Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-06-14
GLADSTONE'S LAST FIGHT
THE GRAND OLD MAN AGAIN
CALLS ON MIDLOTHIAN.

LONDON. June 13.-Ex-Premier Glad
stone has Issued the following manifesto
tothe electors of Midlothian:
GENTLEMEN In consequence of the defeat
ofths oil for the better government OF Ire
land the Ministry advised and Her Majesty
was y eased to sanction a dissolution of Par
lament for a decision by the nation of the
lrayost and likewise the simplest issue hat
I'm. been submitted u it for half a century.
II is only sense of the gravity of this issue
winch induces me, at period OF life when
nature cries aloud for repOse, to seek. after
sitting in thirteen Parliaments, a
scat in the fourteenth, and with
tins view to solicit for the ffth time the honor
of your confidence. AT the last election | en-
deayored IN my addresses and speeches to i'm
press upon you the fact that great crisis had
arrived in the affairs of Ireland. Weak as
the late government was for ordinary pur-
poses, 1t baa great advantages for dealing
with that crisis. The comprehensive mea .ure
proceeding from that government would have
received warm and extensive support from
within the Liberal party, and would probably
have closed the Irish controversy within the
presen tssessiOn and have left the Parliament of
1885 free to prosecute the now stagnant work
OF ordinary legislation with the multitude OF
questions it includes. My earnest hope was
|, support the late Cabinet in such a course Of
policy. On Jan. last the opposite policy Of
coercion was declared TO have been the choice
OF the government, the Earl of Carnarvon alone
refusing toshare ia 10. The Irish question was
thus placed in the foreground to the exclusion
Of every other. The hour, as all felt, was
come. The only point remaining to determine
was the manner in which 1t was to be dealt
with. In my Judgment the proposal of cOer-
zion was not justified by facts and was
doomed to certain and dtsgraeeful
failure. Some method of government Ire
land other than coercion ought, as
thought to be sought for and 20 lie fosund
Therefore | viewed with regret the fall Of the
late Cabinet, and when summoned by her
Y In ar m "A nn |
the basis of an autl-cOerciOn pOllcF, with the
fullest explanation to those whose aid l
sought as colleagues when proposed to eX
anime whether IT. might be possible to grant
Ireland a domestic Legislature ami maintain
The bonOr and consolidate the unity Of the en-
pre- The government was formed and the
work as at once putin hand. You Will now.
geutiemen, understand how and why 1t
- that the affairs OF Ireland,
aud not for the first time, have
ihrust aside every other subject and ad-
ulued our hopes Of useful and progressive
e,siati0n. A. a question Of the first neces
10, of social order IL forces itself iniO tae
IAN The late Cabinet, though right in giving
% hat Dace were. as We thOught, wrong IN
llrlr manner of treating il. IL was an aDsO-
late duty on taking the government If we did
uOt aGopt their method to propose another.
Thu, gentlcmen, it IS that this great aud sim
Ole issue mas come upon you and demands
iour decision. VIII you govern Ireland by
coercion or will you let Ireland manage her
)wu anarsY
tail Of the lately defeated bill would only be
iOdl guise tins issue ami would be as futile
as 10 discuss the hating. stumbling, ever
shifting and ever-yanishing projects of an
Intermediate class which have prOceede q
lrem the Eecediug Liberals. There are two
clear. positive and inte1gible plans before the
world. There Is the plan Of the government
and there Is the plan OF Lord
salisbury. Our plan is that Ireland
should, under well considered lndltions,
transact her own affairs His plan Is to ask
.fF
force them reselutely for twenty years. by the
cad OF v hich time, he assures US. Ireland will
be III to accept any government IN the way of
local government or repeal of the coercion
laws you may wish TO give her. l leave tins
Tory project TO speak for itself in its un-
adorned simplicity. and turn To the proposed
policy Of the government. Our oppo-
nents. gentlemen, whether Tories or seceders.
have assumed the name OF Unlonists. l deny
them title TO it. In lnten tiOn, indeed. we are
all UniOnsts alike, but the union, by refusal
TO modify Is, IN its present shape, a paper
union, obtained by force and fraud and never
sanctioned or accepted by the Irish nation.
They are not Unionists, but paper Unionists.
True union is 10 be tested by the sentiments
Of human beings united. Tried by this coer-
ciOn we have less union between Great Britain
and ireland now than we had under the set
Element Of 1892. Enfranchised Ireland,
gentlemen, asks, through her lawful
representatives, for revival OF her domestic
legislature, no. on the face of it an innovat-
ing but restorative proposal. ehs urges
menls has been division of the peoples. but
she recognizes the fact that the union, law
lessly It was obtained, cannot and ought
no TO be repealed. Sne Il content TO receive
her Legislature IN form divested of pTerOg-
atiyes Which ght have impaired her impe-
rial interest, and better adopted than the
settlement ot l1Se to secure to her regu-
lar control Of her own affairs.
She has not repelied but has welcomed stipu-
laions for the projection OF the minority. TO
such provisions we have given and shall give
careful heed; but trust Scotland will con-
0tmn the attempts 80 slngularly made TO i'm
part INTO the controversy the venOmous ele-
meDt of religious bigOtry. Let her take warn
ing by the deplOrabie riots in Belfast aud
other places in the north. Among the beue-
Its, gentlemen. l anticipate from your ac-
ceptance OF our policy are these: ConsOlida-
Ton Of the united empire and great
addition to its strength; stOppage Of the
heavy, constant and demOralizing waste
OF public treasury; abatement and gradual
extinction Of the ignOble feuds in Ireland, and
lhat Development of her resources which eX-
Itreuce shows To be natural consequence
OF nee and orderly government: redcm ptlun
OF the honor OF Great Britain from the Stigma
laHleued upon her almost from time immemO-
fiaI; M respect 20 Ireland by the judgment OF
the whole civilized world; and lastly the
restoration OF Parliament 20 its dignity and
smclencY and regular progress or the business
Jt the country. Wei. gentlemen, the first
question / now put TO you is how shall Ireland
9egJverueiy ~ There Is another question be-
llhd % and involved in 1t. How are England
.nl scot ami TO he COVER ed Z You know how
.nr lhe last six years especially the anairs or
england and Scotland have been impeded and
your imperial Parliament discredted ana
uhauled. All tns happened while the Ma
'phail-ts were bat small minority OF the
lilsh members without support from 80 much
a' hauuiuiiuf members, not irish. Now they
Apro1ch ninety and are entitled 10 say: we
gre speaking the views Of the irish nation"
10 l- inipO s.iDe TO deal with this subject by
hili measures. They are strong IN their
nlmorrs, strong iu British support. which
brought BIB members TO vote for their
country, strongest OF an In the sense Oi being
'Ehl' But. gentlemen, we have done our
LNt}. The reese remains fUF Won. Electors OF
,"t fouutry. may you be enabled 10 sec through
NNI rtst away all decisions, refuse the cfll
aNl choose thc good. have the honor TO he,
t...itmeu, your faithful ana grateful scr-
"Ai' W. 4. GLApaTONL.
CAUSE or THE DEFEAT.
The statist attributes Mr.. Gadstone's
'Ieat On the nome rule bill to bis negl CT
w ldke nls colleagues into his confidence,
eun urges him 30 c0nccde something u
y. disaentient Liberals, as the party, be-
,t spill into three sections, runs the risk
'l " ftafe electoral disaster.
'f Wiiired Bi0unthas announced 10 the
Ndlonai League Of Liverpool that be II
N' loneer Conservative and that be Will
rport home rule 10 the utmost Of bis
t1ilily.
LABOR MANfFEsTO.
joseph Arch and Joseph Leicester Lib
.'l uemhors ~ the House ~ Commons,
nflali Of ihe labor element iu the
ia'i nave signed amanlf sto nddffssel