The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-08-10
G[ADST0NE'S OPPOSITION
The Grand Old Man Takes the
Floor Against the Balfour
Government.
He Charges the Government With
Departing From All Historical
Precedonts.
That Position-HIs Position on
Home Rule.

LONDON, Aug. a.-In The house OF com.
mons to-day the first matter taken up WA
the case of ERan, the invincible, a~entencei
for imprisonment under the crimes act
The home secretary said he could not hole
out hopes for ERan's release soon. Low
ther. parliamentary secretary of the fors,Rr
Office, announced that the B, itish East Ar.
RIGA company had instructed it, officers Il
leave Uganda BY Aug. 81. Gladstone nov
began his speech against the government
lie said the government had departed from
all precedents in not r~esianing when the
verdict OF the country was against them. The
house had met. but what for? The queen.
speech told them nothing. Was the hous,
OF to fight the battles of, the last
six years over again. Never had n great
issue submitted to tho country been &C
fully discussed as the issue decided at the
last general election. Continuing, Glad.
stone said Goschen's remark that home
rule must b. carried out by the Irish ma
1oiitv II carried out all was not pertinent,
az the majority in the house is NO more
Irish than Scotch or Welch. Such an areu-
ment struck at the root of the constitution
of the United Kingdom. The conservatives
had said that home rule was not always q
prominent verdict. The people had shown
that the country meant it to be prominent.
and therefore put an and to the present
government. He said the coercion bill
ought not to be retained on the statute
book longer than require by parliamentary
usages.
Gladstone credited the present govern
mont with having inflicted on Ireland .
gross wrong in making her pretended rsp-
aration by . local government bill too lin
lutlon OF the Irish trouble. He aeknowl-
edged that the house must have some light
upon tho future, but 10 not possible for the
liberal government to say what measure
they would submit to parliament nix months
hence. In regard to the suggested holding
OF a session in November. he said any gov
ernment taking that course would show m
inadequate sense of the magnitude of ita
duty and the variety of subjects it had tc
deal with.
Ireland for years has been in the fore
front Of the battle and still held that posi-.
ton. The principles Of his home rule bill
are pretty we'll known. BY it's provisiont
there would be full and etfectuaI maints.
nance OF imperial supremacy while Ire.
affairs. Reduction of Isisk approximation
in the commons 10 also contemplated. The
conditions as to the form in which the
principles would be embodied are unesr-
tain. but it was the duty of the liberals TO
select the best, but not until they have
been placed in power. For seven years the
bill had received his first and absolutely at
tsntion, and would 80 continue till the end.
The house would pass . bill giving Ireland
self government and it would then 90 to
the lords. He would not argue upon the
probability Of the lords rejecting the bill.
line obligations of the liberal governments
would utterly forbid acqulescence in the
Rejection Of obligations to promote settle
ment OF the great subject. He said various
pressed while In the opposition represented
the essential character of the liberal policy.
In regard to the evicted tenants, Glad
stone expressed the hope that in the au-
tumn a voluntary arrangement between
landlord and tenant would obviate the no
eessity for such Legislation a. would become
ii no arrangements are made.
In concluding his speech Gladstone re-
to the conservative argument. that
the Irish majority ID trying to cosrce Eng
land. he held shat such was the strength
of England in relation to tho other king
doms that she never could be coerced by
them.
Balfour followed Gladstone. He main
tanned that the commons had u right to
know, before entrusting the government to
the liberals. what their policy was.
In regard to the PROPOSED vote of mo
continued Balfour, the gov
eminent might be in the minority. but
what was the majority? Had that motley
group the confidence of the house? Before
the government resigned they had a right
to ask what were the conditions under
which the alliance between the liberals and
Irish would be maintained2 what condi-
tions there were between nationalists who
had been squared and those who had not
squared? and what demands had been
made upon the liberals when they came
into power? II disturbances arose in Ire-
land, WAS disorder to have FREQ hand? Was
it . pat Of the compact that DAILY and
other convicted dynamiters should be let
loose upon the world?