The Irish standard., 1892-10-08
VIM. E. GLADSTONE:
The Great British Statesman Vim
dicates Irish Home Rule IN
Powerful Argument.
THE CASE OF IRELAND STATED
IN Reply to an Article blythe Duke
Of Argyll in the North Amer Il
lean Review. s ss ,}s.


of Argyll in the North Amer h
lean Review. . 81
Mr.. Gladstone has very able contri
button in the North American Review
for October entitled "a Vindication o.
Home Rule" It is in reply to an article
in the August number Of the same maga
1ne from the Duke of Argyll. Mr.
Gladstone, referring to the Dukes arti
ele, says:
1.-THE Irish nation had, between 1885,
and 1895, the management OF its own
affairs. What was the effect on Life and
property, on industry and progress? It
was confessed in the debates on the union
by both sides alike, and notably by Lord
Glare, that the period of Independence
had been period Of unexampled ms
terial progress. "Yes," it will be said,
"but this was under q Protestant Parlia-
ment;" and truly said. But itis also
true that this Protestant Parliament I'D
nitted Roman Catholics to the franchise
in 1893, and was ready to admit them tn
full equality in Parliament Id 1875, Waer,
the deplorable recall Of Lord FitzwiliiArn
arrested the national movement and
gave hope and life to faction. Nor isAit
less true that the Protestants of The
North then declared, with much more
appearance Of unanimity than has re-
Gently been seen in the opposite ssnse,
that the recens changes had both re-
moved all ground Of differences with
England and had anpited the Distracted
Irish people into one indissolv vable mass I
This was the declaration off forty i've
corps of volunteers published ats the
time; and the Duke Of Argyll cannot es-
cape from the force Of such original and
veighty testimony by describing II as
Initiated fable" sss5a s,5ss5
The article warns America against my
statements on Irish history gs :l1eiMg un>
trustworthy, This il quiet way 81, die
posing Of series OF utterances which gil
moderate volume, which are historical
in form, which supply references to test
their correctness, and which have re-
GENTLY been republished, 80 SO to give the
utmost facility for combustion. With
aheee facilities before him, the duke does
not refute even one of these statements.
But, instead Of refutation, he says, "for
example," that l have represented the
Gill of 1886 as only giving back TO Ireland
a limited share of what she hnd once on
ioyed, whereas she stnever has had a
Parliament with one-tenth of the enor
nous power given by that scheme" All
property and all liberty was left abso-
luteIy at the mercy Of the Irish Parlia-
ment. $50 monatrous a proposition had
never been made before BY any states
man. And this (supposed) misdescrip-.
tion Of my own bill is given by the writer
as proving my misrepresentation of
Irish history" which it ID plain he has
never examined, any more than he has
examined Irish history itself.
Ny description, however, of the bill
was perfectly accurate. The Parliament
of 1852 was in itself sovereign and indie
pendent, in the very same sense as the
Parliament Of Great Britain. The Par
lament contemplated in 1885 was at
once accepted, on behalf Of Irish Ma
tionalism, by Mr.. ParneM, as So subor-
dinate Parliament" But according to
the duke, the sovereign Parliament had
not one-tenth part Of the power of the
subordinate Parliament Let us look a
little closer into the matter The
Lament OF 1852 had tho power sto
upon peace and war, upon arrny, navy
and defense in general, upon comm
ana every description OF taxation, and
this power was all of it exclusive power.
But the bill of 1856 kept in imperial
hands. inter ALA, substantially and i be-
6eve in strict legal form, the whole of
these great Jurisdictions. Here IS in in
deed an arithmetic puzzle: Pariamentl
A has every Legislative power posse
by Parliament B, and he's in addition
the very highest matters placed within
its sphere, and yet, 30 says the writer of
the article, Parliament a has not one
tenth part Of the power Of Parliament B. /
Such are the exploits OF the o,1rrena
caIamua- 4. 81 4, sss5
It = true, indeed that neither pf The
schemes gave tto tto I ireland by law N, what's
CALLED IL i;t