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Gladstone's Sfanifesto-IIe Compares Iiis
Own Proposed Legislation for ireland
with Saiisbhry's,
LONDON, June i4.-tlr Gladstone has
issued the following manifesto TO the
sles,ers Of Midlothian:
GENTLEMEN: til e6t,seateuce Of the defeat
Of the bill for the better government ~ Ire
land the Ministry advised and her Majesty
&.s pleased TO sanction the dissolution OF
Parliament, fof ACCESSION by the Nation OF
the gravest and iikewisa the simplest issue
that has been submitted to It for half
century. 1t is only sense OF the Sfas'ty
OF this issue which induces me, at q period
IT fe when nature cries aloud Tor reposc'
safk ii a hs f fa n aa Wt th.s view
to solicit for the fifth tine the honor of yohf
confidence. At the last election e1-
dcayored in my addresses aud speeches
crisis hsd arrived in the affairs of Ireland.
weak rs ti.s late Governments was for ordin-
airy purposes; il had great advantages for
dealing with that cfisis 4 comprehensive
measure proceeding from that Government
Would have received warm and extensive
SUPPORT from within the Liberal party and
would probably have closed the IRISH cOntr0-
versy within the prest!ft session, and have
left the Parliament of 1885 free 70 prosecute
the now stagnant work of ordinary lsgisln-
ton with the multitude OF questions 1t in
tlU1cs. Ny earnest hope was to support the
late cabinet *: s9eh course of policy. On
the 18th of last January ths. Opposite policy
of coercion was declared to hate been the
choice of the Government, the Earl OF Car
narvOn alone refusing to share in it. The
Irish question was thus placed in the
foreground, to the exclusion of every
bthef The hour, DIS all felt was come. The
only point remaining TO determine wac the
manner in which 1t was to be dealt with. In
nil hon hOar0NT1 mot
justified by facts and was DOOMED to certain
and disgracefu failure. Some method OF
governing Ireland other than coercion ought,
as thought; ~ he sought for and to be found.
Therefore, viewed Without regret the fall of
the late cabinet, and when sHtjinfOnsd by her
Majesty to form new one took 1t ON the
basis ef anti-cOerciOh policy, with the full
explanations to those whose aid l sought as
colleagues. When / Proposed to examine
whether it might not he possible to- grant
Ireland a domestic legislature and maintain
the honor and consolidate the unity or the
empire, government was formed and
the work was ut once put in hand:
You will now, gentlemen, understand
how and why it is that the affairs of
Ireland, and not for the first time. have thrust
aside every other subject and adjourned our
hopes of useful and progressive legisla-
ton. AS Il quest on of the first necessities
of social order, it forces itself into the van.
The late cab net. though right in giving 1T
that place; were, as VIC thought, wrong in
the manner bf treating it. 1t was our absO-
lutte duty OH taking the Government. if we
Id not adopt their method. to propose
another. Thus, gentlemen. it IS That this
great and simple issue has come upon you
and demands your decision. Will you govern
Ireland by coercion or will you let Ireland
manage her own affairs! 10 debate IN
lately defeated bill, would only be to
disguise this issue and would be as
futile as to discuss the hating, stumbling:
eyer.shift;ng and ever-vanishing projects of
n, inf nd MFR elias which have nrOcpoded
from the seeding Liberals. There are two
clear, possible and INTEL gble plans before
the world: There is the plan of the Govern
inert, and there is the plan OF Lord sails;
considered conditions, transact her own ar
fairs. His plan is to ask Parliament to renew
fepressivc laws and enforce them rcsOlutely
for twenty years, by the end of which time.
he assures US, Irei1td will be fit to accept
any government. or the repeal Of the coer'
c on laws you may wish to give her. leave
this Tory project to speak for itself in its I'M
adorned simplicity, and 1 turn to the pro,
posed policy Of the Government Our Oppo-
hcnts, gentlemen, whether Tories or Secedecs.
have assumed the name of Unionsts. i
ton, indeed, we are ali Unionists alike, but
the union they refuse to modify is IN ITS
present shape paper Union obtained by
force and fraud and never sanctioned or ac-
cepted by the Irish nation. They are not
hnionsts but paper uniOnists. True union is
to be tested by the sentiments OF the human
beings united Tried by this criterion we
have less union between Great Britain and
Ireland now than we had under tho settle
ment of l1S2. Enfranch;sed Ireland, gentle
men, asks through her lawful representa-
tiveS for the revival OF her domestic leg: sla-
ture not on the face Of it an innovatng but
that the Capitalization of parliaments has
been the divisions of peoples, but she recOg-
nZes the fact that the union. lawlessly as
it was obtained. can not and ought not to be
1n6 iS
Legislature in form Invested of prerOga-
tives which might have impaired her impe-
rial interests aud better adapted than the
settlement of l1S2 to secure to her regular
control of her own affairs. She has not re-
PEELED, but has welcomed, the stipulations
for the protection of the minority. To such
provisions we have given and shall give care
ful heed, but trust Scotland will condemn
the attempts so singularly made to import
into the controversy venOmOuS element OF
religi Gus bigOtry. Let her take warning by
places in the north. Among the benefits,
gentlemen, anticipate from your ac-
ceptance of our policy are these: The
consolidation of the united empire and great
additions to its strength. The stOppage OF
the heavy, constant and demoralizinx waste
of the public treasure. The abatement and
gradual extinction of ignOble reuds IN Ire
land. and that development of her resources
which experience shows to be Il natural con-
sequence of free and orderly government.
The redemption of the honor of Great Britain
from the stigma fastened upon her almost
from time mmemOria in respect to Ireland
by the Judgment of the whole civilized
world, and lastly, the restoration of Par
lament to its dignity and efficiency, and
the regular progress of the business of the
country. Well, gentlemen. the first question
now put to you is, how shall ireland be
governed? There ia another question behind
it and involved in it, how are England and
Scotland to be governed? You know how for
the last six years, especially the affairs of
England and Scotland have been impedcd
and your imperial Parliament dis
credited and disabled. All this hap
pened while the Nationalist were but a small
minority of the Irish members without sup
port from so much as Il handful o: members
not Irish. Now they approach ninety and are
entitled to say. I'VE are speaking the views
of the Irish nation.
1t is impossible to deal with this subject by
half measures. They are strong in their
numbers. strong in British support, which
brought 213 members to vote for their cOun-
try; strongest of all in the sense of being
right. But, gentlemen, we have done our
part. the rest remains for you. Electors of
the country may you be enabled to see
through and cast away all decisions, refuse
evil and choose good. / have the honor to
be. gentlemen, your faithful and Obedient
servant, w. E. GLADSTONE.
Irish Riots.