Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1886-06-16
GLADSTONE'S MANLY APPEAL.
He Again Addresses the Electors Of
Midlothian and Asks for Their
Su1rages.
But for His Advancing Years the Great
Statesman Would Retire From
Politics.
Reasons Why the Home Rule Bill Should
Be Enacted Into q Law BY
Parliament.

Parliament.
LONDON, June 13.-Mr. Gladstone has
issued the following manifesto to the elec.
tors Of Midlothean: Gentlemen-In conse-
quence of the defeat Of the bill for better
government for Ireland the ministry ad-
vised and Her Majesty was pleased to sane
ton the dissolution of Parliament for a
decision by the nation of the gravest and
likeN lse the simplest issue that has been
submitted to it for half century, and it is
only sense of the gravity of the issue
which induces me at period OF life when
nature cries aloud for repose. to seek, after
setting in thirteen Parliaments seat in
the fourteenth and with this view to solicit
for the fifteenth time the honor of your
confidence. At the last election I endeav-
ored in my address and speeches to impress
upon you the fact that great crisis had
arrived in the affairs Of Ireland.
| Weak as the late government
| was for ordinary purposes, it
| has great advantages for dealing with that
| crisis. Comprehensive measures proceed
| ing from that Government would have re-
| ceived warm and extensive support from
| within the Liberal party and would prob
ably have closed the Irish controversy
within the present session and have left the
Parliament of 1885 free to prosecute the
stagnant work OF ordinary legislation with
the multitude OF questions it includes. Ny
earnest hope was to support the late Cab
| met in such course Of policy. On the
26th of last January the opposite policy of
coercion was declared to have been the
choice of the Government, the Earl Of
Carnarvan alone refusing to share in it.
The Irish question was thus placed in the
foreground to exclusion OF every
other. The hour. as all felt
ing to be determined was the man
ner in which it was to be dealt with. In
my judgment the proposal Of coercion was
not justified by the facts and was doomed
to certain and disgraceful failure. Some
method of governing Ireland other than
coercion ought, as thought to be sought
for and TO be found. Therefore I viewed
with regret the fall OF the late Cabinet, and
when summoned by Her Majesty to form
new one, undertook it on basis OF anti
coercion with the fullest explanations to
those whose aid l sought as colleagues.
When I proposed to examine whether
it might be possible to grant Ireland
domestic legislature and maintain the
honor and consolidate the unity OF the
Empire. A Government was at once
formed and the work at once put in hand.
You will, gentlemen, understand how and
why the affairs of Ireland have not for the
first time thrust aside every subject and
adjourned our hopes OF useful and progress
sive legislation. 1t forc,s itself into the
van. The late Cabinet, though right in
giving it that place, were as we
theneht, wrong in their manner OF
speaking it. 1t was our absolute duty
on taking the Government if We did not
adopt their method to propose another.
Thus, gentlemen, it is that this great and
simple issues demands your decision. Will
let Ireland manage her own affairs. 10 de-
bate in this address, this and that detail, |
OF the lately defeated bill would only be to
disguise this issue and would be as |
futile as to discuss the halting, shamb- |
ling and ever shifting, and ever ad- |
vancing projects OF an intermediate |
project which proceeded from seeding |
Liberals. There are two clear, positive |
and ineligible plans before the world. !
there is the plan OF Lord Salisbury. Our |
plan is that Ireland should under well con- |
sidered conditions transact her own affairs. |
His plan is to ask Parliament to renew the |
repressive laws and enforce them resolutely |
for twenty years, by the end Of which time !
he assures Ireland will be fit to accept any !
Government you may wish to give her. l
lesve history to speak for ITSELF. Have !
Tories or seceders assumed the name OF |
Unionists. I deny that title to them. In |
deed, we are all Unionists alike, but the |
Union they refuse to modify in it's present |
shape is paper Union, obtained by force
and fraud and never sanctioned or accepted |
by the Irish nation. They are not Union
lists, but paper Unionists. A true Union is
to be tested by the sentiments OF human
beings united. Tried by this criterion we
have lesser Union between Great
Britain and Ireland now. than
enfranchised Ireland, gentlemen, asks |
through her lawful representatives for a
revenue OF her domestic legislature. She
urges with truth that centralization OF the |
Parliaments means division OF the people, |
but she recognizes the fact that the Union,
lawlessly as it was obtained, cannot and |
ought not to be repealed. She is content |
to receive her legislature in form divested |
of the prerogatives which might have i'm
proved her emperial interest and better |
adapted than the settlement OF 1872 to |
secure her regular control OF her own affairs. |
She has not repelled, but has welcomed, |
stipulations for the protection OF the Union.
To such provisions we have given and
shall give careful heed, but trust Scotland |
will condemn the attempts SO slngularly |
made to import into the controversy a !
venomous element OF religious bigotry.
Let her take warning by the deplo1 able
riot in Belfast and other places in the
North. Among the benefits l anticipate
from your acceptance OF our policy are the
consolidation Of the United Empire and a
great addition to it's strength; the stop
page OF heavy constant and demoralizing |
waste OF the public treasure; the
abatement and gradual extinction OF
ignoble feuds in Ireland, and that |
development OF her resources which |
experience shows to be the natural
consequence of free and orderly Govern
ment; the redemption Of the honor ofGrent |
Britain from the stigma fastened upon her |
almost from time immemmorial in respect |
to Ireland by the judgment of the whole
civilized world; and lastly, restoration Of
the Parliament to it's dignity and efficienc &,
and regular progress Of the business Of the |
country. have the honor, gen tlemen, to |
be your faithful servant,
WILLIAM E. GLADSTONE.
In tho House.
WASHINGTON, June 13.-In the House OF
Representatives tomorrow the Committee |
on the District of Columbia will claim the !
floor under the rules and consume the day |
with legislation of general character.
On Tuesday consideration OF the legisla- |
tive appropriation bill be resumed. and, |
although little that should delay remains |
to be acted upon, yet it is probable that
the antagonism that has been developed to |
the Appropriation Committee will manifest |
ifaalf in a few atrav ehOte.