Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-10-22
BALFOUR BERATED
The Grand Old Man Lets
Loose at Edinburgh.
RECORD OF THE TORIES SHOWN UP.

A Great Ovation to the Liberal Leader
A Characteristic Tribute from Patti
Feeling in England Regarding the
American Tsrin Growing Less Acri.
monious-sslisbury Receives a Request
from Portugsi-A Pitiabie Spectacle
In Ireiand-foreign Miscellany.
EDINBURGH. Oct 22-Gladstone deliy.
cred the first speech of his Scotch cam
paign yesterday in the corn exchange
this city. There was a tremendous crush
oil people eager to see and hear the great
Liberal leader, and when the hall had
been crowded TO suffocation thousands of
disappointed persons were left outside. TO
return home or listen to speakers of less
note who addressed overflow meetings in
the open air. The audience in the hall
numbered about 5000 Gladstone was
enthusiastically greeted on making his
appearance. He was in excellent health,
and his voice was clear and strong. He
spoke without visible sign of fatigue
Record of the Tories
In opening he referred to the Irish
question, and he kept that matter before
the audience to the end. He said the
question must be settled before ANYTHING
else could be done. He then went on to
show that the Tories had not kept their
promises, and this portion of his speech
was largely a reiteration of his speeches
in parliament on the coercion bill. the
local government bill, and the expropria-
ton bill, all OF which he denounced as
faulty and useless for the purposes in-
tended. The Conservatives took credit
upon themselves for setting Ireland right
BY means of firm and resolute govern
ment. But so poorly had they earned
the right to make such boast, that il
might truly be said that defective though
the law was, the administration of il was
worse than the law itself.
Some Suggestive Remarks
Indeed. so deplorable was the state to
which affairs had been brought that he
would not hesitate TO declare that the
Irish people ought to hate the law. though
he would not say that they ought TO
break it. He would not sanction lswless-
ness, even though the Irish people had
constantly before them an eminently bad
example Of lawlessness in quarters which
should be the fountain head of legality,
For the government OF ireland was itself
aperfect pattern of unlawfulness, and its
methods were such as could not fail to
provoke among the peop,e feelings OF
Unsuitable resentment
The Tippcrary Trials.
Referring TO the Tipperary trials he
said that it was grossly Illegal 10 close
the court room against the people of Tip
perary. One of the rights Of every Brit
ish subject was that if tried lie should be
tried openly and in the public view. The
appointment of Shannon, one of the trial
magistrates to sit in judgment upon Dill
Ion, d Brien aud other accused National
lists was, while perhaps not technically
illegal. gross scandal, not merely be-
cause he had been previously called upon
to act as an executive officer in dealing
with the people now brought before him
in his judicial capacity, but also because
In the case OF Dillon particularly there
was personal quarrel between the men.
Some More sugGestiveness.
In dwelling upon the action of the Do
lice in attacking respectable and peacea-
BILE citizens and visitors with ostons,
Gladstone remarked that after such mis-.
conduct on the pare of the police at Mitch
elstown, Tippsrary, and elsewhere il
would be expecting impossibilities TO look
for the maintenance of popular respect
for the constabulary or their administra-
tematic brutality of the police was
crowned by the insult of chronic absentee
Ism on the part of responsible officials.
He then strongly denounced Balfour for
not spending more OF his time in Ireland.
The Governments Boast.
The government had the audacity to
boast that Ireland had grown peaceable
under its administration, yet IL kept six
fold more policemen in Ireland than in
the whole of England and Scotland. The
British people were forced to pay 81, 600
900 annually to support the police in Ire
land for the purpose OF assisting the land.
lords to collect their rents-at least this
was apparently the chief function of the
constabulary. The English and Scotch
landlords. who maintained fair and eqnit-
able relations wit b their tenants, did not
ask the aid of the police in collecting
their rents. Yet their occasional losses
footed up more than those of the Irish
landlords
An Interview with Patti.
He closed with an eloquent appeal for
justice 70 Irelantand challenged the gov
eminent 10 go to the people In the even
ing he attended concert given by Nine
Patti His appearance in the hail was
the signal for great outburst OF enthusi-
asm. After the concert he had long in
terview with Nine. Patti, and at its con-
clusion the famous songstress presented
the great statesman with box of voice
lozeuges, which he accepted with evident
pleasure
Asks Salisbury to Let Up for Awhile.
LONDON, Oct. l2-Senhor Sousa, the
new prime minister Of Portugal, has re-
quested Lord Salisbury to suspend fur
Their operations at the Zambesi ,and other
disputed points of east Africa until the
new ministry has had an opportunity to
lay the whole subject before the cortes.
He also expresses friendly feelings to-
ward England
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