New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-07-03
GLADSTONE AT GLASGOW.
HE CONTINUES HIS MIDLOTHIAN CAMPAIGN.
AN ENTHUSIASTIC RECEPTION GIVEN HIM-HIs
sPEECH-A LETTER on TIE NOTING
HAM

SPEECH-A LETTER on TIE NOTING
HAM SITUATION.
Glasgow July o-Mr. Gladstone arrived in this CITY
this afternoon. Rain wns falling. yet the streets
through which he passed were lined with crowds. who
kept ND n continuous round Oi cheering. on the way
10 the theatre, In which he t. deliver address.
Mr.. Gladstone met with enthusiastic reception An
immense crowd had assembled at the meeting. and
when the spcaser appeared or the platform he was
hard with every manifestation OF friendship and
respect.
Mr. Gladstone delivered Of his characteristic ad
dresses He warned his hearers against the folly Of
running rival Liberal candidates IN the present ecc
tons. lie said that unless the electors voted solely
for the candidates which the Liberal party selected
they might az well support the representatives, Of the
Conservatives
Reminding the audience OF the religious struggles
In scotland 1000 years ago, Mr. Gladstone said that
Southwest Scotland looked across the sea TO North
east ireland, and geography had more to 90 WIN
human sympathy than many were aware Of Tn
doubleday some vein OF sympathy with supposed
danger 10 Protestant interests in Ireland Influenced
the Scotch electors In 1856, TO the
detrment of the Liberal cause. lie wished
to point out that Ulster consisted OF nine
counties Of which four represented wholly by
Home Rulers. Tyrone, Down and Antrim being also
largely represented by Home Rulers. II was curious
met he said, that the cry Of alarm emaiated almost
entirely from that part Of the country where the
protestants In large majority. 1hc split o.
Irish nationality century ago was more VIVID III
Antrim and Down than elsewhere In Catholic Ireland
They not disguise from themselves the fact that
the Act OF Union was conceived I'm spirit Of hostility,
to Irish nationality and that Ind eaten
the spirit Of Nationality out OF the peer
age and the squirearhy OF Ireland and left
Thorn with nothing but their miserable antpathies
That spirit of asccndancy In faction and Clique nan
accumulated and originated al the Irsh TROUBLES
(Checrs.l
He was not man, he said to disparagc the
danger OF ecclesiastical power but 1t did not impress
him with great alarm. He greatly doubted whether
the power Of the Irish priesthood over their hooks
was as great 1t nifty years ago lie believed
that the more liberty accorded tie mass OF the
Irish people, the less risk there could possibly be Of
the surrender Of that liberty into the hands Of &c
clesiasticaI yower. tChcers) Whatever might be
said Of the Catholic clergy there never was clergy
that entered profoundly into the deepest wrong
which one nation inflicted upon another, or which
built lis power more upon the recollection Of IN
estinabe services and az he wanted TO dimin-
ish the power Of the clergy 10 rnis
its influence 10 an abusive height, his
plan would be TO put the people on fo0tlhe
OF Justice so that they would longer have motive
10 seek extrancous help. but 10 rest protected and
happy under the guidance Of a beneGcent government
OF equal laws (Cheers.) They ought ~ ask them
selves whether II the local clergy they had 10
fear or whether It not the danger 10 liberty DN
the undue tsmpsrng between England and home'
For nearly a century the British Government had
coquetted with Rome about lrland Now
a new phase appeared In the question Of mar
riages II WINS proposed 10 nulify the marriages OF
PERSONS abandoning the Catholic Church with vie"
10 eluding the Catholic marriage laws. surely that
was q private and personal concern The law had NO
right 10 Interfere between the private conscience and
God who ought 10 rule. Tint the work Of The
Lintorn simmons mission and the Salisbury Gov$n-
ment which had received the allegiance Of
Irish Prcsbyerians who solicited the confidence Of
the scotch I'csbyterians To watch the designs and
10 restrain The excuses OF ecclesiastical power
lie was palned and gi1eved beyond description ana
ashamed that these elements Of religious nnlmoiiJ
should be imported into civil. national and imperial
questions lie protested against the hard necessity and
the folly the Irish minority had laid them under IN ex
aiming the claims they made md showing how futile
they were tCheers)
The claims that tho Government was restoring order
in Ireland quite untenable Ireland had been In
fl STATE OF peace and order since 1854. She had al
ncurablo md unconquerible hostility toward the uh'
eounl laws and cOercve castle government winch
the present leader OF the Dssidcnt Liberals when H.
was III his right mind. described rs unex"mpled ana
ntoler,able To this hour the Government h1e been
unable u Induce anybody 70 take farm IN lr,iihu
from which the tenants had been cVlctcn Nh,,i
the Irish mind had acquired the confidence Of tn
British people the welcome awaited the worn.
:. cod save Englnndr ms God save Ireland and
stamped the real free and permanent union which
tween The two countries The land act Of l-e7
had done much 10 pacify Irennd but It could not b
compared win the silent alcmbraclng process whlcn
he described For upwards Of 500 years there hnd
been almost unbroken succession OF ponucu storm
ccpt when temponlrily interrupted by a period o.
Those storms were In strange contrast with the
ypsur viii fbo
hsn legend 6 rasns 10 The fnd
lima enation OF the people fastened lovely conceptions
upC star named after the honored heroes. CAslot
and Polux that It's Appearance IN the MIDST OF rns
Ing storm nj sea when despair settling on the
minds Of the crew, would gently ana ehrcthhIy Gls
perse the clouds abate the winds. calm the towering
pillows and bring them safely to port under rs bencii
cent influence. Cheers The Proposal %h GA u,, e
trusted and believed that they were about 10
carry 1T to triumphant issue IT hnd been To- irinma
s Td TO S ane oh happy a was believed be to
searnen Of Antiquity 1t had filed their hearts with
noIss and joy. and hid given promise Of holy and
happv hrothcrh0H exhibiting strength and harmony
at home-a brotherhood which, lcfor the world, ID.
stead M being n scandal should be II model example.
s6o%ng that they whose political wisdom for So
many purposes recognized by the civilized natIfns OF
Eur1pe and America had at length found The means
~ meeting this worst and oldest OF our difficulties.
shutting for disorder, misery and contention th'
actual arrival and yet fuller ripper promise OF reign
LOUD and prolonged cheers went nP At the Close Of
Gladstone driven 10 the RAILWAY station 10 take
n train for Dalmeny.
london. July 2.-ColUnel seoly an advocate Of the
Eght-IIour Miners bin. is opposing Mr. broadhursi
nc a candidate for Parliament In the West Nothing
hmm district Mr. Gladstone has written Il letter
to Mr. Broadhurst, In which he eulonzes the latiers
high sense OF duty, and says:
al Will say nothing against the Eight IIonr bill. 10
which many Of my honored friends like Mr hurI
are opposed, and whom 1t might be hard 10 coer'e'
But wish TO refer 10 the vital question whether
,ho Wcst nottingham miners for he sake Of an eight
hour day will elect enemy 10 the Liberal ana lrsh
cause I have long known II as characteristic OF
English worklngmen that they knew how to sacrihce
their own views and apparent interests 10 some woe
wcphtier cause. II for that during the American
war the population Of Lancashire cheerfuly en-
countered the cotton famine-becausc they hated
slavery.
aThe Nnttlnchnm miners hnve such shnrp allerIh-