Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-02-23
pARSELl.s -AMENnMENr.
II Is Rejected, After speeches from Glad
stone aud BaIfour-A Pathetic Incident oil
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II Is Rejected, After speeches from Glad
stone aud 3aIfour-A Pathetic Incident OF
MIR. Gladstone's Address.
LONDON, Feb lin the house Of com
mons Balfour, chief secretary for Ireland.
resumed the debate on the address in reply
to the queens speech He commented upon
the vehement character of UBrien's attack
last evening. He said;
Still it was nothing to what he had been
accustomed 20 receive from the same quar-
ter in the weekly attacks of United Ireland
He had been told hat he took strange pleas
ure in mere purposeless human suffering
which to his languid life impaired a deil-
cious excitement laughter There is much
more said about him in the same strain
He consoled himself with the reflection that
attacks of even worse character had been
made against OBrien's allies. United Ire
land mad compared Sir g. o. TreVelyan to a
skunk, a cuttleish and hangman. OBrien
had likewise drawn comparison between
Gladstone and Judas I~scariOt, and for contin-
uous weeks United Ireland insisted that
Trevelyan and Earl Spencer had conspired
to shield men guilty OF most horrible and
nameless crimes.
OBrien@ never did / stated that the re
suit of their misguided action was to shield
those persons, but / never alleged thai they
did so wilfully.
Balfour denied that the new crime act
created new crimes. He denied that o'Brien
had been ill-treated in prison. On the con-
trary his health had improved there.
GLADsToNE's SAY.
Mr. Gladstone followed Mr.. Balfour. He
said:
file found little In the chief secretary's
speech that tended to assist them in getting
at the truth of the questions before the
house. There was the question whether the
Conservative leaders had communicated
with Mr.. Parnell on the subject of homer rule.
Denials made by Mr.. Balfour did not get rid
of the Irish members assertions. Parnell
had stated that he found himself in entire
agreement with Lord Carnarvon on the home
rule question. That had not been denied.
1t was stated that Lord Carnarvon spoke for
himself; but he was viceroy of Ireland at
which now held that home rule
in any shape meant the sep
aration of Ireland from the empire.
The Liberals were called separatists be-
cause they wished to give effect to the ma
tional aspirations of Ireland while having
supreme regard Tor the unity of the empire
Some of the remarks of Mr.. Balfour, Mr.
Gladstone said. had apparently been leyeled
at himself His tGladstone's) Nottingham
speech had been absolutely misrepresented
as to the statement regarding the Irish eX-
ecutlve's practice OF obtaining Information
W pGA lAlblIhS VII pOiESS W CObtN- SaANH~
He protested heE as now against the prac-
tice as dangerous to society and odious in
itself. He had never uttered words over
which he felG more rejoiced than bis words
about Mitchellstown. He used them for The
purpose of preventing enormous mischief
and suffering, probably bloodshed II was
the agents of the law that were the breakers
Of the law at MItchellstowp. 1t was
CRUEL, wANToS, ~DIsGRACEFUL
bloodshed, almost without example. MI.
Balfour had become by implication a breaker
of rhe law, for he gave the act his authorlta-
tive approval, as If it were to be the model
rule for the conduct of the police. Mr..
Gladstone declined TO accept as authentic
the government statistics of crime under the
coercion act until the cases cited were
thoroughly investigated. Surprising the gov
rumen had a momentary appearance OF
success from the operation OF the coercion
act, Were they going 10 forever legislate on
the same line. He had never beard the min
isters express confidence in their ability TO
make permanent resistance TO the policy OF
home rule. He did not disguise the strength
Of the combination against home rule,
which included nearly the whole
wealth aud all the elements of the social
strength belonging to high rank and station
in the country. But the Irish nation and the
growing English popular feeling was on the
side of home rule. To delay the settlement
Of a question of this kind between nations
was dangerous In the extreme. ii the re-
sistance to the national voice OF Ireland was
pushed too far, those who now guided the
mind of that nation might lose their power
and be displaced by ruder and more danger
Gus spirits. Let the government thank
themselves and consent to legislation fol
Ireland, as they did for England and Scot
land, in accordance with the constitutionally
expressed wishes and permanent conv1c,
tons of the people, and thus at last present
to the world the blessed spectacle OF a truly
and not a nominally. united empire.
REJECTED.
Parnelrs amendment was -eiected-3lI
to 279. Gladstone's speech was more rhe
torical than argumentIve. His voice a
times had symptoms OF weakness Will,
reading extracts from newspapers he fount
difficulty in reading a passage, ant
turned to Morley to help him. Wher
the latter whispered a cue to the extrac
Gladstone tried TO resume reading, ther
turned TO Sir William Vernon Harcourt fol
assistance, after which he said TO the house
This, l regret to say, is rot the only
point on which ! begin to find warn
irg that ] am not SO young as l was
At the end of his touching allu
sion sympathetic cheers burst forth oil
both sides of the house. Gladstone's speed
is considered one Of the finest Efforts of hi
parliamentary life. Michael Dayitt re
| marked 10 Parnel: Grand old man; gooC
for fifty years more" Parnell replied; Yes
he will live to witness the triumph of hom,
ule.n