The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-05-07
Significant Political Utterances Of HIS Lord
ship at Meeting of the Grand Habita-
tion of Britain's Primrose League.
Effort of the Tories to Tickle the Work.
ingmen aud Get Their Support.
Gladstones Refusal TO Commit Himself on the
Eight-Hour Question Regarded as Mis-
take-Resignation OF RudiAi's Ministry.


He Fears the Ulsterites Might Destroy Peace
If Ireland Was Given Home Rule.
LONDON, May G.-Presiding, today. at q
meeting of the Grand Hab,tation of the
the Primrose League. in Covent Garden
Theater. Lord Salisbury said: Home rule
would place hostile island on our flank.
and subject to infinite damage and to dis
graceful abandonment 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, aud there is no means of distin-
gushing 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 q firm, impartial and
continuous administration of the law. had
been fulfilled. "The spirit of disorder" he
said. "had gradually cowed before the
spirit of the law. Peace has so restored
Ireland that boycottlng no longer exists
Still there are men In Ireland who have re-
solved to undo this work and place the
spirit of lawlessness above the spirit of
the law. lCries of 'ShameJ Mr.. Parnell,
on whom. now gone, do not wish TO pass
any criticism. was undoubtedly a much
moro formidable opponent than any man
he has left behind. Cheers He had the
power of bringing the American ele-
wealth and individual energy and financial
assistance. Now be is removed, the agita-
tion seems to have fallen back into the
old groove. and resembles very much the
of Ireland and the people of England.
which have. unhappily. existed for many
ION the other hand we see the opinion of
the lOyalists of ireland UNCHANGED. Ul-
creased every year. / do not know of any
symptom moro menaclng than the rece mt
declarations of Ulster leaders that tn ey
dread being put under the feet of their he
reditary and irreconcilable enemies"
Lord Salisbury utterly refused to recog-
niZe the Inhabitants of the southeast poI-
tion of Ireland as typical of the Cath
olic Church. He was the more justified In
though, of course, observing In strictly
political matter the utmost impsrtiality-
strongly condemned the immoral agencies
whereby the agitation IN Ireland had
striyen to succeed. Though he had not
condemned the Catholic Church, he had
condemned and would always condemn
those wh0 holding high spiritual author
ity and heading great spiritual organiza-
tiOn. use those weapons for purely secular
objects. wherein no SPIRITUAL concern eX-
lists. He would condemn, whether Cath
olic. Anglican or CslviDist. men who thus
inflicted deep wound on civil society
the spiritual weapons they used.
lCheers. Ulsterites. he said. had
been tainted on their passive attitude.
II am Tory" continued the speaker. but
| do not believe in this unqualified doctrine
| of passive endurance. believe that the
| title of both kings and parllaments to
| obedience from their subjects depends upon
| those kings and parliaments observing the
f,tnA AovY al
| whereby they rule. Parliament has the
right toEyovern the people with laws, but
not the right to sell them into slavery.
| Enthusiastic cheers and cries of bravo.
| / do not believe In the unlimited and un-
restricted power OF paIllaments any more
than In such power or kings. Parliaments.
| like kings. may take a course which, while
technically within the legal limits of their
attribution. is yet entirely atvariance with
the understanding. of the constitution
whereby they rule"
Mr.. Mcdonald. Lord Salisbury's private
| secretary. has written to an Oxford clergy
man that Ibis Lordship is glad TO see you
impress upon the electors the probability
that home rule would prOdnce that greatest
OF all curses-a religious civil war" After
this it 10 no wonder to hear of men drilling
In Ireland. and that rifles and munitions of
war are being stored in England.
| The Daily News SAYS: THE Premier's
speech will please bis opponents and dis
| appoint his friends. OF course, it was not
supposed that he would tell any thing. about
the date of dissolution. The Primrose
League is not Parliament and Lord Sails.
bury has not yet waited upon the Queen
The Standard says: Though Lord Sails
bury abstained from direct hint as to the
| hour and day of the elect he exhorts to
instant and unfiagainG efforts. Rightly IN
terpreted. his view is that the struggle
| certainly is imminent and may at any time
become actual. Though too sagacious ana
conscientious to ignore the possibility of q
reverse. he spoke with unwonted conf.
| dence."
The Times says: Lord Salisbury gave q
| clear. unimpassioned account of the situa-
tiOn and outlook. He pointed out once
more that the danger will arise. not from
the prospect of direct decision, by
electors. on Mr.. Gladstones Irish policy,
even If that mysterious entity be revealed
, to the world. but from multl plication and
confusion of the issues presented"