The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-21
cHURCHILL's RESPONSIBILITY.


Mr.. O'ConnOr Charges that His Speeches
Caused the Belfast Riots.
LONDON, Aug 20.-In the House of Com
mons, Thomas Power O'Connor maintained that
Lord Randolph Churchills speeches were the
original cause of the Belfast riots. Every man
who lost his life in the riots was the dupe and
victim of Churchill. Continuing, Mr. OConnor
said that commission ought to be appointed to
inquire into the actions of the Primrose League,
which, he said, was guilty, at the last election,
of boycotting and intimidating to an unheard of
extent. He said that vast majority of the Lib
erals supported Mr.. Gladstone's scheme, which,
although it had been temporarily checked,
would inevitably meet with ultimate sue
cess The Conservative were too san
guine if they thought that the electoral
decision upon a policy supported by three or
four counties was final. He further said the
policy of the government of inQuiring into the
judicial rents was illogical and impractcable,
because the commission could not complete its
report before the spring, while the evil existed
now and the crisis would come in November.
Many men and women in Ireland would be be-
yond relief before spring Regarding the gov
eminent plan of aiding public works in Ireland,
he said it would cost more than Mr. Gadstone's
much abused scheme Mr. OConnor objected
to disguised aims" The policy of the
government, he said, was a declaration
of war against the twice repeated verdict OF the
Irish people 1t was decree of starvation for
hundreds of thousands of tenants. It would lead
to jobbery, decentralization, and the squandering
Of public moneys, and British taxpayers would
be the ultimate losers Sir w. Vernon Harcourt
said that boycotting was one of the greatest so
cial crimes Lord Salisbury, in his speech at
Newport, had said that the ordinary law was
inadequate to suppress boycotting. How. then,
did the government propose to suppress it with
out coerciong The only way was by removing
the cause. The people must be in sympathy
and harmony with the government. The Irish
national sentiment must be gratifed. The root
of the social disorder was removed Ireland
must be treated like Canada. The people knew
what they wanted He accused Lord Randolph
Churchill Of melting landlords in his speech, last
evening, to exact the utmost farthing of rents
by promising the assistance of the whole armed
forces of the kingdom Such language the
greatest possible incentive to disorder. The late
government however faulty it was in other re-
spects, never encouraged evictions the Tory
namely, royaly com missions. 1t was impossible
any longer to bribe Ireland with gold to aban-
don her matte nal demand. He Harcourtl be-
leved that the principle of equal local self
government for the three kingdoms was false
principle He quoted opinions of DisraeH and
Salisbury, to the effect that the system of gov
erning Ireland should be the reverse Of that of
governing England. He [Harcourtl contended
that Ireland did not want such local self-govern-
ment as was proposed The Liberals intended
to continue to appeal against the recent verdict.
The policy of the government was based upon
great errors of principle, and was altogether in
applicable and impracticable