The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-05-08
SALISBURY AND IRELAND.

The address Of Lord SALISBURY before
the Primrose League in London, a synopsis
of which was reported in TIE HERALD dis
patches Of yesterday, contained much that
is interesting in view OF the early dissolu-
ton of parliament and an appeal to the
English electors on those Issues which di-
vide the two great political parties Of Eng
land. The foremost question at issue is
the granting of home rule TO Ireland. The
great leader Of the opposition TO the present
government - GLADsToNE-has steadily
forced that issue to the front, and refuses
to allow any other to take its place as the
one great question to be settled. There is
no question bat The great majority of the
Irish people demand home rule; but the PEG
pie Of Ulster, the majority of whom are Pro
testant. are opposed to it, and ask that they
be not turned over to their traditional enc
mics, the Catholic majority of Ireland.
Satisfy the reasonable demands of the
Irish people for local self-goyernment
through parliament of their own. saws
GLADSTONE, voicing the sentiment of the
great Liberal party. Let us not desert our
Protestant friends in Ulster, replies SAILS
BURY. "Home rule" said he on FRIDAY
last "would place hostile island on our
flank, and subject to infinite damage and
disFraceful abandonment those in ireland
who have ever fought for our cause''-
meaning, of course, the Protestants OF
Ulster.
1t would appear that of late there has de-
veloped determination on the part of the
Protestants OF Ulster not to submit to the
local government in Ireland should one be
established, and there come threats Of
civil war should the Liberals be successful
in giving to Ireland self government. SAL.
IsBURY gave encouragement to that spiri,
in his speech before the Primrose League
when he said: 1.-The Obstetrics have been
tainted on their attitude Cthst of threat
ened. resistance to the local government
should home rule be eranted), but l do not
believe in the unqualified doctrine of pass
i've endurance" Lord SALISBURY makes
nothing in the announcement of that doe
trine. That IS just what his great oppo
nent, GLADSTONE, would say: ONLY
the latter would speak in behalf
of four-ifths of the Irish people
whereas Lord SALISBURY speaks only in
behalf of less than -ffth-the Protes.
tants Of Ulster. The Irish people. suffer
ing under a sense of accumulated wrong,
and continual oppression and Injustice
from the agents of the English government
sent to rule them, ask the privilege to gov
ern themselves by officers of their ovr
choosing, and laws of their own making
This reasonable demand Lord SA11sRuR,
and the party he leads refuse TO grant: aut
they adopt more despotic administration
in order to suppress the desire for self
government. The Irish people. like I. orr
SALISBURY, not believing in the'unouali6er
doctrine of passive endurance, have re
sisted as best they could-some,imes wit,
riots and violence-the oppression Of SAL.
IsBuRY's administration. Can his lordsbi,
blame them for applying his doctrine
He does not believe in UNQUALIFIED
J passive endurance; neither do tn,
Irish people. If he felt himself oppressed
beyond the limit of reasonable endurance