The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-04-11
Chamberlain's Speech in Opposi-
ton to the Measure.
A NEW ERA FOR IRELAND.
Will The Homo Rule Bill Settle the
CONTROVERSY
If So the People of England Would accept
Ii and Thus Get Rid of the Irish
observation-disclosures Foreign
Matters.

AONOONJ April 1O.-lnerS was Du6
thin attendance in the house Of commons
today when the discussion was resumed
on the motion for a second reading of the
Irish home rule bill. 1t was not until
Chamberlain arose that the house resumed
an aspect of interest and attention.
Chamberlain said the bill proposed to es-
tablish brand new constitution for Ire
land. The prime minister had asked
them, continued Chamberlain, when the
controversy would be settled, if the meas
ure should be rejected. The whole ques-
ton really was. would the bill settle the
controversy? Was not Gladstone in too
great hurry and was he not too impa-
tent to deal with the Irish difficulty? a
new era had opened for Ireland with the
disestablishment of the Irish church.
| Then the agrarian question had been
partly settled.
Time ought to be given to allow for the
beneficial operation OF these other meas
ures, but the prime minister said Ireland
was still discontented and that no prog
ress toward Cancellation had been made.
If such was the case, then the predictions
J OF the prime minister regarding the
measures he had already promoted for
| Ireland had proved fallacious and threw
discredit on similar predictions in regard
to the present measure, giving Ireland
| separate Legislature probably. The peo-
pie of England would accept the bill if
they believed it would enable them to get
rid of the Irish question. Hear, hearl)
But he feared it would do nothing of the
kind.
Gladstone had disregarded the rights Of
the majority and treated a most infiuen-
tial and prosperous section of the Irish
people with contempt.
i ut Tpo1 nd al br1fE norIo If.-
had reason to decide the results of the
measure. The whole of the property
! classes, whatever their religion, was op-
posed to the bill. Gladstone said he had
never known any state to succeed when the
government was opposed bv majority of
the property owning classes. Even Ma
| tionalists in accepting the measure did
not admit that it was a fnality. Did
anybody consider the so-called safeguards
in the bill worth anything if the Irish
majority was determined to dis
regard them? True the British par
! Lament could enforce them by
civil war but not otherwise. Con
had the courage of their convictions they
ought to sweep away the so called safe
| guards in the bill. But probably Glad
stone still respected the good intent Of
the men to whom he was maneuvering
to give the government of Ireland. These
were men about whom he formerly said
| they preached the gospel of plumber and
were marching through rapine to the
dismembermen of the empire.
Chamberlain quoted various utterances
in the past of the present chancellor Of
the exchequer, chancellor of the Duchy
of Lancaster and secretary for Scotland Of
an unkiDd nature concerning some OF the
Irish leaders, and added the answers and
| utteranceS of four miners who now lead
/ tho in T1TOnOQiOO fO abolish Cn0h q
parliament. He would not say that Ire
land, if England should be engaged in
war, would take sides against her, but it
was possible that the sympathy of Irish
members would be with England's oppo
nents, thereby exposing England to the
risk of simultaneous civil and foreign
war. The danger was too great and the
possible gain too small.
Justin Mccarthy, leader Of the anti
Parnellites, rld1culed Chamberlain S
prophecy of disaster. The Irish people,
he said, hailed the bill as a pledge that
their aspirations would be satisfied. They
would accept it as a message of lasting
peace. He could not say the Irish party
were quite satisfied with the financial
clauses of the home rule bill. Neverthe-
less they accepted the bill generally as an
honest settlement of the question [Cheers.
So far as the Irish could foresee, it might
prove a final settlement, and il the bill
carried JQ6 prime MINISTER WOulQ VIII LuS
undying gratitude Of millions of men.
Prolonged cheers
William Redmond, leader Of the Par
nellites, ridiculed the idea that Ulster
had anything to fear from Catholic Ire
land. II disturbances follow the passage
of the bill they would be due to the con-
duct OF the opposition leaders who had
not hesitated to excite the worst passions
OF both Catholics and Protestants.
Sir George Trevellyan, secretary for
Scotland, who followed Redmond, made
an elaborate defense Of the bill. Lead
ing Conservative statesmen, he said,
were indulging in prospective justi6ca-
ton of civil war in Ireland. Men who
were talking so loudly about fighting
were not of the fighting kind. Such in
temperate speeches as were made daily
with the approval of the opposition
leaders could not fail, however, to pro-
duce violent displays of fanaticism.
After Ashmead Bartlett Conservative
had spoken against the bill the house ad-
journed.