The state chronicle., 1892-08-10
FROM ACROSS THE WATER.
MIR. GLADSTONE SpE.xS m ,ruZ
QUEENS ADDRESS.
He Denies That the Government Has
Succeeded in Pacifying IreIend
-Debaten on Home Rule,

He Denies That the Government Has
Succeeded in Pacifying IreIend
-Debaten on Home Rule.
By Cable to the State Chronicle
LONDON, August 9.-Wild cries greet
ed MIR. Gladstone to-day when he rose to
speak on the Queens address. When
the applause subsidized Mr. Gladstone said
that there was just cause of complaint
against the government for having EN-
barked the house an utterly barren
and anonomalous debate. Hitherto the
Queens speech had always admitted |
that the result of general election was
binding and conclusive Now" added |
Mr.. Gladstone, 1--WE find the decision of |
the country challenged by the govern
ment; and this house has met to discuss |
it does not know what" conservative
and labor unionists cheers.) Mr.. |
Gladstone denied the government
had succeeded in pacifying Ire
and The land bill of 1887, he said.
ment's Irish rule on the whole had been
a hateful failure. The Liberals believed
as strongly as anyone in firm adm inis-
tration of the law, but they also held and
believed that the law ought to harmonic
with the opinions of the people. There
fore, said Mr.. Gladstone, he trusted that
the coercion act would not remain any
longer than necessary on the statute book.
He assured his followers that home rule
for Ireland still had the first place on
the programme Pledges to release the
prisoners held on charges of hav-
ing been implicated in dynamite
could only be given by responsible
ministers. He trusted that evicted ten
ants would be reinstated in the autumn,
by voluntary settlement between them
and the landlords on the principle
of the liberal proposals. If the lords
should reject the Home Ruie bill the
government would not be compelled to
resign He would decline to say more
on that subject at present Mr.. Glad
and Irish policy was based on a true
union of heart and sentiment, which was
the truest basis of strength at home and
of strength and good fame throughout
the civilized world Deafening cheers
greeted the close of Gladstone's remarks,
in which the Irish nationalists heartily
joined The Right Honorable A. J.
Balfour, conservative leader in the House,
followed Mr.. Gladstone. Mr.. Balfour
put forth all his powers Of sarcasm.
He taunted Mr.. Gladstone with dtscrib-
ing his Irish policy as moral, when 1t
was really and essentially immoral. Eng
land was a partner of Ireland, and GER
tainly had right to hearing in regard
to the proposed dissolution of the union.
The incoming government mustdecide the
, meaning of the phrase used by Mr.. Glad
, stone about administering law in Ire
land in sympathy with the opinions of
the community whether it would mean
. the release of the dynamiters, and
whether it would mean the restora-
ton in defiance of the local legal rights
of the thousand evicted Irish ten
ants. The incoming ministry might
6 possess a majority, but they would be
:. the slaves of their irish supporters. He
o Or Balfour) believed that the British
}, electors had returned many liberals
n under misapprehension. They inten
: ded that their candidates should dea
with domestic legislation, and when the,
: had fonnd out their mistake they woulo
turn again to the party able and willing
l to frame laws worthy of the genuine des
} tines, of the great empire. Mr.. Bal
fous speech was followed by prolonged
:. cheering on the part of the governmen
- supporters. Thomas Power O'Connor
:. Irish nationalist M. p. for the Scotland
division of Liverpool, retorted that th'
q conservatives had obtained power in 18S
by the help of the nationalist vote, an
o had not scrupled then to take office wit
is their assistance. Mr.. O'COnnOr also aC
lr cused the unionists of corrupt practice
! ! during the recent general election an
r cited several instances in which the la'
against such practices had been violated
d, w. Russell, liberal unionist. for Sout
lg Tyrone, replied to Mr.. O'Connor. 1t We
If absurd, he said, for members elected b
: the foulest priestly intimidation t
criticise the conduct of Englis
electors Home rule meant the degrt
,s datiOn of listers citizens, the destructio
NJ of religious liberty, the placing of civ
~ ~ rights at the disposal of the worlds mo.
3. 81 Unscrupulous politicians, the placing {
~ commerce at the mercy of men who ha
~ made Tipperary bowling wilderness
,e' 0. @ Darling, conservative for Dep
" ford, delivered an address full of prai
d; for Lord Salisbury. Col. Saundersol
to conservative for North Armagh, al
ur chief shouter for the men of Ulste
nd spoke luridly as to the results whit
would follow the Inauguration of hon
rule He contended that the Irish par
t., was controlled by Archbishop Walsh.
p3 the House of Lords should fail to reje
:. home rule, he said, the men of Ulst
IS would cIumbe the plan into the dus
| VIM. Redmond, Parnellite for Es
Glare, replied to Col. Saunderson, al
ridiculed the latter's remark as to ecc
;. sastical dominion of Irish politics.