Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-10-22
THE GRAND OLD NAN.
Mr.. GLADSTONE AGAIN ON HOME
RULE FOR IRELAND.
He Addresses Large Audience and IL En-
Enthusiastically Cheercd--Othcr News
from Beyond Seas.
rpy Ang,o-American cable to tho Dispatch

LONDON, Exc, October 2L-Mr.
Gladstone addressed an audience of
5000 persons in the Corn Exchange at
Edinburgh this evening. Ireland, he
said. continued TO eclipse all other cub
jects The country now fully recog-
nized that the Irish questions must be
settled before others The opponents
OF home rule had hoodwinked and de-
luded their constituents by pledging
themselves against coercion, promising
local government. and expressing them
selves against granting large advances OF
British money to buy out landlords.
Yet their first favorite measure after
gaining power was coercion. Local
government was vanishing In thin air
and there was aproposal before Parlia-
mcnt granting ei0,000,0OO to buy out
landlords
The Conservatives took credit for set
ling Ireland right by firm aud reso-
lutte Government Their administration
OF law was worse than the law itself
The state OF things was such that the
Irish ought 10 hate law, though he
would not say that they ought TO break
it. The Government itself was per
feet pattern of illegality. Its methods
tended to provoke the people.
TIPPERARY.
Mr.. Gladstone then referred to the
Tipperary affair. 1t WAS grossly illegal,
he said, TO close the doors OF court
house against the people. The appoint
ment Of Shannon to try the case was q
gross scandal, not merely because he
was an executive officer, but also because
he had been involved in a serious per
sonal alteration with Dillon. II such
tricks were played in England 10y the
wantonness of power very short way
would be found to remedy such abuses.
After the examples Of police misconduct
NJ Mitchellstown and Tipperary 1t
was impossible TO respect the police
ar the administration Of the law by
police. Their brutality and harshness
constituted the GROWING insult OF ab-
scnteefsm, the grossest that could be in
Gicted on the people at such a time.
Mr.. raliour appeared TO feel that 1t
was not part Of the business OF the
Minister for Ireland to reside there. Be
sides how many of those present knew
whether there was Lord Lieutenant of
ireland or not? Laughterl Nobody
heard Of him. Absenteeism, which was
among the lowest signs of degradation
in the last century, seemed now con
slant habit. the Irish Minister Haunting
his absence in the face Of the people.
PEACE by MAIN FORCE.
The Government Wanted itself on
peace in Ireland. yet kept six times
moro policemen there than in England
and Scotland. British tax payers paid
q, GOO,0 600 yearly to the Irish police,
simply to assist in collecting rents for
LANDLORDS. ne EuSli5u uuA hNDi'h
8 landlords met their tenants fairly, and
3 had not found it necessary TO appeal to
the help of policemen to collect their
rents. Yet British landlords had lost
more on rents than Irish landlords and
if the Government would grant a gene
raj election, the state of public opinion
would prove that the country was won
over TO home rule.
On this moral question OF Ireland,
Mr. Gladstone concluded, the last OF
the fortresses of bigotry and oppression
would go down before the Liberals at
tack. Justice to Ireland would rid them
OF an intolerabe nuisance and a deep
disgrace and would gid with a glow
brighter than that Of any former period
the closing years of this glorious reign.
The speech was received with enthusi-
astic cheers.