Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-04-17
GLADSTONE'S EFFORT.
The Long Expected Speech of the English
Premier on the Irish Question.

The Long Expected Speech of the Eng isl
Premier on the Irish Question.
Thursday, the 9Th, was the day which haG
been fixed for the English premier to deliver
his long expected speech on the future policy
of his ministry as regarded Ireland. Par
nell members of parliament began arriving
as early as o'clock in the morning. and il
a short time every seat on the fool
of the house of commons had beer
taken. On the outside of the building g
large crowd awaited the arrival of the pre-.
mier. They were compelled to wait, howev-
er, until p. M, when the speaker of the
house took the chair. At this time the cham.
Der was packed to its utmost capacity. Fin
| ally, at 4:30 Gladstone arrived and his en-
trance was the signal for profound cheers
from all sides.
As soon as the cheering subsidized Gladstone
rose and moved for permission to introduce
make provision for the future government
of Ireland. On making the motion, Glad
stone said: You could wish that it had been
possible to expound to the house the whole
policy and intentions of the government
with reference to Ireland. We should no
longer fence or skirmish with the question.
We should come to close quarters with it
We should get at the root of it. We should
take means not merely intended for the
look into
THE DISTANT FUTURE.
We have arrived at stage in our politi ca
transactions with I Gland where the two
roads part, one from the other, not soon
probably to meet again. The time is come
when it is incumbent upon the duty and
the honor of parliament to come to some de-
cisive resolution on the matter. Our inten-
ton is, therefore, to propose to the COM
mons that which. if happily accepted will,
we think, iberate parliament from the re-
s.raints under which of late years it has in
effectually struggled to perform, and will
restore British legislation to its natural an
cient, unimpeded course, and above all es-
tablish harmonious relations between Great
free institutions to which Englishmen,
Scotchmen and Irishmen elike are unaltera-
bly, attached.
Mr.. Gladstone then reviewed the condi-
ton of Ireland since 1888, and described the
coercive legislation used during the same
period.
Coercion was admitted to have been fail
ure for the past fifty-three years, only
two of which had been wholly
free from repressive legislation
Scotland had never been denied the right to
make her own laws. The claim of Ireland
to make laws for herself was never denied,
continued Mr.. Gladstone, until the reign of
George III. They, (the government), were
not about to propose the repeal of the union.
1t was impossible to propose the repeal of
the union until they had settled what was
the essence of the union. He defined the
essence of the union to be the fact that
whereas before the union there we're two
separate and Independent parliaments, after
the union there was but one. To speak of the
ACKNOWLEDGMENT of TIE empire, was in this
century a misnomer and an absurdity.
The fault of the administrative system of
Ireland was that its spring, and source of
action was English. The government
therefore felt that the settlement of the ques-
ton was to be found by establishing par
lament in Dublin for the conduct of the
business of both a legislative and an admin
istrative nature. The political economy of
the three countries must be reconciied.
There should be
AN EQUITABLE Distribution
of imperial burdens. Next there must be a
reasonable safeguard for the minority, and
why could not this minority In Ireland take
care of itself. He had no doubt about it's
ability to do that when we have passed the
present critical period and been disarmed
of the jealousies with which amy change was
approached, but for the present there were
three classes of people whom they found to
consider. First, the class connected with
the land. Second, the civil servants and
officers of the governmental Ireland. Third,
the protestant minority.
The speaker said, IN passing to the plan OF
how 10 give ireland . legislatureto deal with
the 1fiGh a. distinguished from imperial
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