The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-06-19

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upon political equality, embrace an
equitable distribution OF imperial
burdens, aud a reasonable safeguard
to the minority to afford any rational
prospect Of being accepted ss a settle
ment Of the question. Nobody ques-
tions those conditions. They are I'D
mitted to be Just and rational. The
principle has been reite Grated over and
again. II is now idle to say that the
country will be asked to vote on the
details of the bill.
THE BILL Is DzAp WITH PARLIAMENT
[Cheers The principle Of the bill
survives. LOUD cheers. l will never
be guilty OF promising to you without
reflection new plan to give effect to
the principle. / never will accept a
new plan unless believe II 10 be let.
ter than the old one. i have been
grievously disappointed at the barren
ness aud sterilty OF mind the critics
have shown concerning our plan, when
they have raised objections. The last
thing they have shown themselves
competent to co has been to suggest
improvement. [Cheers. Perhaps
they thought they would not
waste the treasures of their minds on
such en- Improbable audience as the
government Perhaps wheu they are
returned to Parliament, such of them
as get there laughter will produce
one or more excellent plans. They
will find us the first and most eager
to bail and welcome them and we will
promise in the names of our colleagues
to cast our own bill to the winds the
moment we are shown better plan 10
give effect to our principles, prov ded
it IS not an evasion OF the subject or
artificial machinery devised to
DEFRAUD THE IRISH OF THEIR HOPE OF
JUSTICE.
Ministerial candidates must not be
tested by the bill we introduced in
Parliament, because it was the best
we could frame Doubtless they are
better men than we, and if SO they
will frame a much better bill or put us
in way OF doing it, and if they do
this they will not be more happy than
we, perhaps not quite 30 happy. The
Scotsman Gays: Every ministerialist
must be considered pledged to support
the bill. He can hardly be pledged to
support the bill as ministeIi-
alist when the Ministry itself don't
ask or expect it. We expect
him to act in good faith, knowing the
meaning Of his words and not using
Others as ieints, screens or stratsgems
to escape from it, but shall, in the
meaning OF lis words, give Ireland
real and effective control Of local
affairs. II he is ready to do that he is
a good ministerial candidate. II he
pledges himself to do that let him
speak by the hour or yard, if he likes,
to the satisfac ion OF ScotChmen, against
the defects,
WEAKNESS AND FoLLIEs OF THE BILL.
What the nation has to decide is
not a clause, detail or the method of
the bill, but the olicy aud principle
embodied therein. He who accepts
them is our brother in arms; he who
repels them shirks them and uses fic-
titious means to falsify them, and is
an adversary in the fight whom we
must, without injury to his life, limb
or reputation, endesvor to defeat l
read in London that Scot and was
doubtful or adverse to home rule. l
answered that l did not
believe it. [Cheers.l 1 hoped for
an oppor unity to test it,
and ! saw enough in my progress yes
terday to show me that the heart of
Scotland is moe deeply and pro
foundry touched than Scotland's will,
and that Scotland was never more
bent on work Of policy and justice
than it is 10 accomplish the present
enterprise. load cueeis Regarding
the
CARNARvo N.PARNELL INCIDENT,
l blame neither 1t is extremely i'm.
portant to know what happened. Mr..
Parnell ssid that Earl OarEsrvon Of
Tered, If the Conservatives were cue.
cessful in the elections, to grant home
rule MEASURES and ID protect Irish in
dustries. Earl CarnsTvon denied the
accuracy OF this statement, but Mr..
Psrnell sdheTs 10 it / believe that
both have spoken with perfect verac-
ity, whatever may be the point OF dis
pute between them. But Earl Car
narvon has told us what he did not
say. He said he did not report
the conversation to the Cabinet.
Earl Carnarvon explained his views
as Lord Lieutenant and as a
Cabinet Minister, Lord Csrnsrvon told
bis colleagues that he favored a plan
that would meet the wants Of Ireland
in respect to local self-government,
and would to some extent satisfy the
national aspiration. Lord CarnGrvon
may dislike it, but, in substance, he is
our mao, not theirs, II he is ready to
meet the wants of Ireland for local
self-government disturbance and cries
OF "turn them out" and also in some
degree to satisfy the national aspira-
tons Of Ireland. There is no loom
for dispute between him and US.
THE MARQUIS OF HARRINGTON
and Mr.. Chamberlain carefully avoid
ed expressing readiness to satisfy in
some degree the national aspirations
OF Ireland. This aud no other is the
turning point These are Lord Car
natvon's opinions and this is what he
said, but l call his attention, and shall
call it repeatedly, il necessary, to
what he did not say. He has not
stated what he did say to Mr.. Parnell.
l shall believe, until he contradicls,
that he told Mr.. Parnell he favored
satisfying the wants OF Ireland fully
with regard to local self-government,
and that he desired to ea,isiy Ire
lands national aspirations. Why did
not the Cabinet expel this disunionist
for his misdetds? For the fact that
they were sorry to lose himl / be-
lieve Earl CArnsrvon's statement that
he never told the Cabinet, but l feel
sure he told Earl Salisbury because it
was his absolute duty and because he
was not emitted to make such a state
ment to Mr.. Parnell and withhold it
from the Premier. II he did 30 we
know that Earl Salisbury, until
August, knew that his colleague was
in communication with the great dis
intsgrator" and "dismemberer." / do
not find fault with Earl Salisbury If he
entertained q wish in the same direc.
ton IS Earl Carnarvon-I think 1t
very wise OF Earl Saliabury. The