The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-11-09
GLADSTONE AND HOME RULE.
The Grand Old Mans Eloquent Plea Made at
Birmingham.

Cable Special to New York World.
The great wind-up speech of Mr.. Gladstone to-
niehtths 7th. before the National Liberal FEEDER.
alton swspt aside all apprehension that home
rule had been forced TO take back seat in the
new Liberal programme. The cable to the World
last Sunday accurately outlined the measures oy
which the Liberals propose to recover and retain
dissen,isnts from the party on other issues than
home rule, and among the more active workers
IN the Irish cause there was some alarm lest 1t
DO crowded too far into the background;
but tonight the grand old man Sc. all
such fears ~ rest by his closing speech at one
of the greatest meetings ever held in England.
II was entirely devoted to home rule. and pub
lie mon who listened TO Gladstone ffty-six years
ago say that IL was one Of the best speeches be
ever delivered. There was an enormous de-
mand for tickets, two euineas being paid sor the
best seats. and the whole space left free to the
public was crowded three hours before the
speaking began. Behind the platform was a
shield on which was inscribed: 1.-The Tide Is
with Us"
When the Liberal leader came on the plat.
form $4,000 people. packed as close as DRIED
apples In q barrel, eat on the pine benches al!
before they could be stilled. Twice as many
people outside, pressing their way through the
barricAded streets and struggling with the
police tn get near the doors OF the ball. caught
up the cheer and made the smoky city ring with
its echoes.
AL through the meeting the rosrs Of this dis
appointed multitude outside rolled over the hall
as continuous as the roar of an Nnery SURF On
the beach. Several times Mr. Gladstone had to
pause and wait for IL to subside. BIngley Hall,
A - n haI
speech In, and 1t YVES a. hard q test ss could
have beer put on Mr. Gladstone. He has not
stood up before such q mammoth audience since
1885, when he spoke 10 the Waverly market at
Edinburgh. but that WAS paradise to speak In
compared with Binaley Hall. IL was 10 the i'm
mense effort on that occasion that Mr.. Gladstone
permanently injured his voice, and bis friends
are solictous of the effect of to-night's ordeal
upon him. Ever since he arrived here Monday
he has been talking to more or less OF crowd
Mrs. Gladstone, who has been constantly pulling
her husbands coat tails and URGING him to save
his voice for tonight only succeeded In degree
He would talk, and under the circumstances 1t
seemed almost impossible for him to refuse, but
in these speeches Mr.. Gladstone disposed of sec
ulAr schools, taxation On ground ren's. mining
royalties, and other purely local topics. and to-
night he devoted all his reserved strength TO the
great Irish cause, to which be has committed
himself. and from which he said in bis spesch
he would not retire while he had strength
enough to talk and 6eht. Mrs. Gladstone was
given a seat on the platform by her husband,
aud often pushed toward him a glass containing
some mixture to relieve his voice. Around her
were all the big Liberals Of the day-Hsrcourt
Spencer, Trevelyap, Rossbery, Morley, Ripon,
and a dozen others, Mr.. Gladstone was in even.
ing dress, with white flower In his buttophols
He looked tired. and when he began to sneak
his voice was . trife husky, but after fully adoat
on home rule, and he pointed TO banner ossr
his head with tho words: The flowing tide is
with as" his voice clear snd resonant As
the notes of Levy's cornet aud bis hearers were
listening again to the powerful orator OF younger
DAYS
Gladstone plugged into the subject from the
frst word. taking up in turn the inequality OF
the laws as between England and Ireland, the
police conspiracies against free speech and pub
lie meetings, the eviction outraees, the martyrs
of Mitchelstown, and the bad faith of the Union
lists. He said that Lord Harrington, who was
among the opponents OF the Liberal party, and
spoke with the greatest weight, had recently
said that the home-rule question was dead He
[Hartingtonl had developed popularity hithsr-
TO uususpectsd-he showed q vivid ina gination.
iChesrs.I But he would see from these pro-
ceedings whether homo rule was dead or whether
the aid of undertaken should be invoked to
serve the absolute necessities OF the other party.
lLauehter.l The Irish ought not to acquiesce
in governments by unequal laws. They should
resent a government which, while protesting
anxiety to execute the law, manifested contempt
for it whenever it found the laws action incon-
venent Apart from imperial necessities Irish
men must be the best judges as TO how TO deal
with local affairs
Mr Gladstone illustrated at length the in
eoualtiss in the laws under which the Irish
suffered. especially the laws dealing with COM
biuation, public meeting. and the prison treat
ment of political offenders. Lord Harrington,
he said. charged the Liberals with the RESPONSE
bility for the evictions in Ireland. The RESPONSE
bility in reality belonged to those who refused
to give to the Irish tenant the relief from arrears
that had been given TO the highland tenant
When Mr.. Gladstone referred to the two
wings Of the Liberal party for the purpose o!
| denouncing the broken pledges Of the dissidents
| some one in the hall shouted "One wing has DC
| feathers" This sally was greeted with much
| laughter
Mr.. Gladstone then went over the old ground
OF the history Of the uoion. He said that at the
| close Of the last century the Protestants and
| Catholics In Ireland joined hands, but the Tory
wire-pullers made 1t their business To introduce
| mainly through Orange lodges, religious ami.
| mostly and intolerance between them. In con-
clusion, he asked what the dissidents could look
for except speedy extinction. Could they reason
| ably expect Irishmen, under the present favor
able circumstances. to change opinions that had
been held for seven ceuturiesl Why per.
| sist IN such hopeless battle now tina,
ireland was lighting. not with threats
| of separation Fsnianism, but with
| confidence in a powerful party whose irrevoca-
| bic decision she knew WAS supported by the ST
fecsions of England " would be better to en-.
| deavor to promote and consolidate the affection
that was ready to burst from every Irish hear,
| and voice.
Mr. Gladstone resumed his seat after speaking
| for nearly two hours. The close OF his address
| Was the signal for prolonged cheering.
Mr.. Gladstore's peroratioD, expressing faith
| in the ultimate triumph of homo rule, was ur
| to his old mark, aud the audience went frantic
| It was twelve minutes bv the watch before Har
| court could mako himself heard even to those
nearest the platform. Mrs. Gladstone advanced
with her husband TO acknowledge the cheers.