New-York tribune., 1886-05-02
THE HOME RULE CRISIS.
THE DEBATE-MR GLADSTONE-Tli PRO
TESTS-THE PROSPECTS.

effort of oratory than the speech In WHICH ho oP
the same debate. No longer fettered by the neces
sitv of setting forth mutltudinous details he SpoNo
with such passion and power as he-and fe" beside
him-can show at his best. or almost DIS ocs'' ~
suits him we'll to sum mp debate, and never 80
we'll as when the debate has gone heavily against
him He has had the whole weight of TINS oh us
Angle pair of shoulders Not one OF ms coIieaso'
has liehtened the burden. Mr.. John M"'l''' Wv"
his imagination oppressed by drea" =" u9 "'
England and a reign of terror IN Ireianu' ""'''''
To an astopished ii ouse of Commons one lohg appV
to their timidity. Sir William Harcour' Is 'he
other member of the Government who has spoken
lie made one of the most amusing and least enec-
five specches ever heard in Parliament. OF other
helm Mr. Gladstone has had none, or next TO none
The one individual to whose voice, among the lew
which have been raised III defence of the bill. the
House listens with respect is Mr.. Whitbread.
doubt whether his name even is known to you IN
America but here he is person OF authority OH
oncstions of Parliamentary procedure. Mt Olan-
stone grateful for small mercies pronounced Ar.
Whtbread's speech wise and weighty one. Inc
chief feature of ii was suggestion Iha'' IL 'uo
nrcsent scheme does not work. the Irish members
might. after a while. return to Westminster.
There is not much to be grateful for IN that.
Against this poor contri button from the Minis
tcria ranks have to be set the speeches OF ME-
Trevelyn Mr.. Chamberlain, Lord Haltlhgtoh'
Lord Randolph Churchill. and Mr.. Goschen; All OF
the first order. Mr.. Gladstone certainly did not at
tempt during the hour he occupied last night 10
meet in detail the arguments which All MS eN-
colleagues and his Ministerial assailant had brought
AGAINST his proposal But he dealt with the gener-
alities of the situation and he disclosed far more
fully than before the temper the bent OF his own
mind the spirit in which he has Approached 'his
question. 1t extraordinary: It's generosity Is
beyond dispute. but study of its lnliuehce OH INC
country will be one of the most instructive studies
on which anybody can enter
Mr. Gladstone now talks as OConnell mlehl
have talked. In the fervor OF his advocacy Vi
his own bill. he is the lawyer who Identifies
himself with his client. lie is not merely the
advocate of Ireland he has become an Irish
man: he is more Irish than the Irish themselves
Uccannot find words enOugh for euOgy of the irish
character-Irish landlords excepted. If he had his
own way he would cucumber his bill with no SAFE
gu ards for minorites. 1t is only the mstrust that
Others entertain of Irish purposes which 0Dhgcs
him to take neutrality-suspicious. whlch GER
tanv are far from being of character to interfere
seronsv with the free lom of Irish action once the
new Parliament is set mp in Dnblin. lie expresses
an opinion of IIsh landlords singulaTly at varl-
ance with the opinion Of not many months ago
He now thinks the miseries Of Ireland due to tho
the history of ireland. lamentabe and deplorabe
as it is is disgracefu to those VINO brought about
the course of events. The "whOle relation be-
tween those who owned the land and those who
occupied il is dlsgraceful: to the owner. III Is
history of "abomnatons." Last year it was Mr..
Gladstone's opinion that, though there were bad
Irish landlords. the majority of Irish landlords
were good were conSidcrate and just III Their
dealings with their tenants. What newly dis
covered evidence has occasioned this revolution IN
lis mind he does not say.
Nor has any Parnellite in his widest moments
described coercion in terms more likely to bring
hatred upon the law than the terms Mr.. Gladstone
now EMPLOYS. The measures which Parliament
passed for hepreservation or restoration of social
order in Ireland arc now, in Mr.. Gla lstones mind
measures of violence ard repression. Cries OF pro-
test against this singular phrase rang ont from all
over the House, and he changed the word violence
to force but the first word shows what was III his
mind. Less than year ago his own Ministry was
ready TO renew the essential parts of these meas
nrcs of violence. 1t is possible to travel far IN
year and few longer journeys have ever been done
in a shorter time than Mr. Gladstones.
If comment on a speech the substance and per-
hans the very words of which you read in
America as soon do here. 1t IS because 1t may
read differently in different surroundings Ii sup
The policy of the Government is to be collected
from it, and the inspiration of that policy. Men
read 1t here by the fierce light of the circun-
,tanccs: circumstances which, as Mr.. Gladstone
himself has said. have put pressure on hlm
preater than ever before on any statesman within
his memory of fifty years Deep down in his nlind
so deep that he is unconscious of its eXistence-
lies determination to make ali other solutions
than his own of the Irish problem impossible. You
shall give Ireland Home Rule, and Home Rule after
my pattern or woe be INTO you Never can yOu
put back the hands of the clock to where they were
when this debate began In his words, the
House stood at the parting of two ways, not soon
10 meet again. And Mr.. Gladstone has left little
unsajG which could carry the minds of Englishmen
md Irishmen further and further apart should
they take any other road thln his. Therefore is it
that Mr. Morley with his rhetorical magic-lantern
flashes before the House the spectre of assasslna-
ton, the CHASTITY image OF an Ireland OF tho Tut
ure without Home Rule, in blood and flames and
anarchy.
Therefore is IT that Mr. Gladstone. with n stub
born courage which can only be called magnificent.
puts his back against the wall and deles the world
81 say the bill holds the field 1t has maLy
enemies il has not q single rival"
In the spendor of this 0utburst men forgot for n
moment what they believed Sir. Gladstone had
come down to the House for on this Tuesday even
ing. The bill. the debate inside the House, the
wide discussion outside. had reused throughout the
country ervOr of hostility to the proposal seldom
shown against any measure whatever. 1t
was known that ii had not a chance Of becom-
Ing law unless modified. There were two points on
which every body agreed. The Irish members, or
some of them, must be kept at Westminster and the
fiscal proposals must be Reconstructed Mr. Glad
stone said his friends. would give way on these
two points Well, to certain extent he may be
said to have given way. Last Thursday he said
that the exclusion of the Irish members at West
minister. and the assumption of customs and excise
by England. vital and essential conditions Of
bis scheme Now he says he used these epthets."
vital and essential if lie did use them by nadvert
Lie Anes not abandon hls Ictinn that his