The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1893-02-18
IT WAS HOME RULE DAY
Grand Ovation to Gladstone the
Greatest.
One Of the Race That Goes the Pace.
Although He's 84...Ready and Eager
Tor the Tussle With tbs
s. Tories. The Speech.

LONDON, Feb. l4.-Upon inquiry at
Downing street it has been ascertained
that Mr.. Gladstoneis in admirable form
and looking forward with pleasure to
the exertion of the day. He slept well
during the night and began work Mt 9:3u
tins morning, assisted by his secretaries
From early morning the scene has been
OF the most animated description,
groups OF people assembling to watch
the arrival of thesmembers.
T. j. Foley, the nationalist member
from Conemara, was the first to make
his appearance, closely followed by
Sheehey. secretary of the Irish Ma
tlonal Federation, and brother
OF Father Sheehy, one of the
prosecuted patriots of the Foster
regime, Honest John Roche" nation.
allst member of parliament for Easi
Galway,. was also among the first ar
rivals as well as Mr.. Charles Tanner
member of parliament for Cork, one OF
tho most fierce, peculiar and kind
hearted of the nationalist leaders. Al
= o'clock these representatives of the
irish cause were at the door of the
house and before 10 o'clock sixty mem
bers were waiting for admission.
AT noon the inner lobby was packed
with members and the approaches
crowded. aud when the doors opened
there was disorderly rush for seats,
the members shouting and struggling
like mob of excursionists on bank
holiday, several being thrown to the
floor in the excitement. The melee
settled down at last aud all got
safely in their seats Every seat in the
house except the government bench
was occupied. Mr.. Gladstone entered
the house of commons at 33O. Every
liberal and Irish nationalist in the
house stood up and greeted him with
prolonged cheers. When Mr.. Glad
stone arose ut 3:43 to introduce the
home rule bill there was another line
demonstration, so earnest, SO enthus.
iastic and irrepressible that it wa.
several minutes before he could be
heard.
Mr. Gladstone spoke ms follows in 9
clear. strong and resonant voice:
may, without impropriety, remind the
house that the voices which usually
pleaded the cause of Irish self govern.
ment in Irish affairs have, within these
walls during the last seven years, beer
almost entirely mute. L return, there.
fore to the period of 1885, when
proposition of this kind
was submitted on the part OF
the government OF the day and beg to re
mind the house of the YER ion then taken
by all the promoters Of measures We
said that we had arrived at point in our
transactions with Ireland where the two
roads parted. You have, we said to
choose one or the other. One is the way
Of Irish autonomy according TO the con,
toxyn r,rt aF.,,
the other is the way OF coercion
That is our contention. twill be the rec
ollection OF the house that that conten.
ton was most stoutly and largely denied.
Those plans, though they fell entirely
short in principle and in the scope of Irish
mean Importance. They went far beyond
what has heretofore been usually pro
posed in the way Of local self-govermeni
for Ireland. &
Well. what has been the result of the
dilemma AS 1t was then put forward OF
this side Of the house ana repelled by the
othera Has our contention that the
choice lay between autonomy and
coercion been justitiedi Liberal cheers.
What has become of each and all of those
Important schemes for giving Ireland sell
government as province and giving
her even a central establishment in Dub
lin with limited powersi
All ShHlSneu III tHll alr Out Lne realty
ren.ains. The roads were still autonomy
or coercion The choice lay between
them and the choice made was to repel
autonomy and embrace coercion Yor
want always to apply coercion in an abso
lutely uniform method. 1t was impos
sible to bring the inhabitants of the coun
try under coercion into sympathy with
the coercion power
Mr.. Gladstone proceeded to dilate al
length upon the circumstances under
| which the act of union was passed, TIL.
promise of equality in the laws and O.
commercial equality, under which unior
/ was effected. ltwas then p:ophesied
confidently he said. that lrishmen woult
| take their plaees in the cabinet o
the united king lon, bit it had beer
his honored destiny to sit in cabinet.
/ with no less than sixty or seventy
| statesmen. of whom only one, the duk,
Of Wellington. was an lrishman, Will,
Sastlcreagh was the only Irish
man who had sat in tn,
cabinets and the history Of the coun