The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1893-09-15
HOME RULE DEFEATED.
The british iIouse of Lords lays .>e."
and Home kuie for ireland WIN Nat
Come AZ Present Lord saiisbur,'s Ar
gument.

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gument.
LoSDoS. sept 9.-Although il was
geneally understood that the house OF
lords would reject the home-rnle bill
last night. TIE house did NJ. .ll up an
iii after the dinner hour popular in
tercst center.ng il the speech Of the
marquis Of Salisbury. who was not cx-
pccted To rise until towards midnight.
Lord Salisbury said he felt that there
was no satisfaction in occupying the
position he occupied that Of the last
person 10 speak against home rul. in
the course of the PRESENT session. But
although il was position Of much dis
fiction. il had many Inconvenience.
In particular the ground of debate had
already been So fully occupied that
there was little now left for him 10
say. Throughout the debate one ques-
ton was constantly present in his mind
was: Why had the government intro
duccd such bill? On this point
the house had received no sufficient
enlightenment. The peers who had
defended the bill had made able
speeches without much reference IN
the real nature of the bill. The lord
chancellor. Lord slerschell. had virta-
ally told them that he did not quite be-
lieve with the government on one sub
ject In dealing with the retention az
Irish members at NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
was an outrage on England 80 enor-
nous and 50 grote>quc that il was
-. A r. ~.
in proposal enanating from respon-
siblc government-the lord chancellor
had declared that he was not in
clined TO associate himself with 50
desperate clause. hut would
prefer some other arrangement. Then
in dealing with the abandonment of
landlords. the lord chancellor hal adj
mittei that their fate would be terri
I BILE. but said they had brought j; on
themselves Finally. the lord chan
! cellor had finished his account Of his
own intellectual position by protest
I ing with vigor thoroughly severe
against anybody desiring 10 know the
real opinion of any cabinet member
upon cabinet bill.
The secretary Of foreign affairs
I ii>OEi aiNp itt't ofVtN't Ah0
burning subjects underlying the gov
ernment's policy. The problem which
the foreign secretary seemed T. have
set himself To solve was how in an
hours speech TO avoid giving pledges
that might be inconvenient in future,
and he had solved the problem with
absolute success. Laughter
Much had been said of the benefits
of autonomous government. but had
there been for a century statesmen
bold enough TO propose that an auton-
omous colony should send eighty mem
brrs tqthe imperial parliament repre-
Sentinr no interest in Engiani. and
bound by no responsibility with re-
spect to the possible application 81
laws that parliament passed? The alb
surdity Of such a position was enough
TO send n man to Beilam. How could
they get rid of the Irish questions in
the presence of eighty members seek
ing to make themselves market
able wares in negotiations with
tie ministers? Would these men. sent
by Archbishop Walsh. he quiet on ques-
tions Of religion and education What
appeared to shine visibly through all
Arguments was that home rule was n
policy Of despair. The liberals had
said: s.You have failed. we do not
know how to succeed: but we Will try
something that nobody has tried be-
fore.
What moral or political right had
any government 10 embark on such an
experimental policy in Ireland. divided
to her base by party conflicts which.
during seven centuries English rule
had rather increased than diminished
Representative government never Hour
ished on a soil where homcorenity
was wanting. This policy would be
necessary in dealing with ordinary
men. and more than made necessary
in dealing with a race that for cen
lures had hated England
Lord Salisbury rem indcd the house
Of the opinion the country held before
this terrible change occurred. when
the liberal party was healthy in the
hands Of the liberal politicians and not
in the hands Of descrters Then. he
said. however much they might have
disagreed on local and International
questions. he felt sure that on all I'M
pcrial questions their hearts had
beaten true to the empire a had the
hearts OF conservatives Maeauiicy.
,vhen he sat with the liberals. and
Gladstone when he sat with the
conservatives llaurhterl, had sali that
they would regard the repeal Of the
union a. fatal 10 the empire and world
never consent To il. II England had
told their lordships that she vented
this horror the case might have been
different: but lie believed that 70 he
impossible. As long rs England was
true to herself. she would never allow
this atrocious this mean. this trcach-
erous revolution.
Their lordships would he untrue "a
the duty devolvcd upon them from
splendid ancestry and untrue TO their
highest traditions If they failed to re-
icct the bill. Loud cheers.
The lord chancellor then put the mo
ton for the second reading OF the bill.
IIa caused some merriment by saying;