The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-06-22

voters-Churchilrs Brutal Attack.
LONDON. juno 21-Mr Gladstone addressed
another large and enthusiastic meeting at Edin-
burch today. In the course of his speech he
said il was irksome TO always be compelled to
refer to Ireland. but that this was due to the
Tories, who blocked the way 80 that the govern
ment could not get rid of the question aud pro-
coed to the other business of the empire He
relied, he added, upon the peoples energy to
clear the line now and allow the train of progress
TO 60 on to its destination. The Premier reitera-
ted his demand upon the Marquis Of Salisbury
and the Earl of Carnarvon to answer the ques-
tions he asked of them on last Friday
night, and said he thought that Mr.
Goschen, formerly Liberal Minister,
would now make a good Tory candidate.
Mr.. Gladstone said he was morally certain
that Lord Salisbury knew Earl Carnarvons
ideas in regard to Ireland, and did not deem
those ideas a disqualification for the APPOINT
ment of the Viceroy Of Ireland. Lord Sails
bury, at the recent Mayors banquet, said in
effect simply as / have said it, that everything
ought to be given to promote the peace. happi-
ness and contentment of Ireland consistent with
the unity of the empire and the supremacy of
the imperial Parliament have seen it pub
lished that if l had an intention to support
Lord Salisbury in a measure of home
rule, l ought not to have kept it IN
my own breast. but ought to have impaired it to
him. 1t SO happens that that is the very thing l
did. impaired it. verbally and by letter, to a
near relative of Lord Salisbury's, who impaired
1t to Lord Salisbury. and l received an acknowl-
edgsmsnt through him from Lord Salisbury
Not only that stated it il Parliament and it
was acknowledged from the opposition benches.
So much for the wisdom and accuracy Of the
intelligence served on che breakfast table for the
enlightenment or bewilderment of intelligent
people Artful attempts have been made in
some quarters to prove that the present House
Of Commons is not opposed to home rule"
Here Mr.. Gladstone entered into analysis
Of the voting to prove that at least 315 members
were firmly opposed to home rule. He continued:
Elsewhere it has been asked why did not
make the home-rule proposal before. Well, /
think can give very good reasons" Mr.. Glad
stone then gave sketch of Irish history from
1900 to tho time of Parnell, "whose FIRST de-
mands,n he said, 9'were made when his party
were minority of the Irish representatives
Only recently the Irish members were mar
shaled into one band to tell you, first what
Ireland wants, and secondly, prepared to reduce
the limit of the demands within bounds which
think the Liberal party in general will &C
knowledge to be re reasonable. That is why it
would have been premature on my part IN any
way to have directly associated myself with this
movement till the proper time arrived What
would you think, gentlemen. If, on any subject
vitality touching your interests, II your seventy
two representatives, with one voice, made de-
mand in behalf of Scotland-in respect to which
it was clear that the interests of the empire were
not Observation-Disclosures would you think of the re-
lection Of that measured prolonged cheers
Mr.. Gladstone said that he did not COM
plain of the secession of Lord Harrington ard
Mr. Bright. They were small fraction of the
Liberal party, and they had abandoned its ira
ditions. AS the speeches and the actions of
Fitzwilliam and Cavendish showed. their de-
scendants were trying to resist that policy which,
il it had been carried out would have saved
. years of trouble. The land-purchase bill was
applicable to the time when he introduced it in
the House of Commons, but he had failed to re-
ceive the support of Lord Harrington and others.
He did not think England and Scotland received
it so favora6ly as they received the home-rule
bill The Cabinet were now free to reap
proach the whole subject. If they continued in
Office the Cabinet would carry out the home rule
programme. with due regard to their obligations.
They desired to secure local self government
for Ireland with perfect security to the imperial
union. He had never, he declared, concealed
bis ideas from the country when great crisis
had come. People had had the audacity to say
that he had endeavored to force this question
forward. Last autumn, he said. he foresaw an
Irish demand which would sweep into the shade all
other legislation. He soreshadowed, but did not
foresee the end. The rejection of the home-rule
bill would not settle the question and bring
peace but there would be the same miserable
round of contention. He asked them
to listen to a prayer. reduced to the limits of
reason and safety. Continuing, he said:
"It is not often in the history of countries
that such opportunities arise Rare, indeed,
have hey been the case of Ireland; the first.
I belp We, being the opportunity provided by the
treaty of Limerick. All. had that treaty been
executed the last two hundred years would
have told a very different tale, and the iudelible
blot of disgrace which the Judgment of the
civilized world has fixed upon England for her
treatment of Ireland would never have
been found to sully her brilliant and
ilIustrious escutcheon. I am sorry to say it was
Protestant bigotry aud national perhdy that
tramped under foot the articles of that treaty
Such opportunities, thus far. have come at in
teenth, at the close of the eighteenth, and now
again, at the close of the nineteenth
century. / do not say another opportunity
will not occur. The case is now very
different. You have put such weapons
In the hands Of Ireland, the weapons of consti-
tutional freedom and representative government,
which she will know well how to use; and, though
you reject her prayer, you DO not thereby settle
the difficulty, or even obtain an interval Of re-
pose Do you remember Burke's words
when the supporters of the ruinous Ameri-
can war said they were able to sup
press the Americansl He said: The moment
of military success will be the commencement of
political difficulties and if you do suppress
armed resistance In America you never will be
able to govern America / do not hold out to
you the terror Of civil war in Ireland I leave
that to the loyal Oraugemen who are fying
through the country with rifles, from Belfast to
the Boyne [Laughter.l If there were any
such terror as that you have ten
times enough force to suppress any
such resistance Bur, gentlemen. under the