St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-07-03
GLADsTONE's COUNSEL.
Liberals Warned Against a DAN
gerOuS Division.

gerOuS Division.
GLASGOW, July 2.-Mr. Gladstone
arrived in this city this afternoon. The
streets through which he passed were
lined with crowds, who kept up con-
tinuous round of enthusiastic cheering.
An immense crowd had gathered at the
meeting. and when the speaker appeared
on the platform he was hailed with
every manifestation OF friendship and
respect. Mr.. Gladstone delivered one
of his characteristic addresses. He
warned his hearers against the folly of
running rival Liberal candidates in the
present elections. He said that unless
the electors voted solely for the candi-
dates the Liberal party selected they
might as we'll support the representa-
tives of the Conservatives.
Reminding the audience of the religi-
Gus struggles in Scotland 200 years ago,
Mr.. Gladstone said that Southwest Scot
land looked across tine sea to Northeast
Ireland, and geography had more to do
with human sympathy than many were
aware of. Undoubtedly some vein of
stimulants. with supposed danger to
Protestant interests IN Ireland. liz
the detriment of the Liberal cause.
He wished to point out that Ulster
consisted of nine counties, of which
four were represented wholly by home
rulers; Tyrone, Down and Antrim
being largely represented by home
rulers. 1t was curious fact, he said,
that the cry of alarm emanated almost
entirely from that part of the country
where the Protestants> are in large
majority. The spirit of Irish nationality
century ago was more vivid in Antrim
and Down and elsewhere in Catholic
Ireland.
He proceeded to argue the disastrous
principle that Protestant ascendency,
through the possession of land and pub
lie authority, was used to goad prac--
tically a united country i'll Its partial
rebellion in order to split it into par
ties. They must not disguise from
themselves the fact that the act of
union was conceived i'll spirit of utter
hostility to Irish nationality. That it
was that had eaten the spirit Of nation
ality out of the peerage and the squire
archy of Ireland, and left them with
nothing but their miserable antipathies.
That spirit of ascendency in faction
and clique had accumulated and origin
ated all the Irish troubles. [Cheers.
He was not a man to disparage the dan
gers of ecclesiastical powers; but it did
not impress him with great alarm. He
greatly doubted whether the power OF
the Irish priesthood over their focks
was as great as it was fifty years ago.
He believed that the more liberty was
accorded the mass of the Irish people
the less risk there could possibly be of
the surrender of that liberty into the
hands of ecclesiastical power. Cheers.
Whatever might be said OF the Cath
Ollie clergy. there never was a clergy that
entered more profoundly into the deep
est wrongs which one nation inflicted
upon another, or which built its power
more upon the recollection of inestima-
BILE services: and he wanted to diminish
the power of the clergy'S influence to no
abusive extent. His idea. would he to
put the people on a footing of justice,
so that they would no longer have
motive to seek eXtraneous help, but
to rest protected and happy under the
guidance Of a beneficent government
of equal laws. [Cheers.] They ought to
ask themselves whether it was the
clergy they had to fear or whether it
was not the danger to liberty by the
undue tempering between England and
Rome. For nearly century the Brit
ish government had coQuetted with
Rome about Ireland.
Now a new phase appeared in the
question of marriage. 1t was proposed
to nullify the marriages of persons
abandoning the Catholic church with
view to eluding the Catholic mar
rage law. Surely that was a pri-
vate and personal concern. The law had
no right to interfere between private
conscience and God, who ought to rule.
That was the work of the Lintoru. Sim
mons mission and the Salisbury gov
eminent, which had received the allie
glance of Irish Presbyterians, who So
licited the confidence of the Scotch
Presbyterians. to watch the designs and
to restrain the exercises of the ecclesi-
astical power. He was panied and
grieved beyond description and ashamed
that these elements of religious animos-
ity should be imported into civil, ma
tional and imnerial questions