Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-02

personal indignities they suffered. He de-
MED that the treatment of political prisoners
under the Liberal Government was similar
No former Government, Liberal or Con-
seryative, had given imprisoned political
men such usage. (Cheers.] Mr.. BalfouTss
plea that the treatment of prisoners coulo
not be altered without an alteration OF the
rules beyond his power was ludicrous. Inc
plain truth was, the present treatment OF
prisoners was part of a system OF extreme
repression. Why ought not tie Conserva-
tlves to realize, like the Liberals, tnat tne
anti-National system in ireland constituted
an imminent danger to the union. lCneers.
He proceeded to give glowing account OF
the progress of Ireland under Drummono,
from 1885 to 1910, contrasting it with the
regime of Balfour. He declared that the
breach between the people and the Govern
ment was now widening, and that the conn
dence of the people in the law and In the
administration of the law was impaired
and almost gone. [Cheers.l
THE HANDWRITING ON THE WALL.
ireland was now governed in conflict with
five-sixths OF her representatives In Parlla-
ment one-fourth of whom it had been nee
essarv to send to prisons, which, through
piles of honor. lCheers.]
In conclusion Mr.. Gladstone said: ITO
continue the state of things under which so
many representatives OF this House are
placed under ban of prescription, is i'm
possible. You may deprive OF its grace and
freedom the act you are asked to do; but
avert it you cannot. Prolonged cheers.
To prevent the contamination of it is utterly
beyond your power. 1t seems to approach
at an accelerated rate; but come slower or
quicker, 1t is surely coming, and many of
you who have opposed it must already see
in the handwriting on the wall signs of the
coming DOOM" ICheers.l
Mr.. Goschen, Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer, denied that the Government de-
sired to delay the extension of local govern
ment in Ireland. What right, he asked,
had Mr.. Gladstone to presume that it would
not deal with the present Parliament?
When the time was opportune the Govern
ment would be ready to grapple with the
difficulties. He was hopeful of better sue
cess than that which attended Mr.. Glad
stones proposals.
PARNELL's RECEPTION.
Mr.. Parnell, upon arising to speak, was
greeted with enthusiastic cheers, all the
members of the opposition, including Mr..
Gladstone, rising in their places and wav-
ing their hats.
Mr.. Parnell said he desired to offer a few
words of sympathy to those of his colleagues
and friends who had suffered by the princi-
pies adopted by the Chief Secretary for Ire
land. He (ParnelD believed they would
be richly rewarded in the near future by at
tanning the object they had at heart. Mr..
Baliour tried to degrade them, but they
were not degraded, either in their own
opinion or in the opinion of their country
men. Circumstances had been favorable to
Mr.. Balfour in the rise of agricultural
prices and, but for an exceptional law, Ire
land would, he believed, have been tran
quill. The Government were responsible
for, and must stand or fall by the results of
that law.
THE TIMES CONSPIRACY.
He would not stop to discuss the con-
spiracy which had assisted the ministers on
the very night of the second reading to steal
away the liberties of Ireland. Loud cheers.
He thought less of the suffering of O'Brien,
Carew and Redmond than of the suffering
of the humber men in their ranks, because
the authorities did not dare to kill O'Brien
or torture Carew. But men like Mande-
vile might be done to death in carrying out
their system. Renewed cheers. If Major
Saunderson had got his 80, 600 men in the
field they would not remain there Laugh
ter. There was no example in history of a
large section of people rebelling unless
stirred up to it by suffering and injustice.
How could Saunderson hope to excite Ulster
men to rebel-not against the rest of Ire
land, but against England and Scotland
when no oppression or injustice was in
ficted upon them?
PLEA FOR HONE RULE
Expressing confidence that Englishmen
would soon recognize the possibility of
home rule for Ireland, he said he only asked
that they should deal with the question as
an open one and consider how far they could
concede home rule with safety to their own
greater interests. 1t was right that the
smaller country should conciliate the larger
and agree to all safeguards necessary for the
severity of the latter's interests. Ireland
was willing to do so, and he was convinced
that Irishmen, knowing that the people of
England and Scotland and Wales had for
the first time turned the ear of reason to the
solution of the question, would steadily re-
sist any Indictment to disorder and hold
fast to the true way pointed out to them in
1885 by Mr.. Gladstone. Prolonged cheers. I
Mr.. Matthews said that unfortunately the
advice of Mr.. Parnell had not been followed
by that gentleman's friends during the de-
bate. [Cheers. The speaker maintained
that the offenses for which the Parnellites
had been imprisoned were not as a rule of a
political nature, and that they justified the
policy of the Government.