Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-03-07
GLADSTONE AND PARNELL-
speechs. In the British Parllament ON fr's n

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Speeches In the British Parliament on frisn
Affairs.
LONDON. March I'm the House OF |
Commons last night Mr.. Gladstone re-
sumed debate on the address In reply TO
the Queens speech. He beId tnat tnefe
were three main issues raised in the
amendment under discussion. The House
was called upon entirely to disclaim the
present administration of the Govern
ment: it was asserted that to this system
was due the aversion of the people
to Great Britain; and finally, tho
House was asked to adopt measures
of correction. They owed an apology
to the people of Ireland for allowing the
great question of the domestic govern
ment of their country to remain unintro-
duced in the present Parliament Sill tho
Liberals were tolerably we'll satisfied with
the progress of the question in the favor
of the country. lCheers. Mr.. Chamber.
lain told them that the measure of local
government for Ireland must not be in.
definitely postponed That meant that In
some future Parliament, possibly. gentie-
men calling themselves Liberal Unionists
might incline to look up to an Irish Gov.
eminent. At present the votes OF that
portion of the House were OF Importance
as the mainstay of the Governments
policy. Opposition cheers-1 Regarding
their votes in the next Parliament. he
would not refer to any one in particular
Iiaughter least of all to Mr.. Chamber
lain, but speaking simply of the seventy
now CONVEX. ing the Tory minority into
majority-he regarded their votes in the
coming Parliam Mt as of small impor.
lance [Cheers. 1t was said that the pres
emit government of Ireland would have
been remarkably successful but for the
difficulty placed in their way in connec-
ton wi the land question. Mr.. Cham
berlain and Mr.. Harrington and their
friends placed them there. They created
the land difficulties. and when the effects
OF the prevailing distress became patent
they obstinately refused to deal with
them. The refusal was followed by the
plan Of campaign. 1t was the direct and
necessary offspring of their policy. He
had never INDICATED breaches of law
in any shape, but he would say that
there were many cases in which
the lawmakers were more responsible
than the lawbreakers and this was one Of
them. lCheers1 The Government con-
tinued to declare their anxiety to settle
the land question; yet, with a large ma
jority behind them, Mr.. Chamberlain ap-
pealed to him to PROFOUND a scheme for
the settlement Of the question. He. then,
was a person SO happy as to possess the
political confidence of his opponent.
Laughter and cheers. Theresponsibility
for the delay in coming to a settlement
should rest upon the majority in power.
ICries of "Hear! Hearl"] The refusal to
produce a measure would tend still further
to expose the utter hollowness of the con-
sentative assurances in regard to Ireland
and the real determine alton of the majority
to do nothing to ameliorate the condition
of the Irish people. [Cheers.1
Mr. Glad- tone gave a glowing account
CT the progress of Ireland under Drum
moud from 1885 to 1910, contrasting it with
the regime of Balfour. He declared that
the breach between the people and the
Government was now widening and that
the confidence of the people in the law
and in the administrations of the law was
impaired and almost gone. lCheers-1
Ireland was now governed tn conflict
with five-sixths of her representatives in
Parliament, one-fourth Of whom it had been
necessary to send to prison, which.
through the action of the Government,
became tempters of honor.
Mr.. Parnell, upon rising 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. He said he desired to offer
a few words of sympathy to those Of his
colleagues and friends who had suffered
by the principles adopted by the Chief
I
lieved they would De richly rewarded in
the near future by attaining the object
they had at heart. Mr.. Balfour tried to
degrade them, but they were not de-
grade l, either in their own opinion or in
the opinion of their countrymen. Circum-
stances had been favorable to Mr.. Balfour
in the rise of agricultural prices. and but
for an exceptional law Ireland could, he
believed, have been tranquil. The Gov
0nSih fOr met
stand or fall by the results OF that law.
He would not stop to discuss the conspir-
acy 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 tho
humber men in their ranks. because the au-
thorities did not dare to kill O'Brien or tor
ture Carew. But men like Vaudeville might
be done to death in carrying out their sys-
tenn. [Renewed cheers.] If Major Saun-
derson had got his $4,000 men in the field,
they would not long remain there.
lLaughter.1 There was no example in
history of a large section of people re-
Boiling unless stirred up to it by suffering
and injustice. How could Saunderson
hope to excite Ulster msn to rebel-not
against England and Scotland
when no oppression or injustice was
inflicted upon them? Expressing conf
dence that Englishmen would soon
recognize the possibility of home rule for
Ireland. 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 in
terests. 1t was right that the smaller
country should conciliate the larger
and agree to all safeguards necessary
for the security 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 resist any Indictment to