The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-08-04

II viii be contested bitterly By the Con-
servatives, and every device OF parliament
arv obstruction will be used 10 bea. it.
When il reaches the house of lords is
will be thrown ont, and it il quite prob
able that there will be another general
election in the summer OF next year. The
present purpose of Gladstone Is 10 secure
10 the Irish permanent representation in
the imperial parliament, while at the
organic scheme Of seif-government CORE
spending to state constitution under our
federal government With the retention
Of Ireland representatives in the imperial
parliament. the plan of home rule for Ire
land could always be revised and amended
BY the imperial body that granted 1t.
The new home rule plan devised by Mr..
Gladstone 10 understood TO include funds
mental guarantees of civil and religious
liberty that the local Dublin parliament
could not disturb. Since 1851 the imperial
parliament, whether Liberal or Conserva-
tive. has repeatedly interfered with con-
tracts between landlords and tenants, and
it is probable that the present scheme for
home rule does not deny to the proposed
Dublin legislature the same power Of inter-
position. OF course, without this grant
home rule would not be worth much 70
Ireland in abatement Of deep-seated Irish
grievances.
The Ailotments Bill, as originally intro
duced by the Tory Balfour in the house
of commons. made it compulsory upon
English landlords to give up parcels of
their land for distribution among farm
laborers. So if home rule is carried il viii
clothe the proposed Dublin Legislature
with power 10 regulate the relations of
landlord and tenant With the exception
OF those relating to land, the sacredness
of all contracts will be maintained. The
Dublin legislature contemplated By Mr..
Gladstone would be subject TO amendment
at the hands Of the imperial assembly
which created it. There does not there
fore seem 10 be any good ground for the
Tory denunciation of home rule for
Ireland; it is only an experiment;
England has once before granted
home rule TO Ireland and subsequently
secured the extinction of "Grattan's Par.
lament" by the so-called Act Of Union,
from whose passage has dated the worst
acts of England's misgovernment of Ire
land.
The complaint of the Irish is that though
represented in the British parliament,
they are wholly outvoted on local matters.
and the wishes of the great majority Of
their representatives are ignored; that the
imperial parliament is 80 engrossed with
English, Scotch and imperial affairs that
Irish matters have been ruinously neg
lected.
Mr.. Richard II. Dana in the latest num-
Der of the Forum shows that Ireland's
quarrel with England is the denial Of the
quarrel that lost Great Britain her mag
nihcent American colonies. There was
nothing in the stamp act or its amount
that enraged America; il was the passage
of the act without the consent of the colon.
lists, who objected even to the payment of
the salaries of colonial judges and gov
ernors by the crown as sin dero.
CATION Of fundamental rights" Mr..
Dana persists that 1.-The mere
'declaratory act stating the full
power Of the British parliament to
make laws binding on the Ameri-
can colonies. provoked couuter-affirm-
atoms of no such authority without
our consent The .mutiny acts quarter
ing troops on Us: the navigation acts
limiting our trade and the vessels in
which and places 10 which We could carry
our goods; the Townsend acts. appointing
commissioners 10 execute trade laws and
the crowns interference with our efforts
TO prevent slavery-an special acts apply
ing to the colonies only and made with
out their consent-were also causes Of dis.
content"
There was the boycott" then against
merchants buying English goods: there
was general agreement not u pay
100000 of private debts due English
merchants until our rights" were recog-
nized. There was, therefore. "a plan of
campaign" there were illegal meetings in
defiance of law, and the speeches of
Washington and Patrick Henry sounded 10
English Tories then as badly as the
speeches of Irish agitators sound in Tory
ears today. The sending of troops TO
Boston in ITO was in execution of acts
of coercion" by the crown. Then a sea-
son OF riots and violence TO persons and
property that made an Ireland of Massa-
chusetts and Rhode Island. The boycott
.ers of ENGLISH goods ipriu3sd Washirc
ton, Jefferson. Randolph and Henry.
This drifted st last into war, and finally
We won not only home rule but independ-
enee. which We did not originally desire or
contemplate: then England granted home
rule 70 her other colonies and they
remained LOYAL.
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