Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1886-06-23
GLADSTONE TO THE SCOTS.
THE PREMIER MAKES HIS OPENING
SPEECH OF TIE CAMPAIGN.

OnLy Two fIRnS Tor lrck@nu-COerclOn or
Homo Ruls-His Interest In the Latter
- Salisbury Talks at Leeds Against
Home Rule and Denies an ImputatIon.
-Flashcs from Foreign Lands.
EDINBURGH, juno 21.-A packed audience
Of enthusiastic admirers .greeted Gladstone
when he appeared to make his first speech to
bis Scotch friends in the campaign Of ISSG,
Friday night and his appearance was the
signal for q burst Of cheers that made the
roof timbers rattle. The premier went
right Into the questions: at issue with very
little preliminary, saying that the British
people must speak manfully and decisively
on the questions under debate il social or
der was to Be- restored in Ireland. The
issue, he said, was not whether tho bill re-
Gently defeated In the commons was right
or wrong SO far as its defeat was
concerned but whether the principle Of
home rule was right ANY one who
wss willing TO grant the Irish the manage
ment Of their own affairs, with reasonable
precautions to protect the interests Of the
empire and the Irish minority was with the
Liberals, no matter what he called himself
And he asserted that by his interview with
Parnell, Carnaron had enrolled himself
with the friends of home-ruls for he had
accepted that principle Gladstone was
particular on this point Quoting from an
article In The Scotsman which said that
very many who would, II elected, vote for
Gladstons's homs-ruls bill, must
be beaten, Gladstone said
the bill was dead but the principle re-
manned, and that was the ISSUE and The
Scotsman having conceded that safe self
Pn~
Ireland, Gladstone accepted The Scots.
man as good homo rule paper. He de-
clared that thAre were but two plans before
the country-coercion and home ruls-and
that Salisbury was the champion Of the
first He insisted upon this, also, and said
he would continue to insist upon it He in
however, that Salisbury, In con-
nection with Carnaryon, had coquetted with
home rule until he had got forty seats In
parliament by the help Of home rulers He |
closed with an eloquent appeal for justice to
Ireland, saying the success Of home rule
would do more for the honor of England
than for the prosperity and peace of Ire
land
Salisbury Answers Some Points.
LEEDS, June 2L-There were 5000 people
in the hall where Lord Salisbury made his
first extended speech on the great home-ruls
light Friday night, and they greeted the
Tory leader with an enthusiasm that must
have made him proud He began by deny
ing IN toto that himself or any member Of
the late Tory cabinet had ever for Q mo-
nent advocated home rule In the sense Of
an Irish legislature It was alb.
solutely false and had no foundation except
gossip. He spoke Of his own knowledge,
and the fact could be certified to by four
teen others. Referring to the charge that
be would govern Ireland by coercion for
twenty years, he also denied that What
Was coercion. He thought Gladstone, in
The Kilminham improvements, had given
N illustration Of it that he Salisbury
would be sorry to see again as long as he
lived, though he would not condemn Glad
stone outright, as he did not know what
secret information Gladstone possessed But
be did not propose to govern Ireland by
at all He did propose to punish /
who committed murder,
.rson, ineendiarism and other crimes, it \
not In what cause they were COM
nisted II Gladstone was opposed to that
,ort OF coercion, he sympathiEed with the
crime and the criminals. Tory coercion
YES the execution Of the laws against
.bese crimes, and It's execution
Effectively, nothing mora He was in favor
If improved local government for Ireland
that would give the Irish con-
'rol of exclusively klocal affairs, but that
md home rule were widely different Home
.ule meant separation Parnell had said 20
himself He knew Parnell had repudiatsd
hat imputation, but It had been proved |
hat he said so in speech at Cincinnati,
he substance Of his remarks being that he
would not stop until he had broken the last
ink that bound Ireland to England. The
plea was made in opposition to giving prac-
'ical guarantees to Protestants in Ireland |
hat the majority should rula II that were
70 why did not the majority of tho United
Kingdom' II the majority was not the will
n this case why should mot the minority |
In Ireland-the Protestants-be protected |
.gainst the majority. Home rule meant a
eparste Ireland, a hostile nation right at
he doors Of England, and he would never
Igreo to such state of affairs