The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1893-02-14

The Grand Old Man Makes One Of the
Efforts or His Life. Speaking Over
Two Hours.
He Ia Greeted by Storms or Applause
from the Liberals Short Synopsis
of His Speech.

LONDON, Feb. 14.-Upon inquiry at
Downing street it WAS learned that
Mr.. Gladstone wasin admirable form and
looking forward with pleasure to the
exertion of the day. He slept well dur
ing the night and began work at $50
O'Clock, assisted by his secretaries.
When the doors of the house of COM
mons opened at noon therelwa great
rush for seats, and in few moments
every place was filled.
Mr.. Gladstone entered the house OF
commons at 3:3o O'Clock. Every Liberal
and Irish Nationalist in the house stood
up and greeted him with prolonged
cheers When Mr. Gladstone arose at
3.43 to introduce the home rule bill
there was another fine demonstration,
SO earnest. SO enthusiastic and irrepress-
ible that it was several minutes before
he could be heard.
MIR. Gladstone's Speech
Mr.. Gladstone spoke as follows in q
clear. strong and resonant voice:
] may without impiopriety. remind the
house that the voices which usually pleaded
the cause of Irish self government in Irish af-
| fairs, have within these walls during the last
| seven years, been almost entirely mute. re,
| turn, therefore, to the period Of 1885, when .
/ proposition of this kind was submitted on the
/ part of the government of the day and being to
remind the house of the reyersion then taken
| by all the promoters of their measures. We
| said that we had arrived ut a point in our
| transactions with Ireland where the two roads
parted You have. we said, to choose one or
| the other One is the way of Irish autonomy
| according to the constructions have Just re-
| ferred to- the other il the way of
/ coercion. That is our contention.
II will be the recollection OF the house
i that that contention was most stoutly and
/ largely deniei. Ii WAS said over and cvf 4
again by many members opposite, I'VE nj 4
| not coercionists; we do not adopt that altern&
4 tive, and neither can we adept it," IMiniete-
rial cheersl The assertion of theirs was unan-
imonsly sustained by the proposals, especially
from the dissenting Liberals, Of various plans
dealing with Irish affairs Those plans, though
they fell entirely short in principle and In
scope of Irish self-government. yet were of no
| trivial or mean Importance They went far
| beyond what heretofore has been usually pro
posed in the way of self government for Ire
| land. Well, what has been the result of the
| dilemma as 1t WAS then put forward on this
side of the house and repelled by the otheri
| Has our contention that the choice lay between
autonomy and coercioH between justified or
| not? II4iberat cfeers.l What has become OF
each and all OF those important schemes foi
giving Ireland self government in provinces
and giving her even central establishment
in Dublin, with limited powers2 All vanished
in thin air, bet the reality remains. The roads
were still the autonomy or coercion. The
choice lay between them, and the choice made
| was TO r2Dei autonomy and embrace coercion
| You cennGt always follow coercion in abso
lutely uniform method. In 1856, for the frs
| time, cGerCioH was imposed ON Ireland in tn,
shape of a permanent law, added to the statut,
book. This state of things constituted an offer
ing against the harmony ard traditions of sci
government. 1t was distinct and violen
breach OF the promise on the faith of which
union was obtained. That permanent system
of repression Inflicted upon the country a stat
of things wE:ca could not continue to exist. /
was impossible TO bring the inhabitants of TIN
country under coercion into sympathy witt
| the coercion power
/ Mr.. Gladstone proceeded to dilate a
length ON the circumstances under
, which the act of union was passed, tn,
promise of equality in the laws and o
| commercial equality under which unioi
was effected. 1t was then prophesiei
confidently, he said, that Irishmal
would take their places in the cabine
: of the United Kingdom, but it had beer
! his honored destiny to sit in cabinet
. with no less than sixty or sevent,
!, statesmen, of whom only one, the Duk
of Wellington, was an Irishman, Will
!, Castlerough was the only other Irish
, man who had sat in the cabinet sine
union. Pitt promised equal laws whel
the union was formed, but the broker
! promises made to Ireland were unhap
PLY written in indellible characters il
the history of the country
Spoke for Two Hours.
Mr.. Gladstone spoke continuously fo
f,xrar. frrn hours 1.r,r,cI Irdirnnc his, c,.nnc