The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-04-09
OPnsrSo OF PARLIAMENT.

ORnNINo VI EAhbAAHNA
An soon as the usual iormslities a.
tending the opening Of Parliament
we're over il was voted 70 postpone the
reading and answering Of all questions
on the notice paper. Hardly had this
beep done when, st 4 80 O'Clock pun
Mn Gladstone entered the House.
His entrance was followed by loud
aud prolonged cheers, which were
oouhn ned for several minutes. Among
the Liberals and Parnelites the Wild
eat enthusiasm prevailed, and it's
safe 20 cav that DO such scene was
ever witnessed before in the House oil
Commons. As soon 81 the cheering
had ceased Mr.. Gladstone rose ana
moved for permission 10 introduce
bill 70 amend previous legislation aud
10 make provision for the future gov
eminent OF Ireland. On masing his
motion, MIR. G ladstone said;
aAA DsTONE's SPEECH.
could wish it had been possible to
expoKpd 10 the House the whole
noiicv and intentions Of the govern
menl with reference 10 Ireland. Al
though the questions OF reform In the
tenure of land and Irish government
are 60 closely and inseparably CON
neCted, il is yet impossible TO under
take the task Of calculating both ones
tions together do not know OF any
previous task laid upon me involving
40 diversified an exposition. In con-
templating the magnitude OF this task
arc hlled with painful mistIus', but
that mist ust is absorbed in feeling
OF responsibility that will be upon me
Il should fail TO bring home TO tue
pubkc mind the magnitude and the
vAfidue aspects OF the question. We
ahould no longer fence and skiTmish
with this question Loud cheer we
should come 70 close quarters with II
Tcheetsk We should got at the root Of
IA; We should take means not merely
intended Cor the wants Of 10 day or to
morrow, but should look into the d 8
tant future. We have arrived at !
ptage In our political transactions will
Ireland when the two roads part, one
from the other, not soon, probably
10 meet again. The time is conn
when Il is incumbent ON tn,
duty and the honor OF PaTliamen
70 come 90 some decisive resolution OF
thie matter. Our intention is there
lore 70 propose to the Commons this
which, IL happily accepted, will, VI
think, liberate Parliament from tn
RESTRAIN u under which OF late years
has ineas ctually struggled TO perform
the buRiness Of the country, aud vii
restore British legislation to its natula
ancient, unimpedsd course, and, abov
all, establish harmonious relation
between Grea! b itan and Irelen
t'hearr' 'heaTl"l on footing {
those free Institutions TO which Ell
glishmen, Scotchmen and Iriehme
alike are unalterably attached. Lou
cheers prolonged by Home Rule men
beIJ]
COERCION a FAILURE.
Alter reviewing the condition an
crime existing in Ireland since 1888
Mr.. Gladstone described the coercio
legisition enforced during the sam
period aB not exceptional, but habtua
He compared Ireland during all Chi
period 10 man trying to hpd sui
finance in medicine only meant Il
cure. Coerciou, however, had, h
said, proVed no cure. Serious disa
lection continued to prevail in IrelapC
and II England and Scotland had su
Tered similar hsrdBhips, he believe
the people OF those countries wouI
resort 10 means similar 10 those ii
Irish had used TO ventllate their grie'
ances. Parnellite cheers COercio
was admitted 20 have been fsilul
ior the past filty.,hrse years, only tw
OF which had been wholly Tree ffol
repressive legislation. Coercion, Vi
less stern aud intending and undu
an autocTatiC governm ant, must ?
ways fail Such coercion Englau
should never resort to until evtl
other mtaus had failed. What vi
the basis OF the whole mischief VI
the fact that the law was discfeditt
la Ireland. IL came 10 the Iii
people with foreign aspect, an
their alternative to coercion was
strip the law Of It's foreign CharaCt
and invest il with domestic chara
ter. LNd Irish Cheers, frelan
though represented in Parliame
numerically equal with England
Scotland, was really net in the san
position pc iticaly England ma
her own laws; Scotland had besn q
couraged % make her own laws as
faomsly "a II she had ak times h
present representation. The CON
queuce was that the mainspling Of [
law in England and Scotland was 4
90 be the English or Scotch, 7
handspring Of the law in Ireland "
not felt 10y the people to be lrii
he therefore deemed 1t little less tn
mockery TO hold that the state OF L
which ne had described ronduced
the real unity Of this great, mob
worldwide empire. e
SOMETHING MUST nR noNE"
coltinued Mr.. Gladstone, "sun
thing is imptratively demanded fr,
rs TO restore in Ireland the first con
lions Of civil lie, the free course
Jaw, the liberty OF every in
vidual in the exercise OF every lie
rght. Their confidence In their ]
and their sympathy with the J,
apart from which no country can
called a civilized couutrypa NJ
then was the problem before hnr7
was THE, how 10 reconcile impe
unity with diversity Of lsgislatu
Mr.. Grattan held that those puTpc
were It conciled. More than Il a.,
demanded a severance Of the Par
meuts with q view TO the continV
and everlasting unity of the emp
Was that en- audacious parade
Other countries had solved the ~
lem, and under much more diff
circumstances. We ourselves mi
be said 10 have solved it With resT
TO ireland during the time that lrel
nAi a separate Parliament Dil
DESTROY the unity Of the British
pire2 lCheers.
Mr.. GLADSTONE
then pointed 20 the case Of Nor
aud Sweden, which countries were
said, united upon a footing Of q
legislative indeE endenee and coco
~. Then there was the case
Austria and Hungary, aud with
gerd 10 those countries he "a
whether the condition OF Austril
The present moment vas not II