Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-06-15
GLApsToN Is MANlFrsTo.


Comments of the New York and Zero
pean Press.
LBy Telegraph
new YORK, June 14th.-The press to-day
comments on Gladstone's manifesto to the
Midlothian electors, as follows:
The Times SAYS Gladstone's manifesto,
though hardly an eloquent appeal, has the
virtues of simplicity and eiircctness. His
purpose is tersely summed up in the clos
ing paragraph, in which he expresses the
hope that his constituents will east away
all delusions, refuse the evil and choose
the good. The strength OF the appeal lies
in the iteration of hard facts, tha. there is
no possible alternative to home rule save
coercion.
The Hedldthinksi it is a remarkable doc
| unant, eloquent as an appeal and virile
| and sturdy as a succinct statement of facts.
Whatever else Gladstone may lack. he GER
tainly does not lack clear head. He
grasps the strategic points of the contro-
veTsy. and drags the purposes of the Tories
into light as policeman drags an unwill-
ing prisoner into Court for examination
and sentence.
The Tribune says: The manifesto, while
it contains nothing especially new or start
ling, shows no falling off in the Premiers
ability to express what he has to say in
clear and vigorous language. The issues to
be passed upon he puts in the clearest light
There is less union now than under the
settlement of 1872. The plan of an Irish
Parliament is not an innovation, but re-
storatien. Although addressed to the elect
ors of Midlothian, Gladstone's appeal is
made for the country. 1t is the keynote of
the campaign, and will meet the response
which IL deserves.
THE ENGLISH PRESS.
LONDON, June 14th.-The Times pro-
nounces Gladstone's manifesto argument
lively and historically weak 1T dees not
| offer" says the Times, "a single argument
| that coercion is the only alternative policy
| to home rule for Ireland. Chamberlain
gives one alternative other than coercion.
and John Morley suggested the fourth by
admitting that it was possible to govern
Ireland as Crown colony. When the
worst comes to the worst, it is always open
TO Englishmen to say they prefer separa-
| ton, pure and simple, to the intolerable
der,aa,aAo Of home r..io action Is----.--I L.
| made clear that there is another alterna-
tive, namely, to give Ireland local control
of her local affairs on the same scale as
given to England and Scotland, on prin-
ciples as applicable to those countries as to
Ireland"
EDINBURGH, June 11th.-The Scotsman
says: Gladstone, in his manifesto, mis-
represents the issue. Parliament never
voted on the question of coercion versus
home rule. If it had it never would have
tolerated Government on this issue"
MANCHESTER, June 14th.-The Guardian
says that of Gladstone Salisbury and
| Chamberlain, Gladstone alone sees the
desperate circumstances in which the coun-
try is placed by mistaken policy on the
Irish question, and that he alone perceives
how those circumstances can be best dealt
with. We are confident, adds the Guar
dian, that the country will indorse the
Premier's diagnosis, and the proposed
remedy, for they are based on vigorous
common sense"
LONDON, June 14th.-The Conservative
provincial papers bitterly criticise Glad
stones manifesto. The Irish papers do
not make their comments on the manifesto
a feature of their issues, but criticise, as a
matter of course, according to their party
bearing"