The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-04-07

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the house OF commons were filed, but
the house itself was not full when Mr.,
Gladstone rose to-day to move the Sec
ond reading OF the Irish home rule bill,
Mr. Gladstone said that the goYeEa-
ment had no intention OF amending the
bill as presented. except in some minor
particulars, He earnestly desired to
bring home to the minds OF the house
the question when this great contro'
versy was to end. [Cheers,l He did
not address tho question to tho
opposition in a spirit OF assum-
cd superiority, but he would rather
press it earnestly upon their hearts
and understandings as matter in
which both sides were equally interest
cd in. For many years the question OF
Irish homo rulo had blocked tho way OF
legislation. The Liberal party had
offered solution, but when they asked
their opponents where all this was to
end they rarely obtained an answer,
Certainly the opposition had not yet
venIured to point out n process where.
by the greatest OF Irish questions should
be decided apart from tho way in which
the home rule bill proposed to decide
1t. [Uheers,l
Mr.. Gladstone then proceeded with a
historic review OF the rise and the
causes OF tho demand for Irish home
rule. He said that tho progress OF
events in tho last century had proved
the fallacy OF the argument offered by
the opponents OF homo rule that time
and patience would SOC Ireland paci1ed
without special legislation. Never was
there time when the Irish people were
so near to acceptance Of the union as
during the first twenty.nine years after
the act OF union had been passed, and
the reason was not that they loved 1t,
but because they were trodden under
foot. ....
"Let tho house." Mr.. Gladstone con-
tinued. "look at the spectacle the world
offers in regard to its unions. In the
civilized world no incorporated union
effected and maintained by force has
ever prospered. This is q challenge OF
some boldness. Is it too bod%
Hero tho Rt. Hon. Sir Michael Hicks
Beach interrupted Mr.. Gladstone with
the remark: Take the case OF the
United States"
Mr.. Gladstone-I said incorporated
union. Liberal cheers. You missed
the essential word. ["Hear, hear."1
Holland and Belgium tried incorpor.
ated union, and after precarious exist
tence OF ffteon years divorce was Of
fected. Austria and Hungary tried in
Corporated union and after years OF sad
experience they found the choice lay in
giving it up or the empire. Cheers
ONIONS not incorporated but autono.
nous have been attended in all cases
with success, sometimes complete ard
always considerable. In the United
States each state had its own rights,
and any one in America daring to in.
terfere with these rights would be re-
garded as q madman. The colonies had
some points in common with Ireland.
The disease Of disaltection once permeat-
ed one, but remedy was found in self
government. Cheers.
Regarding the question OF finance,
Mr. Gladstone admitted that it was no
easy matter to disentangle the finances
Of countries associated for the last
ninety years. II could not be done in
any way free from inconvenience, but
the trouble was nero dust in tho bal.
ance compared with the vital import.
ance OF the great purpose of aiming at
the real union Of the two countries and
the consolidation OF the empire. Tho
bill carefully guarded the possibility OF
increasing imperial expenditure, whore.
OF Ireland ought to pay her share in the
won't OF war and other causes.
Tho rejection OF the home rule bill
wns moved by Sir Michael Hicks. Beach,
president Of the board OF trade in tho
last Salisbury cabinet. He taunted Mr..
Gladstone with having made long ex.
cursion into Irish history when he was
expected to answer the multitudinous
criticisms OF tho bill. Since the chnrac-
tor OF the measure had become known,
the most intense antagonism had devel.
oped against It. In large part OF Ire.
land, tho people were irreconciliably
opposed to all tho details as we'll as to
tho principle Of the bill. The north OF
Ireland rang with protests against tho
prime ministers proposals, yet the
primo minister ignored this remarkable
agitation and would not even pause in
his retrospect to answer tho arguments
behind 1t. Nevertheless, admitting
n unanimous sentiment in Ireland
for homo rule, the proposal for the dis.
solution OF tho union was rejected by
the other party to the bargain Tho
majority OF tho electors OF Great Britain
were CONVINCED that parliament was
persuaded to tako the fateiul stop now
PROPOSED could never retrace II without
plunRing the country into tho horrors
of civil wnr fChnnrg