St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-10-22
Gladstone Says Britons Are
Ready to Concede Au-
tonomy to Ireland.
They Have Been Won Over
by the Trickery Of
Tories.
Counterfeiter Mccartney Dies
in a Felon'S Cell at
Columbus.
Fooled by Her Fiance an Hill
noiS Girl Tries to Kill
Him.

EDINBURGH, Oct. 21.-Mr. Gladstone
addressed an audience of 5000 persons
in the Corn exchange at Edinburgh
this evening. Ireland, he said, contin-
ued to eclipse all other subjects. The
country now fully recognized that the
Irish questions must be settled before
others. The opponents of home rule
had hoodwinked and deiuded their con-
stituencies by pledging themselves
against coercion, promising local gov
eminent and expressing themselves
against granting large advances of Brit
ish money to buy out landlords. Their
first favorite measure after gaining
power was coercion. Local government
was vanishing in thin air, and there
ment granting e40,OOO,OOO to buy out the
landlords. The conservatives took
credit for setting Ireland right by firm
and resolute government. Their adj
mlnistration of the law was worse than
the law itself. The state of things was
such that the Irish ought to hate the
law, though he would not say they
ought to break it. The government
itself was perfect pattern of illegality.
Its methods tended to provoke the peo-
pie. MIR. Gladstone then referred to the
Tipperary affair. 1t was grossly illegal,
he said. to close the doors of the court
house against the people. The appoint
ment of Magistrate Shannon to try the
case was gross scandal, not merely
because he was an executive officer, but
also because he had been involved IN a
serious personal alteration with Mr..
Dillon. Ii such tricks were played in
England by wantonneSs of power. very
short way would be found to remedy
such abuse. After the examples of
police misconduct at Mitchelstown and
Tipperary it was impossible to respect
the police or the administration of law
by the police. Their brutality and
harshnesS constituted the browning in
suit of misunderstanding grOssest that
could be inflicted on the people at such
time. MIR. BalfOur appeared to feel
that it was not part Of the business OF
the minister for Ireland to reside there.
Besides, how many of those present
knew whether there was lord lleuten-
ant of Ireland or not? Nobody heard of
him. Absenteeism, which was among
the lowest signs of degradation in the
last century, seemed now constant
habit, the Irish minister Haunting his
absence in the face of the people. The
government Wanted itself OH peace in
Ireland, yet kept six times more police
men there than in England and Scot
land. British taxpayers paid el.600,-
600 yearly to the Irish police
simply to assist in collect
ing rents for the landlords. English
and Scotch Ian dlords met their tenants
fairly and had not found it necessary to
appeal for the help of policemen to col.
lect their rents. Yet British landlords
had lost more on rents than Irish land
lords had. If the government would
grant general election, the state OF
public opinion would prove that the
country was won over to home rule
On this great question of Ireland, Mir.
Gladstone concluded, the last of the
fortresses of blgotry and oppression
would go down before the Liberals at
tack. Justice to Ireland would rid the
empire of an intolerable nuisance and
deep disgrace, and would gild with
blow brighter than that of any former
period the closing years of gloriou:
reign. The speech was received witt
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