St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-06-14
PLEA OF THE PREMIER.
Mr.. Gladstone Issues Ringing Address
to the Electors of Midlothian
On the Present Crisis,
Clearly Showing Favor For Irish Self
Government as Opposed to Oonserv-
alive Repressive Rule.
Che Finger of Scorn Pointed at the
Unionist ty--Nationalfst
Strength Growing.
An Enormous Public Meeting at Mel
bourne Thanks Mr.. Gladstone
--Chips From the Cable.
ForJustice to ireland.

For Justice to Ireland.
LONDON, June 13.-Mr. Gladstone has
ssu ed the following manifesto to the cleo
tors of Mdlothian:
GeRtlemen-In consequence of the defeat
of the bill for the better government OF Ire
land, the ministry advised and her majesty
was pleased to sanction the dissolution Of
parliamnnt for a decision by the nation of the
grave stand, likewise the simplest issue that
has been submitted to it for half a century. 1t
is only sense of the gravity of this issue
which induces me at a period OF life when
nature cries aloud for repose to seek, after
sitting in thirteen parliamentS, q seat in the
fourteenth, and with this view to solicit for
the fifth time the honor of your confidence.
At the last election l endeavored in my ad-
dresses and speeches to impress upon you the
fact that great crisis had arrived in the affairs
Of Ireland. Weak as the late government
was Tor ordinary purposes, it had great ad-
vartages for 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 the
Irish controversy within the present session
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 to support the late cabinet in such a
course Of policy. On the Goth of last January
the opposite policy of coercion was declared
to have been the choice OF the government,
the Earl Of Carnarovon alone refusing to
share in it. The Irish question was thus
placed on 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 it was to be dealt
with. In my judgment, the proposal of CO.
erclon was not justified by the facts and was
doomed to certain and disgraceful failure.
Some method of governing Ireland other than
coercion, as l thought, to be sought for and
to be found. Therefore, viewed with re-
greet the fall of the late cabinet, and when
summoned by her majesty to form q new one
undertook it on the basis Of an auti-coercion
policy, with the fullest explanations to those
whose aid l sought as colleagues when pro-
posed to examine whether it might not be pos
sible to grant ireland domestic legislature
and maintain the honor and consolidate the
unity OF the empire. A government was
formed and the work was at once put in
hand. You Will now, gentlemen, understand
how and why it is that
THE AFFAIRS OF IRELAND,
and not for the first time, have thrust aside
every other subject and adjourned our hopes
of useful and progressive legislation. As
question OF the first necessities of social
order, it forces itself into the van. The late
cabinet, though rightcin giving it that place,
were, we thought wrong in their manner
taking the government, if we did not adopt
their method, to propose another. Thus,
gentlemen. it is that this great and simple
issue has come upon you. and demands your
decision. VIII you govern Ireland by coercion
Dr. viii you let Ireland manage her own
affairs? To debate in this address this and
that detail of the lately-defeated bill would
only be to disguise this issue, and would be
futile as to discuss the hating, stumbling and
ever shifting and vanishing project
nF iy-+a, oIo ,oI,
proceeded from seeding Liberals.
There are two clear, positive and
Ineligible plans before the world. There is
the plan of the government, and there is the
plan of Lord Salisbury. Our plan is that Ire
land should, under well considered condi-
tons, transact her own affairs. His plan is
to ask parliament to renew
REPREssIvE LAWS
and enforce them resolutely for twenty years.
by the end of which time he assures us Ire
land will be fit to accept any government in
the way of local government, on the repeal
of the coercion laws, you may wish to give
here. leave this Tory project to speak for
itself in in its unadorned simplicity, and /
turn to the proposed policy of the govern
ment. Our opponents, gentlemen, whether
Tories or Seceders have assumed the name
of UniOniStS. l deny them the title to it. In
intention, indeed, we are Unionists alike, but
the union they refuse to modify is in its pres
ent shape paper union ordained by force
and fraud and never sanctioned or accepted
by the Irish nation. They are not
unionists, but proper unionists. True union
is to be tested by the sentiments of the
human beings united. Tried by this criter-
ion we have less union between Great Bri-
tain and Ireland now than we had under the
settlement of 1882. Enfranchsed Ireland,
gentlemen asks through her lawful repre-
sentatives for the revival of her domestic
legislature-not, on the face of it an innova-
ting, but restorative proposal. She urges
with the truth that the Capitalization of
parliamentS has been the division of people,
but she recognizes the fact that the union,
lawlessly as it was obtained, cannot and
OUGHT NOT TO BE REPEALED.
She is content to receive the legislature in
form Invested of prerogatives, which might
have impaired her imperial interests, and
better adapted than the settlement Of 1852 to
secure to her regular control OF her own
affairs. She has not repealed, but has well
coined the stipulations for tn e protection
of the minority. To such provisions we have
given and viii give careful heed. but trust
Scotland will condemn the attempts so singu-
larry made to import into the controversy a
venomous element of religious bgotry. Let
her take warning by the deplorable riots in
Belfast and other places in the North. Among
the benefits, gentlemen, anticipate of your
acceptance Of our policy are these The con-
Bolidation of the United Empire and great adj
dition to its strength; the stoppage of the
heavy, constant and demoralizing waste of
the public treasure; the abatement and grad
ual extinction of ignoble feuds in Ireland
and that development of her resources
which experience shows to be natural con-
sequence of free and orderly government:
the redemption of the honor of Great Britain
from the stigma fastened upon her almost
from time immemorial in respect to Ireland
by the judgment Of the whole civilized world,
and lastly, the
RESTORATION OF PARLIAMENT
to its dignity and efficiency, and the regular
progress of the business of the country
Well, gentlemen, the first question now put
TO you is, How shall Ireland be governed?
There is another question behind it and in
volved in it. How are England and Scotland
TO be governed? You know how, for the last
six years especially, the affairs of England
and Scotland have been impeded and your
imperial parliament discredited and disabled.
All this happened while the Nationalist were
but small minority Of the Irish members,
without support FROM so much as handful
of members not Irish. Now they approach
ninety, and are entitled to say: 1--WE are
speaking the views of the Irish nation. 1t is
impossible to deal with this subject by half
measures. They are strong in their numbers
strong in British support which brought 3I3
members to vote for their country, strongest
ef all in the sense of being right. But, gen.
tlemen, we have done our part, the rest re-
mains with you. Electors of the country
may you be enabled to see through and cast
away all delusions, refuse evil and do good.
1 have the honor to be, gentlemen, your
faithful and grateful servant.
w. E. GLADSTONE.
TREvELYAN's MANIFESTO.
LONDON. June 13.-Mr. Trevelyan. in
his electoral manifesto, says the home-rule
bill seeks to put the execution of the law
and the presentation of order into hands in
which they would be insecure. Such
surrender involves the adoption of the land
purchase measure, which would place upon
the British taxpayer an enormous liability.
Such measures would, he said. result in
separation, which could be avoided if sim
pie local government was extended the Ire
land in accordance with the welI-known
Liberal principles. The opponents of the
bill he declared to be perfectly consistent
with true Liberalism.
POINTING TO DISASTER.
LONDON, June fa.-Tne Statlst attri-