St. Paul daily globe., 1893-03-28
Mopley's Predecessor Charges
the Government With FoS-
tering Crime.
Gladstone Declares Clemency
Had Been Substituted
for Coercion.
The Vote Results in a Fair
Majority for the Gov
eminent.

condoning serious Otfenses, and thus
bringing the law into general contempt.
He made his attack upon the govern-
ment with exceptional vigor aud evoked
repeatedly loud cheers from the OppOSi-
ton benches. The present deplorable
state of affairs in Irei and, Mr.. BalfOur
said, was largely in consequence of
compact between the government and
the forces OF disorder. The ministry
had made with the Irish party an agree
ment, by which the administration OF
the law was being defeated. According
to the terms of this unwritten concord,
the government had coquetted with am
nesty, and had encouraged dishonest
tenants, through the evicted tenants
commission, to disOwn their obligations
and to treat malefactors. The govern
ment had fomented outrages by sus-
pending the crimes act and
Had Instigated Grimes
by the release of the dynamiters. The
government had not hesitated to take
steps which were in direct antagonism
to tine decisions of the courts.
Had not judge of high court of
justice declared that the chief secretary
for Ireland had acted Illegally in re-
ferring police protection to those whose
duty it was to enforce the law against
defaulting tenants? In certain districts
the direct cOuntenancing by the gov.
ernment of law breaking had APPALLING
consequences. Such state of lawleSS-
ness prevailed in them that no convlc-
tion could be obtained i'll cases of
agrarian crime, no matter how clear
aud undiSDuted the evidence. A new
reign of terror had been established.
Witnesses refused to appear to testify,
as they realized that the most
| convincing testimony would be vain.
while incurring the vengeance OF the
| criminal population. The victims Of
| the outrages also preferred to hold their
peace rather than render themselves
marked men. This was a high pricce
| for the government to pay for Irish sup
port, leaving the weak to be oppressed
| by the strong and the law-abiding to be
at the mercy OF the lawless; but the
government had not hesitated to pay it.
The Recent Outrages
in Counties Mayo, Glare. Limerick and
Kerry had shown plainly how remarka-
bic had been the recrudescence of crime
| in Ireland under the present govern
ment. In one of these counties lntlm-
dation had been carried so far that all
| the wrtS were sent through the post as
| the bailtfs did not dare to deliver them
| in person. The practice of boyc0ttIng
| had been revived in all its pristine ugll-
ness and vigor. The government, know
! ing, perhaps, the useleSSness of prose
| cutting offenders, had taken no
| steps to protect the victims. Dis
| graceful as were all these disorders,
| there was no sign OF an effort to stop
them. In fact, under the present gov
ernment they could not be expected to
cease before the chief secretary for Ire
| land should rally his courage, free him
| self from trammelS of his previous pol
icy and use in the defense of the law
| the powers which parliament had in
| trusted to him.
In answering Mr.. Balfour Mr.. Morley.
chief secretary for Ireland, directed at
tention to the fact that this was the
| fifth vote of cenSure moved within eight
| weeks. The right honorable gentle
man, moreover, had failed to Justify his
motion with one new fact or one fresh
| argument. Without exception, he had
| trOdden the way which hId become so
| familiar in the house in recent years.
| The right honorable gentleman had
sometime been listened to in the house
with admiration. Tonight, however, a
| person hearing
His Trivial Reasons
| in support of his motion could feel for
him nothing but pity. The leading
| charge against the government was that
they had concord with the Irish party.
He would not deny chat the present
administration tried to govern Ireland
in sympathy with the Irish people. If
| that was the heinous concord, he would
| plead guilty to being a party to it. AS
to the specific charge that he had
refused police protection to those who
| enforced the law, he would say that he
| had declined to protect night seizures,
and he felt justified in this action. The
| law on the subject was far from clear,
! and the highest authorities differed in
| their Interpretation of it.
| Mr.. Morley then rebutted in detail
| Mr.. Balfour's assertion that agrarian
| crime III Ireland had increased under
the Liberal government With multi
| plcity of statistics, he proved that un-
der the present executive this class of
| crime had decreased ii per cent. He
admitted that there had been three
cases of boycotting under the present
| ministry to two under the last Salisbury
| administration, but added that all the
| cases had been taken in hand by the
government If the right honorable
gentleman presented the best possible
case for vote of cenSure,' SAID Mr..
Morley, in conclusion, "the government
| need not fear the vote of the house or
the
Judgment of the COuntry.''
Il. W. Russell, member for South
Tyrone and one of the chief men of Ul-
ster, said that, after hearing such decla-
rations from the Irish secretary, he felt
that there was no law-breaker in Ire
land who could not rely upon the gov
ernment to minimize his otfense.
Arthur Hugh Smith Barry, Conserva-
tive for South Huntingdon, expressed
the conviction that the present govern
| ment would make Ireland uninhabitable
by persons desiring to lead lawful and
| orderly lives.
Mr.. Gladstone reproached the opposi-
ton with reSorting to a license of Ian
guage which they could not possibly
justify with facts. The present govern
ment, he said, had as great desire and
as strong an interest as had any of their
| predecessors in preserving law and or
der i'm Ireland. The present govern
ment had, however, different views as
to the best manner of dealing with the
| people. They had substituted midness
and clemency for coercion. The results
already apparent proved how success
fully
The New Policy Operated.
The severity of the sentences in Ire
land upon the boy Foley and other po-
litical offenders, Mr.. Gladstone contID-
ued, was feature of the coercive sys-
TEN. Such sentences never could have
been passed in England. The govern
ment sought to abolish this exceptional
mode of treatment-sOught to establish
q more equitable system of administra-
tiOn. They aimed at laying the foun-
dation of order in the hearts and un der
standing of the people of Ireland. The
Liberal party refused to believe that