The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1893-02-14
HOME RULE FOR IRELAND
Gladstone Presents His Scheme in
the British House.
PROVISIONS OF THE MEASURE

tht hiciiuers VI llle mouse Ol commons ana
others to obtain seats to listen to what was
generally considered masterpiece o!
oratory when Mr. Gladstone made his
speech giving the details of the Irish hom,
rule bill produced the oldest mixture Of
the members The seating capacity of the
house. as is well known, Is entirely too
small to accommodate even the members,
and the time honored circumstances OF
the members who could get seats sitting
together according to their political pred;-
lectons, was yesterday honored more In the
breach than the observance. Radicals and
iaborists sat cheek by jowl with the bluest
OF the blue tories, Colonel Saunderson, to
whom home rule is as a red flag Haunting
In the face of a bull found himself sitting
among the warmest supporters of Mr.,
Gladstone's scheme. DIR Charles Tanner.
the anti-Parnellite member, representing
the middle division of Cork, was made up
with the tory rout below ths gangway
The whole political aspect of the house
was changed by the commingling of the
parties.
All the galleries were packed to their
fullest capacity. Justice Harlan. OF the
United States supreme court, who will
shortly proceed to Paris to take part in
the Behring sea conference, had seat
In the diplomatic gallery He was ac-
companied by Hon. Robert T. Lincoln,
the United States minister Scores OF
other noted strangers were in the gallery
The noise Of conversation and the hub
bnb of people moving throughout the
house drowned the initial business, which
was conducted almost in dumb show The
preliminaries to the event OF the day were
dispatched in about half an hour.
The Premier's Reception.
Mr.. Gladstone during all this time was
not in the house. While it was going on
he and Mrs. Gladstone left their official
residence in Downing street. A large
crowd had long been waiting theirappear-
RRce, and when Mrs Gladstone came out,
carrying large bunch of lilies, she was
Justify cheered. She was followed closely
by Mr.. Gladstone, who, as he emerged
from his home, was greeted with renewed
Rha prolonged cheering.
Upon arriving at the house Mrs Glad
stone went to the Indies gallery, where
her favorite seat had been reserved for her,
Gfoups OF people awaited along Parlia-
munt street the coming of the prime minis
teT. AS his carriage passed he was cheered
to the echo. The people roared themselves
huarse as Mr. Gladstone, bowling and smil-
ing, entered the yard.
When the premier entered the house Of
commons every Liberal and Irish Nation
alist IN the house stood up and greeted
hin with prolonged cheers. When he
arose to INTRODUCES the home rule bill there
was another demonstration so earnest, so
enthusiastic and irrepressible that it was
several minutes before he could be heard.
Mr.. G1adstone's Speech.
Mr.. Gladstone spoke in clear, strong
aEsl resonant voice, and his speech was re-
a1 l.r int, Il A, =
plsuse He said in part:
what has become of each and all of
those important schemes for giving Ire
laad self government in provinces, and
giving her even central establishment
In Dublin, with n,nited powers2 All
vanished into thin air. But the reality re-
mains. The roads were still there an-
tcnOmy or coercion The choice lay be-
tween them, and the choice made was to
repel autpnomy a1t embrace coercion
You cnnnoi alNtwN ollow coercion in an
absolutely uniform, method. In 1885 for
ths first time coercion was imposed on Ire
land In the shape of u permanent law
added to the statute book.
~fhls stnte Of t!inss constituted an
offending against the harmony aud ira
disions Of government. II was dis,
tinGt and violent breach of the promise on
L.
The permanent system of repression IN
6icted upon the country state of things
which could not continue to exist. 1t was
impossible to bring the inhabitants of the
country under coercion into sympathy
with the coerciye power. y
Mr. Gladstone proceeded to dlate at
ienEth upon the circumstances under
which The act of Union was passed, the
promise OF equality in the laws and of
commercial equality under which union
was effected. 1t was then prophesiad
confidently, he said, that Irishnen would
take their places in the cabinet of the
United Kingdom.
Broken Promises.
But 1t had been his honored de stiny to
nit IN cabinets with no less than sixty to
seventy statesmen, of VIII ON only one the
Duke of Wellington, was an lrshman
while Castlereagh was the only other Irish
man who had sat in the cabinet sim G
union. Pitt promised equal laws when
the union was formed, but the broken
promises made to ireland were unhappily
written in ndelible characters in the his
toty of the country. Continuing he said:
Coming to 1882, when the resurrection
Of the people began, and thence down to
1850, Ireland coald present only "a small
minority in favor of restoring to her some
thing IN the nature of constitutional rights
and practical self government 1t Is to me
astonishing that 50 little weight is at
tached by many to the fact that before 1886
before 1855 indeed-frsh wishes of self
government We're repre- sented only by a
small minority. Since 1883, when the wide
extension OF the franchise was protected
by the secret ballot, Ireland's position has
been improved in parliament,
''ln lSsb there We're but eighty-fiye Ma
tionallsls or more than fiye-eighths They
have been reduced from eighty five toeighty
under circumstances somewhat peculiar,
aud must frankly own to myself among
others for reasons totally and absolutely
unintelligible. Let us look at the state OF
the case, as it now stands. There are bat
eighty out of l0l-that is to say the wisl.e
of Ireland for Irish self government In Irish
matters are represented only by four-tifths
Honorable gentlemen seem TO have nc
respect for such u majority as that. Do
they recollect, sir, that never in England
has there been such majority. No parlia-
ment within the last tifty years has come
within measurable distance of it.
Ireland Disunited.
at is said, and admit with truth, that
ireland is not united country. | don't
deny thab the division which exists is @
fact of great moment. In truth, We're Ire
land united, anything that can render Ire.
land formidable would become much more
formidable. Were Ireland united all op
position would vanish as a shadow.
Genuine national interest, in the sens
of national unity, has at one time pre-
vailed among the North of Ireland Protes
tants. We who have seen them alter, no
through their own fault, are hot ready Il
hat 1aI . hat haU YIi1 p1 al n hnpt