire. The resolutions were
carried amid cheers.
Lord Salisbury said that he would simply try
as humble instrument, to hand over the burning
torch to his successors. He denounced the
abominable insinuation that the Conservatives
concealed their policy There was fair ground
for hoping that, to-day week. the proposal of the
government would be matter of history. but
the question would survive. The loyal party
had fight before it. It would take a long time
to root out the poisonous weeds that had been
sown. In regard to guarantees alleged to have
been made by Irish members that they would
accept this bill with an amendment providing
for Irish representation at Westminster, the
speaker said that the very attitude of the Par
nellites showed that they did not desire to come
to the English Parliament. That would involve
criticism OF their treatment of their Protestant
countrymen, and that was what they did not de-
sire. After crticising Mr. G!adstone's action
toward Ireland since the passage of the Irish
church bill. Lord Salisbury said he did not wish
his audience to infer that Mr. Glad
stone was not an honest man, but he said the
Premier could not be trusted. The speaker
conteded that Ireland was not nation, because
it contained two different deeply divided races.
1t depended, he said, the habits of people
what sort of government should be conferred
upon them. The question of religion divided
them. The peculiar influence of the Catholic
clergy and the manner in which that influence
had been used must be considered before placing
such weapon as home rule in the hands of the
Irish There would be no necessity for coercion
if the Irish abandoned their habits of mutila-
ton, murder and robbery and Of preventing any
one who comes there from England earning q
livelihood.
Lord Salisbury recommended that portion of
the money with which it was Intended to buy out
the Irish landlords be spent in helping the Irish
to emigrate. This. he said, would be the best
remedy for Ireland. He urged unity and action,
and said that the time for using both was close
at hand. 1t remained with the Conservatives to
say what would be the result of the present dis
cuasln0