The Irish standard., 1886-06-26
THOMAS SEXToN'S SPEECH.
Metaphorically Speaking, He Leaves Judas
I. chamberlain Without "A Leg to
Stand on," and Everybody Smiles.
THE VOICE FROM THE CAVE,

Stand Vn, ana Everybody omues'
THE VOICE FROM THE CAVE.
Mir. Sexton Fails to Look Upon Baroness
Byrdett Coutts' ''Kid," Ashmead Bart
lett, as a Tory Leader.
THE IRISH STANDARD presents it's
readers with the speech Of Mr.. Sexton
in the British House Of Commons,
Thursday evening, June 8, in an abbre-
waited form. United Ireland in COM
nenting on it say S it is one Of the high
est tributes to the superb power of Mr..
Sexton's speech on Thursday night
that it raised TO exh1laration the spirits
of a party depressed by the spectre OF
the coming vote, and depressed, too, by
listening to a bold and trenchant
speech from Mr.. Chamberlain, lighted
up by CLEANS Of sinister exu}tation.
BY way of parenthesis we may remark
that Mr.. Sexton's speech will live as
one of the greatest orations Of the cen
tury. Readers in the far future will
revel inits Milky Way Of dazzling cpl
grams, its wit, humor, wisdom, argu-
ment and perfectio OF phrase. Mr..
Gladstone himself could not have inn
proved upon it's language, and could
not at all essayed it's corruscating wit.
Mr.. Chamberlain shrivelled up under, it
like an adder touched with a keen
sword. His effort to seem to disregard
Mr.. Sexton's thrusts, by burying him
self in the charming converse Of Mr..
Caine, was as good clue to the pigmy
character of the man as his kissing al
lusion to Mr.. Healy's physique. The
following is Mr. Sexton's speech:
The right hon. gentleman [Mr.
Chamberlain has stated that dissolu-
tion has no terrors for him! Why
should it? The right hon. gentleman
will GO to the country n1asquerading as
a Unionist Liberal, but depending on
the regular Tory vote. urish cheers.)
The right hon. gentleman has already
found a good godfather i'll the shape OF
Lord Brabourne. lIrlsh cheers and
laughter.) Lord Brabourne has ap-
pealed to the Tory electors of West
Birmingham to save the right hon.
gentleman from political extinction.
(Laughter.) Did ever misfortune
make an ex- Radical Liberal acquainted
with a stranger bedfellow than Lord
Brabourne. (Cheers and laughter:)
The. right hon, gentleman has made
very misleading allusion to the case Of
Canada. The analogy between Canada
and Ireland rests not on details but Oh
principles. (Hear. hear.) The prin-
ciples of resemblance was that Canada
was discontented and rebellious until
she got what she wanted, and When
she obtained what she wanted she be-
came contented and loyal. The differ
ence between Canada and Ireland is
this-that Canada is 5000 miles away
whilst Ireland is three hours away
(Irish cheers.) The substance OF what
we want is contained in the pages o1
the bill, and if that bill passed into law
the settlement arrived at in the case OF
Canada will be precisely and absolutely
reproduced in the case of Ireland.
TIE FOX HAS COME OUT OF Els. COVER
The speech Of the right hon. gentleman
has cleared away the smoke from the
field of battle. It has defined the op-
posing hosts. It has enabled Ireland te
see at last, beyond the possibility of q
doubt, who are her enemies and who
are her friends. Nrish cheers.} 1t has
enabled her to distinguish between the
true friends and the false ones, and ]
promise the right hon. gentleman that
so long as this generation Of men lasts
on the face of the earth, Ireland will
never forget this day. (Irish cheers.)
Sir, the right hon. gentleman for weeks
past has been fighting under cover
(Laughter.) AT last we have got him
in the open, (cheers) and we mean
until this question is finally settled not
to let him get back into the bush
Cheers and laughter.) He has been
fighting under cover by means Of Sc
ries of mysterious paragraphs and du'
bious and suggestive little lists, and he
has been creating a certain effect by Sc
cret meetings of a small but not homo
geneous body Of hon. members OF this
House, uaughter), who have produced
excellent stage effects under the guild
ance of an adjutant in the shape Of the
hon. member for Barrow (laughter) BY
a series of rapid and interesting evolu
tions. Cheers and laughter.
AN IMPoTENT REBEL. @
It requires an effort Of memory to re
call. the fact that the right hon orablt
gentl eman was but lately a Radica1
leader. Hear, hear The Radicals q
Britain looked to him to maintain tht
rights and to assert the principles q q
the Il working population Of this country i,
against class privilege. Liberal [.it and