, 1888-11-22
lyle is gone, whether the day before yes
terday was the day after to. morrow or not.
--puck
GLADSTONE AND HOME RULE.
The Grand OLD Mans Eloquent Plea
Made at Birmingham.

The Grand Old Mans Eloquent PIea
Made at Birmingham.
The great wind.up speech of Mr.. Glad
stone tonight. the 7th, before the National
Liberal Federation swept aside all appre-
hensioD that home rule had been forced TO
take a back seat in the new liberal pro-
| Rramme. The cable to the World last
Sunday accurately outlined the measure
by which tho liberals propose to recover
and retain dissentients from the party on
other issues than home rule, and among
the more active workers in the Irish cause
there was some alarm lest ii be crowded
too far into the backgrounds but Tonight
the grand old man set all such fears at
rest by his closing speech at one of the
greatest meetings ever held IN England.
| Ii was entirely devoted to home rnle, and
public men who listened to Gladstone
| ffty.six years ago say that it was one of
/ the best speeches he ever delivered.
There was an enormous demand tor tick
ets two guineas being paid for the best
seats. and the whole space left free to the
public was crowded three hours before the
speaking began. Behinu the platform
was a shield on which was inscribed:
"The Tide is with U.s.
When the liberal leader came on the
platform, $1,000 people, packed as close az
dried apples in a barrel, sat on the pine
benches all around him and cheered Justify
for ten minutes before they could be-
stilled. Twice as many people outside.
| pressing their way through throuRht the
barricaded streets and struggling with the
police to get near the doors of the hall.
caught up the cheer and made the smoky
city ring with its echoes.
All through the meeting the roars of the
disappointed multitude outside rolled over
the hall as continuous as the roar of an
angry surf on the beach Several times
l.ko HAL 10. S.
to subside. Bingley hall. once n cattle
market. was u bad place 10 make
speech in, and ii was az hard test as
could be put on Mr.. Gladstone. He has
not stood up before such mammoth audi
ence since 1885. when he spoke in the
Waverly market at Edinburgh, but that
] was paradise to speak in compared with
( Bingley hall. IL was In the immense eff
fort on that occasion that Mr.. Gladstone
permanently injured his voice, and his
friends are soicitous of the effect of to-
nights ordeal upon him. Ever since he
arrived here Monday he has been
talking to more or less of a 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 it seemed al
most impossible for him to refuse, but In
these speeches Mr.. Gladstone disposed OF
secular schools, taxation on ground rents,
mining royalties, and other purely local
topics, and tonight he devoted all his re-
served strength to the great Irish cause.
to which he has committed himself, and
| from which he said in his speech he would
not retire while he had strength enough to
talk and fight. Mrs. Gladstone was given
Il seat on the platform by her husband.
and often pushen towards him a glass con-
tanning some mixture to relieve his voice.
Around her were all the big liberals of the
day-Harcourt. Spencer, Trevelyan, Rose
berry, Morley, Ripon, and dozen others.
| Mr.. Gladstone was in evening dress, with
white flower in his buttonhole He
looked tired, and when he began TO speak
I his voice was triHe husky, but after fully
afioat on home rule. and he pointed to a
banner over his head with the words:
The flowing tide is with u.s." his voice
was clear and resonant as the notes of
Levy's cornet. and his heaters were listen
ing again to the powerful orator of younger
days.
| Gladstone plunged into the subject from
the first word, taking up in turn the in
equality of the laws as between England
and Ireland, the police conspiraVes against
free speech and public meetings. the evic-
tion outrages. the martyrs of Mitchels-
town and the bad faith OF the unionists.
| He said that Lord Harrington. who was
and spoke with the greatest weight, had
recently said that the homerule question
was dead. He Harrington had developed
a popularity hitherto unsuspected-he
showed vivid imagination. Cheers.
But he would see from these proceedings
whether home rule was dead or whether
the aid of an undertaken should be invoked
to serve the absolute necessities of the
other party. Laughter. The Irish ought
not to acouiesce in government by uucuual
laws. They should resent government
which. while protesting anxiety to execute
the law, manifested contempt for it when
ever it found the laws action inconven-
lent. Apart from imperial necessities,
rshmen must be the best judges as to
how to deal with local affairs.
Mr.. Gladstone illustrated at length the
inequalities in the laws under which the
Irish suffered, especially the laws dealing
with combination, public meeting, and
the prison treatment of political offenders.
Lord Harrington, he sand, charged the
liberals with the responsibility for the
evictions in Ireland. The responsibility
in reality belonged to those who refused
to give the Irish tenants the relief from
arrears that had been given the highland
ten ipt.
When Mr.. Gladstone referred to the two
wings of the liberal party for the purpose
of denouncing the broken pledges OF the
dissidents some one In the hall shouted,
"One wing has no feathers" This
was greeted with much lnughter.
Mr.. Gladstone then went over the old
ground of the history of the union He
saio that at the close of the last century
the Protestants and Catholics in Ireland
Joined nands but the tory wire-pullers
made it their business TO introduce. mainly
through the Orange lodges. religious ami
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