The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1893-04-11
WHEN WILL II ALL END2
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Joseph Chamberlain Thinks the
Home Rule Bill viii Not
Quiet Ireland.
Gladstone Ia In Too Great Hurry
to Dispose of the Cues
ton.
Would Independent ireland support
England II War Should Come p
Quoted Against Himself.

LONDON, April 1O.-There was but thin
attendance in tho house OF commons to-day
when discussion was resumed ON the mo-
tion for the second reading Of the Irish
home rule bill. 1t was not until Joseph
Chamberlain arose that the house assumed
an aspect of interest and attention.
Chamberlain said the bill proposed to es-
tablish q brand new constitution for Ire
land. The prime minister asked them.
continued Chamberlain, to say when the
controversy would be settled II tho measure
should be rejected. The whole question
really was, would tho bill settle the con-
trovetsy? Was not Gladstone in too great
hurry, and was he not too impatient to deal
with the Irish difficulty? A new era had
opened for Ireland with the d~isestablish-
ment of the Irish church. Then the agraT-
ian question had been partly settled. Fin
ought to be given to allow for the the bene-
fcial operations of these other meas
ures. but the prime minister
said ireland 10 discontented; that no pro-
gross towards conciliation had been made.
If such was the case, then the predictions
of the prime minister regarding measures
he had already promoted for Ireland had
proved fallacious, and throw discredit on
similar predictions in regard to the present
measure giving Ireland II seperate leRisla-
ture. Probably. added Chamberlain. the
people of England would accept the bill If
they believed 1t would enable them to get
rid of the Irish question. [Hear! hear!l
But he feared it would do nothing Of the
kind. Gladstone had d~isregarded the
rights Of the minority and treated the most
influential and prosperous section of the
I1ish people with contempt.
Not Ireland alone. but England equally.
had reason to dread the results of the mea-
sure. The whole of the property classes.
bill. Had Gladstone said he had ever
known any state to succeed when the gov
eminent was opposed by a majority OF the
property owning classes? Even national
lists. in accepting the measure. did not ad-
nit that II was a 6nality. Did anybody
bill worth anything if the Irish majority
was determined to disregard them. True,
tho British parliament could enforce them
by civil war, but not otherwise. [Conser-
vativs cheers. II the government had the
courage of their convictions they ought
to sweep away the so-called safeguards IL
tho bill. But probably Gladstone still sus-
peoted the good intent of the men to whom
no was m~aneuverine to give the government
of Ireland. These were the men abOu'
whom he had formerly said they preached
the gospel of plumber and were marching
through rapine to the Acknowledgement o;
the empire.
Chamberlain quoted various utteranoe'
in the past of the present chancellor of th'
exchequer, the chancellor of the duchy 0
| Lancaster, and the secretary for Scotland
of an ulkind nature concerning some O
the Irish leaders, and added to these wer
the utterances Of foul ministers who NOV
lead the way in proposing to establish suol
parliament. He would not say that Ire
land. il England should be engaged in wal
would take sides against her. but. IL wa
with highlands opponents. thereby expos
ing England to the risk Of simultaneou
civil and foreign war. The danger was to
great and tho poaaibla Rain too small,