Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1886-10-27
DR.. AUBREY'S LECTURE.
The Home Rule Question Discussed by
an English Liberal at Inde-
pendence Hall.
How the Dublin Legislature Was
Brlbed Into Voting lis own
Extinction.
Important Events in the History Of
Ircland-IIOw the Liberals Lost
the July Election.

Il prominent English Liberal, on the sub
ject Of Home Rule for Ireland.
The Doctor began at once upon his sub
ject and kept close to it during the entire
lecture, everything he said being to the
point and more or less effectual.
He first spoke OF
THE WRONGS OF IRELAND
Told how her people had been kept down
for centuries past how they were robbed
OF their lands; how their manufactures
were destroyed, and how, when the
religious differences arose, the atroclous
penal code was enacted, imposing the
most savage penalties upon those who
dared to practice the old religion. The
Doctor gave q touching picture OF the
sufTerings OF this people, and showed
clearly how they had been lett with no
rights whatever, except the right to pay
taxes.
During ali the years prior to 1900, the
Irish had made repeated attempts to
shake off these expressions, but they were
beaten down and held as conquered
and subjugated people. Prior to the date
last mentioned, there had existed legis-
lature in Dublin 1t was Protestant
legislature, elected by the minority, and
was therefore not very great benefit to
the Irish people, but they did not care to
give it up. After repeated efforts to get
the body to vote its own extinction, Sir
William Pitt finally succeeded in the
year 1900 in getting the body to pass
THE ACT OF UNION.
The bill was passed by bribery, false
hood and corruption. a rebellion was
| 4 -. tl.n on
sent million and half pounds sterling
to buy off the members. To some OF
them money was no object, but these
we're given rank, and in this way, the
last OF them were conquered. For years
after the passage of that act, the cry OF
the Irish people was for the repeal OF the
| Union. In his time, Daniel O'Connell
was working for this repeal. The act OF
Union was carried by fraud, and Il curse
has seemed to hang over it from that day
to this The union thus effected has
been APPLY termed by Mr.. Gladstone, "a
paper union
COERCION ACTS,
Were thought necessary, and it is an as
founding fact, that in the eighty-six
wears since the Union, Ireland has been
only fourteen years without Il coercion
act 4 powerful army was found neces-
sary to keep them in subsection, and
there is to-day standing army OF 10000
men, besides $1,000 armed constables.
who are soldiers in everything but name.
The lecturer then spoke in justly strong
terms OF the accursed dynamite and an
archial factions, and showed how their
actions did them more harm than good.
eve in England" said the Doctor,
"mean to do the right, and we will not
do it one hour sooner for all the dynamite
they can scrape together
CATHOLIC EMANCIPATION.
Until the last year the Irish people
could not express their views articulately.
At the time of the Union they were
promised Catholic Emancipation. They
did not get it until 1929, and they got it
then because the Duke of Wellington de-
clared that the Government must choose
between that and civil war. But the act
which opened Parliament, the Bench,
and Civil Service to the Catholics, de-
prived the forty-shilling free-holders of
their votes and from that time until Mr..
Gladstone introduced his Franchise Bill
there were but 60 ,000electors in all Ire
land. The majority OF these could
scarcely be called independent. DIR. Au-
brey described the difficulties Mr.. Glad
stone had to encounter when he proposed
to extend the Franchise in Ireland which
had been excepted from the operation OF
previous measures enlarging the Fran
chise. As soon as they had the right to
speak articulately, the Irish people
elected eghty-fve of their one hundred
and three representatives to demand
Home Rule. He showed how absurd it is
to pretend that the people were coerced in
that case. Mr.. Gladstone, the whole
trend of whose mind for several years
previous was towards Home Rule as the
means OF establishing permanent peace
and amity between the two countries,
felt that the voice OF the Irish nation
should not be disregarded, and he intro
duced his two great measures-one foI
the better government OF Ireland, the
other to settle the land question perma-
nently on the principles of justice and
) right.
But the country at large was not pre-
pared to receive them. As Tom Carlisle
says in his own peculiar way "The pop
ulation OF Great Britain consists OF 27,-
600 600 people-mostly FOOLS For my
self, think it would have been better
had Mr.. Gladstone introduced his bill in
a little different way; for though it was
perfectly clear to him with all its minute
details, it was not clear to the people,
and many OF them ran away with wrong
idea OF il.
THE CARDINAL PRINCIPLES
Which Mr.. Gladstone laid down for the
framing OF these bills were
LIST. The Imperial unity OF the Empire.
I'd. The political equality of the three ma
tions.
Sd. The establishment of basis of equal
ity of taxation.
4th. That the right of the minority should
be protected.
9TH. That the proposed measures were to
be a complete and final solution of the vexed
questions.
The bill was lost on its second reading
in the House by a coalition OF parties,
the majority being 1871 of whom were
Liberals, and some OF whom We're Radi-
Gals.
lie then spoke OF the great difference
i'll Gladstone's majority at the November
and July elections, and attributed it
simply to the false election cry raised by
the Tories.
THE CHURCH IN DANGER"
Was one Of their cries, and the Doctor
showed how utterly absurd this was He
spoke OF the threats that had been made
by the Orangemen and OF how they had
died out; also, OF the threats that they
are now making in their bitter enmty to
Catholicism, and showed how these must
die out without bloodshed
\ more potent cry was that OF separa-
ton. Mr.. Gladstone's measure did not
mean separation or even repeal OF the
Union. 1t would give the Irish Legisla-
ture power to deal only with affairs eXclu-