Morning journal and courier., 1886-07-02
News by Telegraph
FROM ALL QUARTERS.
Home RULE In IRELAND.
First Fruits Of The
Elections.
CONGRESS HARD AT WORK.
The Debt Reduction During
June.
MARVELLOUS WORK BY HENDEE,
Harvard's Splinter Again
Smashing Records.
MARVELLOUS WORK BY HENDEE.
Harvard's Splinter Again
Smashing Records.
THE CAMPAIGN I'm IRELANn

| John Bright Makes a Plea Against
Gladstone's Sch eme For Home Rule.
LONDON, July lin an address to the
electors OF Birmingham tonight John Bright
| made an exhaustive explanation of his rea-
| sons for refusing to support Mr.. Gladstones
home rule measures. He was received with
great enthusiasm. His address, as usual,
was mastery. He said that though the time
for his retirement from the arena of politics
was near-having seen twenty nine years.
service in the house-he must in the present
crisis remain at the front. Mr.. Bright said
while he had always been alongside of Mr.
Gladstone, he was not follower of the Pre-
mier. He claimed that he had been the
foremost figure in imploring the successive
governments to deal with Ireland It was
because his sympathy was undiminished
that he could not accept the governments
proposal He said he would never have es-
if the Premier had left any
way open for him to support
the Irish bills. The recitals by the
Liberal orators of Ireland's ancient history
he said were inconsequential. The history
OF every country is replete with dismal rec
ords. He commented severely upon the Pre-
mier's propositions for an Irish parliament
OF government was to preserve property
and to secure public order. Mr.. Gladstone's
proposals did not point at doing this, but
were step forward in the march of rapine
to the establishment of the king
dom. Amongst the complaints of Ireland
absenteeism. It would probably be found
that when the landlords had gone that the
happy days of conspiracy had come; that the
garrison of England had been driven out and
that the new Irish nation left to its growing
calamities would give the question of paying
rents but little attention. The Parnellite
theories have opposed the payment of rents.
The British government, he said, as land
lord would be universal absentee.
Mr. Bright agreed with Mr.. Gladstone that
if the governments bill had passed it would
have been absolutely impossible for the Par
nellite members to have remained in West
minister. We know that the greater number
of the present Irish members are paid from
donations across the Atlantic (hissesl by
avowed enemies of England. Mr.. Glad
stones idea of the occasional presence of toe
Irish members in Westminster suggested
sort Of intermittent Irish fever in Parlia-
ment, 80 astonishing and ludicrous that,
PEELED to think the Premier had
lost his head. We have heard
much about this Dublin parliament as COM
pared with Grattan's, which died from its
corruption in bottomless rottenness. Graf
tan's parliament was more free than Glad
stones, which when examined carefully
would be found to be only vestry and
would be constantly beating against the bars
of its cage striving to become an absolute
parliament. Two million people in Ireland
were opposed to the governments plan.
Should we consent to a resolution at the bid |
ding of one-twelfth of the people of
the kingdom, submitting thirty three
million people to the results |
of great revolutionary scheme under the |
demand of three millions? England was |
equally interested with Ireland was bound to |
protect those Irish subjects opposing this |
scheme of revolution. England would never |
to the surrender of the Irish loyalists |
to the Irish parliamentary party, half of |
whose pocket money was subscribed |
by enemies of England in America. |
Mr.. Bright suggested that instead of |
Mr.. Gladstone's plan a permanent committee |
exclusively of Irish members be |
formed and bills affecting Ireland after hav- |
ing passed their first reading be referred to |
this committee which would have special |
place of meeting. The committee would ap |
point its own chairman and would De en- |
powered to decide upon the acceptability of |
bills. The House would only have power |
to consider an Irish measure upon the report |
Of the committee. This was single plan and |
depended upon the honest working of |
The combined Irish party in the House of |
Commons. If Irishmen are not loyal neither |
this nor the plan proposed by the govern |
nent would be successful, but it should at |
east be tried before the country capitulated |
TO one of the worst conspiracies with which |
any country was ever afflicted.