River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1886-06-10
BLAINE ON THE HOME RULE CUES
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A s-home rule" meeting was nee ia Port
land. Maine. a few days ago, at which Mr..
{ Blaine was the leading speaker. His utter
ancas did not attract great deal OF attsn-
tiou until the cable, the next day brought
/ the furious onslaught on the speech by the
leading English papers. Since then the
public have been a good deal interested 20
read what has SO stirred up their transat-
lanti. c1GSirs. We accordingly give lIber
. a. extracts. Mr.. Blaine ives introduced by
+ Gov R.Li. and said;
Di.rc i after Inc publication ofthis meet
uz received letter from a venerable
cl.Izen 10 IN adjacent county asking me TO
ex..i-iu. just what the Irish question j..
appreciate the question, or rather | appre-
cfate MS request; for, in a question that
ca.ls forth 50 much sympathy and senti-
fs5eat ua the part Of the world at arge, and
f vet ,vukes SO iauca opposition among
7 IEpse e. hu are directly Interested, there
may he danger If not giving attention
enough 10 the simple elementary facts Of
the case. Now, what Is home rule. Why,
. il Is = hat every State aud Territory If the
Y JlI.ed States completely q. Joys-aud il
? l. whct Ireland does nos enjoy. Ia a pariia-
fupuE az tis~ members Great Britain has 5l}
. af.l Ireland Las lu3. and except with tine
4 consent Of THAT Parliament. Ireland cannot
4 or.au - 4 pas company laughter or a
. b,r-rrsi.rp company or ferry over a
r stream U.u;eTl-Or DO The slightest
E thug Iuat implies legislative power Vow,
+ suppose We bring ttat home aud the state
IL Name should be linked with the state OF
Nep GaIS. relatively a. large with the
state of Maine a. England IN numbers with
Ireland. and Your beautiful city mere could
T#0a take Il step for its Improvement, nor
the state 4 Maine organize an association
- asiy EinI or charter company OF any
sfft. Uuisss the OyeTw Ee!miug galaxy Of
tl- Nsw York Legislature gave her consent
IoS long Bu you thiAk he people Of Name
would stand ilt That D., III brief, a sim
P die question U-tvep England and Ireland.
e..lf-... there D, Lue great fact III addition,
vhlch would Hot apply 10 New YORK and
sIaI.-. Taag ..sEr aEt centuries of nl3ug.
wGlru have bUiit up GOhuuy-it- Of hatred
ON the part OF those who are subject 70 Op-
preston. and which has aggravated the
question between Ireland and Great Brit
ain FAR hcEOuG the limits that would DE
found between New YORK aud Mslne. /
suppose If the question We're pat 70 the
United States 10 decide we should say.
Adopt the federal 81 stem. Have your
legislature for Ireland. your legislature
for England. your legislature for Wales,
your legislature fer Scotland and Your inn
perisi parliament for the British Empire.
Let questions that are Irish be settled 10y
IrIsrmeu questions thH- are j gi5-h w.
elLaftA tfN A44f~- ll-tAlAtt'a4 NiaatA al r
Welsh lg settled Is " 3. aud guea-
tious that are Scotch ba seed by Scotch
men iHs tre question that Affects
the whole Empire 81 Great Britain
should be settled by the parliament in
which the four great constitutional eie-
meuts shall be- impart.aliy represented.
10 1 come 20 saw that would be the
shorthand method Of settling the question,
for wC have lived that wav for one hun
bred eass nearly IA the Csised states Of
America
,io not forget. however, that it would
he political empyricisu % attempt 10y any
prescription to give tEe exact measure,
the exact details OF any measure that
sIUulf settle thi, long dispute between
Great Britain and ireland. / avn CdmsH'
isbe1 10y what have noticed II the British
Parliament I'M discussions concerning
America not 70 be 700 forward in Euowi-
edge of details or ia prescribing exact
measures. because / suppose. they would
rstort that We know quite a little about
their precise troubles as they know about
Ours Therefore do NOS stand here sim
DIV 20 say that Mr. Giadstoue's II per
feet measure do uot stand here TO say
that / could even give You the exact de
tails Of that measure. do not say that
overlook time 10 cXamjUc them; bat do
say that am ia favor OF any bill tina
shallrake TIE first step tOWards rightlug this
vr1Ug.aud ufhaudHE uverthe government
10 ireland AS To- professional statement re-
u
Britain. I am adr2ouished 20 Toe modest,
because / well remember that Lord Palm
erson. during the war on veTy grave &C
-aSiou. informed the House OF Commons
that the President OF the United States
could not alone declare war, that il re
Quirei the assent Of the Senate, when
[ every schoolboy knows that IL is the Con-
gress of the United States to whom the
war power Is given in this country.
H4aughtcr-@ But that was not so bad
another member OF Parliament, who as
/ sured the House on s certain occasion, that
no law ia the United States was perfect
I until IL had received the assent Of two
I thirds OF the legislatures of the several
[ states (iaughter); and a fellow member
/ corrected him and said You are wrong:
u Congress cannot take up any law to dis
u cuss until two-thirds Of the legislatures
I consent Great laughter.) Mr.. Seward
/ on a given occasion, to-wiT, on a notice
made BY Lord John Russell in the House Of
I Commons, 10 1Ss4, TO inquire into the con-
I dition Of Ireland. / said Mr.. Seward