Morning journal and courier., 1893-04-07
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From All Quarters.
NATION AGAINST NATION
GIadstone's Able Speech
for Home Rule.
REPORTS OF the HElL1Hs BOARDS.
DR.. C. A. Lindsey Responds
to Connecticut.
TO SUCCEED PRESIDENT MCLEOD.
j. G. Carter Twists the Tail
Of the British Lion.
TO SUCCEED President MCLEOD.
FIGHTING FOR HOME RULE.

| Mr.. Gladstone Delivers an Able Ad.
| dress In the House OF Commons-Al
| One Time 1t Was Between Glass and
Nation, but Now 1t Is a Contest OF
Nation Against Nation.
| LONDON. April 6.-The galleries of the
house were full but the house itself was
3:45 p. m. to move the second reading OF
the home rule Mr.. Gladstone said that
the government had no intention of
amending the bill as presented, except in
some minor particulars. He earnestly de-
! sired to bring home to the mind of the
| house the question when this great con-
troversy was to end. [Cheers.] He did
not address the question to the opposition
in spirit of assumed superiority, but he
would rather press 1t earnestly upon their
hearts and understandings as matter in
which both sides are equally interested.
For many years the question of Irish home
rule had blocked the way of legislation.
The liberal p ,rty had offered solution,
but when they asked their opponents where
all this was to end, they rarely obtained
an answer. Certainly the opposition has
not yet ventured to point out process
whereby the greatest of Irish questions
should be decided apart from the way in
which the home rule bill proposed to de-
eide it. [Cheers].
Mr.. Gladstone proceeded with historic
development of the results and the cause
for home rule and said that the passage of
events in the past century had proved the
fallacy of the argument offered by the
pf5 Of he h1v, lie ut hal xs,,,a
and patience would see Ireland pacified
without special legislation. Never was
there a time when the Irish were near to
the acceptance of the union as during the
fret twenty nine years after the act of
union had been passed, and the reason
was not because they loved 1t, but because
they were trodden under foot, they wished
for peace, and they had no genuine repre-
sentatives in the imperial parliament. AS
soon as the voice of Ireland was heard in
parliament the constitutional movement
for self government commenced and it had
never ceased and would continue until
self-govsrnment should be granted.
"Let the house." Mr.. Gladstone contin-
ued, '1ook 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 prospersd.
That is challenge of some boldness. Is it
too bold?'
Here the 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 and Irish cheers "You
missed the essential word" Hear, hear.
Holland and Belgium tried incorporated
union end aftor a preoarious existenee of
fifteen years divorce was effected. Aus
tria and Hungary tried incorporation and
after years of sad experience they found
the choice lay in giving it up or the en-
pire." [Cheers] "Russia incorporated
6t. Let the opposition make it the model
of their operations" Hear, hear.
80 all unions but one principle can be
applied, and that is whether they require
permanent maintenance by force. If when
the force disappears harmony remains, the
union is good. If the maintenance of the
union by force, actual or in reserve, is
necessary, the value of the union is ques-
tionable."
Mr.. Gladstone continued: ONIONS not
incorporated, but autonomous, have been
attended in all cases with success some
times complete and always considerable.
Thus Austria and Hungary, under their
present union, Norway and Sweden, Den
illustrations. The most complete success
was the German Federation, where each
state had its own powers, the union only
affecting imperial interests. In the United
States each state has its own rights, and
anyone in America daring to interfere with
those rights would be regarded as a mad
man. The colonies had some points in
common with Ireland. The disease of dis
affection once permsated them, but a rem
edy was found in self-government."
[Cheers.
In closing he said that until a recent
period the question between Great Britain
and Ireland had been one between class
and nation. Now it was between nation
and nation.