Los Angeles herald., 1891-11-25
SALISBURY SPEAKS.
THE BRITISH PREMIER DISCUSSES
POLITICS OF THE DAY.
He Attacks England's Free Trade Policy
as Applied to Grain-Hard Raps Given
Gladstone and the Irish Nation-He
Defends the House of Lords.

BIRMINGHAM, Eng, Nov. 24.--Lord
Salisbury spoke at length tonight to a
great crowd in Masonic BALL, on the po-
litical topics of the day.. He said he was
in favor of rating the ground of the land
lords, provided the reform would be
executed with fairness, and not made
the occasion for gratifying class antipa-
thy. Morley's complaint about land not
being titled, said the premier, was rather
exacting. Non-tillage is due to the with
drawal Of protection under which the
land formerly grew wheat. That, said
he, Is the plice you pay for the advan-
tages Of free trade. Nowhere in the
world will you find corn grown without
protection. In the sd degree of latitude
it is absurd to imagine it possible to cor
rect this defect without abandoning the
great policy to which we are all attached.
If we read Alright the political history
of the past two years, the great towns
will support them on the question of
home rule. Ii the rural districts take
an opposite view, it ia on some local
matter. In the improbable event of
Gladstonian victory, they will fight at
every step in the commons.
Speaking OF Gladstone 8 references to
the house OF lords, Salisbury said: sit
is contemptible to menace without
power to execute the menaces. When
Gladstone is able to present a home
rule bill to the electors, and bring a
decisive majority in favor of it, he will
not have much trouble with the lords.
He cannot menace the house of lords
without revolution, and he cannot have
revolution on limited liability. Ii he
fails in the house of lords, we should
still fight to persuade the electors OF the
mistakes they have committed.
"Great Britain's vast commercial and
political supremacy depends upon the
dominion she exercises in many lands
in various parts of the globe. If you
cut off these great possessions, England,
unable to feed one-third of her people,
will be unable to maintain in anything
but the direst misery the vast multi
tudes that inhabit her soil. You would
tell the world you are 30 week that Ire
land would be wrenched from you by
sheer agitation. Do you not think other
dependencies would take lesson?"
Turning to Ireland, Salisbury said in
that country two great influences are
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. dhQ PliC6tos
Laughter Nothing in modern his
tory equaled the influence of archbish-
ops Croke and Walsh in the recent his
tory of Ireland. Ecclesiastical domina-
ton, said he, is parasite which eats
the vitality OF all. After remarking
that he believed the Irish archbishops
were defying the pope, he dilated upon
the results of giving every institution
in Ireland into their hands, and said !:
''It will be only by rebellion that the
Irish Protestants will defy such power.
1t will be terrible resort; cause un-
numbered scenes of cruelty and massa-
ere, and revival Of the terrible religious
wars from which Ireland has already
suffered too much. We shall be bound
to interfere, to reconquer the country
and the long dreary roll OF seven centu-
ries will recommence."
Salisbury said: "We are moving with
| the stream. Gladstone is battling hope
lessly against it."
| He instanced Spain. Germany and
Italy and the United States as proving
the tendency to consolidate territory
and ruthority, and said the Conserva-
tives were certain that the coming cleo
tions will decide in their favor.