Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-05-07
AGAINST HOME RULE
Salisbury's Speech Creates
Widespread Comment.
ADVICE TO THE ULSTER MEN
The Doctrine of Passive Endurance Not
Believed In By Him.

Ulster May Have to Fight the Rest OF ire
Iand-Parliament May be as Unjust and
TyranUical as Any Kins-Hia Opinion of
ParDen-Says Home Role Would Place n
hostile Island ON Eneland's Flank and
Work Incalculable Harm.
LONDON, May THE speech of Lord
Salisbury at the meeting of the Grand
Habitation of the Primrose League, is
the great topic of discussion, and all the
papers are commenting upon it at great
length. In the address Lord Salisbury
declared that great political struggle
was impending.
"We have" he said, ito deal with q
proposal for great organic change. The
conflicts of classes are shutting out from
mans eye the g1c-5 issue-the integrity
| of the Empire.
CLONE rule would place a hostile
island on our flank ard subject to in
finite damage and to disgraceful aban-
donment those in Ireland who have ever
fought for our cause. In America and
other countries an organic change must
receive the sanction of the people; but
here electors vote on various issues and
| there is no means of distinguishing their
verdict on home rule.''
He claimed that his promises of six
years ago that Ireland would be pacified
if given generous consideration in regard
to her material wants and firm, inn
| partial and continuous administration of
the law had been fulfilled.
1.-THE spirit of disorder" he said, ''has
gradually cowed before the spirit of the
| law. Peace has SO restored Ireland that
boycotting no longer exists. Still there
are men in Ireland who have resolved to
undo this work and place the spirit of
lawlessness above the spirit of the law.
| Mr.. Parnell, on whom, now gone, 1 do
! not wish to pass any criticism, was I'M
| doubleday a much more-formidable OPP
| ponent than any man he has left behind.
He had the power of bringing the Amer
lean element into the agitation, with all
| it swealthy of individual energy and
| financial assistance.
"Now he is removed, the agitation
| seems to have fallen back into the old
groove, and resembles very much the
conflicts between u portion of the people
of Ireland and the people of England,
which have unhappily existed for many
| generations. On the other hand we see
the opinion of the loyalists of Ireland I'M
changed. listers conviction of its dan
gers has increased every year. I do not
know of any symptom more menacing
than the recent declarations of Ulster
leaders that they dread being put under
the feet of their hereditary and irrecon-
cilable enemies
Lard Salisbury said he had been &C.
cused of attacking the Catholic religion.
Nothing, he declared, was further from
his mind. He utterly refused to recog-
nize the inhabitants of the southern por-
ton Of Ireland as typical of the Catholic
| Church.
What Ulster dreaded was being put
under the despotism of her hereditary
foes. Was there worse fate for any
man than to be thus placed, especially Il
the despot represented an hereditary
enemy inspired by the bitterest hostility
There could be nothing more cruel than
to place Ulster in such a position. Every
thing an fisherman held dear would be
in the hands of Archbishop Walsh and
his political friends.
Obstetrics, he said, had been taunted
on their passive attitude. 81 am a tory,
but do not believe in this unqualified
doctrine of passive endurance. Parlia
ment has the right to govern the people
with laws, but not the right to sell then
into slavery. do not believe in the UNI
limited and unrestricted power of parlia
ments any more than in such power Of
kings. Parliaments, like kings, may
take course which, while technically
within the legal limits of their attribu
ton, is yet entirely at variance with tn
understanding of the constitution
whereby they rule"