The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1892-05-26
GLADSTONE TALKS.
WORDS WISE AND ELOQUENT POURED
INTO THE EARS OF BRlToNs.

n Ringing Address Delivered IN tn e III Ous8
of Commons Against the Irish Local
Government BiII-LiberaI Principles
Ably Expounded by the Great Leader.
LONDON, May 25.-Mr. Gladstone
made a great speech in the house of
commons against the Irish local govern
ment bill The Liberal leader was re-
ceived with loud and prolonged cheer
ing as he arose TO speak. His address
occupied an hour and ten minutes in its
delivery, and was frequently interrupted
by bursts Of applause. 1t was one Of
the Grand Old Mans most eloquent
effo rts, and had an electric effect upon
the house. The Liberals seemed frantic
with delight at the fire and energy dis
played by their octogenarian chief, while
the Conservatives listened with keen
interest to every point made by the ora
tor. Mr.. Gladstone began by saying
that the bill stamped Ireland and Irish
men with the brand of most ignominous
inequality as compared with Engl and
and Englishmen. The bill falsified even
the miserable and contracted relics of
the solemn pledges by which the present
majority was obtained by the govern
ment in 1885, The bill was one which
its promoters found it expedient to press
upon the people of Ireland for their ac-
ceptance by menacing them with the
horrors of civil war if they refused it.
What was Lord Salisbury's speech at
Covent Garden but an incitement to
civil WARP
In the whole domain Of political liter
ature it would be impossible to find an
utterance displaying more reckless con-
tempt for the dictates of wisdom, pru-
dence and sagacity. The government
had apparently ransacked the past for
all the most odiOus legislative prece-
dents, and combined them all in this one
measure, which was presented to the
people Of Ireland as a generous fulfill
ment of promises made. No self-re-
specting man could serve on the Irish
county councils under this bill in view
of its monstrous restrictions upon their
liberty Of action. To sum up, the bill
was branded in every clause with the
dent of the past had been utilized by its
trainers in order TO find provisions bad
enough for it. Everything good in
previous legislation had been left out
and everything bad inserted. The bill
embodied the refuse of political legisla-
ton. 1t was a measure that no self
respecting nation could accept.
Continuing, Mr.. Gladstone said: ut
is remarkable that we are now debating
a measure in regard to which we have
no means of forming a Judgment
whether it is seriously intended to be
passed into a law. This bill is the last
lingering representative of numerous
promises of local government for Ire
land on footing of full equality with
Great Britain.
Mr.. Gladstone then proceeded to ar
rain various Conservative and Liberal
Unionist talismen. He pointed out that
the bill was not even the minimum of
the promises with which the Tory lead
ers had kept their government in exist
ence for the last six years. These prom
ises, he said, had gone far beyond prom
ises of mere local institutions. He re-
viewed the utterances of Lord Harting-
ton and Joseph Chamberlain, who, he
said, had pledged themselves to every
thing short of an independent parlia-
| ment Mr.. Goshen, "never famous for
his liberality," and Lord Randolph
! Churchill had promised local govern
ment concurrent and equal with local
! government in Great Britain. The peo-
! pie in Ireland, however, were fighting
| for something more than local govern
! ment,
Then, returning to his attack upon
Lord Salisbury and his Ulster speech,
Mr.. Gladstone said: ut is imperative
that the country should know what de-
Tense it is proposed to offer of the use of
such language by such an exalted per-
son. This language was distinct en-
| couragement to few misguided states
men, capable in their fanaticism and
folly of embodying in deeds the prime
minister's words.
From this attack on Lord Salisbury he
passed again to scathing denunciation of
the measure. Every defect of local
government in Great Britain, he said,
"has been embodied in this bill, magni-
fed and exaggerated, and stripped of
every safeguard that might curtail its
mischief. Thus is the bill offered to
your sister country as the final boon of
a generous government to signify their
adequate sense Of Irish wants and their
disposition to outbid the Nationalists'
home rule by offering Ireland some
thing more beneficial. You are like the
man who, giving an entertainment one
night, sent round to every house in the
neighborhOod to ask for bones, waste
refuse, and washings, and then put them
together and served them to his guests
as banquet. That is jest in this coun-
try, but not jest in Ireland. 1t is the
reality Of the case before us now."
The speech created a profound inn
preston, which Mr.. Balfour, first lord
of the treasury, who Immediately rose
to reply, endeavored to dissipate by
launching into speech full of the sar-
casm and bitterness of attack for which
he is noted.
a Iyaru.
SPRINGFIELD, Mass, May 25.-The
government has awarded a large con