The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1893-04-07
Gladstone Declares That None Ac-
complished by Force Have
Ever Prospered.
Unions Not Incorporated, but Au-
tonomous, Attended Invar-
iably With Success.
Home Rule Bill of better Are
Proposed.

LONDON, April 1.-THE galleries OF the
house OF commons we're crowded, but the
house itself was not full when Gladstone
rose to move the second reading of the
home rule bill. Gladstone said the gov
crnment had no intention of anon ding the
bill sas presented. He desired to call to
the mind OF the house the question when
this great controversy was to end. He did
not address the question to tho opposition
in spirit of assumed superiority. but
would rather press it earnestly upon their
hearts and understandings as a matter
in which both sides are alike interested.
The liberal party offered solution, but
whom they asked their opponents where all
this was to end. they barely obtained an
answer. Certainly the opposition had not
yet ventured to point out pr ocsss whereby
the greatest of Irish questions should be
decided, aside from the way in which the
home rule bill proposed to decide II. Glad
stone proceeded with history OF the de-
velopment of the rise and the causes OF the
demand for home rule.
Gladstone in his speech, said the pro.
0ress of events in the past century had
proved the fallaoy of the argument offered
bv the opponents of homo rule. that time
and patience would see Ireland Iaci6ed
without special Legislation. Let the house,
said he, look at the spectacle the wo;ld Of
fers in regard to it's unions. In the civil
ized world no incorporated union effected
and maintained by force has ever pros-
pered.
Hicks Beach interrupted to ask, Take
the case of the United States." Gladstone
ia1 koI
missed the essential word. Holland and
Belgium tried incot porated union. and af-
ter precarious existence Of fifteen years a
dive Ga was effected. Austria and Hungary
tried incorporated union. and after years of
sad experience. found the choice to lay in
giving up it or the empire. Russia moor
porated Poland. Take your stand thereon,
model of their operations. 10 all unions
but one principal can be applied. and that
is whether they require permanent mainte-
nance by force. IT, when force disappears
harmony remains, the union is good. II
the maintenance of union by force is nscss-
Unions not incorporated but autonomous.
have been attended in all cases with sue
cess sometimes complete and always con-
siderable.
In conclusion. Gladstone referred to the
retention of the Irish members in the i'm
poIinA phTliHIuouts DuTluH bu0 lHBb Blxty
years cabinets have been displaced twelve
times by vote OF censure. Not once was
the issue purely British. Eight were I'M
psrial and four ltlsh. Therefore less in
convenience ought to be expected from
Irish msmbers voting on British questions
than has been anticipated.
Regarding finance. Gladstone said it was
no easy matter to disentangle the finances
of countries associated for the last ninety
years. But the trouble was merely dust
in tho balance compared with the vital i'm
portance OF the great purpose of aiming
at the real union Of the two countries. and
the consolidation Of the empire. If the
house is not satisfied with the security
offered under the existing financial clause
of the bill he was ready to deal freely with
the question and reoast the clauses objected
to.
Rejection of the homo rule bill was moved
by Sir Michael Hicks Beach. He taunted
Gladstone with avoiding criticism of the
bill. Tho north of ireland is rank with
protests against the proposed bill. yet the
prime minister ignored the agitation. A
majority of the electors of Great Britain
are convinced that parliament, once per-
suaded to take the step now PROPOSED,
could never retraot it without plunging the
country into the horrors OF OWL war.