The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-07-02
n. Anti-HOme-Rule Speech
at Birmingham.
" THE HOUSE AND SENATE.
from the Capital = Sparks =
appropriation Asked FIe
dental APPrOval-Etc
Midland At RIrmIDgham.

rising 10 sptdhi HO -,
s.i,ufes. He said he had believes
e. e. - lime was coming 10 retire. Fo
-II--..,,,--1ine wears he had served Dir
.-aSsm but in the face OF ques-
. IanSof The greatest magnitude he con
!. ~. 81 n his duty to remain at the front
~ claimed that he, more thar
n-otber man, had implored the sue
- -; v Governments to deal with Ire
- WHO had so long and pertiaa-
-ionsly shown England the sores o
Y-sisad. u was because his sympathy
undiminished. nay, more powerful
Ian ever. that he was unable TO accept
.5s PROPOSALS of government. Could
.-vbodg suppose that he would have
framed himself from long political
I'd neTsonal friendship with Gladstone
. ~ could have seen any way to sup
III tbe bills? In the speech of the
b-smjer and others. they had intro
5rced a great deal of ancient history
- many old stories about Ireland,
nj the history OF nearly every country
Tss 4 dismal story. 1t was an old
tory that Ireland had nothing TO do
nth the question. (Cheers.) 1t was
rnbeooming in the Premier 10 make q
long speech, telling what had happened
IN Ireland g century ago. (Cheers).
Going back would show the enormous
u-ogress Of Ireland during the past fif;y
nd even twenty years. The whole tone
Al Parliament toward Ireland had
altered. Tn church had been disestab-
Eshed. land laws had been reformed,
the arrears act had been passed. and
other legislation had been enacted, end
ing the last year with the widest house
hold suffrage. Could any government,
II the same length OF time, have done
more for the people? After adducing
data 10 prove that the Irish malady is
not political, but altogether economic,
NJ. Bright proceeded. He said he was
entirely against anything in any shape
called a Parliament at Dublin (cheers.)
he vas also opposed tOhtbe monstrous
proposition to purchase the estates.
But for the bill 10 reTOlutioniZe Ireland,
nobody would have dreamed of so
extraYagGnt proposal. In regard to
the land the political scheme made by
economic scheme necessary. While
economic proposals were condemned,
the political bills proposed would create
government in Ireland which would
oe untrusEEo.thy as regards the first
duties Of government, namely,
ne preservation of property and
me security Of public order,
The legislation Mr.. Gladstone proposed
vas only 8 step forward 10 a march
lafo1gh rapine 10 the break up of the
klngdom leheers) and the astounding
proposal Fas that this conspiracy be
dlsnlned 6y the name and form and
gOser Of Parliament. They were told
lasl me and bill was dead; the country
14a night to complain Of a singular
nan1 Oh rankness on the part OF the
tIsnlef. de was concealing from the
PUBIC mat definite, open declara-
u0n be ought to make, (pro-
I59ngea ,oheers); probably even the
Elsmler view to openly adhere
70 NE land bill might lose the election,
gnue 10 abandon it might shake the
~, Of some of his colleagues.
!Sneefs.l Therefore. there was a'varia-
Aon n the language and terms that
Va uhoecomIng to a minister speaking
70 great nation en- so alarming a pro-
SCI The constituents might be GER
Ia Il hey gave the Premier majority
.4lse enough to enable him to 90 on
alu tne government, il was Glad
zone intention 10 thrust the land pur-
S ~ oil through Parliament. (Cheers. }
ne aosurdities of that land purchase
SSSnsme had been amply exposed.
te reminded his auditors that among
50 complaints made by Ireland
Va one concerning the great
etl Of absenteeism. This land bill
would make the English treasury q
universal absentee landlord over ali the
ana IN Ireland and an absentee whose
.ents i would be the most difficult TO
oSlecl; (Cheers } 1t might be found
shen landlords were zone that the
Happy time Of conspiracy had come:
mai the garrison of England had been
el'seh out aud the new Irish nation left
Q rs growing ealamities. would not
.t I6 O paying rents. The teaching OF
80 ~ SIRellite conspiracy (groans and
---sSssl curing the last seven years was
se-lSt paying rent. Could it be sup
g,seo mat the lesson learned through
80 years could be immedi-
-! unlearned; that the gen
"a generalization which had oc-
E -..eS over three parts of Ireland
~, sySia cease. or would the pee pie not be
on have got free from the
s ~, Of local proprietors Of the soil
- you pay rents now to a foreign
F---- cSuuAuR COueCIOr IN
jpS.elgn Gsrb.h (Cries OF Hear Hear ~
....s..,e55rlng 70 the government bill, Brighr
AZ ne eoncurred with Gladstone. thai
le OIL passed it would be absolutely
!, 6eT9Sslole for The Parnelhtes 70 remain
I've :, nsstminster. The proposal that 80
loers sit in Dublin was especially
Iohstrous. Under this arrangement
,s 1t would happen7 They knew tina
0gt hait OF the Irish members nov
Parliament had their expense
81 AMY paid across the Atlantic misses
-. donations OF aTowed enemies o
6n-sS,,and- But with 500 sitting il
ve!!;a and 100 more az Westminster. i
. sSa-l .ne necessary that the chsritabl,
N s-Ions Il America become perpetual
gnler9 Gladstone had suggeste,
-, an alternative. the occasional pre-
ne ne 81 the Irish members, a sort o
IL esluiiisnt Irish fever in Parliament
proposal as 50 astonishing and $
rrss ,'3 us, that he thought that lib
a. Eremier. amid the difficulties 0
he,d 'sinon, must really have lost hi
80; Cheers.) They heard nue.
l' his New Dublin Parliament a