Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1890-10-22
JUSTICE FOR IRELAND.
MIR. Gladstone's Eloquent Plea
at Edinburgh.
TIPPERARY TROUBLES TOUCHED.

TIPPERARY TROUBLES TOUCHED.
The Great Liberal Denounces the Alb
senteeism of Secretary Balfour. and says
That Justice to Ireland Would Add
Growing Luster TO yictoria's Reign.
EDISBURGH, Oct. 22-Thousands were
turned away from the Corn palace when |
Mr. Gladstone opened the Scotch campaign |
here He spoke without visible sign of /
fatigue. In opening his address he re
marked that though many questions Of
importance were before the public the |
problem which continued to eclipse all |
others and 10 demand the almost undivided |
attention Of those who strove to promote |
the well being Of the uation was the Irish |
problem. The country had come to recog
nize the fact that this question must be
settled before other questions could be
dealt with. It was one which affected the
health and vitality of the state so inti-
mately that, in TRUTH no other question
could be properly considered while this re
I manned in menace.
Brute Force in ireland.
The opponents of home rule had hood.
winked and deluded their constituencies
before the election by pledging themselves
not to rely upon brute force in the govern
ment of Ireland. They had promised to
| provide an effective system of local self
government for that part Of the kingdom.
Mr.. Gladstone proceeded to discuss the
provisions of the land purchase bill, and
subjected the measure to a severe criti-
cisni, in which his we'll known skill in
financial analysis was exhibited so strik-
ingly as to elicit round after round Of ap-
plause. The Conservatives took credit
upon themselves, he said, for setting Ire
land right by means Of a firm and resolute
government But so poorly had they
earned the right to make such a boast
that il might truly be said that, defective
though the law was, the administration of
| it was worse than the law itself. The
Irish people ought to hate the law, though
he would not say that they ought to break
it. He would not sanction lawlessness,
even though the Irish people had constant
ly 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 perfect
pattern Of unlawfulness, and its methods
were such as could not fail to provoke
hlDnS NAc HNoPAS ANNaAhi57 AA dAohAAANhAN
resentment,
The Tipperary Trouble.
It was grossly illegal to close the court
, soom against the people Of Tipperary. One
Of the rights OF every British subject was
that il tried he should be tried openly and
in the public view. The appointment Of
Mr. Shannon as one Of the trial magis-
trates to sit in judgment upon Messrs.
Dillon, O'Brien aud other accused Nation
alists was, while perhaps not technically
illegal, gross scandal, because he had
previously acted in cases against the pris-
oners and because there was a personal
quarrel between himself and Dillon. After
such misconduct on the part of the police
at Mitchelstown, Tipperary and elsewhere
il would be expecting impossibilities to
look for the maintenance of popular re-
spect for the constabulary. The systematic
brutality OF the police was crowned by the
insult OF chronic ahsenteeism on the part
of responsible officials.
His Respects to MIR. nsifoHr
Mr.. Balfour. the head of the Irish gov
ernment, seemed TO feel that it was no part
Of the business of a minister for IrelGnd to
reside for any length of time in the copn-
try whose needs and demands he was sup
posed to be familiar with. II was absen-
nifcant signs of the lowest degradation
reached by Ireland in the last century, aud
this practice had now been made the con-
stant habit of the chief secretary, who had
fairly Haunted his absence in the face Of
the people The government had the au-
dacity TO boast that Ireland had grown
peaceable under its administration, yet it
kept skiold more armed policemen in Ire
land than in the whole of England and
Scotland. The British people were forced
to pay el,6O0,00O annually to support the
police in Ireland for the purpose of assist
ing the landlords to collect their rents: at
least this was apparently the chief func-
tion of the constabulary. The English and
Scotch landlords who maintained fair and
equitable relations with their tenants did
not ask the aid Of the police in collecting
their rents.
Challenge to the Governments
He asked what had become Of the prom
ises for Irish local self government Mr..
Gladstone challenged the government to
grant general election, and asserted with
confidence that should an appeal to the
country be allowed the result would prove
that the people had been won over by Con-
servative misgovernment to the approval
of the experiment of home rule With
this great question settled on terms hon
orable alike TO England and Ireland, the
last fortresses Of bigotry and oppression
would succumb to the attack of Liberal
J principles. Justice to Ireland would rid
/ the empire of an intolerable nuisance and
deep disgrace, and would gild with a
brighter glow than any former period the
closing years of Victoria's glorious reign.
PATHS Gift to Gladstone.
After a brief rest Mr. Gladstone, with
his wife and few intimate friends, at
tended the concert Of Nine Patti A dense
crowd gathered outside the building and
wildly cheered the ex-premier as he en-
tered. His appearance in the hall was the
signal for another outbnrst Of ectbwsiasin.
After the concert he had long interview
with Nine. Patti and at its conclusion the
famous songstress presented the great
statesman with \ box of voice lozenges,
, which he accepted with evident pleasure.
Capt Mooney Defeated DAILY.
AsBURY PARK, N. J., Oct. 22.-The pig