The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-06-14
THE MANIFESTO
OF premier GLADSTONE
To the Electors Of MldlOthian-Ths tissues
in the Approaching OAmpAiEu-Ths Mad
Monarch, Ludwig, of Bavaria, For.
mally DspOIsd-PSOpIsI Regard.
LONDON, June ls.-Mr. Gladstone has
issued the following manifesto:

LONDON, June lS.-Mr. Gladstone has
issued the following manifesto;
GENTLEMEN; In conseq OF the de-
feat Of the bill for the better government
Of Ireland, the ministry advised and Her
Majesty was pleased to sanction the iisso.
luton Of Parliament for decision by the
Nation Of the gravest aud likewise the
simplest issue that has been submitted to
It for hall century, 1t is only sense OF
the gravity Of this issue which induces me
at period OF life when nature calls Aload
for repose to seek, after sitting in thirteen
Parliaments, seat in the fourteenth,
At the last election endeayored In my
addresses and speeches to impress upon
you the TACT that great crisis had arrived
in the affairs OF Ireland, Weak as the late
government was for ordinary purposes, It
had great advantages for dealing with this
crisis. A comprehensive measure pro-
Geeding from that Government would
have received warm and extensive sup
port from within the Liberal party, aud
would have probably closed the Irish con-
troversy within the present session, and
have left the Parliament OF 1885 free to
prosecute the now stagnRnt work OF
ordinary legislRtion, with the multitudeof
questions It includes. My earnest hope
was to support the late Cabinet In such q
course Of policy,
THE POLICY or COERCION,
On the 20.h Of last January the oppo-
site policy OF coercion was declared to
have been the choice OF government the
Earl Of Carnaryon alone refusing to share
in 1t. The Irish question was thus
Of every ether, The hour as all felt was
come, the only point remaining was to
determine the manner In which II was to
be dealt with. In my Judgment thepro-
posal OF coercion was not justified by the
facts and was doomed TO certain and
disgraCeiul failure. Some method Of gov
erning Ireland other than by coercion
ought as 1t was thought, to be
sought for and TO be found. Therefore
viewed with regret the fall OF the late
Cabinet, and when summoned by Her
Majesty to form new one undertook II
on the basis Of an anti.CoerCion policy, with
the fullest explanations to those whose
aid sought as colleagues. When pro-
posed TO examine whether II might not be
possible to grant Ireland domestic legis-
lature and maintain the honor and console
date the unity Of the Empire, q govern
ment was formed and the work was at
once put In hand. You will now, gentle
men, understand how and why II ls that
the affairs Of Ireland, and not for the first
time, have thrust aside every other
subject OF our hopes OF progressive legisla-
ton. As question OF the first neCesal.
Ties OF social order II forces itself into the
van.
TIE Issue BEFORE THE COUNTRY.
Thus gentlemenit 1t Is that this great and
simple issue has come upon you and de-
mands your decision. Will you govern
by coercion or will you let Ireland man.
age her own affairs? To debate In this
address this and that detail OF the lately
defeated bill should only be 10 disguise
this issue and will be as futile as TO die.
cuss the hating, stumbling, ever shifting
and ever vanishing projects Of an interme.
diate class which have proceeded
from the seeding Liberals. There
are two clear positive and Ia.
plans before the world:
There Is the plan OF tho Government, and
there 10 the plan Of Lord Salisbury. Our
plan Is that Ireland under well considered
conditions transact her own affairs. His
plan is 10 ask Parliament TO renew repres-
Biye laws and re.eniorce them resolutely
for 20 years, by the end Of which time he
assures us Ireland will be ft TO accept
any Government in the way Of local
government on the repeal Of the coercion
laws you may wish to give her. leave
this Tory project to speak for ITSELF"