The Irish standard., 1886-09-04
TWO ELOQUENT SPEECHES.
Gladstone and Parnell Declare that
ireland Must Be Legislatively
Independent.
pARNELL's POWERFUL SPEECH.

Mr., Gladstone Reads the Tories Lesson on
Parliamentary Usage and Critloizes
Their Irish Policy.
AIr Parnell made a forcible speech in
the House Of Commons on Thursday
night Of last week. He was loudly
cheered on rising to resume the debate
on the address in reply to the Queens
speech. He said he believed dat if the
country had been given three more
weeks to consider the home rule Dill
the Tories would not now be seen in
stalled on the treasury bench. The
irish Party have every reason to be sat-
isie0 with the present position. "A
majority Of the Liberal party has de-
e}ared III favor of Irish autonomy
The Tories have only proiited from
Temporary Liberal hesitation, After
the present government had exhibited
themselves for a year or SO, a spectacle
for God aud man, in an attempt TO
govern Ireland, Liberal hesitation
would vanish. The Irish have every
reason to have patience. Theirs was
the winning cause If the government
srnaehes were intended to exasperate
Ireland, they would fail to have that
effect. ut the same time there would
he considerable difficulty with the rent
question. lie regretted that the gov
ernnent had not appreciated the gray
jty Of the situation. The royal conf
mission would be unable to report until
ine. pinch OF winter was over. 1t The sys~
te,u ofdual ownership was to be replac-
e(l by system of single ownership
there would DO a risk to the English
taxpayer. Mr. Parnell said he had only
agreed to The adoption Of this land per-
chase act OF 1855 because he then be-
Iieyed thaU a. settlement of the
national question would come con-
currently, and because the <-onser-
vative government had sent to
ireland Lord Garnarvon, who was an
avowad Homo n,iler. Now the condi-
tlons were entirely changed. ,Ar Glad
Ns'""
stoue's' purchase scheme would nave
safely settled the land question. EY-
ary pailnY os
,cay, PRINCIPAL AND INTEREST
cc,zld have been collected through the
customs and excise duties, and the
yaroev would have been rs safe as the
Ba,1k Of England. II the government
thought Of solving the Irish question,
without settling the land question,
II would find that it had got hold Of the
Wong end Of {, very thorny stick. The
government; must reduce rents either
at the expense Of the landlords or at
expeoss of tie British taxpayer. MI.
parnei! denounced the dishonesty OF
attempting to stimulate Irish indus
tries by liberal aoses OF English public
z0ouey. lie said the Irish people bit
ter}y refused to sell their rational
birthright for the mess OF poJtage
which the government offered. The
Way to develop the resources of Ireland
was to allow the Irish to develop them
themselves. They did not want an IN
flux OF capital, For there was plenty OF
that in Ireland. They wanted to~be al
lowed to help themselves. The govern
uel5 allowed the irish to build harbors,
drain, land and generally develop the
resources of the country when they did
not allow the Irish to reap the profit.
The Irish party repudiated the pro-
posed fraud on the British taxpayer.
Let the government, which obtained
Office by misrepresentation-he would
not say ]ying-pursue their own Way,
a,,d establish wholesale systom Of
bribery and corruption. MIR. Parneli
here read his amendment to the ad-
dress. and proceeded. He said that the
judicial rents We're too high. lie &C
cused the government of encouraging
landlords to eyict by the wholesale,
knowing that agraria1t crime always
followed eviction. Why did tenants,
submitting to moonlight raids, refuse
TO give eyidenca3 Because, taking
Kerry As an example, the tenants knew
that but for moonlight raids Lord KEN
mare would not leave
A ROOF oy1E THE HEADS
of his tenants. The Irish would be pa
tient. but the indictments held cut by
landlords who tried to exact impossible
rents would bear fruit, and might pro-
duce exasperation. The landlords
would clamor for coercion aud force the
government to adopt coercive mea-
s,lres. Yet he believed that coercion
would come, and very severe coercion,
too; coercion that would not stop at
criminals, but attack political op-
ponents. If he might offer a asugges-
ton, he would urge that judicial ten
ancies should be fixed at three years In
stead Of fifteen years, and that there
should be a revision Of rents in accord
ance with prevailing prices. In S con-
sclusion, he said: IT he Irish will never
al