The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-05-25
SALISBURY At BELFAST.
The Ulster UniOniStS Give Him a Great
Ovation.

Fully 5000 Persons Turn Out TO Hear
His Speech-Nearly Every One
Armed With Union Jacks The
Speaker Alludes to the Home Rule
Bill as an Insane Scheme.
Belfast, May 24.-The conservatives of
Belfast and this vicinity made a great
demonstration tonight in Ulster hall in
honor of the Marquis of Salisbury. The
hall was literally crammod with people
and the proceedings were marked by in
tense enthusiasm Fully 1900 Ulstcrites,
most of whom carried miniature union
jacks, took part in the meeting. Previ-
Gus to the arrival of Lord Salisbury
Capt, Alexander Clark Kennedy, late of
the Coldstream Guards, created furor
by unfurling a union jack, under which,
he said, the Grenadiers fought Mt Water
loo, and under that flag, he continued, the
loyalists would fight in Ulster, and he
and many other officers of the British
army would assist them.
Att O'Clock Lord Salisbury and his wife
and daughter, accompanied by the mayor
of Belfast, Lord Londonderry the Duke
of AbcrcOm and other distinguished per-
with most enthusiastic reception. The
whole audience rose and joined in the
grand chorus, while hundreds of mina-
ture union jacks were waved II tlmmph-
antly in the air.
sALIsBURY's SPEECH.
When the enthusiasm Ind subsidized
Lord Salisbury addressed the audience
on the subject of home rule He said he
must confess that he could see no advan-
tagc in delay or in prolonged discussion of
the home rule bill, which, at the present
rate of progress, would not reach the
House of Lords by September very
inconvenicnt date Therefore he deemed
1t advisable to quicken the committee
stage of the bill Nevertheless, 10 must
must not be supposed that the unionists
had any idea of amending the bill with a
view of making it acceptable to the
country at large On the contrary, they
only desired to exhibit to the British
people the real nature of the calamities 1t
would entail if it became law. Although
obstruction was of little value, time was
on their side. The scheme had been
brought before the country by themarvel-
GUS power of n single man. Mr. Glad
stone, throughout his career, had passed
from one view TO another, always yield
ing principle, which he had previously
declared to be inviolablc and sacred. All
to abstract concessions from the universal
yielder Laughter. No man could
fight against the people, and Ulster must,
i'll the long run, defeat the measure that
depended upon the strength of a single
man.
POWER OF THE LORDS
The bin would probably pass through
the committee stage but the House of
Lords held an impregnable position, rep
resenting as il did the loyalists Of Eng
land and Ireland. Public opinion must be
kept alive to the dangers Of this imbccile
bill. He appealed to his hearers, how
ever, to ecOnomize their strength, and
above all to do nothing in the way Of dis
order or riot as any acts Of violence would
only give their enemies in England reason
for eliminating them. The future position
of Ulster must not depend upon the insane
wishes of single statesman, who desired
to bring about a state OF affairs that
would reduce Ulster to the anarchy pre-
vailing in Glare and Kerry, or to the
slavishness of Meath. If, through faint
heartedness superstition or the strategy
of transient party leader the work
of three centuries should be shattered,
the disgrace would be with the English
people. He asked the men of Ulster to
be firm. He asked them TO resist such
surrender, not only for their own sakes
but in order to relieve the fame of Eng
land from black and irreparabc disgrace.
The meeting ended with the singing of
the national anthem by the audience.