The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-11-25
BlackthOrns and Priests Rule
Ireland, He Declares.
HE DEFENDS HOUSE OF LORDS.
Conservatives Want English Land
Reform to Take Precedence.
Russia VIII Be Compelled to Purchase
an Immense Quantity of American
Grain-Army Bread Ordered as If for
War-A French Archbishop Fined.

BIRMINGHAM, Nov. M.-Lord Salisbury
spoke at length tonight to great crowd in
Masonic hall on the political topics of the
day. lie said he was in favor of rating
the ground of landlords. provided the re-
form be executed with fairness and not
made the occasion for gratifying class
antipathy. Morley's complaint about the
land not being titled, said the premier. is
rather exacting. This non-tillage is
due to the withdrawal of the
protection under which the land
formerly grew wheat. That, said
he, is the price you pay for the ad-
vantages of free trade. Nowhere in the
world Will you find corn grown without
protection. In the tifty-second degree of
latitude it is absurd to imagine that it is
possible to correct this defect without
abandoning the great policy to which we
are all attached. If We have read Alright
the political history of the past two years,
the great towns will support them on the
question of home rule, and if the rural
districts take the opposite view, it is on
some local matter. In the possible event
OF Gladstonian victory they will fight at
every step i'll the commons.
Speaking of Gladstone's references to
the house of lords, Salisbury said it is con-
temptible to menace without power to
execute the menace. When Gladstone is
able to present home rule to the electors
and bring decisive majority in favor of
it, he will not have much trouble with
the lords. He cannot menace the house
of lords without q revolution and he can
not have revolution on limited liability.
If we should fail in the house of lords we
would still fight to persuade the electors OF
the mistake they have committed.
Great Britain's vast commercial and
political supremacy depends upon the
dominion she exercises in many lands and
in the various parts of the globe. If you
cut off these great possessions, England,
unable to feed one-thrd of her people, will
be unable to maintain anything but the
dlrest misery of the vast multitudes that
inhabit her soil. You would tell the world
that you are so weak that Ireland would
be wrenched from you by sheer agitation.
Do you not think the other dependencies
would take the lesson?
Returning to Ireland, Salisbury said
that in that country two great influences
predominated-blackth and priests.
Laughter. Nothing in modern history
equalied the influence of Archbishops
Croke and Walsh in the recent history of
Ireland. Ecclesiastical domination, 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:
1t will be only by rebellion that the Irish
Protestants will defy such power. 1t will be
terrible resort. cause unnumbered scenes OF
cruelty and massacre, and a revival of the ter
rible religious wars from which Ireland has al
ready suffered too much. We shall be bound to
interfere to reconquer the country, aud the
long, dreary role of seven centuries will recon-
mence. We are moving with the stream. Glad
stone is battling hopelessly against it.
He instanced Spain, Germany, Italy
and the United States as proving a ten
dency TO consolidate territory. and said
the Conserva tives were certain that the
coming election will decide in their favor.