Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-02-16
HOME rule FOR IRELAND
MIR. Gladstone Introduces His
Bill in Commons.
AN OUTLINE OF THE MEASURE
The "Grand Old Man" Makes
a Grand Speech.
He is Given a Tremendous Ovation--
What the Bill Calls for--An Irish Par
Lament and Also Representation at
London.-some Changes May be Made.


the approaches crowded, and when the
doors opened there was a disorierly rush
for seats, the members shouting and
like n mob of cxcursi0nists on
bank holiday, several being thrown to the
floor in the excitement. The veteran
Caleb Wright Liberal NJ. 7. for South
west Lancashire, who is 50 years of age,
was unable to hold his own in the crush,
and fell down in the doorway. Others
were pushed upon him by the eager. heed
less throng, and he was trampled upon
more than once before the vigorous and
resolute labor Representatives, John Burns,
NJ. L. for Battersea, came to his rescue.
Every seat IN the house except the gov
eminent bench was occupied. Mr.. Glad.
stone entered the house at $50 o'clock.
Every Liberal and Irish Nationalist in the
house stood up, and greeted him with pro.
longed and enthusiastic cheers. When Mr..
Gladstone arose ut 3.43 o'clock to introduce
the Home Rule bill there was another
Representation, so earnest, so enthusiastic
and irrepressible that it was several min
utes before he could be heard. Mr.. Glad.
stone spoke as follows, i'll clear, strong
and resonant voice.
MIR. GLADsroSE's SPEECH.
II NAV without impropriety remind
the house that the voices which
usually pleaded the cause of Irish self
government in Irish affairs have within
these walls during the last seven years
been almost entirely mute. | return,
therefore, 10 the period Of 1856, when a
proposition of this kind was submitted on
the part of the government of the day
and | beg to remind the House of the
position then taken NJ by all the pro-
moters of these measures.
We said that we had arrived at q 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
conceptions ! have just referred to; the
other is the way of coercion. That is utr
contention. Ii will be the recollection OF
the House how that contention was most
stoutly and largely denied. 1t was said
over and over again by many members
opposite, we are not coercionists; We do
not adopt that alternative, and neither can
we adopt it, Ministerial cheers. That
assertion of theirs was undoubtedly suS.
tanned by the proposals, especially from
the dissentient Liberals, Of various plans
dealing with Irish affairs.
well, what has been the result of the
dilemma as it was then put forward on
this side OF the House and repealed by the
other2 Has our contention that the choice
lay between autonomy and coercion been
justified or not2 Liberal cheers What
has become Of each and all those impor.
tant schemes for giving ireland self-gov
eminent i'll provinces, and giving her even
u central establishment in Dublin, with
limited powers? All vanished into thin
air, but the reality remains. The roads
were still there-autonomy or coercion
The choice lay between them, and the
choice made was to repel autonomy and
embrace COERCION"
THE MEN OF ULSTER.
at is said and admit with truth, that
Ireland is not a united country. don't
deny that the division which exists is 9
fact of great moment. In truth, were Ire
land united, anything that can render Ire.
land formidable would becomemuch more
formidable. Were Ireland united all on
position would vanish rs shadow
Hear Heart
Ireland is not united in this sense, that
in one portion of the country not mere
majority of the higher classes, but con
siderable popular feeling, is opposed to the
present national movement. | will not at
tempt to measure this numerical strength
OF the minority. It is said by the party
opposite that the minority in the north Of
Ireland is arrayed i'll unalterable opposi.
tion to home rule.
'lInhappily, at the successful instigatior
of those whose plot it was to divide the
people of Ireland when they were united
at the close of the last century, through
the medium mainly of Orange lodges and
through religious luminosity, there was on
alteration OF feeling, but the Protestant,
of Ireland during the period of the indie.
pendent Irish Parliament were themselves
enthusiastic supporters of Irish nation
atty lnasmuch as their political life wa.
at that period more highly developed, they
led on the Roman Catholic population III
the political movement which distin.
guished that period, Cheers. This i.
written broadcast upon the history of tho
time. Genuine national interest, in til,
sense of national unity, has at one time
prevailed among the north Of lrelant
Pedestrians. We who have seen them alter
not through their own fault, are not ready
to be persuaded that they will not atei
back again to the sentiments of their owl
ancestors cheers and with their own
blood and their own people form one ii
noble, glorious unity
Abiding To English feeling towards
Irish home rule, Mr.. Gladstone said he
would refrain from urging that England
would find herself exhausted and hei
work made impraCticable by resistance t.
Irish demands. lie could well conceive
England maintaining il So minded, re
sistance to Irish demands. but England
conversion To home rule had been rapid
In lss8.Engand's majority adverse to hom,
rule was I'll, 1t had now declined to H. Ii
face of such fact, who would guarantee
the peTmanence of the opposition of tn,
remainder? Cheers. He would nov
ask the patient indulgence of the housC
whilst giving an account of the bill.
THE NEW HONE RULE hill.
at would be remembered that the bill
81 1856 lald down five propositions as car
dinal principles, to which he had cn
deayored to closely adhere. Change Their,
was, but not u trenchunt change, he de
clared, from the principles Of 1856. Tn,
object of the bill remained us in lSSG--tt
establish u legislative body in Dublin TO
the conduct OF both legislation and admin
istratiOn in Irish as distinct from impera
affairs. [Cheers
The limiting conditions which wer
then Observed he said, land have since
so far as we have been able to do, beef
sedulously and closely observed were these
We were to do nothing inconsistent witt
imperial unity. of this | will say, what
ever our opponents may, that so far as GU
convictions and intentions are concerne
they would be but fecbly stated BY bein
conched in the declaration that we do no
mean to impair it. We wish to strengthen
it. Cheers
FIRST, then, imperial unity is observe,
and the equality of all is observed
secondly, the equality of all the kingdom
would be borne III mind, and thirdly
there would be equitable re.partition .
imperial charge; fourthly, any and ever
practicable provision for the protection O
minOrities would be included. The plal
proposed ought to be such as 20 present til
necessary characteristics of Il real and con
tinucd settlement.
In the first place we have made it
desire to meet what we thought no IN
reasonable demand for the express men
tion Of the supremacy OF the lmperia
Parliament. There were two methods il
which that might be done. 1t might b.
done by clause; it might be done in tn
preamble. We have chosen the preamble