The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1886-06-24
GLADSTONE.
4 Stirring Manifesto from Eng
lands Primo Minister to the
Electors of Midlothian.

lands Primo Minister to the
Electors of Midlothian.
Cowardice of the Conservatives In Refus-
Ing to Deal with the Crisis-A Warm
ing to Scotland.
LONDON, June 13.-Mr. Gladstone has
ssued the following manifesto to the elect
,rs OF Midlothian:
Gentlemen: In consequence OF the defeat
of the bill for the better government OF
Ireland, the ministry advised, and her
majesty was pleased to sanction, the dis
solution of parliament for a decision by the
aation OF the gravest and likewise the sim
Dlest issue that has been submitted to it
or hall a century. 1t is only sense OF the
gravity OF this issue which induces me at a
period OF life when nature cries aloud
or repose to seek, after sitting in thirteen
parliaments, a seat in the fourteenth. and
with this view to solicit for the fifth time
The honor of your confidence. At the last
election endeavored in my addresses and
speeches to impress upon you the fact that
h great crisis had arrived in the affairs OF
Ireland. Weak as the late government was
or ordinary purposes, it had great advan-
sages for dealing with that crisis. COM
prehensive measure proceeding from that
extensive support from within the Liberal
party, and would probably have closed the
Irish controversy within the present session
and have left the parliament OF 1887 free to
prosecute the now stagnant work of ordi-
aary legislation, with the multitude of
aues tions it includes. My earnest hope
was to support the late cabinet in such a
course of policy. On the 26th OF last Jan.
the opposite policy of coercion was declar-
nj To bax bo ehpic off fha
ment, the earl OF Carnarvon alone refusing
to share in it. The Irish question was
thus placed in the foreground to the exclu-
sion OF every other. The hour as all felt,
was come. The only point remaining to
determine was the manner in which it was
to be dealt with. In my judgment, the
proposal OF coercion was not justified by
iacts, and was doomed to certain and dis
graceful failure. Some method OF govern
ing Ireland other than coercion ought, as
thought, to be sought for and to be found,
therefore l viewed with regret the fall of
the late cabinet and when summoned by
her majesty to form q new oneI undertook
1t on the basis of an
ANTICOERCION POLICY
with the fullest explanations to those
whose aid l sought as colleagues when |
proposed to examine whether it might not
be possible to grant Ireland a domestic
legislature and maintain the honor and
consolidate the unity OF the empire. A
government was formed, and the work was
at once put in hand. You will now, gentle
men, understand how and why it is that
the affairs OF Ireland, and not for the first
time, have thrust aside every other sub.
ect and adjourn our hopes OF useful and
progressive legislation. As a question OF
.he first necessities of social order it forces
tself into the run. The late cabinet,
though right in giving it that place, were,
as We thought, wrong in their manner OF
treating it. h was our absolute duty on
taking the government, if we did not adopt
their method to propose another.
Thus, gentlemen. it is that this
great and simple issue has come
upon you and demands your decision.
Will you govern Ireland by coercion orwill
YOU let Ireland manage her own affairs?
To debate in this address this and that de-
tail OF the lately defeated bill would only
oe to disguise this issue and would be as
futile as to discuss the halting. stumbling,
and evcr-shifting and vanishing project of
an intermediate class which have pro-
seeded from seeding Liberals. There are
two clear, positive and ineligible plans be-
lore the world. There is the plan of the
government and there is the plan OF Lord
Salisbury. Our plan is that Ireland could.
under well-considered cond itions, transact
her own affairs. His plan is to ask parlia-
ment to renew repressive laws and enforce
them absolutely for twenty years, by the
end OF which time
HE ASSURES Us
ireland will be fit to accept any govern
ment in the way OF a local government on
the repe Al OF the coercion laws you may
wish to give her. | leave this Tory project
to speak for itself in it's unadorned simple
~ T - -<oe
The government. Our opponents, gentle
men, whether Tories or seceders, have as
sumed the name OF Unionists. | deny them
the title to it. In intention, indeed, we are
unionists alike, but the union they refuse
to modify is, in it's present shape, paper
union, ordained by force and fraud, and
| never sanctioned or accepted by the Irish
nation. They are not unionists, but paper
nnionists. True union is to be tested by
the sentiments OF the human beings united.
Tried by this criterion, we have less union
between Great Britain and Ireland
than we had under the settle
ment OF 1882. Enfranchsed Ire-
land, gentlemen, asks through her
lawful representatives for the revival Of her
domestic legislature-not on the face of it,
an innovating but a restorative proposal.
She urges with truth that the centraliza-
ton OF parliaments has been the division
VI ptOpic, UuU sic TcCOSulZt6 Uu6 liiCU CudI
the union, lawlessly as it was obtained,
| cannot and ought not to be repealed. She
is content to receive her legislature in a
| form divested Of prerogatives which might
have impaired her imperial interests and
been better adapted than the settlement oi
1882 to secure to her regular control other
own affairs. She has not repelled, but has
welcomed the stipulatIons for the protec.
ton OF the minority. To such provisions
l L Il FL L.
but trust Scotland will condemn the at
tempts so singularly made to import into
| the controversy
| AVENOMOUS ELEMENT
OF religious bigotry. Let her take warning
by the deplorable riots in Belfast and
other places in the North. Among the
benefits, gentlemen, 1 anticipate from your
acceptance OF our policy, are these: The
consolidation OF the united empire and
greater strength; the stoppage Of the heavy,
| constant and demorlizing waste of the
public treasure; the abatement and grad.
ual extinction OF igno BILE feuds in Ireland,
and that development OF her resources
which experience shows to be q nat.
ural consequence of free and orderly
government; the redemption OF the hon.
or OF Great Britain from the stigma fasten.
ed upon her almost from time immortal in
respect to Ireland by the judgment of the
whole civilized world; and lastly the re.
storation OF parliament to it's dignity and
efficiency and the regular progress OF the
business OF the country. Well, gentlemen,
the first question / now put to you is how
shall Ireland be governed? There is an.
other question behind it and involved in
it. How are England and Scotland to be
governed? You know how, for the last
six years especially, the affairs Of Eng.
land and Scotland have been imped,
ed and your imperial parliament dis.
credited and disabled. All this
happened while the Nationalists were but
q small minority OF the Irish members
without support from SO much as q hand
ful OF members not Irish. Now they ap
proach ninety, and are entitled to. say
I'VE are speaking the views Of the Irish ma.
tion." It il impossible to deal with thia
subject by half measures, They are strong
in their numbers, strongin British support
which brought 313 members to vote fol
thoir country. strongest OF all in the sense
Of being right. But, gentlemen, we have
done our part. the rest remains for you
Electors OF the country, may you be en-.
Abled to see through and cast away all de