The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1886-06-25
GLADSTONE
A Stirring Manifesto from Eng
lands Prime Minister to the
Electors of Midlothian.
Cowardice of tho Conservatives In i.cfus-
ing to Deal with the CrisiS-A Warn
ing to Scotland.

80 ADS"A -
ing to Scotland,
LONDON, June 13.-!ir. Gladstone has
issued the following MAJ ifesto to the elect
ors OF Midlothian:
Gentlelnen: In consequence of the defeat
OF the bill for the better government OF
Ireland, the ministry advised, and her
majesty was pleased to sanction, the dis
solution of parliamentfora decision by the
nation OF the gravcst and likewise the SIM
piest issue that has been submitted to it
Tor hall II century. 1t is only Il sensc OF the
gravity OF this issue which induces me ut a
period OF life when nature cries aloud
for repos to seek, alter sitting in thirteen
parlia,nents, a seat in the fourteenth, and
wifi this view to solicit for the fifth time
the honor OF your confidence. At the las
election endcavored in my addresses aud
speeches to Impress upon you the Tact that
n great crisis had arrived in the affairs of
ireland. Weak as the late government WAS
Tor ordinary purposes, it had great advan.
tages Tor dealing with that crisis. A com.
prehensive measure proceeding from that
government would have received warm and
extensive support from within the Liberal
party, and would probably have closed tire
Irish controversy within the present session
and have LETT the parliament oil 1857 lrceto
prosecute the now %stagnant work OF ordi-
nary legislation, with the multitude of
questions it includes. My earnest hope
was to support the late cabinet in such a
course OF policy. On the 6th OF last Jan.
the opposite policy OF coercion was tieciur-
ed to have been the choice OF the govern
ment, the earl OF Carnarvon alone refusing
to share in it. The Irish question was
thus placed in the foreground to the cxclu-
sion OF every other. The hour as all felt.
was come. The only point remaining to
determine was the manner in which it Was
to be dealt with. In my judgment, the
proposal OF coercion was not justified by
iacts. and was doomed to certain and dis
graceful failure. Some method OF govern
ing Ireland other than coercion ougAt. nsI
thoueht,to be sought for and to be found,
therefore | viewed with regret the fall OF
the late cabinet, and when summoned by
her majesty to form a new onel undertook
it on the basis OF an
A~NTl-CoERCIoN POLICY
with the fullest explanations to thos,
whose aid ! sought as colleagues when |
proposed to examine whether it mi ,ht not
be possible to grant Ireland a domestic
legislature and maintain the honor and
consolidate the unity OF the empire. A
government was formed, and the work was
ut once put in hand. You will now gentle
men, understand how and why it is that
the affairs OF Ireland, and not for the first
time, have thrust aside every other sub.
lect and adjourn our hopes OF useful and
progressive legislation. As Il question OF
the first necessities Of social order it forces
itself into the run. The late cabinet,
though right in giving it that place, were,
as we thought, wrong in their manner OF
treating it. 1t WAS our absolute duty on
taking the government, il we did not adopt
their method, to propose another.
Thus, gentlemen. IL is that this
great and simple issue has come
upo you and demands your decision.
Will you govern Ireland by coercion orwill
you let Ireland manage her own affairs?
To debate in this address this and thatde.
tail OF the lately defeated bill would only
be to disguise this issue and would be as
futile as to discuss the ~haltins, stumbling,
and evershiiting and vanishing project Of
an Intermediate class which have pro-
ceedcd from seeding Liberals. There are
two clear, positive and ineligible plans he
fore the world. There is the plan OF the
government and there is the plan of Lord
Salisbury. Our plan is that Ireland could.
under we'll conditions, transact
her own affairs. His plan is tousk parlia-
ment to renew rcpressive laws and enforce
them absolutely for twenty years by the
end OF which time
HE ASSURES Us
Ireland will be fit to accept a.y govern.
ment in the way Of n local government on
the repeal oil the coercion laws you may
wish to give her. | leave this Tory project
to speak for itself in its unadorned simple
ity, and ! turn to the proposed policy OF
the government. Our opponents, gentle
men, whether Tories or seceders, have as
snmed the name OF Unionists. | deny them
the title to it. In intention, indeed, we are
unionists alike, but the union they refuse
to modify is, in its present shape, a paper
union, ordained by force and fraud, and
never sanctioned or accepted by the Irish
nation. They are not %unionists, but paper
u%nionists. 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
mcnt OF 1882. Eniranchised Ire
land. gentlemen, asks through her
lawful representatives for the revival other
domestic lcgislature-not, on the face OF it,
an l~nnovatins but Il restorative proposal.
She urges with truth that the centraliZa-
ton OF ~parliaments has been the division
OF people; hut she recognizes the fact that
the union, lnwlrssly as it vas obtained,
cannot and ought not to be repealed. She
is content to receive her legislature in IL
form Invested Of p~reroIatives which might
have impaired her imperial interests and
been better adapted than the settlement OF
1852 to secure to her regular control oil her
own affairs. She has not repealed, but las
welcomed the stipulations for the protec.
ton OF the minority. To such provisions
we have given and shall give careful heed.
but | trust Scotland will condemn the at
tcmpts so singularly made to import into
the controversy
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OF religious bigotry. Let her take warning
by the deplorable riots in Belfast and
otbpr pInrps in tho North Ap,nDu +lo
benefits, gentlemen, ! anticipate from your
acceptance OF our policy, are these: The
consolidation OF the united empire and
greater strength; the %stoppase ofthe heavy,
constant and demorlizing waste of the
public treasure; the abatement and grad.
ual extinction OF ignob! ieuds in Ireland,
and that Development OF her resources
which experience shows to be IL nat.
ural consequence Of free and orderly
government; the redemption OF the hon
or OF Great Britain from the stigma fastea-
ed upon her almost from time immortal in
respect to Ireland by the judgment Of the
whole civilized world; and lastly the re-
s%toration OF parliament to its dignity and
efficiency and the regular progress OF the
business OF the country. Well, gentlemen,
the first question I now put to you is how
shall Ireland be governed? There is an
other 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 CT Eng.
land and Scotland have been imped-
ed and your imperial parliament dis
credited and disabled. All this
happened while the N~ationalists were but
Il small minority OF the Irish members;
without support from SO much az a hand
full OF members not Irish. Now they ap.
proach ninety, and are entitled to say,
I'VE are speaking the views OF the Irish M
tom 1t is impossible to deal with this
subject by half measures, They are strong
in their numbers, strongin British support
which brought 3l3 members to vote for
their country, strongest of all in the sense
OF being right. But, gentlemen, we have
lone our part. the rest remains for you.