St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-11-30
Outline OF a Purported Home
Rule Plan Of Mr.. Glad
y stone.
1t Is Proposed to Divide the
Emerald Isle Into Four
Provinces,
Each One of Which Is to Have
a House Of Represent
Il atives.
DIriShmen on Both Sides Of
;. the Atlantic Condemn
the Plan.

NEW I DIRK, NOV. 29.-Ine lines
this morning prints complete outline
of what it purports to be the plan Mr..
Gladstone proposes to offer to the Brit
ish house OF commons as a solution OF
the problem of Ireland's Self-goyern-
ment, which has confronted the English
government for so many years. The de-
tails as they are presented, the Times
says. may lie accepted as authentic.
They were published Sunday in the
Baltimore Sun as the views of a lead
ing thinker" The Times has received
assurance that they are Mr.. Gladstone's
ideas and that he will submit them in
the home rule bill which lie is now
framing. This assurance comes through
an autograph letter written by semitic
man who Is very close to the prime min
ister Tie plan and the arguments TO
sustain iC are substantially as follows:
The right of Ireland to home rule has
been admitted by all political parties
ana IS, indeed. based upon the funda-
mental principle or the British constl-
tuition. But what is right may not
always be expedIent. This is the only
solid ground OF opposition to home rule
solid, that is to say, only in the event
of specific allegations of ineXpediency
being undisposed of by the particular
measure of home rule proposed.
Objections to Home Rule.
The alleged inexpediences of home
rule for Ireland follow, and are: First
That parliament elected from the
whole of Ireland would dominate Ulster
III an intolerable manner Second
That an Irish parliament would be the
tool Of the Roman Catholic hierarchy,
and would be int0lerable to The Prot
eStants of Ireland. Third-That an
irish parliament would confiscate the
property of the large land owners.
Fourth-That an Irish parliament would
mean the creation OF hostile and dan :
gerous enemy on the very coast of Eng
land. Flfth--That any contribution to
the imperial eXchequer would soon be
regarded as an intOleraDe tribute.
Sixth That the Inter-relations of Ire
land and Great Britain have become SO
Complex and innumerable by the long
continued fusion of families and BUSH
ness affairs between the two countries
that it will Surpass the art OF man to dis
sever the nation in any just and practi-
cable manner.
That these are serious difficulties
must be conceded by every calm OBJ
server. That they are insuperable is
not 50 manifest. Indeed, it seems pos
SiDle to frame measure of home rule
that will Surm0unt them all. For eX
ample. let the measure make Of ireland
d dominion divided into four provinces,
viz: Ulster, Munster, Connaught and
Leinster. Let
~ EacY, Province
have its own house OF representatives,
elected by manhood suffrage and equal
electoral districts, and let each house of
representatives elect number (pro-
pOrtioned to the population of the PROV
ince) of life senators to meet III Dublin
and. there constitute an Irish senate.
Let each province have governor APP
pointed by the crown, and let the gov
ernor of LelnSter be also the president of
the Irish senate Let all the acts of pro-
vincial parliament have the full power
OF the government of an American
state, and let the irish senate have the
full powers of the United States federal
government, with the following liinita-
tons:
A-No armed forces, fortreSses, ar
senalS or ships of war to be created OF
maintained other than such as may be
appointed by the imperial parliament of
Great Britain aud Ireland. B-No rela-
tions with foreign powers to be eStab-
lished except as arranged by the i'm
perial parliament. C--No taxes to he
imposed upon commerce between Ire
land and any other British country. ID
No legislation. be it either senate or
provincial parliament, to take place In
violation OF personal liberty or personal
freedom or religious belief and thought
or in confiScation of private property.
E-The c0nstitutionaltv or otherwise of
ANY Legislation.
whether by the Irish senate or any pro-
vincial parliament. to be subject to the
adjudication of the judicial committee
of the privy council. The sovereignty
of the crown to be maintained and anv
decision of the crown in council TO be
enforced by warrant addressed to the
governor OF the province. Let Ireland
be represented in the imperial parlia
ment by, say eighty members, twenty
being elected by the people OF each
province This measure of home rule
would dispose of the aforementioned
objections.
Eugene Kelly the banker, who has
probably done more for home rule in
practical way than any other man in
America. was very OutSpoken last night
i'm his approval of Gladstone'S proposed
home rule measure. After studying the
details very carefully. he said:
IF these are really Mr.. GiadStone'S
ideas | think the Irish should accept
them. His heart has been in this move
ment for great many years. and we
may all rest assured that he will offer
the best he cam
Ex-Mayor Grace, who is one of the
representative 1rishmen of America,
condemned the proposed plan from be-
ginning to end. Other prominent Irish
men, such as Judge Nj. j. O'Brien, j. j.
iODonahue, DIR. o. S. Emmett and Miles
M. O'Brien. either declined to express